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[Duke Humphrey]

Looking at 11am starts, specifically.

https://www.anchorofgold.com/2019/9...-rest-of-the-sec-rolls-their-eyes-sec-network

MSU has had the 3rd fewest 11am starts, and the 3rd most night games.

 

[deadheaddawg]

Seems like the sec isn't out to get us

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

There was a stretch of about two or three years where we were a night game almost every week.

 

[MSUDC11]

I see both sides of the coin. We've been fortunate in previous years with how few day games we had to play at home. Only one last year and it was in November. But I also think people being frustrated in general about THIS MANY early starts is warranted. We will have played three consecutive home games in September, all in the middle of the day in the scorching heat, and then after Kentucky we have an eight week stretch with only one home game. The fact that we couldn't catch a break this year and just get one night game during the hottest part of the season totally sucks. And these three games aren't just meaningless games, one is the home opener against an in-state FBS team, one is our first home game against a Big 12 team in 20 years, and the other is a conference game.

To me the biggest issue is how the schedule was designed in general. Whoever in Birmingham laid this thing out for us did a really poor job of spacing. If you just switch the Kentucky game with one of the three road games we play in October then you don't have such a front-loaded and back-loaded schedule.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

I'd like to see who dominates the CBS games.

 

[johnson86-1]

I see both sides of the coin. We've been fortunate in previous years with how few day games we had to play at home. Only one last year and it was in November. But I also think people being frustrated in general about THIS MANY early starts is warranted. We will have played three consecutive home games in September, all in the middle of the day in the scorching heat, and then after Kentucky we have an eight week stretch with only one home game. The fact that we couldn't catch a break this year and just get one night game during the hottest part of the season totally sucks. And these three games aren't just meaningless games, one is the home opener against an in-state FBS team, one is our first home game against a Big 12 team in 20 years, and the other is a conference game.

To me the biggest issue is how the schedule was designed in general. Whoever in Birmingham laid this thing out for us did a really poor job of spacing. If you just switch the Kentucky game with one of the three road games we play in October then you don't have such a front-loaded and back-loaded schedule.

Yup. I'd like to see the amount of money CBS is paying to protect a freaking night game in September. The answer would need to be in 8 figures to me to make sense to screw up the entire league's schedule for a weekend.

 

[Duke Humphrey]

CBS has the best deal in all of sports, but the SEC is going to cash in soon

https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/cbss-sec-deal-was-a-steal-what-happens-next/

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

“The mid-afternoon SEC game goes against the CBS 2:30 game. That’s where games go to die.”

 

[croomin]

You think our schedule sucks this year, get a load of next year:

• Saturday Sept. 5: at home vs. New Mexico
• Saturday Sept. 12: on the road against North Carolina State
• Saturday Sept. 19: at home versus Arkansas
• Saturday Sept. 26: at home versus Tulane
• Saturday Oct. 3: at home versus Texas A&M
• Saturday Oct. 10: OPEN WEEK
• Saturday Oct. 17: on the road against Alabama
• Saturday Oct. 24 on the road against LSU
• Saturday Oct. 31: at home versus Auburn
• Saturday Nov. 7: at home versus Missouri
• Saturday Nov. 14: on the road against Kentucky
• Saturday Nov. 21: at home versus Alabama A&M
• Thursday Nov. 26: on the road against Ole Miss

 

[dorndawg]

I'd bet money we are the all-time record holder in Jefferson Pilot 11am games though

 

[DAWGS1.sixpack]

I could have told you that without Google or looking it up on that website/blog whatever.
People are freaking out about two 11 AM games and a 2:30 game in 3 weeks.
With the heat it’s been even more bitching.
I do agree tho that games shouldn’t start until at least 11:35 AM like in the old days of TBS
It is what it is because now you have 14 teams vs 10

 

[RocketDawg]

I was hoping the Alabama A&M game would be in Huntsville. Will have to wait until 2021 I suppose .... **