[terry]

Yep.  How often does an East Coast Power 5 team come West  and play at 7:30?

Stanford's game at Wake Forest in 2009 started at 9 am PDT (12 noon EDT). Stanford lost 24-17.

We returned the favor the following year at home, when we kicked off against Wake Forest at 8:15 pm PDT (11:15 pm EDT). We won 68-24.

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I'm guessing that Shaw is so vocal about the early kickoff time because he's still emotionally scarred by the Northwestern game in 2015, when Stanford kicked off at 11 am CDT (9 am PDT) and played miserably in a 16-6 loss. That was the only game all season long in which Stanford scored fewer than 30 points. That was a really good Stanford team, which ended up winning the Rose Bowl and ranked #3 in the final poll.

[terry]

Yep.  How often does an East Coast Power 5 team come West  and play at 7:30?

Stanford's game at Wake Forest in 2009 started at 9 am PDT (12 noon EDT). Stanford lost 24-17.

We returned the favor the following year at home, when we kicked off against Wake Forest at 8:15 pm PDT (11:15 pm EDT). We won 68-24.

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I'm guessing that Shaw is so vocal about the early kickoff time because he's still emotionally scarred by the Northwestern game in 2015, when Stanford kicked off at 11 am CDT (9 am PDT) and played miserably in a 16-6 loss. That was the only game all season long in which Stanford scored fewer than 30 points. That was a really good Stanford team, which ended up winning the Rose Bowl and ranked #3 in the final poll.