Michigan at Maryland to be a night game on BTN
Sigh.
BTN primetime/night game football slate that was just announced: pic.twitter.com/BpD3SyFBfT
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) April 13, 2015When will get information on who Michigan will be playing at Home at night?
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before the game. Likely to be a huge Michigan contingent there.
I'll be there. I like the idea of lots of extra time to get over there, tailgate, drink, then see the entire game from the beginning. Cool.
M-Dog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's a massive amount of alums in the NOVA-DC-Baltimore region. It should be Northwestern East for our fans in most seasons
Need to stomp them this year! I like primetime games, but we could have as many as 5 night games this year.
1) UTAH ESPN Thursday night confirmed
2) BYU or MSU will be a night game at home
3) @ Maryland Confirmed
4) @ Minny (Halloween night) Very probable
5) @ PSU very probable
I would be shocked if ESPN picked up the Minny vs. Michigan game as a night game...I think that game screams 3:30 ABC time slot
Little Brown Jug game and they will be no worse than 5-2 heading into that game.
Purely for the board's reference, ESPN is usually pretty good about updating their team home pages once times are announced, as evidenced by the "BTN TBD" now next to the Maryland game (LINK).
I do agree about the Minnesota game though - that seems like it would be a 3:30 PM game, which is fine on Halloween. Actually, that's preferred because it means I won't have to be terribly late for Halloween festivities.
...the Big Ten won't allow any given team to have more than a certain number (two?) of in-conference road night games. My memory is that they were aware that teams like Michigan and OSU might end up playing all of their road games at night.
is on ESPN for sure? To me that smelled like a FOX network game in some form or fashion, especially given the 2 hour EST time difference. I thought TCU at Minnesota would be an ESPN 7:30-8ish game, although I could see Mich-Utah on ESPN and TCU at Minnesota on something else. The three best games that night are clearly Mich-Utah, N Carolina-S Carolina, and TCU-Minnesota. Whichever game doesn't end up on the ESPN networks (primary and ESPN2) would end up on FS1, in my mind, so in my head I pictured Mich-Utah as an 8:30-9ish start.
TCU/Minnesota on ESPN2
UNC/USC on SECNetwork
Couldn't they just do that?
Not sure I understand everyone's bias against non-Big House night games?
What is the downside? National spotlight. Watch the games in the evenings.
I'd rather this than any noon game.
Once again, I'm speaking about non-home games. For our home slate, one night game is enough. Though don't know if Maryland is a big enough name.
Tons of exposure, more viewers, and Michigan in the spotlight! Sure, we will get the opponents best shot, but I think that happens to us anyway.
Go Blue!! Beat the TERPS!
Nobody extra is going to be watching us play Maryland just because it's at night. It's still a shitty matchup.
If we're playing Iowa or Wisconsin or something at night, I'm all for that. But don't make me wait all day for us to play UConn or Northwestern at night. Get it over with at 3:30 so I can watch other games that are more likely better matchups later.
I'd rather watch UM curbstomp Bowling Green than watch Alabama take on LSU. Tell you what you do. You go ahead and DVR the UM/Maryland game so you can watch those other "better games" live. There'll be plenty of time for you to watch UM at your leisure on Sunday.
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National Spotlight? These days there are more games at night than there are at 12:00, at least on TV. This game will only have to share the spotlight with a game on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN8, Fox, FSN, and a couple other regional channels.
If Michigan wanted the national spotlight, they should play all of their games at 12:00. It would have to be a bigger draw than the MAC, right?
I'm all about them night games.
Soon all of our games will be night games.
Soon.
Also... when the hell did the Utah game become a Thursday night game?
That's a shitty move for all the people who wanted to take that long weekend to head out to Utah. Don't think I can now take two work days off **before** a long weekend in order to make a shittily scheduled game.
I'd be more worried about that than it being a night game.
The university announced it when it was scheduled. First game of the year on ESPN.
I knew that this was a Thursday nighter since it was scheduled, but if you are insistent that it is ESPN, I could see them putting N Carolina-S Carolina at 6pm, and Michigan-Utah at 9-9:15pm. TCU-Minnesota would probably go to The Deuce in that case, but I don't know. I also don't know if the S Car-N Car game is controlled by SECN or not. If so, that may allow Mich-Utah to be a little earlier, say 8 or 8:30.
It's been like that since Brandon inked the deal in 2012. Utah wanted Michigan at their place. Michigan wasn't going unless it was a primetimer on national television to open the season.
We need more night games since we might actually, you know, be good at football again in the next few years.
I don't care what time the game is played. I just hope that Harbaugh and Co. kick that team to the curb and beat them senseless until they cry uncle.
I hope he gets his players fuming at the idea of having lost to them last year.
Harbaugh Omen?
This will be Michigan's first night game B1G opener since 1986 at Wisconsin, a 34-17 win.
I just got here, but I'm confused as to why everyone is complaining about this?
All the good reasons to complain about stuff were taken.
Honestly I do prefer noon games because to me, every game day is like Christmas Day and so when there is a night game it is like getting up on Christmas morning and finding out you have to wait until 8pm to open your presents- seriously I am up on gamedays at like 6am jumping on my bed just thinking about watching Michigan play, but aside from that I don't mind that it is at night although I feel like I just answered my original question.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I wake up on gameday and everything that happens before kickoff is just time killing filler.
College Park, Md isn't one of the DC area's nicer neighborhoods. I was thinking of going to that game (live in northern VA), but I'm not certain I want a stroll to the car just shy of midnight.
I am going to this game and your post has piqued my interest regarding safety. I'll freely admit I've never been to CP (never been to Maryland, period) so I just assumed it was your average college town. Apparently this is not the case?
This might work for you:
http://spotcrime.com/md/prince+george's+county
For all I know, my 'safe' neighborhood in Loudoun county, VA has as many incidents as Prince George's county. That said, it seems there is a shooting or robbery in PG county in the news every night.
My brother is 6-4, 220. I'll just hide behind him.
It will always be about TV money. As long as TV pays the money, they dictate when the games are played. I asked Dave Brandon about this a couple years ago, and he said it wasn't going to change, but get worse, if anything.
I am with WD, and am a fan of noon starts. I love having breakfast, walking down and hearing the drumline, having a brat and cider, seeing pregame, watching the game, having a leisurely late afternoon victory meal at Zingerman's or the like, then heading home to Chicago. That isn't going to be happening much. I'm resigned to the night games, and don't think things will get better.
Here in Chicago, it is irritating that two of the Blackhawks four first round games against the Preds have a 8:30 CST (9:30pm in Ann Arbor) start time. With no 5 minute OT periods, those games won't be over til well after 11pm. On a weeknight. This is all about the money and the branding, and not about the fan.
For those of you who love night games, who love the publicity, who love the "branding," well, you've gotten exactly what Dave Brandon was looking for. I'm more old school, more Bo & Woody and 12 noon starts. But that makes me a grumpy old "get off my lawn" kind of guy. And my harrumphs aren't going to change things.
On those Blackhawks games. The NHL and their East Coast bias want to schedule a 7PM EST game and then add the Blackhawks/Preds game afterwards. Yay to a game ending past midnight!
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Quit your fucking belly aching.
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Anyways, my ass will be there.
Traffic's gonna suuuucccck that night (like more than usual).