Pushback from Big Ten teams not wanting to play on Friday night forced the conference's hand. In today's announcement, Northwestern will not play the two Friday games in 2017 that they had been scheduled to play and those games have been moved back to Saturdays.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...-saturdays

Quote:The Big Ten plans to scale back its plans for Friday night football games moving forward after hearing from a long list of parties affected by the change.

The league announced last fall that its television partners would start to broadcast games on Friday nights, including six contests after the opening Labor Day weekend of the 2017 season. The decision drew criticism from coaches, fans and high school athletic associations.

In an updated schedule released last week, two of those six games -- Northwestern at Maryland on Oct. 13 and Michigan State at Northwestern on Oct. 28 -- were moved back to Saturday kickoff dates. A conference official told ESPN on Monday that moving forward, the league is likely to scale back even further to two or three Friday night games after the opening week per year.

(04-03-2017 02:13 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Pushback from Big Ten teams not wanting to play on Friday night forced the conference's hand. In today's announcement, Northwestern will not play the two Friday games in 2017 that they had been scheduled to play and those games have been moved back to Saturdays.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...-saturdays

Quote:The Big Ten plans to scale back its plans for Friday night football games moving forward after hearing from a long list of parties affected by the change.

The league announced last fall that its television partners would start to broadcast games on Friday nights, including six contests after the opening Labor Day weekend of the 2017 season. The decision drew criticism from coaches, fans and high school athletic associations.

In an updated schedule released last week, two of those six games -- Northwestern at Maryland on Oct. 13 and Michigan State at Northwestern on Oct. 28 -- were moved back to Saturday kickoff dates. A conference official told ESPN on Monday that moving forward, the league is likely to scale back even further to two or three Friday night games after the opening week per year.

I don't mind them. I know we would usually be stuck in those time slots and I wouldn't be shocked if we still end up in those against Indiana, Northwestern, Illinois etc to fill the TV obligation of having a few each year.

It's either that or Saturday Noon games with the occasional Sat night game where we get blown out by OSU or UM on national TV.

I loved the Thursday-Friday night games back in the Big East. We had some great Friday games against USF when they had Matt Grothe and Pitt. I'm a boring middle aged man who doesn't go out after work on Fridays so i'm home watching Football anyway.

(04-03-2017 02:35 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(04-03-2017 02:13 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Pushback from Big Ten teams not wanting to play on Friday night forced the conference's hand. In today's announcement, Northwestern will not play the two Friday games in 2017 that they had been scheduled to play and those games have been moved back to Saturdays.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...-saturdays

Quote:The Big Ten plans to scale back its plans for Friday night football games moving forward after hearing from a long list of parties affected by the change.

The league announced last fall that its television partners would start to broadcast games on Friday nights, including six contests after the opening Labor Day weekend of the 2017 season. The decision drew criticism from coaches, fans and high school athletic associations.

In an updated schedule released last week, two of those six games -- Northwestern at Maryland on Oct. 13 and Michigan State at Northwestern on Oct. 28 -- were moved back to Saturday kickoff dates. A conference official told ESPN on Monday that moving forward, the league is likely to scale back even further to two or three Friday night games after the opening week per year.

I don't mind them. I know we would usually be stuck in those time slots and I wouldn't be shocked if we still end up in those against Indiana, Northwestern, Illinois etc to fill the TV obligation of having a few each year.

It's either that or Saturday Noon games with the occasional Sat night game where we get blown out by OSU or UM on national TV.

I loved the Thursday-Friday night games back in the Big East. We had some great Friday games against USF when they had Matt Grothe and Pitt. I'm a boring middle aged man who doesn't go out after work on Fridays so i'm home watching Football anyway.

Same. If I don't have season tickets, it really doesn't bother me. I'm not at high school games (none of my kids played) and we don't have lights on our local field. So I'm probably the demographic that they are trying to hit with Friday night games.

We have had some good night games during the Big East years.

I hate Friday night games. I wish more conferences would push back against them.

This is good for the aac, great exposure for G5 teams.

(04-03-2017 02:35 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(04-03-2017 02:13 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Pushback from Big Ten teams not wanting to play on Friday night forced the conference's hand. In today's announcement, Northwestern will not play the two Friday games in 2017 that they had been scheduled to play and those games have been moved back to Saturdays.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...-saturdays

Quote:The Big Ten plans to scale back its plans for Friday night football games moving forward after hearing from a long list of parties affected by the change.

