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Shit, bring an IV for San Jose State and UTEP. 

The whining and trying to paint us as a villain over the Big Noon kickoff is great. Big 10's fault for bending over for Fox. 

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I get it. TV money fuels it all, but fuck spending hours baking in that heat to watch Texas deep dick two crappy teams. For fucks sake, play those games at night. 

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3 minutes ago, ZB'Tejas said:

Fuck that... only night games in Sept. Just not right to make us bake like that.

Yea, I was going to go to the inlaws in Temple the weekend of the UTEP game, and I still may, but doubt if I will go to the game.  Yikes.  Kansas was (I think) a 315 game a few years ago and it SUCKED. 

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2 minutes ago, Blotto said:

I get it. TV money fuels it all, but fuck spending hours baking in that heat to watch Texas deep dick two crappy teams. For fucks sake, play those games at night. 

Yup, at least give us a drone show for the amount of money we are paying for tickets to watch scrubs.

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We're a victim of our own success. ABC/ESPN would rather have us playing a spare team at 11am than put us on SEC+ or SEC Network against better programming. Plus I'm sure there's some kissing the ass of Bama and LSU by ESPN. 

Night games on the same evening as San Jose State:

South Carolina State at South Carolina – 7:00pm, ESPN+/SECN+
Michigan at Oklahoma – 7:30pm, ABC

Arizona State at Mississippi State – 7:30pm, ESPN2
Ball State at Auburn – 7:30pm, ESPNU
Louisiana Tech at LSU – 7:30pm, ESPN+/SECN+
UL Monroe at Alabama – 7:45pm, SEC Network

The UTEP game is because we're up against the SEC conference slate starting up:

Arkansas at Ole Miss – 7:00pm or 7:45pm, ESPN or SEC Network
Vanderbilt at South Carolina – 7:00pm or 7:45pm, ESPN or SEC Network
Florida at LSU – 7:30pm, ABC

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13 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

It's time like these in which I'm very thankful to have seats in a loge suite that are never touched by the sunlight at any point in the season. Good luck to everybody, though!

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@mdmost thank you and that's fair....   11am g5/ooc sjsu is totally fair given the entire conference slate in week 2

here's the early games for week 3 where i have an issue:

Wisconsin at Alabama: Sat., Sept. 13 on ABC/ESPN at 12 p.m.

Oklahoma at Temple: Sat., Sept. 13 on ESPN2 at 12 p.m.

South Alabama at Auburn: Sat., Sept. 13 on SEC Network at 12:45 p.m.

Georgia at Tennessee: Sat., Sept. 13 on ABC at 3:30 p.m.

UL Lafayette at Missouri: Sat., Sept. 13 on ESPN+ or SECN+ at 4 p.m.

UTEP at Texas: Sat., Sept. 13 on SEC Network at 4:15 p.m.

 

the average high in philadelphia on 13 september is 79 degrees, 37% chance overcast

the "ratings split impact" will be the same whether we go up against wisky/bama or uga/tenn - both of those games are going to pull the national audience

the horn audience will be the same at 11am or 3pm

there is no excuse for a 120 degree game given this schedule

0u/temple needs to flip with us on september 13th and disney can figure out the networks

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5 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

@mdmost thank you and that's fair....   11am g5/ooc sjsu is totally fair given the entire conference slate in week 2

here's the early games for week 3 where i have an issue:

Wisconsin at Alabama: Sat., Sept. 13 on ABC/ESPN at 12 p.m.

Oklahoma at Temple: Sat., Sept. 13 on ESPN2 at 12 p.m.

South Alabama at Auburn: Sat., Sept. 13 on SEC Network at 12:45 p.m.

Georgia at Tennessee: Sat., Sept. 13 on ABC at 3:30 p.m.

UL Lafayette at Missouri: Sat., Sept. 13 on ESPN+ or SECN+ at 4 p.m.

UTEP at Texas: Sat., Sept. 13 on SEC Network at 4:15 p.m.

 

the average high in philadelphia on 13 september is 79 degrees, 37% chance overcast

the "ratings split impact" will be the same whether we go up against wisky/bama or uga/tenn - both of those games are going to pull the national audience

the horn audience will be the same at 11am or 3pm

there is no excuse for a 120 degree game given this schedule

0u/temple needs to flip with us on september 13th and disney can figure out the networks

Wait…. Ousux is playing at Temple?    Must be a nice payday?   

