Night Games Hate Us

#4
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McDad said:
Marquee games where UT is facing a strong opponent (like UGA, Bama, OU) always have high nielsen ratings.

UGA having that few night games is shocking, too.
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That number is skewed too. Before 2024, the premier SEC game was on 3:30 CBS. That's not a night game. Which is why Georgia is so low.

That LSU number is absolutely ridiculous and the league office should probably look more into that.
 
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zjcvols said:
That number is skewed too. Before 2024, the premier SEC game was on 3:30 CBS. That's not a night game. Which is why Georgia is so low.

That LSU number is absolutely ridiculous and the league office should probably look more into that.
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Excellent point and good memory.
 
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Clad in Big Orange said:
LSU's % is ridiculous if true. Interestingly, the Vols best road win under Heupel is the '22 game at LSU w/early kickoff time. They are not the same team with an early start.
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IMO LSU is only a special, unique environment if the game is at night. At any other time, it's no louder than any other large SEC stadium. I went to the 2022 game and wasn't super impressed by the noise (admittedly, we stepped on their throat from the jump and they never had a chance to really get into it).
 
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LSU made night games a thing way back when most teams played at 1:00. They didn’t care about TV. They get a hall pass……. “Tiger Stadium on a Louisiana Saturday Night”….. that’s part of the fabric of college football and the TV ad execs understand this. It makes for a better/easier sell to the casual average Joe consumer of sports programming.
 
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05_never_again said:
IMO LSU is only a special, unique environment if the game is at night. At any other time, it's no louder than any other large SEC stadium. I went to the 2022 game and wasn't super impressed by the noise (admittedly, we stepped on their throat from the jump and they never had a chance to really get into it).
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That was such a great game. We sat with my wife's brother and his wife (LSU fans) We were in the shade and the temp / humidity was amazing for a mid october day in baton rouge. My wife thought is was cute to put an LSU shirt on my son. By the end of the game he was (and is) a Tennessee fan!
 
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McDad said:
That was such a great game. We sat with my wife's brother and his wife (LSU fans) We were in the shade and the temp / humidity was amazing for a mid october day in baton rouge. My wife thought is was cute to put an LSU shirt on my son. By the end of the game he was (and is) a Tennessee fan!
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you've had all these years and you aint converted them?
 
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zjcvols said:
That number is skewed too. Before 2024, the premier SEC game was on 3:30 CBS. That's not a night game. Which is why Georgia is so low.

That LSU number is absolutely ridiculous and the league office should probably look more into that.
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For what, winning 5 of 6 games? That's 83%. Never mind, misread the post.
 
#14
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Hulavol said:
LSU made night games a thing way back when most teams played at 1:00. They didn’t care about TV. They get a hall pass……. “Tiger Stadium on a Louisiana Saturday Night”….. that’s part of the fabric of college football and the TV ad execs understand this. It makes for a better/easier sell to the casual average Joe consumer of sports programming.
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Yeah, this is correct. They were playing night games when no one else was or wanted to. They played games at night in the 1950's, it's their tradition.
 
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zjcvols said:
That number is skewed too. Before 2024, the premier SEC game was on 3:30 CBS. That's not a night game. Which is why Georgia is so low.

That LSU number is absolutely ridiculous and the league office should probably look more into that.
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LSU has been playing night games for decades. Y’all should crack open a history book.
 
#22
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UT97Vol said:
We got two big ones last year and I'm not sure we would have won either game had they been day games. The sustained decibel level during Bama and Florida last year was epic.
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Drinking alcohol all day is definitely gonna increase most peoples ability to scream at full volume on defense. I always lose my voice for a day or 2 after a VOLS game because I choose to scream DEFENSE as loud as I can on every defensive snap, not just on 3rd or 4th downs. My daughter did the same this week at her 1st home game and we broke 110 decibels several times during the Arkansas game and were always over 100 when they had the live Db count up on the scoreboard.
 
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