The league announced last fall that its television partners would start to broadcast games on Friday nights, including six contests after the opening Labor Day weekend of the 2017 season. The decision drew criticism from coaches, fans and high school athletic associations.

In an updated schedule released last week, two of those six games -- Northwestern at Maryland on Oct. 13 and Michigan State at Northwestern on Oct. 28 -- were moved back to Saturday kickoff dates. A conference official told ESPN on Monday that moving forward, the league is likely to scale back even further to two or three Friday night games after the opening week per year.

I don't mind them. I know we would usually be stuck in those time slots and I wouldn't be shocked if we still end up in those against Indiana, Northwestern, Illinois etc to fill the TV obligation of having a few each year.

It's either that or Saturday Noon games with the occasional Sat night game where we get blown out by OSU or UM on national TV.

I loved the Thursday-Friday night games back in the Big East. We had some great Friday games against USF when they had Matt Grothe and Pitt. I'm a boring middle aged man who doesn't go out after work on Fridays so i'm home watching Football anyway.

The games mentioned above, and probably most other Friday games, are games that will probably be on Big Ten Network if played on Saturday. So the TV exposure decision is BTN on Saturday versus FS1 or an ESPN channel on Friday night.

I suppose the argument against the Friday games is: Big Ten teams get enough media exposure already and so don't need to absorb season-ticket holder or community blowback from playing on Friday, in places where that's a factor, and they can live with playing another game or two on BTN if it means playing at a convenient time on Saturday.

Does this mean the total tv contract compensation is going to be reduced? This has got to be costing the Big Ten some money, right?

(04-03-2017 02:54 PM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote:  I hate Friday night games. I wish more conferences would push back against them.

Same here.

The whole point of college football is to market the university. The BEST way to market your university is to entice 50,000 people to come to your beautiful campus for an all-day event.

But who's going to come to your event on a Thursday or Friday night? Only the die-hards who live nearby and already come to campus frequently anyways.

Whimps.

(04-03-2017 02:54 PM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote:  I hate Friday night games. I wish more conferences would push back against them.

Some of us would kill for them...

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(04-03-2017 04:11 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(04-03-2017 02:54 PM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote:  I hate Friday night games. I wish more conferences would push back against them.

Some of us would kill for them...

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Hahahaha. I hate Friday games, though I suppose they are better than Tuesday and Wednesday

(04-03-2017 02:35 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(04-03-2017 02:13 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Pushback from Big Ten teams not wanting to play on Friday night forced the conference's hand. In today's announcement, Northwestern will not play the two Friday games in 2017 that they had been scheduled to play and those games have been moved back to Saturdays.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...-saturdays

Quote:The Big Ten plans to scale back its plans for Friday night football games moving forward after hearing from a long list of parties affected by the change.

The league announced last fall that its television partners would start to broadcast games on Friday nights, including six contests after the opening Labor Day weekend of the 2017 season. The decision drew criticism from coaches, fans and high school athletic associations.

In an updated schedule released last week, two of those six games -- Northwestern at Maryland on Oct. 13 and Michigan State at Northwestern on Oct. 28 -- were moved back to Saturday kickoff dates. A conference official told ESPN on Monday that moving forward, the league is likely to scale back even further to two or three Friday night games after the opening week per year.

I don't mind them. I know we would usually be stuck in those time slots and I wouldn't be shocked if we still end up in those against Indiana, Northwestern, Illinois etc to fill the TV obligation of having a few each year.

It's either that or Saturday Noon games with the occasional Sat night game where we get blown out by OSU or UM on national TV.

I loved the Thursday-Friday night games back in the Big East. We had some great Friday games against USF when they had Matt Grothe and Pitt. I'm a boring middle aged man who doesn't go out after work on Fridays so i'm home watching Football anyway.

I liked the Thursday/Friday night games. It always felt like a major event and we also had good crowds. I wouldn't mind one Friday night game a year at all.

(04-03-2017 03:35 PM)goofus Wrote:  Does this mean the total tv contract compensation is going to be reduced? This has got to be costing the Big Ten some money, right?

Probably.

(04-03-2017 08:05 PM)UpStreamRedTeam Wrote:  

(04-03-2017 02:35 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(04-03-2017 02:13 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Pushback from Big Ten teams not wanting to play on Friday night forced the conference's hand. In today's announcement, Northwestern will not play the two Friday games in 2017 that they had been scheduled to play and those games have been moved back to Saturdays.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...-saturdays

Quote:The Big Ten plans to scale back its plans for Friday night football games moving forward after hearing from a long list of parties affected by the change.