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1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

It's time like these in which I'm very thankful to have seats in a loge suite that are never touched by the sunlight at any point in the season. Good luck to everybody, though!

This is one of the better asshole comments I've ever read on this site. I applaud it. stopbeingpoor.gif

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espn gives zero fucks about the weather for the in stadium fans

At least we're away from fox now and our big games are in primetime.

1 minute ago, Nueces River Rat said:

Wait…. Ousux is playing at Temple?    Must be a nice payday?   

doing stan drayton a solid

wait

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3 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

Wait…. Ousux is playing at Temple?    Must be a nice payday?   

Every OU fan in the Northeast will probably come down to the Eagles' stadium. Kind of like UT playing in Landover vs Maryland.

To be fair, can't exactly recall ever meeting an OU fan in NYC, but they must exist.

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11 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

the average high in philadelphia on 13 september is 79 degrees, 37% chance overcast

the "ratings split impact" will be the same whether we go up against wisky/bama or uga/tenn - both of those games are going to pull the national audience

the horn audience will be the same at 11am or 3pm

there is no excuse for a 120 degree game given this schedule

0u/temple needs to flip with us on september 13th and disney can figure out the networks

I'm sure OU will get right on switching a game time to help out Texas. We signed up to be in a conference and get millions to be on TV. TV does not care one bit about what stadium fans have to go through. 

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The posters here who still get irate about kickoff times and demand that the athletics department put their foot down and dictate night games crack me up. They would schedule games at 4a if ESPN told them that’s when the game is going to be played. The person holding the purse strings holds the power and, in the case of college football, that person is TV.

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24 minutes ago, royiv said:

The posters here who still get irate about kickoff times and demand that the athletics department put their foot down and dictate night games crack me up. They would schedule games at 4a if ESPN told them that’s when the game is going to be played. The person holding the purse strings holds the power and, in the case of college football, that person is TV.

Yes. This entire thread deserves the Harrison Ford gif

I am sorry to all those who are personally inconvenienced by college football kickoff times. It's hot and miserable in September no matter what fucking time the game is. Even a night game you're still frying at the tailgate. It's been that way for 50 years, sorry we don't start the season on September 20 anymore you olds.

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2 hours ago, mdmost said:

I'm sure OU will get right on switching a game time to help out Texas. We signed up to be in a conference and get millions to be on TV. TV does not care one bit about what stadium fans have to go through. 

we paid 0u's early exit fee by flipping the home/away years of the michigan game so fox could have last year's payday, for which they are repaying the favor by ratfucking the narrative on the MLB contract which prevents saturday night games for the b1g, and conspiring with fosu to blame us for their problem, again after we made sure they were whole

0u didn't make sure fox was made whole from our early exit

0u owes us, and specifically in the context of a game telecast situation

whatever arguments anyone makes against my position, allow me to retort:

13 September

Philadelphia

average high

SEVENTY NINE DEGREES

there is zero justification for a 315pm kick in austin on the same day

none

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1 hour ago, royiv said:

The posters here who still get irate about kickoff times and demand that the athletics department put their foot down and dictate night games crack me up. They would schedule games at 4a if ESPN told them that’s when the game is going to be played. The person holding the purse strings holds the power and, in the case of college football, that person is TV.

the argument in question is about kicking off on a brown dwarf (11am) or a neutron pulsar (3pm)

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1 minute ago, mdmost said:

Okay. Go write a letter to ESPN and OU demanding they change the time of our game. 

why would i want to do that?  it's easier to bitch here and hope someone with agency or influence reads this

on the other hand i do know 3 people who have had calls returned by cdc so maybe i will try that

it's 3:58pm and 0u sux

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7 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

we paid 0u's early exit fee by flipping the home/away years of the michigan game so fox could have last year's payday, for which they are repaying the favor by ratfucking the narrative on the MLB contract which prevents saturday night games for the b1g, and conspiring with fosu to blame us for their problem, again after we made sure they were whole

0u didn't make sure fox was made whole from our early exit

0u owes us, and specifically in the context of a game telecast situation

whatever arguments anyone makes against my position, allow me to retort:

13 September

Philadelphia

average high

SEVENTY NINE DEGREES

there is zero justification for a 315pm kick in austin on the same day

none

 

2 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

the argument in question is about kicking off on a brown dwarf (11am) or a neutron pulsar (3pm)

 

1 minute ago, Hagbard Celine said:

why would i want to do that?  it's easier to bitch here and hope someone with agency or influence reads this

on the other hand i do know 3 people who have had calls returned by cdc so maybe i will try that

it's 3:58pm and 0u sux

CDC will do whatever TV tells him to do. He’s their bitch and he knows it. That’s not a knock on him. It’s the same for every other AD in the country. It’s delusional that you think otherwise. 

