[lex24]

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.

You can do that to Wake Forest.  But not a top tier Power 5 Eastern (or even Central)  time zone team.  Course, they don’t come West for the most part anyway.

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If you are wondering, as I did:

The game will also serve as a lucrative payday for only one team. Because this game was originally supposed to be played on K-State’s campus, Stanford will only receive enough money to cover travel costs as agreed upon in the original home-and-home series contract.

K-State gets $2.8 million, apparently.

On discussions about a neutral site game:

“Then when they started talking numbers we realized we will net more than we would net from playing Stanford at home. With what we faced this year financially, being able to have that nice guarantee will help us build things back up.”

https://www.kansas.com/sports/college/bi...79885.html

Perhaps I'm way off on this, but given the tenor of Shaw's comments I'd say there is a very small but non-zero chance Stanford pulls out of the game entirely.

I hope not.  That would look very bad.  And Gail is right vis a vis consequences.

[lex24]

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.

You can do that to Wake Forest.  But not a top tier Power 5 Eastern (or even Central)  time zone team.  Course, they don’t come West for the most part anyway.

---

If you are wondering, as I did:

The game will also serve as a lucrative payday for only one team. Because this game was originally supposed to be played on K-State’s campus, Stanford will only receive enough money to cover travel costs as agreed upon in the original home-and-home series contract.

K-State gets $2.8 million, apparently.

On discussions about a neutral site game:

“Then when they started talking numbers we realized we will net more than we would net from playing Stanford at home. With what we faced this year financially, being able to have that nice guarantee will help us build things back up.”

https://www.kansas.com/sports/college/bi...79885.html

Perhaps I'm way off on this, but given the tenor of Shaw's comments I'd say there is a very small but non-zero chance Stanford pulls out of the game entirely.

I hope not.  That would look very bad.  And Gail is right vis a vis consequences.