The league announced last fall that its television partners would start to broadcast games on Friday nights, including six contests after the opening Labor Day weekend of the 2017 season. The decision drew criticism from coaches, fans and high school athletic associations.

In an updated schedule released last week, two of those six games -- Northwestern at Maryland on Oct. 13 and Michigan State at Northwestern on Oct. 28 -- were moved back to Saturday kickoff dates. A conference official told ESPN on Monday that moving forward, the league is likely to scale back even further to two or three Friday night games after the opening week per year.

I don't mind them. I know we would usually be stuck in those time slots and I wouldn't be shocked if we still end up in those against Indiana, Northwestern, Illinois etc to fill the TV obligation of having a few each year.

It's either that or Saturday Noon games with the occasional Sat night game where we get blown out by OSU or UM on national TV.

I loved the Thursday-Friday night games back in the Big East. We had some great Friday games against USF when they had Matt Grothe and Pitt. I'm a boring middle aged man who doesn't go out after work on Fridays so i'm home watching Football anyway.

I liked the Thursday/Friday night games. It always felt like a major event and we also had good crowds. I wouldn't mind one Friday night game a year at all.

Even though Tuesday made more logistical sense for the NFL to add to their Sunday/Monday, Thursday had better viewership so they took over Thursday. Now the TH games don't have as much value for the colleges. Networks are pushing them to Fridays, but a lot of coaches, fans and high schools are pushing back. Don't see the Big 12 or SEC doing much of that. Seems like the Big 10 is backing off. Still might work on the coasts where HS football is not as big.

(04-03-2017 08:05 PM)UpStreamRedTeam Wrote:  

(04-03-2017 02:35 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(04-03-2017 02:13 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Pushback from Big Ten teams not wanting to play on Friday night forced the conference's hand. In today's announcement, Northwestern will not play the two Friday games in 2017 that they had been scheduled to play and those games have been moved back to Saturdays.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...-saturdays

Quote:The Big Ten plans to scale back its plans for Friday night football games moving forward after hearing from a long list of parties affected by the change.

The league announced last fall that its television partners would start to broadcast games on Friday nights, including six contests after the opening Labor Day weekend of the 2017 season. The decision drew criticism from coaches, fans and high school athletic associations.

In an updated schedule released last week, two of those six games -- Northwestern at Maryland on Oct. 13 and Michigan State at Northwestern on Oct. 28 -- were moved back to Saturday kickoff dates. A conference official told ESPN on Monday that moving forward, the league is likely to scale back even further to two or three Friday night games after the opening week per year.

I don't mind them. I know we would usually be stuck in those time slots and I wouldn't be shocked if we still end up in those against Indiana, Northwestern, Illinois etc to fill the TV obligation of having a few each year.

It's either that or Saturday Noon games with the occasional Sat night game where we get blown out by OSU or UM on national TV.

I loved the Thursday-Friday night games back in the Big East. We had some great Friday games against USF when they had Matt Grothe and Pitt. I'm a boring middle aged man who doesn't go out after work on Fridays so i'm home watching Football anyway.

I liked the Thursday/Friday night games. It always felt like a major event and we also had good crowds. I wouldn't mind one Friday night game a year at all.

I remember watching Rutgers and Louisville and Cinci playing on espn about 10 years ago in the Big East 2.0. I'll admit that I watched those games due to the Maction effect: they were the only games on tv. But, there were some pretty memorable games. Rutgers really had a decent squad during that era I have to admit.

(04-03-2017 08:38 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(04-03-2017 08:05 PM)UpStreamRedTeam Wrote:  

(04-03-2017 02:35 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(04-03-2017 02:13 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Pushback from Big Ten teams not wanting to play on Friday night forced the conference's hand. In today's announcement, Northwestern will not play the two Friday games in 2017 that they had been scheduled to play and those games have been moved back to Saturdays.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...-saturdays

Quote:The Big Ten plans to scale back its plans for Friday night football games moving forward after hearing from a long list of parties affected by the change.

The league announced last fall that its television partners would start to broadcast games on Friday nights, including six contests after the opening Labor Day weekend of the 2017 season. The decision drew criticism from coaches, fans and high school athletic associations.

In an updated schedule released last week, two of those six games -- Northwestern at Maryland on Oct. 13 and Michigan State at Northwestern on Oct. 28 -- were moved back to Saturday kickoff dates. A conference official told ESPN on Monday that moving forward, the league is likely to scale back even further to two or three Friday night games after the opening week per year.

