So the PAC 10 has a serious lack of an LA presence. What if, to solve this, all 10 teams began the season with a neutral site conference game in the NFL stadium in week 1.

Spread the games over the whole weekend:

Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday

Opening up with conference games would give them much higher quality content than all the FCS and F5 buy games going on.

(09-02-2022 07:41 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  So the PAC 10 has a serious lack of an LA presence. What if, to solve this, all 10 teams began the season with a neutral site conference game in the NFL stadium in week 1.

Spread the games over the whole weekend:

Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday

Opening up with conference games would give them much higher quality content than all the FCS and F5 buy games going on.

Didn't Kliakoff (sp) note that they are going to set up a 'kick-off' classic in L.A. between two PAC schools not aggregately named USCLA?

Make a cup for it: NW4/Stanford vs SW4/California

Schedule it based on previous year conference standings. Highest matchup gets the best time slot, etc. Based on last year:

Oregon vs Utah
Arizona St vs Washington St
California vs Oregon St
Colorado vs Washington
Arizona vs Stanford

That is great, outside the box thinking. I'd watch it.

A bunch of games in LA involving teams from hundreds of miles away. Should draw dozens of fans.

(09-02-2022 09:05 PM)AssKickingChicken Wrote:  A bunch of games in LA involving teams from hundreds of miles away. Should draw dozens of fans.

Unless the Rams(when good) Chargers(when good) or USC, UCLA(when good) are playing, LA won't come out to watch. Raiders are the the only team that can play games in LA that's not in LA and would sell out.

Meh. I think they should just do a single LA Classic Kickoff game with a PAC-10 school playing a B1G school every year. Nothing more, nothing less. Have the Rose Bowl still be PAC vs B1G.

I know, why don't they do a round robin tournament and then the two top teams face each other in a game at the end. We could call it the PAC 10 Championship Game.

Nah. It'll never work.

(09-02-2022 07:41 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  So the PAC 10 has a serious lack of an LA presence. What if, to solve this, all 10 teams began the season with a neutral site conference game in the NFL stadium in week 1.

Spread the games over the whole weekend:

Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday

Opening up with conference games would give them much higher quality content than all the FCS and F5 buy games going on.

That is not going to happen, but the PAC would like to do an annual LA game at SoFi Stadium. Cal vs Arizona, for example. Both schools have a lot of alumni in the area. The PAC will still be playing in the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl at SoFi Stadium and in the Rose Bowl game. It would be difficult to do much more than that. This Saturday, for example, Bowling Green is playing UCLA at the Rose Bowl and Rice is at USC in the LA Coliseum. The best college football game in Southern California Saturday will probably be Arizona vs San Diego State at the new Snapdragon Stadium. Then next Thursday Buffalo will be playing the Rams at SoFi Stadium and on Sunday the Raiders and the Chargers go to war at SoFi Stadium. Besides high schools football, the Padres are taking on the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium this weekend and the Astros are playing the Angels this weekend in Anaheim. A lot of competition for the PAC.

(09-02-2022 09:05 PM)AssKickingChicken Wrote:  A bunch of games in LA involving teams from hundreds of miles away. Should draw dozens of fans.

Instead of 5 games 5 days, I would prefer just 2 games as a double header on Saturday. That could be a fun event type atmosphere to kick the season off.
Although I guess you need all 10 teams at some point playing a neutral site conference game to keep things even.

I feel like this could become a major event where people stay for the week and catch multiple games.

(09-02-2022 10:36 PM)SoCalBobcat78 Wrote:  

(09-02-2022 07:41 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  So the PAC 10 has a serious lack of an LA presence. What if, to solve this, all 10 teams began the season with a neutral site conference game in the NFL stadium in week 1.

Spread the games over the whole weekend:

Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday

Opening up with conference games would give them much higher quality content than all the FCS and F5 buy games going on.

That is not going to happen, but the PAC would like to do an annual LA game at SoFi Stadium. Cal vs Arizona, for example. Both schools have a lot of alumni in the area. The PAC will still be playing in the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl at SoFi Stadium and in the Rose Bowl game. It would be difficult to do much more than that. This Saturday, for example, Bowling Green is playing UCLA at the Rose Bowl and Rice is at USC in the LA Coliseum. The best college football game in Southern California Saturday will probably be Arizona vs San Diego State at the new Snapdragon Stadium. Then next Thursday Buffalo will be playing the Rams at SoFi Stadium and on Sunday the Raiders and the Chargers go to war at SoFi Stadium. Besides high schools football, the Padres are taking on the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium this weekend and the Astros are playing the Angels this weekend in Anaheim. A lot of competition for the PAC.

