{"id":216982,"date":"2025-09-11T01:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/216982\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T01:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:42:12","slug":"in-state-college-football-rivals-extend-series-through-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/216982\/","title":{"rendered":"In-State College Football Rivals Extend Series Through 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_yl0lyz6zt\">In the year 2040, Germany will celebrate 50 years of reunification, <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45590991\/bobby-bonilla-day-2025-new-york-mets-pay-million-every-july-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Bonilla<\/a> will be off the Mets&#8217; books and Liberty and James Madison will play a football game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_jfup2kqo7\">That&#8217;s according to a <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/jmusports.com\/news\/2025\/9\/10\/jmu-and-liberty-establish-battle-of-the-blue-ridge-10-football-dates-through-2040\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday morning release<\/a> from both schools, which christened the Flames and Dukes&#8217; rivalry series the &#8220;Battle of the Blue Ridge.&#8221; In addition, it tacked on four games to the teams&#8217; currently scheduled contests\u2014the last of which will be played on Sept. 15, 2040 in Lynchburg, Va.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_3v8stdh3v\"><a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FBSchedules\/status\/1965798712506241378?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Per FBSchedules<\/a>, the final game is believed to be the furthest contracted American football game on record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_bwtern4z6\">Liberty and James Madison are separated by about an hour and 45 minutes of driving time in Virginia, and have met 18 times since 1980. The Dukes lead the all-time series 12\u20136, although the Flames won the teams&#8217; most recent meeting in the 2014 FCS playoff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_9kjbmlsjd\">The two teams will renew their rivalry on Sept. 20 in Lynchburg. It will air on ESPNU; no word on whether the &#8217;40 game will air on interplanetary television.<\/p>\n<p>More College Football on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the year 2040, Germany will celebrate 50 years of reunification, Bobby Bonilla will be off the Mets&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":216983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-216982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115183127787501072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}