by G.K.Chesterton (2019-05-15 12:50:09)
Edited on 2019-05-15 12:50:55
(Or at least their coverage starts at that time.) Maybe East Coast viewers can get to sleep by midnight on Saturday nights.
In many moons. Sounds great to me!
except maybe a day game. Gonna be electric!
from inside, you can’t tell if it’s day or night. It has all the charm of a dank, moldy, windowless basement.
No way they have a 9AM local start on Fox.
Most of ND's games up there have been later starts, but the two that stand out as noon games -- 1993 and 2005 -- were both ND victories. Michigan Stadium is notorious for its unenthused "symphony" crowds for early start times.
The start time may depend on whether ND-Michigan is on Fox or ESPN/ABC. If it's on Fox, a noon start time seems likely. The network's goal with the early start is to cut into the "College GameDay" audience on ESPN.
We have beat them causing 5 picks (2012), shut them out and blown up their qiaryerback on a game/series ending pick 6 (2014), and dominated them in their only loss before Thanksgiving (2018). We now need to get those 4th quartet chokes against inferior Michigan teams at the big house in the rear view mirror
And that 2011 game was a choke-job of the highest order.
The 2009 game was particularly frustrating in that ND really outplayed them that day. We got totally shafted by the officials and gave up a kick return for a TD.
Instead of getting a lead and then blowing it... we started in the hole big time and then blew the comeback.
Hard to believe that Devin Gardner quarterbacked both the 2013 and 2014 games, or Denard Robinson qb-ed the 2011 and 2012 games.
Like night and day between home and away.
It was all about home field advantage for both of them, I guess.
ND has found some amazing ways to lose. I was at the 1993 game. Hard to believe that 2005 is the only win since then.
I’m tired of days when every big game is shoved into the 8pm time slot.
Bars already get a big crowd on Saturday night, whether there is football on or not. Now, they'll draw in a few more at noon.
And I suspect it was more a Big Ten edict than a mere test.
Even setting aside the obvious question of why the big CFB games have to go till almost midnight, there's often a sizable gap between the end of the afternoon games that generally start at 3:30 and the start of the 8 pm games that really had no reason to exist (the first 20 minutes of the 7 pm games, which were rarely super-compelling matchups, were little more than an appetizer in that block). Glad to see it will shrink by a half-hour.