Night Games Hate Us

#26
#26
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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It wasn’t that they didn’t care about TV, they were trying to avoid oppressive heat.
 
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A lot of it has to do with getting that "prime" 3:30 ABC (formerly CBS) spot. It is looked at as more valuable than the 7p spot. Most of our games have either been a 3:30p or 4:15p spot with the occasional noon game. But I will certainly agree, Neyland at night is an absolutely phenomenal environment.
 
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Speaking as a morning person, I hate the night games because I can't watch the entire game. I really hate it when the Vols play at night, because I wake up in the middle of the night wondering if they won. Makes for a bad night's sleep!
 
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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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Well I wonder about LSU also. I mean the SEC Network has had a regular segment on the Finebaum show every week in football season, since Brian Kelly has been there. A great recruiting tool, with Finebaum interviewing B Kelly weekly it goes like the its a promo for LSU and no other SEC team gets a weekly National limelight. I asked a friend did LSU faithful buy advertising time weekly or is someone in the SEC Network in LSUs pocket. It just weird because Finebaum is a Alabama backer a UT Grad but he owes his millions to the Gump's and the radio show where they got his name out there, ergo the ESPN stint. So I don't think Finebaum is behind this but money coming from somewhere.
 
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Titans4Vols said:
Georgia, the top team of the conference in said past 5 years, has an even lower rate than we do. We dumpster Kentucky as a program and they have a far higher rate.

Don't think it has anything to do with "shafted", just the way things have worked out.
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This. Kentucky almost always plays their early season cupcake games at night. We don’t.
 
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TNHopeful505 said:
A lot of it has to do with getting that "prime" 3:30 ABC (formerly CBS) spot. It is looked at as more valuable than the 7p spot. Most of our games have either been a 3:30p or 4:15p spot with the occasional noon game. But I will certainly agree, Neyland at night is an absolutely phenomenal environment.
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The prime spot with the new SEC/ABC contract is 7:30. 3:30 is now the secondary time slot.
 
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VolCalls said:
The prime spot with the new SEC/ABC contract is 7:30. 3:30 is now the secondary time slot.
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Which according to many on this board, favors the home team. But is there really proof of that?

I believe it will take a few years of seeing how teams fare in that slot to say yes or no to that being better for the home team than the 3:30 time slot.

I think a visiting team in the 3:30 time slot is just a likely to win the game as a visiting team in the 7:30 time slot. It's the taking the crowd out of the game that the visiting team must do.
 
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