I don't mind them. I know we would usually be stuck in those time slots and I wouldn't be shocked if we still end up in those against Indiana, Northwestern, Illinois etc to fill the TV obligation of having a few each year.

It's either that or Saturday Noon games with the occasional Sat night game where we get blown out by OSU or UM on national TV.

I loved the Thursday-Friday night games back in the Big East. We had some great Friday games against USF when they had Matt Grothe and Pitt. I'm a boring middle aged man who doesn't go out after work on Fridays so i'm home watching Football anyway.

I liked the Thursday/Friday night games. It always felt like a major event and we also had good crowds. I wouldn't mind one Friday night game a year at all.

Even though Tuesday made more logistical sense for the NFL to add to their Sunday/Monday, Thursday had better viewership so they took over Thursday. Now the TH games don't have as much value for the colleges. Networks are pushing them to Fridays, but a lot of coaches, fans and high schools are pushing back. Don't see the Big 12 or SEC doing much of that. Seems like the Big 10 is backing off. Still might work on the coasts where HS football is not as big.

I don't see the SEC doing it at all

(04-03-2017 08:39 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  I don't see the SEC doing it at all

Look harder. Here are the last 2 seasons:

2015
W Kentucky at Vanderbilt SECN Thursday 9/03/15 8:00 PM
N Carolina vs. S Carolina ESPN Thursday 9/03/15 6:00 PM
Auburn at Kentucky ESPN Thursday 10/15/15 7:00 PM
Miss. St. at Missouri ESPN Thursday 11/05/15 9:00 PM
Missouri at Arkansas CBS Friday 11/27/15 2:30 PM

2016
Appalachian St. at Tennessee SECN Thursday 9/01/16 7:30 PM
South Carolina at Vanderbilt ESPN Thursday 9/01/16 8:00 PM
LSU at Texas A&M ESPN Thursday 11/24/16 7:30 PM
Arkansas at Missouri CBS Friday 11/25/16 2:30 PM

Yeah, so far it's mostly (7 of 9) on the first and last weeks of the season... but that's how a lot of other conferences started out, too.

The P5 with the fewest Thursday/Friday games has been the Big Ten, not the SEC:

2015
TCU at Minnesota ESPN Thursday 9/3 9:00 PM
Iowa at Nebraska ABC Friday 11/27 3:30 PM

2016
Oregon St. at Minnesota BTN Thursday 9/1 9:00 PM
Furman at Michigan St. BTN Friday 9/2 7:00 PM
Nebraska at Iowa ABC Friday 11/25 3:30 PM

(04-03-2017 09:32 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(04-03-2017 08:39 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  I don't see the SEC doing it at all

Look harder. Here are the last 2 seasons:

2015
W Kentucky at Vanderbilt SECN Thursday 9/03/15 8:00 PM
N Carolina vs. S Carolina ESPN Thursday 9/03/15 6:00 PM
Auburn at Kentucky ESPN Thursday 10/15/15 7:00 PM
Miss. St. at Missouri ESPN Thursday 11/05/15 9:00 PM
Missouri at Arkansas CBS Friday 11/27/15 2:30 PM

2016
Appalachian St. at Tennessee SECN Thursday 9/01/16 7:30 PM
South Carolina at Vanderbilt ESPN Thursday 9/01/16 8:00 PM
LSU at Texas A&M ESPN Thursday 11/24/16 7:30 PM
Arkansas at Missouri CBS Friday 11/25/16 2:30 PM

Yeah, so far it's mostly (7 of 9) on the first and last weeks of the season... but that's how a lot of other conferences started out, too.

I don't count opening weekend or Thanksgiving games as "weekday" games. Those have ALWAYS been around.

(04-03-2017 09:32 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(04-03-2017 08:39 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  I don't see the SEC doing it at all

Look harder. Here are the last 2 seasons:

2016
Appalachian St. at Tennessee SECN Thursday 9/01/16 7:30 PM Opening Weekdend
South Carolina at Vanderbilt ESPN Thursday 9/01/16 8:00 PM Opening Weekdend
LSU at Texas A&M ESPN Thursday 11/24/16 7:30 PM Thanksgiving
Arkansas at Missouri CBS Friday 11/25/16 2:30 PM Thanksgiving

Yeah, so far it's mostly (7 of 9) on the first and last weeks of the season... but that's how a lot of other conferences started out, too. SEC wants the Thursday kickoff and Thanksgiving is football weekend, no one works on that Friday so it becomes a Saturday