Night games this year?

[nuk]

Any guesses what night games we will have this year at home? Our club has a reunion trip every year with guys that don't go anymore to bring back the old days with old friends.
Pitt would be nice but some of these guys can't handle 8 pm starts.
Thanks

 

[psuro]

Either Pitt or Michigan.

 

[MtNittany]

SCum will be at night. It will be a cold, dark night for little jimmy.

 

[nuk]

Either Pitt or Michigan.

Nice Pic Ro
U the man!!

 

[anon_is9z1n0h3zblb]

Either Pitt or Michigan.

Given some of the other games the Pitt weekend (Auburn @ Clemson, Oklahoma @ OSU, Stanford @ USC and TCU @ Arkansas) PItt game will probably be mid afternoon. It's still a regional game while the rest of these have more national interest. ESPN and ESPN2 do SEC prime time games and FS1 has a non-football prime time commitment that week, although I don't remember what is it off the top of my head.

 

[psuro]

Nice Pic Ro
U the man!!

Thanks. It is my favorite pen.

 

[VaNtyLion]

I think ABC will pick up PSU/OSU and PSU/Michigan for night games. Too many other good non-conference games to put PSU/Pitt in that spotlight.

BTN will probably throw in at least 2 more.....the games at Iowa, NW and MSU would all be decent targets for the network

 

[anon_is9z1n0h3zblb]

I think ABC will pick up PSU/OSU and PSU/Michigan for night games. Too many other good non-conference games to put PSU/Pitt in that spotlight.

BTN will probably throw in at least 2 more.....the games at Iowa, NW and MSU would all be decent targets for the network

Don't forget the B1G contract with Fox starts this year. They may be picking our games.

 

[LaJolla Lion]

UM is a given. @tOSU is another. Maybe the Pitt game, but is it really a big enough game...maybe if the week 2 lineups for TV are weak. I know week 1 has Bama vs. FSU so that is a given.

 

[VaNtyLion]

UM is a given. @tOSU is another. Maybe the Pitt game, but is it really a big enough game...maybe if the week 2 lineups for TV are weak. I know week 1 has Bama vs. FSU so that is a given.

Handful of games on September 9 that would probably provide better ratings potential than PSU/Pitt....and both of these will go head to head with Georgia @Notre Dame on NBC and quite possibly USC/Stanford or Nebraska/Oregon on Fox.

OSU/Oklahoma will almost certainly be on ABC
Clemson/Auburn on ESPN


3:30 is a better time slot for PSU/Pitt....not only for the reason of the matchups above but also because most of the rest of the slate is awful and there really aren't that many good options for the later afternoon kickoff.

 

[psugisher]

Hopeful BTN gets PSU-Pitt and makes it a night game

 

[VaNtyLion]

Hopeful BTN gets PSU-Pitt and makes it a night game

Why would BTN want to put a game on to go head to head with OSU/Oklahoma, Clemson/Auburn and UGA/Notre Dame in a prime time slot?

 

[kgilbert78]

I'm expecting the Iowa game to be at night.

 

[anon_is9z1n0h3zblb]

Handful of games on September 9 that would probably provide better ratings potential than PSU/Pitt....and both of these will go head to head with Georgia @Notre Dame on NBC and quite possibly USC/Stanford or Nebraska/Oregon on Fox.

OSU/Oklahoma will almost certainly be on ABC
Clemson/Auburn on ESPN


3:30 is a better time slot for PSU/Pitt....not only for the reason of the matchups above but also because most of the rest of the slate is awful and there really aren't that many good options for the later afternoon kickoff.

Auburn @ Clemson will likely be ABC prime time. National Champs vs an SEC team will not drop to ESPN/2 as those slots are relegated to SEC home games. Assuming that they sublease a game to CBS, as they've done the last two years, they'll show the only two SEC vs FBS teams on ESPN/2 and farm the other 6 game son ESPNU and SEC Network.

 

[scrivener]

I'm expecting the Iowa game to be at night.

Agreed....and a night game at Iowa is very dangerous...see psu in 2008, michigan last yr.

 

[PSUPALY]

Agreed....and a night game at Iowa is very dangerous...see psu in 2008, michigan last yr.

08 nightmare was a 3:30 game. 2010 was a night game, and we could barely move the ball with R Bolden. but 2012 was a night game and we destroyed them.

 

[getmyjive11]

I'm willing to bet that BTN will force the Rutgers game to be at night. The conference is trying extremely hard to make that a "thing."

 

[AldenT]

I'm willing to bet that BTN will force the Rutgers game to be at night. The conference is trying extremely hard to make that a "thing."

Good. We will hang 60 on them in primetime.

 

[Rod Dangerfield]

 

[tgar]

Pitt, Michigan, Nebraska will all be night home games.

 

[psugisher]

Why would BTN want to put a game on to go head to head with OSU/Oklahoma, Clemson/Auburn and UGA/Notre Dame in a prime time slot?

More viewers? You think Northwestern-Duke would be more watched? Cincinnati-Michigan? If they have a college football time slot at night, I would try to get the most viewers possible. There's competition for viewers all day with so many games.

 

[The Song Remains the Same]

SCum will be at night. It will be a cold, dark night for little jimmy.

Maybe Jimmah will sleep over after the game.