Playoff soccer game between US and Mexico at Rose Bowl

Mexico qualified for a spot in the playoff game with a 3-1 victory over Jamaica in the final of the CONCACAF Gold Cup July 26.

The October 10 game between the U.S. and Mexico will be the first between the teams at the Rose Bowl since June 25, 2011, when Mexico defeated the U.S., 4-2, in the CONCACAF Gold Cup final.

The two sides had been due to meet at Pasadena’s 93,000-capactiy Rose Bowl on October 9 but the game will now take place a day later.

As 2013 Gold Cup champions, the USA would have received an automatic berth to the Confederations Cup had they won the 2015 edition of the tournament.

Mexico were eliminated in the group stage of the 2013 tounament in their last appearance.

The game is set for 9:30 p.m. ET, and the move makes a lot of sense.

The move does mean that the match will be competing with college football on Saturday so that may hurt ratings a tad, but Friday is the worst night for ratings anyway and much of the audience for the match will come from Spanish-language TV, which does not have almost the same audience for college football as English-language.

It doesn’t get any bigger regionally than Mexico versus the US. They won the Confederations Cup when they hosted it back in 1999, before the switch to the current hosting format.