TCU vs. SMU rivalry to go on pause: ‘Battle for the Iron Skillet’ will come to a halt following 2025 season

rewrite this content material with complete duration and stay HTML tags The long-running “Battle for the Iron Skillet” rivalry sequence between TCU and SMU will be put on pause following the 2025 season, a TCU spokesperson showed to CBS Sports on Wednesday. TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati cited the need to upload extra house video games in the long run as a explanation why for the hiatus, even though the door is open for the sequence to resume down the highway, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram stories. SMU athletic director Rick Hart expressed unhappiness over the choice, indicating the Mustangs sought after the sequence to proceed. “It is disappointing that TCU made the decision to ‘pause’ our football series,” Hart mentioned in a observation despatched to The Dallas Morning News. “It’s disappointing for Metroplex football fans. This is a rivalry that has spanned a century-plus. It is the Battle for the Iron Skillet, Dallas vs. Fort Worth, Doak Walker versus Sammy Baugh, the Pony Express versus LaDainian Tomlinson, and more, It’s the game Grantland Rice, the famous sportswriter called ‘The Game of the Century’ in 1935. It is the very fabric of college football. Our hope is that TCU will resume the series, as we want to continue this rivalry in perpetuity.”The TCU-SMU sequence has been performed greater than 100 occasions courting again to 1915, making it the newest casualty amongst a number of long-running faculty soccer sequence — a lot of that have been impacted by means of convention realignment. Since the sequence kicked off greater than a century in the past, best six seasons have handed with out the two opponents assembly on the gridiron — the ultimate example being 2020 when the sport was once known as off due to COVID-19 protocols. The Horned Frogs, No. 17 in the preseason AP Top 25, and Mustangs are slated to face off for the 102nd time in sequence historical past on Saturday, Sept. 23, at TCU. The 2024 matchup strikes again throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex to SMU earlier than returning to Fort Worth in 2025. TCU received the most up-to-date assembly in September 2022, a 42-34 victory at SMU, and owns a 52-42-7 all-time lead in the sequence.   The Horned Frogs have defeated the Mustangs in 18 of the previous 22 conferences between the space opponents, even though contemporary years have injected new existence into the Dallas-Fort Worth space feud. SMU snapped a seven-game dropping streak in the sequence in 2019 and received once more in 2021, marking the first time since 1992-93 that the Mustangs defeated TCU in consecutive conferences. The 2021 assembly was once moreover marred by means of a postgame skirmish. More gasoline was once added to the fireplace at the finish of the 2021 season when Sonny Dykes, after guiding SMU to 30 wins in 4 seasons as trainer, was once employed away by means of TCU to substitute longtime Horned Frogs trainer Gary Patterson. Dykes therefore led TCU to a College Football Playoff National Championship look in his first yr at the helm in 2022, defeating SMU in his go back to Gerald. J. Ford Stadium alongside the manner. While TCU and SMU nonetheless have 3 extra conferences, a number of different in-state rivalries on the reducing block are scheduled to be performed for the ultimate time in 2023. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State are scheduled to meet in Stillwater this November for the ultimate taking part in of the Bedlam Series, which additionally dates again to the early 1900s and has been performed greater than 100 occasions. Oklahoma strikes from the Big 12 to the SEC on July 1, 2024.  On the West Coast, USC and UCLA are each scheduled to face in-state foes Cal and Stanford for the ultimate time in 2023 earlier than the Trojans and Bruins make their manner from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten subsequent summer season. Washington-Washington State and Oregon-Oregon State also are now not scheduled past 2023 right now after the Huskies and Ducks additionally introduced Big Ten defections, efficient subsequent yr.  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