This is why I dislike the SEC scheduling big games in September and their annual FCS cupcake games in November. They seem to forget about this thing called baseball. It may not be that big in Alabama where they have no MLB team (although it should be in Georgia where they only have the reigning World Series champions!). But UCLA and USC aren't competing with the Dodgers and might not even be able to compete with Mike Trout and Ohtani if the Angels were any good. Rutgers won't be able to draw attention from the Yankees, Boston College from the Red Sox (if the Patriots and Red Sox were playing at the same time, the Red Sox would get more eyeballs in Massachusetts, especially now that Tom's in Tampa).

So football IMO should peak in November. Last year Alabama and Florida played a rare conference game and they wasted it in September. The Pac 12 would never get away with that and if they tried they'd lose miserably.

(09-03-2022 08:07 AM)schmolik Wrote:  

(09-02-2022 10:36 PM)SoCalBobcat78 Wrote:  

(09-02-2022 07:41 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  So the PAC 10 has a serious lack of an LA presence. What if, to solve this, all 10 teams began the season with a neutral site conference game in the NFL stadium in week 1.

Spread the games over the whole weekend:

Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday

Opening up with conference games would give them much higher quality content than all the FCS and F5 buy games going on.

That is not going to happen, but the PAC would like to do an annual LA game at SoFi Stadium. Cal vs Arizona, for example. Both schools have a lot of alumni in the area. The PAC will still be playing in the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl at SoFi Stadium and in the Rose Bowl game. It would be difficult to do much more than that. This Saturday, for example, Bowling Green is playing UCLA at the Rose Bowl and Rice is at USC in the LA Coliseum. The best college football game in Southern California Saturday will probably be Arizona vs San Diego State at the new Snapdragon Stadium. Then next Thursday Buffalo will be playing the Rams at SoFi Stadium and on Sunday the Raiders and the Chargers go to war at SoFi Stadium. Besides high schools football, the Padres are taking on the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium this weekend and the Astros are playing the Angels this weekend in Anaheim. A lot of competition for the PAC.

This is why I dislike the SEC scheduling big games in September and their annual FCS cupcake games in November. They seem to forget about this thing called baseball. It may not be that big in Alabama where they have no MLB team (although it should be in Georgia where they only have the reigning World Series champions!). But UCLA and USC aren't competing with the Dodgers and might not even be able to compete with Mike Trout and Ohtani if the Angels were any good. Rutgers won't be able to draw attention from the Yankees, Boston College from the Red Sox (if the Patriots and Red Sox were playing at the same time, the Red Sox would get more eyeballs in Massachusetts, especially now that Tom's in Tampa).

So football IMO should peak in November. Last year Alabama and Florida played a rare conference game and they wasted it in September. The Pac 12 would never get away with that and if they tried they'd lose miserably.

SEC has always spread out the great conference games throughout the year. I like the "break" games in November - really builds the anticipation for the rivalry games. SEC is similar to NFL where almost every week of the season you have a marquee matchup.

(09-03-2022 08:07 AM)schmolik Wrote:  

(09-02-2022 10:36 PM)SoCalBobcat78 Wrote:  

(09-02-2022 07:41 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  So the PAC 10 has a serious lack of an LA presence. What if, to solve this, all 10 teams began the season with a neutral site conference game in the NFL stadium in week 1.

Spread the games over the whole weekend:

Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday

Opening up with conference games would give them much higher quality content than all the FCS and F5 buy games going on.

That is not going to happen, but the PAC would like to do an annual LA game at SoFi Stadium. Cal vs Arizona, for example. Both schools have a lot of alumni in the area. The PAC will still be playing in the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl at SoFi Stadium and in the Rose Bowl game. It would be difficult to do much more than that. This Saturday, for example, Bowling Green is playing UCLA at the Rose Bowl and Rice is at USC in the LA Coliseum. The best college football game in Southern California Saturday will probably be Arizona vs San Diego State at the new Snapdragon Stadium. Then next Thursday Buffalo will be playing the Rams at SoFi Stadium and on Sunday the Raiders and the Chargers go to war at SoFi Stadium. Besides high schools football, the Padres are taking on the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium this weekend and the Astros are playing the Angels this weekend in Anaheim. A lot of competition for the PAC.

This is why I dislike the SEC scheduling big games in September and their annual FCS cupcake games in November. They seem to forget about this thing called baseball. It may not be that big in Alabama where they have no MLB team (although it should be in Georgia where they only have the reigning World Series champions!). But UCLA and USC aren't competing with the Dodgers and might not even be able to compete with Mike Trout and Ohtani if the Angels were any good. Rutgers won't be able to draw attention from the Yankees, Boston College from the Red Sox (if the Patriots and Red Sox were playing at the same time, the Red Sox would get more eyeballs in Massachusetts, especially now that Tom's in Tampa).

So football IMO should peak in November. Last year Alabama and Florida played a rare conference game and they wasted it in September. The Pac 12 would never get away with that and if they tried they'd lose miserably.

Bama/Florida was the highest rated non NFL sporting event that weekend.