Football Night Game 2022?
If I had to guess, it would be Penn State. Weather will still be good on October 15.
But you should call Warde just to be safe. I'm sure he'll let you know, then you can pass it along to all of us.
October 15 --- both the 1994 & 2005 PSU games were in Ann Arbor and on the exact same date. Neat little coincidence, I suppose. The first 2, of course, were rather good football games.
Also October 15: Birth of John L. Sullivan (1858), namesake of my favorite Irish whiskey.
My wedding anniversary. Why I remember it now but forget it in October…
Rubber match
first snow should happen by 10/15 up north. i don't want to cast aspersions on PSU, but if they're like ohio it could be too cold for them to play. snow. cold.
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just thought i'd add that last part.
The Magglio Ordonez ALCS clincher (in the snow flurries) was on October 14, 2006. In fact, 2006 was the year with the earliest ever date that Detroit has recorded 0.1+ inches (measurable) snow - October 12, 2006.
The LATEST ever date that Detroit has received 1+ inch of snow is on May 22 (1883). Which means the snowfall season may not yet be done! There's a horrible thought.
We went straight from winter to summer up here, from below freezing to high 80’s and 90 in a day or two. Spring was Monday, from noon to 1 o'clock.
warm enough now that I was able to plant a corn and hay field. Last year had to wait until almost June.
u can get away with that on the west side..... if we plant corn before June on the east side, germination rates are terrible.
it has snowed on the posen potato festival in sept.... and i was at a wedding on 6/6 where rain changed to snow..... July and August are the only two months on the calendar that i have not personally witnessed snow falling in the Great state of Michigan.
There's something about the numbers 42-27 that makes me upvote any post with them.
Not sure what the reason was for the second half of that comment.
Just a bit of playful snark given that there really is no way of knowing this early which game(s) will be at night.
Not sure what the reason was for asking, since I'm pretty sure you already knew the answer.
There doesn't need to be a reason for the 2nd half of that comment. You can take me to professional settings. You can take me to casual settings. I am as versatile as the mullet on an OSU fan's head.
Signed,
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We could use some bigtime payback for the dick punches Under The(ir) Lights over the last decade.
Yes! Let's get out there on a beautiful fall evening in Southeast Michigan and punch some dicks!
Boom!
BYOh damn, right in the biscuits.
My guess would be Penn State. It's mid-October so the weather shouldn't be too bad (famous last words).
Great dick punching weather.
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If it were me? I'd look toward mid October. Maybe October 15th or so. The weather should still be good. Probably the Penn State game.
I dunno. Maybe I'm alone in thinking this, but that'd be my guess.
I've read several times very recently that it's going to be the Penn State game.
That would be nice.
But I need to see something official. I remember the Wisconsin game at the big house in 2016 was going to be a night game for long time…until it wasn’t. And we never really got an explanation.
Many people are saying it’s going to be Penn St on Oct. 15…
After last year’s IU game and 2017’s Minnesota game, let’s please never do a November night game again…unless it is the Saturday night prime time game (vs a Penn St, Wisconsin, MSU).
Last year’s Indiana game and the 2017 Minnesota game were decided by Fox Sports. We had no choice.
Nobody will be spared from Gus Johnson blowing out his vocal chords.
Not sure if we can get picked this year for 2 games but if we were I would think out of conference would be Hawaii because more eyes would be able to watch way out west. If it was a conference game then PSU because they like to do that to us and nobody wants to listen to little brother after a night game after we whip their ass.
Go Blue!!!!
Please Dale, let the Sparty ass kicking actually happen. I want Mel Tucker’s ass handed to him. I am very sincere about that. He has zero business being 2-0 against Michigan. There was the Covid year and the shafting in EL last year. But if Sparty ends up choking on his contract, that will mitigate my pain.
Psu or msu
No MSU, it almost guarantees some flukey torrential downpour that starts the exact moment they have their first lead.
We played Indiana on Nov 6th last season, and it was a night game. So chances are we could have 2-night games again this season. With any of these three teams; Penn State, Michigan State, and Nebraska. They may also play Hawaii at night due to the 6 hour time difference. (although, in 2016, the game started at 6am HST).
It can't be Nebraska, since it's after the end of DST. Last season's Indiana game was one day before the end of DST, the last possible day a night game could be forced on us.
Yeah, I don't think the networks care enough about the 10,000 Hawaii football fans to put it in a prime time spot that would be better served with a more attractive matchup.
We’re gonna hang a hundred on Hawaii say that three times fast.
Someone had mentioned the first game of the year. I was planning to bring my kids to their first ever football game this year and we wanted good weather etc... my younger cant handle the cold.. honestly, my wife cant either.
But, someone here mentioned that they might do it for the first game? I really hope not, but what are the chances???
Thx in advance - hoping its a nice 12 noon start!
We won't know for certain until probably a few weeks to a month leading up to the game, but I don't recall Michigan having hosted any night games that were OOC tomato can games. They've almost all been big OOC games like Notre Dame, or bigger in-conference games like Wisconsin, MSU or PSU.
I suppose anything can happen, but the precedent for Michigan putting a game like Colorado State in a night time slot just isn't there. Gun to my head, I say that game kicks off no later than 3:30.
The season opener in 2019 against MTSU was at night
see - normally id be less worried, but after a B10 championship, osu dismantling and playoff run, seems like a night game to celebrate, so to speak, might be in the cards..and it would have to be the opener, since the other OOC are duds and expect about a 1/3rd full student section and a lot less enthusiasm
Welp, there goes my credibility. I shall see myself out.
None of the OOC games are night-game worthy. At least 1-2 of those will be BTN noon kickoffs.
It'll come down between MSU and PSU, to no one's surprise. But since those games are essentially back to back, Michigan likely won't do two night games in a row.
My guess is slot PSU as the night game because its two weeks earlier in the schedule so the weather will still be a bit nicer out in the evening, and then MSU is probably the Fox B1G Noon Kickoff on the 29th.
Outside chance of Nebraska being a night game if Nebraska ends up turning in a solid season or is in the divisional race in November, but with them having the option to opt out that'll likely just end up being a noon game.
I think they’ll always strive to avoid evening brawling with disgruntled MSU fans around the apron of the stadium. Confine it to the harsh light of day.
My completely uninformed guess would be one non-conference game and one Big Ten game. None of the non-conference games are good games, but the second-tier channels need something for their night slot, ala MTSU in 2019. As for the Big Ten game, whichever decently good game escapes Fox's Big Noon slot and gets chosen by ESPN, ala ND in 2019 or Wisconsin in 2018. My guess is Penn State or Nebraska, but it probably depends on how the season plays out. I don't think the no-November-night-games is as rigid of a rule as it used to be
Based on everything I've read, the rule is not "no November night games", but "no night games after the end of daylight saving time, without the consent of both teams". Last year, DST ended one day after the Indiana game.
Well, it WON'T be Hawaii. I'm really hoping that's a noon game, so the game is basically taking place at 6:00 AM Hawaii time. If you're not going to take advantage of that time zone quirk, what's the point of scheduling Hawaii? Never mind, not sure I want to hear that answer.
I'd like to think we can take care of business against the Rainbow Warriors without the time zone advantage, but perhaps I'm an optimist.
If you're not focusing only on home games, you can probably circle the one in Iowa City in early October...
Yeah, that's 100 percent a night game...ugh.