Tuesday afternoon brought yet another announcement of a future football series, although this one’s not nearly as far down the scheduling road as some others of late.
In a press release, Stanford announced that it has scheduled a future home-and-home series with San Diego State. The latter subsequently confirmed the same in its own release as well.
The Aztecs and Cardinal will play the first game at Qualcomm Stadium on Sept. 16, 2017, with the return game scheduled for Sept. 1, 2018, at Stanford Stadium.
Stanford had originally been scheduled to play Virginia those seasons. UVa. announced in April of this year that it was replacing Stanford with Indiana due to what it described as “a scheduling conflict... between the Cardinal and [Cavaliers].”
Despite being separated by 500 miles or so, the Cardinal and Aztecs have met in football just four times, with the first coming in 1985 and the last in 1988 as the final game of a four-game series. Stanford holds a 3-1 edge in the all-time series.
SDSU noted in its release that the Aztecs will play at least one Pac-12 school every season through the 2022 campaign, with all of those comprised of home-and-home series. From the release: