Alton

November 13th, 2014 at 12:51 PM ^

http://mattsarzsports.blogspot.com/2014/11/cfb-tv-guesses-for-week-thirteen-1118.html

His guesses for November 22, based on the Big Ten rule that each team must be on the BTN at least 2 times in a season (so OSU needs to be on BTN either against Indiana on 11/22 or against Michigan on 11/29):

Rutgers at Michigan State, noon ESPN

Maryland at Michigan, noon ESPNU

Penn State at Illinois, noon BTN

Northwestern at Purdue, noon BTN

Minnesota at Nebraska, 3:30 ABC/ESPN2

Wisconsin at Iowa, 3:30 ESPN

Indiana at Ohio State, 3:30 BTN

But since ESPN apparently is anouncing Northwestern-Purdue for the noon timeslot on ESPNU, that's obviously wrong.  I think the winner of Maryland-Michigan State on the 15th gets the noon ESPN (I would actually predict ESPN2 instead of Virginia-Miami) timeslot, with the loser getting BTN at noon.

Don't count out 3:30 yet, given that schedule, although I think somebody at Maryland said the game would definitely be at noon.

ijohnb

November 13th, 2014 at 1:21 PM ^

like a noon kick.  For years I have preferred the 3:30 game, but that was typically when we were good and I wanted the anticipation as long as I could.  Now that we suck I find myself just wanting to get it over with ASAP.

Alton

November 13th, 2014 at 3:01 PM ^

Michigan has a hockey game against Penn State at 7:30.  A 3:30 kick would make it pretty difficult for anybody to go to the hockey game who wasn't at the football game, and I think Michigan has never had a 3:30 football game the same day as a hockey game, although they have done noon football-7:00/7:30 hockey quite often over the last 5-10 years.

 

LSAClassOf2000

November 13th, 2014 at 3:37 PM ^

Testudo Times was reporting this as a noon game actually - LINK

According to that, Maryland itself was making the announcement, per the tweet on the page, so considering that the official announcement is not fow a few days, I wouldn't know where they got this information per se. It is reported out there on the Maryland SB Nation site as a noon kick though. We shall see, I assume.