05-27-2022, 10:17 AM
(05-27-2022, 09:55 AM)msqueri Wrote:(05-27-2022, 07:57 AM)French Rage Wrote: I'm surprised they didn't put the Colgate game in another time slot. I don't know what the other OOC matchups are that weekend but I would think they would have to be a little more attractive in east coast prime time than us versus Colgate. But I also won't argue if that's where they want to put it.
USC game time and channel makes sense. Stanford/USC still sounds like a big matchup to a lot of people, even if neither teams is exactly where it was 10 years ago. Hopefully the game is good enough that it does not permanently shake everyone of that belief.
A game has to be colossally crappy and irrelevant to be on Pac-12 Network in the first place and hardly anybody in the country (certainly not the east coast sports fans for whom national tv is geared) even gets the Pac-12 Network, so I'm not sure that calculus of what's attractive to the east coast primetime market is pertinent with regard to Stanford-Colgate. The other Pac-12 OOC matchups of any interest to anybody not diehard about those schools will be on real networks. Oregon-Georgia will be on ABC. Arizona-San Diego State will be on CBS. Oregon State-Boise State and Utah-Florida will be on ESPN. Washington-Kent State will be on Fox Sports 1. The games without eyeballs (i.e., on Pac-12 Network) will be our game, USC-Rice (kind of surprised Lincoln Riley's debut couldn't find a real network), UCLA-Bowling Green, Washington State-Idaho, and Cal-UC Davis. Actually, technically Stanford-Colgate and Cal-UC Davis are a special kind of crappy because they're not even on Pac-12 Network, they're on Pac-12 Now/Pac-12 Bay Area (Pac-12 Network will be showing the USC game during our slot).
So.......I was right? :P