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Sept. 4 is well before classes start, and the game will be 11 am local time.  There's no reason not to get acclimated in time.

I had the same reaction as SamuelMcF regarding the K-State game. As he pointed out, Stanford's 2015 team opened its season with a road game at 11 a.m. against Northwestern on a hot, muggy, energy-sapping day. Stanford looked horrible. That was an excellent Stanford team, which later won the Rose Bowl and finished with a #3 ranking. But that team sure didn't perform well with the 11 a.m. kickoff in the heat and humidity.

A year or two ago I looked up Stanford's record in games that started before noon pacific over the past decade or more. It was atrocious.

We did beat Davis in an 11:00 am start game in 2018, but played rather terribly.

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Sept. 4 is well before classes start, and the game will be 11 am local time.  There's no reason not to get acclimated in time.

I had the same reaction as SamuelMcF regarding the K-State game. As he pointed out, Stanford's 2015 team opened its season with a road game at 11 a.m. against Northwestern on a hot, muggy, energy-sapping day. Stanford looked horrible. That was an excellent Stanford team, which later won the Rose Bowl and finished with a #3 ranking. But that team sure didn't perform well with the 11 a.m. kickoff in the heat and humidity.

A year or two ago I looked up Stanford's record in games that started before noon pacific over the past decade or more. It was atrocious.

We did beat Davis in an 11:00 am start game in 2018, but played rather terribly.