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True - but glad to see it confirmed. The schedule lately has been wreaking happy havoc on me, but this'll work.This seems to be an annual kick time for this game. tOSU/Michigan gets the 11 CST kick and everyone else is on Friday or at 2:30 on Saturday
Anyone know why Michigan / tOSU is always the early game. Seems that 2:30 slot is the 2nd prime spot nowadays for the networks with the evening game being the first (With the B1G rule of no conference games in the PM after Nov. 1). Only thing I can think of is the networks feel the game will draw tv numbers if it is played at anytime so why not play it early but I still feel they are limiting their audienceTrue - but glad to see it confirmed. The schedule lately has been wreaking happy havoc on me, but this'll work.
Anyone know why Michigan / tOSU is always the early game. Seems that 2:30 slot is the 2nd prime spot nowadays for the networks with the evening game being the first (With the B1G rule of no conference games in the PM after Nov. 1). Only thing I can think of is the networks feel the game will draw tv numbers if it is played at anytime so why not play it early but I still feel they are limiting their audience
This and the tradition is so well-enshrined that they draw 10 million+ every year as long as one of the teams is good. Even if both are bad, I doubt it would dip below 7-8 million...It seems like a longstanding tradition - back in the day there was probably only one conference game on tv, and this would have been the one...
Isn't being an Illinois fan enough, without schadenfreude piled on?Slightly unrelated, but there's a disappointing lack of complaining on the Illini boards about us winning the division. I hate being denied the schadenfreude.
Anyone know why Michigan / tOSU is always the early game.
Seems that 2:30 slot is the 2nd prime spot nowadays for the networks with the evening game being the first (With the B1G rule of no conference games in the PM after Nov. 1).
Slightly unrelated, but there's a disappointing lack of complaining on the Illini boards about us winning the division. I hate being denied the schadenfreude.
Sadly their main forum is locked down, but you can search for Northwestern and get a preview, such as this one. I almost want to pay $10 to see the rest.
The schools want it that way. They moved it to the 2:30 slot one year and both schools went ballistic.
If it doesnt anymore than curious why hasnt there been a B1G conference night game in November
Thanks!! I will complete my in-family negotiations then get my plane tixOnly BTN game of the day for the season finale.
Styre, you'd know this better than anybody . . . but since when do the networks care what the schools think?
I don't understand why their fans would hate us. We are so nice.
I was just wondering...if the game starts at 230pmCentral time, doesn't that mean they will need the temporary lights to illuminate the field? Now with the timezone change last week, it will get dark at 430pm! I thought that there are rules/limits to how many night games at home NU can have. It will be colder too- won't more fans come to a game with a 11am start that weekend??Darn. This is the time of the year when you appreciate the 11 am kickoff.....
I was just wondering...if the game starts at 230pmCentral time, doesn't that mean they will need the temporary lights to illuminate the field? Now with the timezone change last week, it will get dark at 430pm! I thought that there are rules/limits to how many night games at home NU can have. It will be colder too- won't more fans come to a game with a 11am start that weekend??
Yes, they will have the lights. It's not a night game. 2:30 is not at night. Game will be over by 6pm. I predict that as many fans will come at 2:30 as would come at 11am, that is to say very few.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks.For the most part they don't, but when both schools and the Big Ten itself put up a united front as in this case, the networks give in. Remember when the networks announced a bunch of Big Ten Friday night games and then the schools revolted and most of them were moved back to Saturdays? The networks don't want to piss off their partners unnecessarily.
I was just wondering...if the game starts at 230pmCentral time, doesn't that mean they will need the temporary lights to illuminate the field? Now with the timezone change last week, it will get dark at 430pm! I thought that there are rules/limits to how many night games at home NU can have. It will be colder too- won't more fans come to a game with a 11am start that weekend??
It's dark around 4:30. Lights please!Yes, they will have the lights. It's not a night game. 2:30 is not at night. Game will be over by 6pm. I predict that as many fans will come at 2:30 as would come at 11am, that is to say very few.
Speaking of lights it would be nice to have permanent lights in the stadium and surely in the parking lots and under portions of the stands (the South end zone concourse area is so dark for these night or late afternoon games in the 2nd half of season). Guess that will not happen till the major renovation which may be a decade in the making
Isn't being an Illinois fan enough, without schadenfreude piled on?
You question Wikipedia?Wikipedia says Ryan Field is the only stadium in FBS without lights. This seems wrong on its face - all 129 others have lights? Is this true?
Speaking of lights it would be nice to have permanent lights in the stadium and surely in the parking lots and under portions of the stands (the South end zone concourse area is so dark for these night or late afternoon games in the 2nd half of season). Guess that will not happen till the major renovation which may be a decade in the making
Sadly their main forum is locked down, but you can search for Northwestern and get a preview, such as this one. I almost want to pay $10 to see the rest.
Plus, I would much rather start tailgating at 10:30am than at 7:00am.Yes, they will have the lights. It's not a night game. 2:30 is not at night. Game will be over by 6pm. I predict that as many fans will come at 2:30 as would come at 11am, that is to say very few.