November 4th, 2019 at 12:03 PM ^
was so hoping for a 3:30 for travel reasons.
November 5th, 2019 at 2:20 AM ^
Same :(
November 4th, 2019 at 12:03 PM ^
BIG NUDE, LET'S GO
November 4th, 2019 at 12:04 PM ^
And the kids rejoice.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:05 PM ^
I like having Gus on our side
November 4th, 2019 at 12:57 PM ^
I like Gus too but a noon game on Fox means it won't be over until 4:45 with all the commercial breaks.
November 4th, 2019 at 2:40 PM ^
I'm hoping it's "over" by noon-thirty.
November 4th, 2019 at 1:29 PM ^
Patterson...winding up, he's got a receiver! PEOPLES-JONES DOWN THE SIDELINE PEOPLES-JONES TOUCHDOWN WOLVERINES
November 4th, 2019 at 12:05 PM ^
That sucks. All around.
We are going to go all season without one 3:30 start - the best start time in football.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:06 PM ^
We knew that was likely to happen once Fox made their "big game" be the noon game this year. Took away a lot of 3:30s with that move.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:21 PM ^
What a garbage take
November 4th, 2019 at 12:38 PM ^
Sorry you disapprove.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:32 PM ^
Harbaugh and Warde prefer and push for all the noon starts they can get.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:33 PM ^
Last two wins against Staee were noon games so hopefully this is a good sign.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:49 PM ^
If memory serves WD is also a strong advocate of noon games.
So basically all the Michigan power-brokers are in alignment on this one it seems.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:52 PM ^
Noon is easily the best time for a home game. You get to go to the game, get back in time to see the end of the 3:30 lineup, and then all of the night games.
A 3:30 kick means missing the ends of the noon games and then missing the beginnings of the night games. Just terrible. Plus, a 3:30 kick in November is going to be cold as hell and dark by the end.
Be a noon game or be a night game, 3:30 is trash.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:56 PM ^
That hasn't been my experience.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:58 PM ^
True - although the memorable 2004 game actually had a 4:00pm start of all things. I remember that game VERY well as I entered in shorts and a T shirt and by the time the game ended it was pretty cold.
Not that I gave a flying fuck though. That was the MOST exciting sporting event I've ever gone to.
November 4th, 2019 at 3:04 PM ^
I remember shorts and just my jersey with no shirt underneath. Was around 75 and sunny prior to kickoff. Was around 40 with blustery winds at the end. Bright side was it was so windy my leaves were all in the neighbors yard the next day so beer drinking was my celebration to the great win we had on that crazy Saturday.
Go Blue!!
November 4th, 2019 at 1:00 PM ^
3:30 games that end in darkness are awesome. There are so many classic Michigan games are both home and away where the sunlight turns to a tint and then all of the sudden in it under the lights. Crowds are raucous for 3:30 games too, in terms of fan involvement a 3:30 game is basically a night game. The stadium is 2/3 full at noon and it is the second half before it seems there is full fan engagement.
I guess it is worth it to have it at noon though as long as I can see Wake at Clemson and LSU at Ole Miss later in the day.
November 4th, 2019 at 1:10 PM ^
I'm assuming you're being sarcastic with the last line, but there are actually good games later in the day on the 16th, and if you're a true football fan you just enjoy watching as many games as possible anyways.
Wake at Clemson is actually intriguing. Clemson will win in all likelihood, but it's probably the toughest game on their terribly weak schedule, and they did have a close one against UNC so who knows. Wake is fun.
Navy at Notre Dame will probably be close for stupid reasons and that kicks at 2:30. Enjoy the existential crisis of wanting Michigan to have an extremely high quality win vs. the desire to see Brian Kelly slowly implode while his team loses at home to a service academy.
Minnesota plays at Iowa! There's a very real chance that this is a top 15 matchup that will help decide the Big Ten West! Watch this!
Georgia at Auburn is going to be a top ten-ish rivalry game that will kick at 3:30 or at night. Watch this!
Oklahoma at Baylor will be a top ten-ish game and 1,000 points will be scored. Watch this!
Indiana at Penn State - this might be noon, but if it's not, watch this for potential schadenfreude.
UCLA at Utah. This won't be at noon, and UCLA is weirdly alive in the PAC12 South, plus a win over Utah helps Michigan. Watch this! or don't, it's PAC12, it doesn't matter really.
UMass at Northwestern. My God. If Northwestern loses this game. Don't watch this, but keep an eye on it. But probably don't watch it. But maybe.
November 4th, 2019 at 1:11 PM ^
Ok you just convinced me. I want to watch all of that shit.
November 4th, 2019 at 1:15 PM ^
Haha good. I'm not negging you btw. Just giving you a hard time.
November 4th, 2019 at 3:59 PM ^
Wake Forest is the ONLY ranked team Clemson will play all year before the CFP, and that includes the ACC Championship Game.
