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Patrick Tally's avatar

Chris ESPN also has the Cal and Stanford home games for the late night window. The two AZ schools are on Pacific Time for 10 of the 14 weeks of the season and ESPN will certainly put their November games and/or games played at BYU, CU, Utah in the late night window. Last year both BYU and CU had 3 home games start at 10:00 PM or later eastern time.

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chris's avatar

I agree. Missed that.

That's maybe 1 game a week from those 2 teams from home.

I don't think Cal will hold a national audience week after week

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Patrick Tally's avatar

You are right that Cal probably won't draw unless they have a decent opponent . That is why I think the four corner schools, who complained mightily about the late starts in the Pac 12, plus BYU might find themselves with more late kickoffs in the Big 12 than they were hoping for.

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chris's avatar

BYU has already complained about late kickoffs. It takes them into Sunday local time and that's kind of an issue for them.

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BackDoor's avatar

UA and ASU had a Pac12 agreement TV clause that there would be no day games in September. Last year UA's first home day game was Nov. 18. In 2022, it was Oct. 29. ASU had a 3:30 on Oct. 7 in 2023. When UA/ASU didn't want "day games", I don't think they wanted to be locked into 7:30/8:00 either.

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chris's avatar

Absolutely. I went to ASU and we played a day games against Nebraska in September and it was too much. Too hot. Players, fans had grat stroke.

Never did that again. It's just too got then

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