[82lsju]

So while I think while your overall premise is sound, it ignores perhaps the biggest difference - student body attitudes. And my guess is there is a rather large indifference to Stanford sports, in general, amongst the student body and football in particular.

I think you might be correct, and wonder why. Saturdays at the old stadium were not to be missed events. Wake up, tailgate, go to the game, tailgate, shower, go to campus party somewhere. Great times. I think similar traditions still exist in the Big 10 and the SEC, but no longer out here. Why the demise?

looking at a few Big 10 schedules from last football season (UM, OSU, UW, and NU) they all had it at most 2 conference games that started after 4pm, last season we had 6 (5 if you don't count the USC game that started at 4:30pm).   USC had mostly late conference games as well, they had five conference games that started between 4pm-5pm and four that started between 6:30pm-7:30pm.  Their earliest conference game kick-off was 4pm

[82lsju]

So while I think while your overall premise is sound, it ignores perhaps the biggest difference - student body attitudes. And my guess is there is a rather large indifference to Stanford sports, in general, amongst the student body and football in particular.

I think you might be correct, and wonder why. Saturdays at the old stadium were not to be missed events. Wake up, tailgate, go to the game, tailgate, shower, go to campus party somewhere. Great times. I think similar traditions still exist in the Big 10 and the SEC, but no longer out here. Why the demise?

looking at a few Big 10 schedules from last football season (UM, OSU, UW, and NU) they all had it at most 2 conference games that started after 4pm, last season we had 6 (5 if you don't count the USC game that started at 4:30pm).   USC had mostly late conference games as well, they had five conference games that started between 4pm-5pm and four that started between 6:30pm-7:30pm.  Their earliest conference game kick-off was 4pm