[ColoradoTree]

And for all the Game Day location decisions, you have to remember ESPN really doesn't like to come to the west coast at all. The extremely early morning start usually means smaller crowds and the travel makes it a more expensive trip for the TV production (especially if they have east coast games the week before and the week after). So unless a Pac-12 game is an absolute no brainer (like the Oregon at Stanford game in 2011), ESPN won't come west.

This definitely plays a role, I think.  And with a smaller student body than most of our opponents, Stanford likely won't provide the same crowd that some of our larger conference-mates would.  Had UCLA beaten Texas A&M, the Bruins might be a Top 10 team right now, and this weekend might have been big enough to host.  Gameday at the Rose Bowl has an appeal to the folks at ESPN, I should think (with the Friday setup being somewhere on campus).

Oh, well.  Maybe next year. 

[ColoradoTree]

And for all the Game Day location decisions, you have to remember ESPN really doesn't like to come to the west coast at all. The extremely early morning start usually means smaller crowds and the travel makes it a more expensive trip for the TV production (especially if they have east coast games the week before and the week after). So unless a Pac-12 game is an absolute no brainer (like the Oregon at Stanford game in 2011), ESPN won't come west.

This definitely plays a role, I think.  And with a smaller student body than most of our opponents, Stanford likely won't provide the same crowd that some of our larger conference-mates would.  Had UCLA beaten Texas A&M, the Bruins might be a Top 10 team right now, and this weekend might have been big enough to host.  Gameday at the Rose Bowl has an appeal to the folks at ESPN, I should think (with the Friday setup being somewhere on campus).

Oh, well.  Maybe next year.