College football week 7 thread: Talking Seattle Conference Change Blues

Blame the 2018 U.S. men's soccer team.

 

I keep hearing about all the “Sailgating” at the UW games.
That sounds intriguing.

 

No. 23 Kansas (-3.5) at Oklahoma State 2:30 pm FS1
KU will beat Okie State by a helluva lot more than one score…

 

Been a thing at Tennessee for the longest time.

 

Liberty is about to get to 6-0 and there's only one team that has a legit chance of nipping them -- Western Kentucky in Bowling Green two Tuesdays from now. Even at 12-0, their schedule is so bad that they'll have zero shot at the G5 NY6 bid. They end up sort of getting screwed by joining Conference USA because they had to move a couple of P5 teams off the schedule to accommodate the slate of conference games. To be clear, I'm not advocating for them at all, but they could be a weird 12-0 team playing someone like Marshall in the New Orleans Bowl. Mildly curious to see what they could do against even a mid-level P5 at this point.

 

In the 90s...at least the early 90s, there were a shit load of big games at noon. First "must-see" noon game I remember was the 1991 FSU-Michigan game from Ann Arbor. There were zero errands done that day.

As a matter of fact four of the biggest games of the season were on ABC's noon time slot. FSU-Michigan, which was a #1 vs. #3 early in the season; Miami-Penn State, another top 10 matchup that was mostly pre-empted because of the Clarence Thomas hearings; FSU-Miami (Wide Right 1) and FSU-Florida two weeks later.

 

I’m willing to bet that many of these college stadiums not having permanent lights until fairly recently had a lot to do with more marquee noon starts in the past.

 

In the 90s, though?

I know Michigan didn't play its first night game until 2011. What others joined the party so late?

Notre Dame was 1982, Ohio State 1985, Tennessee 1972.

 

Purdue added lights in 2017, but had at least one night game in the mid-90s using temporary lights. Not that anyone outside of north central Indiana cares about Purdue.

Carolina put lights in back in the 80s.

Thinking about that got me wondering if lights became prevalent on the East Coast faster than the Midwest in part because of the window of sunlight. The sun sets a half hour to 45 minutes later in Indiana than in does in central North Carolina.

 

Two factors are in play. Latitude and proximity to time zone. Those on the western edge of the Eastern Time Zone (much of Indiana, Michigan, Tallahassee, Atlanta, Knoxville, Lexington) enjoyed sunsets 45-50 minutes later than others in the same time zone on the Atlantic coast.

 

Really like Oregon and USC each getting 2.5

Alabama only giving 19.5 sounds like a lot……but it doesn’t feel like enough. Take the elephants.

KU giving 3.5 at BPU is a tricky one. Yes, it’s still their backup qb, but their backup qb is really good.

 

I’ve been to UW and it’s gorgeous, watching a game from Lake Washington must be something else.