Game Time, TV Set for One of Last Three 'Iron Skillet' Matchups

Probably series with may TCU will end in few years with contract expiring

Nobody should miss them and the general feeling is there's only three matchups left with SMU's old rivalry with TCU, dubbed as the game for the Iron Skillet. Monday, the time of the game was set and broadcast channel announced.

The game will kick off at 11 a.m. in Fort Worth and be broadcast on FS1 and fuboTV. You can hear the game in the Metroplex on The Ticket 1310 AM / 96.7 FM. The Horned Frogs won last year's game while the Mustangs won in 2021 and 2019.

With the current contract set to expire in 2025, no extension of that agreement has been announced. With all of the conference juggling going on this summer, including the Ponies going to the ACC, that may have been part of it. Apparently most of the "pause" is on TCU's end of things, for whatever reason.

TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati has said the school would “possibly” evaluate resuming the game with SMU's conference change. The game in 2025 will be the 104th in the series that dates back to the days of both schools being in the Southwest Conference.

“It’s disappointing for our student-athletes, our alumni and our fanbase. It’s disappointing for Metroplex football fans,” SMU athletic direcotr Rick Hart told The Dallas Morning News. “This is a rivalry that has spanned a century-plus. It is the Battle for the Iron Skillet, Dallas versus Ft. 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 part of the very fabric of college football. Our hope is that TCU will resume the series, as we at SMU want to continue this rivalry in perpetuity.”