(02-06-2014 03:11 PM)MissouriStateBears Wrote:  

(02-06-2014 02:50 PM)brista21 Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 05:32 PM)Policiious Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 03:20 PM)All Dukes_All Day Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 02:24 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Yeah, schools in the south will resist Friday games. But the Pac-12 teams and the northern ACC teams will be ok with it. I suspect others will open up to Friday nights once they see that early-season Thursday night CFB TV ratings will be microscopic, especially in October when the Thursday night competition will include not only NFL games on CBS but MLB playoff games.

Mark down Thursday, October 23 if you want to compare TV ratings. ESPN will be airing Miami at Virginia Tech. CBS will have an NFL game. Fox will be showing game 2 of the World Series.

I agree, but the MLB will do everything in their power to not have to compete with a regular season NFL game...so I dont' envision that scenario happening.

Last year's WS Game 2 Boston-St Louis beat Thursday nite NFL broadcast in the ratings and did well on Sunday & Monday night also

Keep in mind the matchup on that one. Both have huge national followings. If it were say Miami vs. Kansas City I can assure you the NFL wins.

Royals hold the record for the most watched World Series of all time.

They're tied with Yankees-Dodgers in '78.

(02-05-2014 03:46 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Oh, and one more "gift" from the NFL to college football:

Quote:Of those eight second-half games, six will be on Thursday nights with two as part of a Saturday doubleheader in Week 16. ... The new package allows for the doubleheader on the penultimate week of the season. The first game will have a late afternoon kickoff and the second will start in prime time. Given the short-term nature of this deal, there is flexibility to expand if the league chooses.

That's the Saturday before Christmas, December 20 in 2014. So the NFL is big-footing a Saturday that will have two or three bowl games, and maybe in future years, they'll do the same on the Saturday between Christmas and New Year's, which is always one of the biggest days for bowl games. That will take away at least half of the TV audience for those bowl games.

That is a dead weekend in CF son. There are no games that weekend, with the exception of Ball St vs Ark St level bowl games if that.

(02-06-2014 03:40 PM)RUScarlets Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 03:46 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Oh, and one more "gift" from the NFL to college football:

Quote:Of those eight second-half games, six will be on Thursday nights with two as part of a Saturday doubleheader in Week 16. ... The new package allows for the doubleheader on the penultimate week of the season. The first game will have a late afternoon kickoff and the second will start in prime time. Given the short-term nature of this deal, there is flexibility to expand if the league chooses.

That's the Saturday before Christmas, December 20 in 2014. So the NFL is big-footing a Saturday that will have two or three bowl games, and maybe in future years, they'll do the same on the Saturday between Christmas and New Year's, which is always one of the biggest days for bowl games. That will take away at least half of the TV audience for those bowl games.

That is a dead weekend in CF son. There are no games that weekend, with the exception of Ball St vs Ark St level bowl games if that.

IF NFL expanded to the Saturday in week 17(which don't think they will)- that could some years be very bad for college football. Like this past season, that Saturday had Pinstripe, Belk, Russell, and Buffalo Wild Wings. That Saturday between Chrismas and New Year's often times has at least 4-5 pretty good games(as good as you're going to see pre New Years).

(02-06-2014 03:40 PM)RUScarlets Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 03:46 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Oh, and one more "gift" from the NFL to college football:

Quote:Of those eight second-half games, six will be on Thursday nights with two as part of a Saturday doubleheader in Week 16. ... The new package allows for the doubleheader on the penultimate week of the season. The first game will have a late afternoon kickoff and the second will start in prime time. Given the short-term nature of this deal, there is flexibility to expand if the league chooses.

That's the Saturday before Christmas, December 20 in 2014. So the NFL is big-footing a Saturday that will have two or three bowl games, and maybe in future years, they'll do the same on the Saturday between Christmas and New Year's, which is always one of the biggest days for bowl games. That will take away at least half of the TV audience for those bowl games.

That is a dead weekend in CF son. There are no games that weekend, with the exception of Ball St vs Ark St level bowl games if that.

Pardon me but we are the final act before the title game, thank you very much.

(02-06-2014 02:47 PM)JunkYardCard Wrote:  Regarding these Thursday night games, I wonder if the NFL gave any consideration to how it's basically eating its seed corn by basically forcing college football to interfere even more with Friday night high school football. Participation rates in youth league football is already declining.

Take away interest in today's high school football, and in 20 years time after a bunch of current football fans have died off, then maybe all those soccer moms get their way and soccer finally takes hold in this country. Haha.

Absolutely none. Football will be the new baseball soon enough. Same cycle will happen, gambling, labor/bargaining, corruption, eventually PED's, and player health concerns. NFL will have no way of recycling that talent fast enough.

(02-06-2014 03:48 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(02-06-2014 03:40 PM)RUScarlets Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 03:46 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Oh, and one more "gift" from the NFL to college football:

Quote:Of those eight second-half games, six will be on Thursday nights with two as part of a Saturday doubleheader in Week 16. ... The new package allows for the doubleheader on the penultimate week of the season. The first game will have a late afternoon kickoff and the second will start in prime time. Given the short-term nature of this deal, there is flexibility to expand if the league chooses.

That's the Saturday before Christmas, December 20 in 2014. So the NFL is big-footing a Saturday that will have two or three bowl games, and maybe in future years, they'll do the same on the Saturday between Christmas and New Year's, which is always one of the biggest days for bowl games. That will take away at least half of the TV audience for those bowl games.

That is a dead weekend in CF son. There are no games that weekend, with the exception of Ball St vs Ark St level bowl games if that.

IF NFL expanded to the Saturday in week 17(which don't think they will)- that could some years be very bad for college football. Like this past season, that Saturday had Pinstripe, Belk, Russell, and Buffalo Wild Wings. That Saturday between Chrismas and New Year's often times has at least 4-5 pretty good games(as good as you're going to see pre New Years).

If anything, we will start to see *more* good bowl games on the Saturday between Christmas and NYD. ESPN is unlikely to put other bowls in the same window as any of the CFP bowl games (with the exception, IMO, of noon or 1 PM ET on Jan. 1). A few of those games (I'll guess Cap One and Alamo) will get early-January weeknight time slots. Others (think Gator, Liberty, Sun) will get pre-NYE dates, and the Saturday between Christmas and NYD is the best available date for many of those games. In 2014, they'll be squeezing at least 20 bowl games into the 11 days from December 20 through 30.