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2 minutes ago, royiv said:

CDC will do whatever TV tells him to do. He’s their bitch and he knows it. That’s not a knock on him. It’s the same for every other AD in the country. It’s delusional that you think otherwise. 

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26 minutes ago, royiv said:

 

 

CDC will do whatever TV tells him to do. He’s their bitch and he knows it. That’s not a knock on him. It’s the same for every other AD in the country. It’s delusional that you think otherwise. 

 

They just said no to a prime time game on Sunday night. Not completely their bitch. Just mostly. Mostly their bitch. 

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Yeah but Fox isn't our broadcast partner anymore so it's a lot easier to say no to them which was more saying no to Ohio State who wanted to move it because they also know that 11am is pretty awful. Yet they too also took the millions to be told they have to be at 11am multiple times every year until the end of time. 

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1. changing the day of an away game to give us a short week, working with the broadcast partner that fucked us before a hundred times and is disparaging us in this circumstance

2. a 3-hour change to the start of a homegame for the health and safety of 108,000 people when it has zero economic impact on our league and our current broadcast partner

how ya'll are able to conflate and contrast these 2 entirely different circumstances is beyond me

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7 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Yeah but Fox isn't our broadcast partner anymore so it's a lot easier to say no to them which was more saying no to Ohio State who wanted to move it because they also know that 11am is pretty awful. Yet they too also took the millions to be told they have to be at 11am multiple times every year until the end of time. 

I'm just saying we said no when there aren't a lot of programs around the country that would turn down an exclusive prime time spot on Sunday night. 

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2 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

I'm just saying we said no when there aren't a lot of programs around the country that would turn down an exclusive prime time spot on Sunday night. 

Got you. I was proud of him for telling them no. It's not our problem that you have a shitty TV deal. When they come to Austin, it will be a prime time game because ESPN isn't a clown show about big time games. 

4 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

1. changing the day of an away game to give us a short week, working with the broadcast partner that fucked us before a hundred times and is disparaging us in this circumstance

2. a 3-hour change to the start of a homegame for the health and safety of 108,000 people when it has zero economic impact on our league and our current broadcast partner

how ya'll are able to conflate and contrast these 2 entirely different circumstances is beyond me

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Just now, Hagbard Celine said:

1. changing the day of an away game to give us a short week, working with the broadcast partner that fucked us before a hundred times and is disparaging us in this circumstance

2. a 3-hour change to the start of a homegame for the health and safety of 108,000 people when it has zero economic impact on our league and our current broadcast partner

how ya'll are able to conflate and contrast these 2 entirely different circumstances is beyond me

I don't know about y'all. It's just me. 

I have never found the broadcast networks particularly sensitive to what in stadium fans have to endure to attend a game in September. It's the same complaint every year. Yes, it sucks to have midday kickoffs in September. 6pm and after is still hot, but it's better than the sheer misery of a 2:30pm kickoff. And yet, we've had plenty. They fill up their broadcast schedule with sometimes esoteric reasoning, none of which we're privy to. But one thing for sure is they don't give a shit about the wishes of that particular school. Oklahoma has spent years dealing with morning and midday kickoffs in the Big 12 to the point their local businesses and fan base have been complaining even more vociferously than Ohio State. No one gives a shit. 

What Fox has or hasn't done in the past to or for Texas doesn't have any bearing either. We're not going out of our way to punish Fox. We're not going out of our way to help them, but if a Sunday night kickoff made sense for the Texas football program we'd accept the offer. It doesn't, and we're not. 

I'm just saying here's a very limited example of Texas not agreeing to what a TV network would like to do, and it's fully within UT's rights to do so. If there was a contractual obligation to play on Sunday night, sure, Texas would play on Sunday night. But there's not. 

