College football Week 5 thread: Shout at the Blue Devil

[dixiehack]

Presenting your Week 5 schedule. All times Central:

Friday
No. 10 Utah (+3) at No. 19 Oregon State 8 pm FS1

Saturday
No. 6 Penn State (-26) at Northwestern 11 am BTN
No. 8 USC (-22) at Colorado 11 am FOX
No. 22 Florida (+3) at Kentucky 11 am ESPN
No. 1 Georgia (-14.5) at Auburn 2:30 pm CBS
No. 2 Michigan (-18) at Nebraska 2:30 pm FOX
No. 24 Kansas (+17) at No. 3 Texas 2:30 pm ABC
No. 23 Missouri (-14) at Vanderbilt 3 pm SEC Network
No. 13 LSU (-2.5) at No. 20 Ole Miss 5 pm ESPN
No. 9 Oregon (-27) at Stanford 5:30 pm PAC-12 Networks
Iowa State (+21) at No. 14 Oklahoma 6 pm FS1
No. 11 Notre Dame (-5.5) at No. 17 Duke 6:30 pm ABC
South Carolina (+12.5) at No. 21 Tennessee 6:30 pm SEC Network
No. 12 Alabama (-14.5) at Mississippi State 8 pm ESPN
No. 7 Washington (-17.5) at Arizona 9 pm PAC-12 Networks
Nevada (+24.5) at No. 25 Fresno State 9:30 pm FS1

 

[jr/shotglass]

Wonder if Caleb Williams will stomp on the Colorado logo.

 

[HanSenSE]

What's with all the early starts in Boulder? TV? Cutting down on pregame drinking? Both?

 

[micropolitan guy]

What's with all the early starts in Boulder? TV? Cutting down on pregame drinking? Both?

Dictated by FOX. CU should tell them to GFY. A 10 a.m. kickoff is ridiculous.

Friday night game in Microville. I hate Friday night games.

 

[HanSenSE]

Dictated by FOX. CU should tell them to GFY. A 10 a.m. kickoff is ridiculous.

Friday night game in Microville. I hate Friday night games.

I remember, when Boise State made its Fiesta Bowl run, ESPN asked for, and got, a 9 a.m. start for a game at San Jose State.

 

[micropolitan guy]

OTOH, CSU plays at 5 and Air Force plays at 6, so if you wanted to you could do a Saturday doubleheader without too much difficulty, especially the CU/CSU combo. And I-25 is gonna be a mess, even more than it already is north of Denver.

 

[Bubbler]

I understand that conferences bend over backwards so they can continue riding on the media rights money train.

What I've never understood is why conferences don't tell the networks to fork off when they make unreasonable requests like 10 a.m. kickoffs.

At the end of the day? Where are these networks going to take their money to for an equal return on investment? You'd think the smart folks at the universities and in these colleges would figure that out and play their hand a bit more aggressively than they do.

Fox and ESPN both are a cancer in terms of the influence they exert. Then again? I think the twin influence of Fox and ESPN is why the much-speculated super conference won't come off because one network isn't going to sit idly by and let the other dominate college football programming.

Unless they team up and do it ... well, shirt.

 

[Slacker]

What's with all the early starts in Boulder? TV? Cutting down on pregame drinking? Both?

I guess the jury's still out on Prime Time.

 

[micropolitan guy]

The Pac-12 was its own worst enemy with game times, allowing itself to be jerked around into a conference where at least half of the games were played at night instead of the afternoons because TV needed 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT games (or later) for the nite-owl watchers. Night games in November are no fun in Oregon, Washington, Colorado and Utah. And 11 a.m. games suck too, they were a staple of the Pac-12 Network for a while.

 

[dixiehack]

Two years from now Colorado will be back on the Ocho and they can set kickoff for whenever they think the 36,000 coming to watch them fail to cover against Iowa State deem it best.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

As a Pac 12 guy, I don't like the stupid kickoff times either.

But these schools are chasing TV dollars and blowing up conferences to get a bigger check. If I'm FOX and I want the game at 3am, with what I'm paying, Colorado better set their alarms and show up with a smile.

 

[Batman]

The Pac-12 was its own worst enemy with game times, allowing itself to be jerked around into a conference where at least half of the games were played at night instead of the afternoons because TV needed 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT games (or later) for the nite-owl watchers. Night games in November are no fun in Oregon, Washington, Colorado and Utah. And 11 a.m. games suck too, they were a staple of the Pac-12 Network for a while.

If you live in the Central Time Zone, 11 a.m. games are a fact of life and have been for decades.