grandmastapoop;841926517 said:
This is horrendous. Hopefully it's just a placeholder? Ugh. The Ol' Blues are dancing in their wheelchairs.
I think it's more than place holders, but we'll see. If Cal loses a lot, I think we could be bumped down the pecking order? Interesting that all the post midnight post were wanting of late kickoffs and the early monring ones are more in favor of noon kicks... go figure! Noon is not my preference, but if they were rock solid locked in times at least we could plan our days out... of course, it appears to be likely time, but not guaranteed.
oursdor;841926522 said:
Beyond awful for us but pretty much uniformly terrible for the Pac-12. Six Pac-12 / Big-12 double headers, Big-12 gets four of the six 4pm "prime time" slots. The Apple Cup is a 12:30 start the day after Thanksgiving. In Pullman. Pac-12 gets a weekday championship game at 5pm again. Oregon couldn't sell out a game in that time slot. Imagine trying to get to the Coliseum, Memorial or the Rose Bowl on a Friday afternoon.
Well get used to the Friday night CCG. It's contractual through 2023 I believe. I kind of liked it last year - if it were a Saturday game I would not even have watched. UCLA at 6-6? haha, I can't blame the game time for the non-sell out at Oregon. They were probably charging 'championship' game prices for a garbage game.
As for the Fox games, Pac 12 gets 11, Big 12 gets 8. It's national TV, non regional ABC. It's not a bad deal. Plus games between Texas, OU, West Virginia are premium draws, so I'd expect they would be primetime over any P12 game other than Oregon v USC.
I'm thinking maybe the teams are locked in, but the Big 12/ Pac 12 could flip times later in the year based on results. For instance Cal is not expected to be in the P12 North title race. But if Oregon @ Cal is deemed to be a better game than Baylor @ Oklahoma, maybe Fox switches them. It's the first year of the contract, so we don't really know how it will all work... this schedule was leaked by mistake apparently, so it wasn't supposed to be out there so soon.
Davidson;841926582 said:
3pm start times are the best.
But, we will make due.
Until we get better, we won't be picked for later time slots.
I'm hoping the CAL v UCS game is like at 3:30pm.
I agree with the 3pm start. Local time that is when a lot of the big east coast games start (of course that's noon pacific time). I know people see noon as traditional, and it is somewhat, but a lot of that is because there were no lights at Memorial, and because Cal wasn't good enough to get on TV at night (who would pay for lights). 3pm is not a bad time for getting to the game (especially for a lunch or beers or tailgate), not a bad tine leaving either.
However, I don't see noon starts as being a result of Cal not being good enough. Fox essentially has first choice on most weekends (They split the first pick with ESPN, I believe ESPN uses up some of those on the thursday games and then they have Az @ Ore and ND @ USC). Pac 12 Network games and the ESPN/ESPN2 night game are below the Fox game on the totem pole, so if we bomb, we may get bumped
out of the Fox game and onto a lesser slot.