People are going to find ways to laud and hype Texas in ways we may not earn. It's always been that way. At the same time, people are going to find reasons to take shots at us. I'm just delighted to be a legitimate part of the football conversation in the offseason, and feel like it's not some kind of outlier where the rug gets pulled out from under me as a fan. If people want to boo hoo us about not accepting the move to Sunday night, let them. I don't care if the source is Fox, Ohio State, Texas haters, or click bait blogsters. It's an absurd line of reasoning. It's not going to stop, so I'm going to choose to be contemptuous of their rationale, because that's what it deserves. 

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5 hours ago, texifornia said:

Every OU fan in the Northeast will probably come down to the Eagles' stadium. Kind of like UT playing in Landover vs Maryland.

To be fair, can't exactly recall ever meeting an OU fan in NYC, but they must exist.

The world needs ditch diggers, and so does NYC.

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Yes. This entire thread deserves the Harrison Ford gif
I am sorry to all those who are personally inconvenienced by college football kickoff times. It's hot and miserable in September no matter what fucking time the game is. Even a night game you're still frying at the tailgate. It's been that way for 50 years, sorry we don't start the season on September 20 anymore you olds.

It has not been like for 50 years. My guess is that we had more leverage with past Big 12 contracts and LHN in noncon kickoff times.

Direct sunlight for 4 hours is very different experience than a sunset or night game.

Setting your tailgate without shade or cover is a bold decision.
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On 5/29/2025 at 11:16 AM, TxEx84 said:

More game times released. Holy hell.  Two September afternoon games at home.

 

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urgently checking seatgeek touchdown club ticket availability....

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On 5/29/2025 at 2:04 PM, Rip76 said:

Both suck.

For playing the dregs OOC in Sept only...

11AM advantages - leave by the 4th Qtr anyway, cooler for first half, watch games the rest of the day, bloody mary's

11AM disadvantages - traffic sucks with 100K people leaving at 9 to 9:30AM from their house, no extra tailgate time, zero chance for any shade except under overhang(or for rich dudes with generational wealth and car dealerships).

2:30-3:30 advantages - pre game time, some shade later if there is a LCL band post game, no rush traffic, shade in more seats later in the game.

2:30-3:30 disadvantages - hot as balls all game, miss some of the bigger afternoon games on TV, hot as balls all game

 

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37 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

For playing the dregs OOC in Sept only...

11AM advantages - leave by the 4th Qtr anyway, cooler for first half, watch games the rest of the day, bloody mary's

11AM disadvantages - traffic sucks with 100K people leaving at 9 to 9:30AM from their house, no extra tailgate time, zero chance for any shade except under overhang(or for rich dudes with generational wealth and car dealerships).

2:30-3:30 advantages - pre game time, some shade later if there is a LCL band post game, no rush traffic, shade in more seats later in the game.

2:30-3:30 disadvantages - hot as balls all game, miss some of the bigger afternoon games on TV, hot as balls all game

 

*bloody marys 

Ffs.

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11:00 AM is great if you're watching from home.

Kinda blows at the stadium though, especially for students who are more likely to sleep in and tailgate hard. I'm old so I get up at 6:00 either way and will probably stick to beer in that kind of heat. So it doesn't really matter to me. Plus I'm a season ticket holder and am not giving that up for love or money - I'm locked in and they don't have to earn my money anymore.

But I would like it if the school tried to make the experience better for students at the game. Kids are the lifeblood of the sport. 

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Spitballing other game times:

10/4- at Florida, definitely a night game. There's nothing else as compelling that day on the SEC schedule.

10/18- at Kentucky, probably an 11am ABC or midday SEC Network game as the day is stacked with better matchups. Tenn @ Bama will be the ABC game. Ole Miss @ Georgia is the ABC 2:30 game. OU @ South Carolina probably gets the 6pm ESPN spot

10/25- at Mississippi State, definitely an 11am game

11/1- Vanderbilt, another 11am game on ABC. Georgia/Florida is the 2:30 game, OU @ Tenn or South Carolina @ Ole Miss is the 7pm ABC game and the other gets the ESPN night spot. 

11/15- at Georgia, ABC/ESPN night game

11/22- Arkansas, 2:30 ABC game. Only other SEC games are Tenn @ Florida which is the night game and Mizzou @ OU. 

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230 kick for RRS might just be enough to be a no from me dog after last yr. I enjoy the ‘roughing it’ that the RRS scene usually is, but last yr was a massive disaster waiting to happen. 

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