Last time we played a game this late?

[Pulled(PP)pork]

I was taken by surprise our game is scheduled so late, had to take a double look.

Would you consider this time slot a prime time slot?  I would think most of America would be out dining or doing things with friends and family.....other than diehard Hog and Aggie fans


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[TXArcher]

I don't recall a start this late, I'm going to have to hold off on the midday beer and grab a power nap to stay up until game over. Imagine how late it would be with a few OTs?

[SPAL]

College football fans don't do anything but watch college football on Saturday. Make no mistake, this is prime time. Most fans will have already watched their team play that day and will tune in for a good football game.

[hogcard1964]

It's 8:00 cdt, correct?

[Pulled(PP)pork]

It's 8:00 cdt, correct?

yup


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[Dwight_K_Shrute]

College football fans don't do anything but watch college football on Saturday. Make no mistake, this is prime time. Most fans will have already watched their team play that day and will tune in for a good football game.

Yep, good thing about it is all the soccer games, shopping, yard work is out of the way by 8:00.  Nothing going on then except college football.  Great time also to be at a sports bar and get your drink on.  It's not like people have to work the next day and you can always catch the late service at church although at ours it's the "contemporary service"  Dear Pastor Tim, you are not Eddie Van Halen, put the electric guitar down.

[Locutus_of_Boar]

I don't recall a start this late, I'm going to have to hold off on the midday beer and grab a power nap to stay up until game over. Imagine how late it would be with a few OTs?

I'm thinking maybe the 1973 game at USC or the one there in 2005 would have started this late.  There was a game at Hawaii back in the Hatfield era but I think that game was played in the daytime.

[The Boar War]

Seems like the UGA game a few years ago got started pretty late.  Of course that game on the west coast was a late one even if it was "over" by 9:30.

[Pulled(PP)pork]

gonna have the fans worked up to a fever pitch, those attending, and really drunk and broke

the price of alcohol is silly


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[GuvHog]

I'm thinking maybe the 1973 game at USC or the one there in 2005 would have started this late.  There was a game at Hawaii back in the Hatfield era but I think that game was played in the daytime.

I don't remember the year but it was during the Houston Nutt era one year it was so Hot that the kickoff for the first game of the season was moved from 7 PM up to 8 PM. The game was in LR. I sat in the corner of the end zone where the big score board is and I remember there were a couple of TV Station helicopters circling the stadium during the game stirring up a breeze so people wouldn't pass out from the heat.

[DiamondHogFan]

The LSU shutout in 2014 started at 8PM.

[Athog]

College football fans don't do anything but watch college football on Saturday. Make no mistake, this is prime time. Most fans will have already watched their team play that day and will tune in for a good football game.

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[razorbackmarine]

2005 at USC on the west coast was 8 or even 9pm Central Time.

[Pulled(PP)pork]

I don't remember the year but it was during the Houston Nutt era one year it was so Hot that the kickoff for the first game of the season was moved from 7 PM up to 8 PM. The game was in LR. I sat in the corner of the end zone where the big score board is and I remember there were a couple of TV Station helicopters circling the stadium during the game stirring up a breeze so people wouldn't pass out from the heat.

helicopters were dispatched to create a breeze?


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[Prestworthy]

9:00 kickoff for me. Hopefully be in bed by 1:00!

[VirginiaHog]

Yep. 9pm for us east coast fans.

[ghg1]

The 2014 Texas Bowl versus the Longhorns started at 8pm CT (on a Monday night).

[EastexHawg]

helicopters were dispatched to create a breeze?


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I think they were actually there shooting footage of the stadium and the crowd, but the breeze they created was welcome anyway.  There was a guy who had to have weighed over 400 pounds sitting beside us sweating a river.  He was there when we got there and I couldn't figure out how he made it to his seat.

The game was against SW Missouri State.  I remember a long TD pass from Robbie Hampton to Boo Williams and little else.  It was a typical early season snoozer, maybe even a shutout.

[Pork Ranger]

It's 8:00 cdt, correct?

And I'm on the east coast...definitely gonna need a nap

[ke2743]

College football fans don't do anything but watch college football on Saturday. Make no mistake, this is prime time. Most fans will have already watched their team play that day and will tune in for a good football game.

This... We should have a great viewing audience for this game.

[DiamondHogFan]

This... We should have a great viewing audience for this game.

And we will be the last thing on the pollsters minds going into Sunday...good or bad.  Let's make it good!

[hobhog]

We played Texas in RRS last time and it may have been a 9pm kickoff?

[ricepig]

Actually kickoff is 8:15.

https://twitter.com/BobHoltADG/status/778586082845655040

[DiamondHogFan]

Actually kickoff is 8:15.

https://twitter.com/BobHoltADG/status/778586082845655040

Yeah, with Auburn/LSU at 5pm on ESPN, no way we get started on time.  I would expect 8:30.  That 5PM game will be painful to watch and probably drag on forever.  Unless they start us on a different ESPN channel.

[hogcard1964]

This... We should have a great viewing audience for this game.