November 4th, 2019 at 4:33 PM ^
LSU at Ole Miss will be a 6pm kickoff (7pm EST).
November 4th, 2019 at 1:43 PM ^
Yeah, I've always been a fan of the late October/early November 3:30 tilts that become night games in the third quarter. (speaking as a person attending the games...now that I no longer have season tickets my opinion will probably change)
November 4th, 2019 at 4:24 PM ^
The fuck wrong with y’all ? Noon games suck. Not many of you stay up till 4 am or later I see.
November 4th, 2019 at 3:27 PM ^
Weird cobsidering our home records at 330 and night are better.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:35 PM ^
I like 3:30 starts if I'm going to the game. Makes for a nice morning / afternoon in Ann Arbor and you still get 1/2 of a night game.
If I'm watching at home (90% of the time these days) I like a noon kick. The anticipation kills me waiting for a night game.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:43 PM ^
Saturday at noon screams "lots of shit to do." Saturday at 3:30 is when I am getting home and can actually watch live. If I could just declare that I am not going to do anything late morning through early afternoon on Saturday(when seriously every kid activity is scheduled) I wouldn't care but that isn't realistic. DVRing every single game this year with the exception of night games has proven tiring.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:55 PM ^
If you can avoid spoilers, DVRing is the way to go. Start about 45 min late, zip through the commercials and half time and you catch up to real time in the 4 th quarter. Due to all the commercials on Fox, you might need to delay that start until about 1 hour late.
November 4th, 2019 at 2:17 PM ^
I do the same. It's awesome. Now I'm so spoiled I don't think I could endure watching a game live with all the commercials.
November 4th, 2019 at 4:15 PM ^
So much better than the old VCR days. Back then, you couldn't start watching the game until it was over, and you couldn't find out if it was over without risking a spoiler.
November 5th, 2019 at 7:08 AM ^
I don't understand the DVR fans. I can't watch a replay, it seems pointless to me. I need to see it while it happens or I might as well just look up the box score. Also I don't get the commercial hate. On the commercials I'm on my phone texting and mgobloging. Usually I'm rushing to finish my comment or text before the commercial is over.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:58 PM ^
I can see that. Luckily for me all of the kid stuff so far is during the week. Saturday's are still mine!
Unless of course the gutters need to be cleaned. Or the lawn mowed. Or we have to go to Franklin Cider Mill, or, or or....
I DVR a lot of games these days, even when I'm home to watch the whole thing, just to avoid the commercials.
November 4th, 2019 at 4:26 PM ^
+1
means a 12:30 start for me which is perfect.
12:30PST Best start time
4:30PST 2nd
9:00AM PST comes in last for me. I like to have some beers and 9AM just doesn’t work for me.
November 4th, 2019 at 6:12 PM ^
Seems like spart was usually 330 but in Oct. I'll take noon in Nov. vs. an after victory party in the dark. I can be home by 6pm for more football.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:12 PM ^
hold your horses - shouldn't we check Harbaugh's record after bye weeks on noon kickoff games for any non-patterns before we declare this good?
November 4th, 2019 at 12:07 PM ^
Parole hearings and PED appeals scheduled for 11:00 AM in East Lansing, then, I assume?
November 4th, 2019 at 12:08 PM ^
Fuck state and everyone associated with them!!!!
November 4th, 2019 at 12:17 PM ^
Ahh yes. My first game at Yost.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:31 PM ^
Took someone for a second date to that one. Things were looking up going into it. Then Tropp/Conboy happened.
There was no third date.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:36 PM ^
Worked out for the better. Pretty sure my wife would be trying to crawl over the glass to fight him.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:41 PM ^
Well that sucks. I am thankful every day my wife gets as into Michigan sports as I do. We were actually at that game together. I lived about an hour away and she convinced me last minute to come out for the game because her roommate was sick and couldn't go with her like they normally did.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:47 PM ^
Part of what was crazy about that moment was this was when the pep band had started the policy of playing over the fans if obscenities were being shouted. They didn't make a sound when Conboy got taken off the ice, you heard every "chump, dick, wuss, douchbag….", and the "Fuck you State!" was probably audible from the street outside Yost. They let the fans just vent.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:40 PM ^
I was sitting in the SE corner of Yost, near the glass, in those days and I just remember unleashing a stream of epithets at Rick Comley as he walked right past me leaving the ice when the game ended, and he looked visibly shaken, because he knew his team was in the wrong.
Top 5 of most furious I've gotten as a fan. Fuck Sparty.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:43 PM ^
In those years, I went to most every UM-MSU hockey game, home/away/neutral, and I don't think there was a program I have viscerally hated as a matter of ethical principle more than MSU hockey under Comley. Everything about them, from their style of play to the fact that they were all pretty much goons, exuded the worst parts of college hockey. The worst.