Very true. He doesn't partcipate in the discussion either. He is kind of like the moderator in the presidential debate. Asks the question or presents an opinion and demands everyone to discuss.

Northwestern and MSU were electric because both teams were good and we're actually winning this year. Imagine a night game, with Harbaugh as coach, two storied teams, and we're actually a good team. The world would explode by the pure awesome that would take place in the Big House.

A more tepid crowd slash home field advantage hurts on the field as well as in recruiting. Hurts fans who enjoy tailgating for longer than 8am to 11am, and the environment is also less fun than games finishing at sunset or under the lights.

Sure, we should have a few noon games a year (MAC snacks, IU/Rutgers/Maryland, Ohio State in late November), but not throwing in a night game along with a couple 3:30 starts would be stupid. 

I honestly don't understand how you can be compelled by nature to run out and purchase literally every single uniformzz debacle that ever existed and then be getoffmylawny about something that is actually fun, particularly for students.

Waking up at butt-thirty in the morning to get to a noon game in decent time to find parking and tailgate and beat a little bit of the traffic isn't any better than waiting til 1 AM to leave the game.

You were born in the wrong century. 

You have no idea what you're talking about.

So how old are you if you're calling him "son" and he's from the '50s?

Oh I do. But I feel like I can't mindlessly flip through them like I would at home because other people would get bothered by it.

Double-post.

Actually, for the hardcore college football fan, watching other games is one of the most challenging paradoxes of fandom. On the one hand, you absolutely love going to a game; you love the scene, the people everywhere, the atmosphere, the tailgates. The sounds and sights from the stadium. The experience.

On the other hand LSU is playing at Auburn or Florida State is playing Notre Dame and you're hyped for the matchup and you really want to see it. It's tough to do both. Even in 1997, at the Ohio State game, I lingered to drink in the feeling of victory... and then I bolted to get home to see the Florida-Florida State game, which wound up being a barnburner (and may or may not have concluded with me running aimlessly around the house yelling "We're Number 1!" to my cats). In the years when Texas-Oklahoma was a huge rivalry, I missed almost every one of them due to being at Michigan Stadium. It was tough.

Now, technology has improved. Well-to-do people with RVs can have Satellite TV hooked up in the lot. Less well-to-do can stream on mobile. Still tricky, though. You can't flip easily between ESPN and CBS in the 3:30 pm time slot on an iphone with 25% battery that has to last you until 11:30pm, it just doesn't work.

They played at 1pm in 2006. Every network just ceded the entire afternoon to The Game. It was awesome, except for that late hit thingy.

My memory suggests that the only exception to noon or 1pm since 1968 (and presumably the years before that as well) was a 3:30 kick in 1985, the game that Kolesar caught that clinching TD bomb from what's-his-name in the dark.