Off topic, but who is that in your avatar?  ...and where can I find that gif?  That's great!

[Pulled(PP)pork]

Off topic, but who is that in your avatar?  ...and where can I find that gif?  That's great!

you need help finding avatars and gif's?? 


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[rzrbkman]

The 2006 home opener against USC was scheduled for 8:15 kickoff but it was around 8:30 before it started. Game lasted until just before midnight and it was 2:00 A.M. before we were able to exit the Baum Stadium parking lot.

[Smokehouse]

Works out for me, I'm teaching a weekend bureaucracy class this semester that isn't done until later on Saturday so now I'll still have time to comfortably get home and get something to eat. Shout out to ESPN for putting the late game on the one day it works out for me

[Smokehouse]

The 2006 home opener against USC was scheduled for 8:15 kickoff but it was around 8:30 before it started. Game lasted until just before midnight and it was 2:00 A.M. before we were able to exit the Baum Stadium parking lot.

That was my first game as a member of the RMB, so I was stuck in the stadium for a long time after doing our post-game stuff. I was lived in Pomfret at the time and as I was walking south of the stadium to get back I remember seeing a guy, by himself, walking down the sidewalk and just shouting into at nobody "it was supposed to be different this year! It wasn't supposed to be this way!"

[Dominicanhog]

The 2006 home opener against USC was scheduled for 8:15 kickoff but it was around 8:30 before it started. Game lasted until just before midnight and it was 2:00 A.M. before we were able to exit the Baum Stadium parking lot.

hadn't most of the crowd left by 4th qtr?

[GunnerHawg70]

Yep. 9pm for us east coast fans.

Yah VirginiaHog, I'm right there with ya!!!  I'll be at a local Virginia Beach establishment drowning myself in wings and beer...UBER is my friend! :razorback:

[CarsRFun]

WPS! From Chesapeake =)  ... someone should organize a 757 watch party one game!

Yah VirginiaHog, I'm right there with ya!!!  I'll be at a local Virginia Beach establishment drowning myself in wings and beer...UBER is my friend! :razorback:

[razorbrock]

Ole Miss 7OT game was at 8pm on ESPN2, if memory serves, and ran well past midnight.  Schedules have changed since then, though, and many more channels are available for broadcasting.

**Kentucky OT game may have been 8pm as well.

[rzrbkman]

hadn't most of the crowd left by 4th qtr?

No, it seemed like it was still pretty much full by the time the game ended. There were a lot of extra people also on campus that could not even get in the game.

[DeltaBoy]

It been a while but I don't like it.

[AirForceHog]

This is the game that everyone is just sitting at bars and watching football usually with no affiliation to either team. They typically want just to see a good game.

[rzrbkman]

Ole Miss 7OT game was at 8pm on ESPN2, if memory serves, and ran well past midnight.  Schedules have changed since then, though, and many more channels are available for broadcasting.

**Kentucky OT game may have been 8pm as well.

The Arkansas-Ole Miss game kicked off at 6:06 p.m. and ended at 10:20 p.m. per official online boxscore that I googled. I remember that it wasn't a late game. One site indicated the Arkansas-Kentucky game began at 6:05 but no ending time was listed.

[DeltaBoy]

I like the 2:30 slot the best.

[riccoar]

I'm guessing the local hotels are booked solid with such a late start.

[rzrbkman]

I like the 2:30 slot the best.

I like night games through October, then day games in November.

[southhog]

Didn't we play miss state @ 8pm in little rock 1999

[Papawhog]

Think about this... the LSU-Auburn game is on at 5pm right in front of us. Odds are that game will go over 3 hours, as a lot of  games do, right ? Hopefully we get an alternate channel so that we won't miss half the 1st quarter.

[ricepig]

Think about this... the LSU-Auburn game is on at 5pm right in front of us. Odds are that game will go over 3 hours, as a lot of  games do, right ? Hopefully we get an alternate channel so that we won't miss half the 1st quarter.

Seriously, how many times in the last few years since the SEC Network came about have we not been able to see a game? They'll find somewhere to show it.

[FraggleHog]

I'm guessing the local hotels are booked solid with such a late start.

The game is in DFW... There will be open rooms. Maybe not right there by the stadium, but there'll be rooms a short Uber ride away.

[factchecker]

Last game we played this late in Texas:

[longpig]

Think about this... the LSU-Auburn game is on at 5pm right in front of us. Odds are that game will go over 3 hours, as a lot of  games do, right ? Hopefully we get an alternate channel so that we won't miss half the 1st quarter.

That game should move pretty fast.

[ricepig]

That game should move pretty fast.

Yeah, LSU isn't going to throw too many passes, of course, they won't connect on 50% of those, so the clock will stop.....

[RazorbackRon]

Actually kickoff is 8:15.

We'll be at the game and figure we'll be lucky to be back at our hotel by 1am.

[bennyl08]

I like the late game. Gives me a chance to actually watch the beavers in person, drink some more, then watch the hogs!

[RaisinHog]

Will have to pace myself on the beer for sure