Early Television for football

[PAC12Teams]

Some early television games for the PAC 12 

When – Where – Who – Times

[HoosierUte]

yay a 10:15 and a 10:30pm kickoff… 

[AlohaUte]

Maybe I’m the only one, but I like the night games. Can spend my Saturday with the fam, in the mountains or fishing or working on the yard, then come in and watch the game in peace with my older kids while my younger kids are in bed. Way better than a 2pm game where my whole day is pretty much taken up for the game or I have to choose to miss it.

[UteBacker]

I don’t mind the late games….JUST NOT IN NOVEMBER IN SLC.

[utefansince79]

I’ve always been for playing games in the first half of the season in the evening when tempertures are generally balmy and pleasant and later games in the afternoon when the sun is stlll up.  But it’s about the TV networks.

Of course back when I started following the Utes, we usually had one televised game (if that) all year and fans  listened to Bill Marcroft on the radio for our road games and now we can watch every single game on TV, so it’s a trade off.

 

 

[Central Coast Ute]

I agree. The only down side as far as I’m concerned is east coast exposure.

[PlainsUte]

Some point to that, but trade off between being on CBS or ESPN in the evening MST vs Pac12 Network midday — no one is watching that due to competing games and limited distribution and visibility of Pac-12 Network.   If the Utes are ranked people will watch, they may not stay up until the very end but should get some eyeballs.

[Central Coast Ute]

All very true. I personally like the games to be on later and since I live in California, I’m not really up all that late when it is late.

[PhiladelphiaUte]

East coast exposure really IS a big deal.  Back in Philadelphia, my friends and I would watch college football all Saturday.  However, only 2 of us were alumni of Pac-12 universities.  The rest were from Syracuse, Rutgers, Penn St, Temple, Maryland, Va Tech, UPenn, Delaware, Villanova, and West Chester.  Come 8pm, most of the guys would go home.  It’s not that they didn’t like Pac-12 football.  Because they did.  In fact, they always cheered for Utah.  They just didn’t want to stay up to 11pm-midnight to watch a game vs. a team they have no real vested interest in.  But the games that ended before 8-9pm?  They’ll watch those.

Since most voters are in the east, that’s the media to whom we’ll need to appeal if we want to be properly ranked.  Early games are the way to do it.

[Johnny]

It’s so huge, man. Unless you’ve lived on the East Coast, Miami, New York, etc. You have no idea. They don’t care about the West coast. Especially after, say, 6pm.

Out west every market is recreational fun destinations. Back east, like, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland or Memphis. They have no idea. 

Hopefully the new guy gets it dialed in FFS. It’s all about exposure.

5 star recruits only care about this these days, sadly. Alabama typically plays at noon. We need that slot.

[Duhwayne]

Greetings from NYC. Even with Texas and California accounting for nearly 70 million people, almost two thirds of the US population lives East of the Mississippi. If you want to be in the playoff you have to play games that audience sees. 10 AM or 1 PM games may suck locally but they can be critical to a playoff campaign. This isn’t complicated.

[krindor]

Living in Atlanta, this absolutely sucks for me.

If I want to watch the Utah/BYU game, it starts at 10:15. The average length of a college football game is 3.5 hours. So that means the game ends at 1:45 AM. At least it’s a weekend. On weekdays, I’ve got to get up no later than 6:30 the next morning to get a quick shower and then have kids up and moving for school. But even on a weekend, my kids aren’t going to sleep past 7.

That’s a game I absolutely 100% want to watch. But I’m also realistic that it might not be something I can do, depending on what the days around it look like. So I certainly can’t blame the writers/voters for not staying up until 2 AM when they’re not a fan of the team.

[Distantute]

Living on east coast (atlanta) the late games are the worst. But i still wont miss a second.

[Tony (admin)]

The Ute Hub app and website 2021 Utah Football schedule has been updated with as much of the times and TV coverages as is currently available. 

[AlaskanUte]

Am I to believe most of our games start at midnight? !2:00am?

[Central Coast Ute]

I didn’t see any games starting at either of those times…

[Tony (admin)]

On the WWW version, games that have no times set yet default to 12:00am, or 00:00.  I changed that on the app so no time would show.  That bugged me too. 

[Johnny]

I want early games. Late games I get too wasted and can’t remember half of the plays.

1000-1200 games need to be played. We can tailgate like the lunatics we are at 0600. Go home, and sleep it off while BYU plays.

 

 

[Author]

Posts