[quote=@Eddie Brock]
College football programs also have spring exhibition games, usually the first-team offense against the first-team defense. Although they aren't usually until March/April, we could always fudge the numbers.
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Gosh darn it!  Why do you have to make my argument fall apart... :(

I looked at the spring game schedules for last year (2015) and this year (2016) and saw that the [b]majority[/b] of games were played late-March and all of April (and the majority of those were played in April).  However, unfortunately for my argument, I saw two games that could support the existence of a game in Lost Haven.  Last year, Duke had their Spring game in February 28th, which fits into our time line.  Also, this year, apparently Arizona is having their game in early march (March 4th).  So both of those dates fall into our late-February/early-March timeline.

Darn it!  Looks like I have to (partially) wave the white flag...