[Jamesy]

Since I don't attend Stanford home games in person, I am more interested in excessive advantages for the home or road team. I oppose 9 am PT away games for Stanford on the East Coast *and* 7:30 pm PT home games for Stanford for East Coast opponents. So I have no objection if the SJSU game kicks off at 7:30 pm.

On the other hand, I don't have data to back up my assertion, just anecdotes and assumptions. Anecdotes: Decent to very good Stanford teams lost at Wake Forest in 2009 and at Northwestern in 2015 (both 9 am PT kickoffs). Assumption: I can't think of a bad Stanford team beating a visiting East Coast team in a night game because we've played very few home games vs East Coast teams until last year (the Louisville game kicked off in the early afernoon). But the disadvantage to the East Coast team makes sense to me.

I think there is adequate data out there, particularly using NFL MNF results where there is a lot more parity than in college football, to show there is a body clock advantage for a CA time hosting an east coast team for a 7:30 PM kickoff, similar to CA teams playing at 9 AM PT. We did play Wake Forest at home back in 2010 with an 8 PM local kickoff and absolutely demolished them. Probably would have happened regardless of kickoff time, but perhaps the late kick added to the final margin.

[Jamesy]

Since I don't attend Stanford home games in person, I am more interested in excessive advantages for the home or road team. I oppose 9 am PT away games for Stanford on the East Coast *and* 7:30 pm PT home games for Stanford for East Coast opponents. So I have no objection if the SJSU game kicks off at 7:30 pm.

On the other hand, I don't have data to back up my assertion, just anecdotes and assumptions. Anecdotes: Decent to very good Stanford teams lost at Wake Forest in 2009 and at Northwestern in 2015 (both 9 am PT kickoffs). Assumption: I can't think of a bad Stanford team beating a visiting East Coast team in a night game because we've played very few home games vs East Coast teams until last year (the Louisville game kicked off in the early afernoon). But the disadvantage to the East Coast team makes sense to me.

I think there is adequate data out there, particularly using NFL MNF results where there is a lot more parity than in college football, to show there is a body clock advantage for a CA time hosting an east coast team for a 7:30 PM kickoff, similar to CA teams playing at 9 AM PT. We did play Wake Forest at home back in 2010 with an 8 PM local kickoff and absolutely demolished them. Probably would have happened regardless of kickoff time, but perhaps the late kick added to the final margin.