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A matchup of two top 15 PAC-12 teams being played at 10:30 pm EDT
- Thread starter Duff Man
- Start date
Ding ding ding!
This annoyed me, too. However, college football has slowly realized that prime time draws a better audience than afternoons. I still say 8:30pm MT/7:30pm PT sucks ass, but the real arbiter of the discussion is the Nielson ratings. I would LOVE to see those this next week as this is a big time game. Does the late night slot work or not?
Nik, the ACC and SEC have noon or 12:30 local kickoffs all the time, so why can't the Pac do the same thing? Prominent games such as Florida-Miami and North Carolina-GT kicked off at noon in recent weeks, and so does UNC-VT and Maryland-FSU tomorrow. If the Pac did the same thing that would be 3 or 3:30 on the east coast, which is perfect for the afternoon timeslot. Many of the bigger games nationally kick off at 3:30 Eastern time and if the Pac did that it would still be at a prime hour of 6:30 Eastern. But when they're kicking off games at 10:30 Eastern much of the country is either drained or simply burned out on football by that time on a college football Saturday.
The Pac-12 is their own worst enemy when it comes to getting national respect by playing so many games in the late late timeslot.
CVilleBuff
Well-Known Member
I'm about as much of a night owl as one can be and there's times where I simply have to ditch a Pac-12 game in the 4th because It's 2 AM. Casual fan isn't seeing the Pac at night over here - there's a reason Oregon played Virginia and Tennessee.
TDbuff
Club Member
As far as the primetime slot, I would assume Northwestern/OSU screwed their chances at nabbing that 7/8PM EST game. I suppose it's better to get more games on in the afternoon in general for the conference, but I could see the Pac 12 choosing to at least grab the prime time audience on the west coast in this case.