Sounds to me like a certain university who happens to have homecoming that day might be playing a factor in all of this. I'm guessing ESPN wants us and UGA doesn't want to kick off at night. They might be trying to shift games around as ESPN has the Michigan/Penn State game scheduled at 4:30.
I don't remember seeing a mid-week selection happen like this. Typically once the networks see the results of a given week they make up their minds. If they were having a hard time choosing between these games, they'd wait until Sunday to see what everbody does this weekend.
In the end, I have no idea. That'll suck if we get bumped down to the Daves and a 12:30 kick because some 80-year old cheerleaders need to be in bed early and a few colleges don't want to re-schedule the time when they cook hot dogs and bubba burgers.
I think fisheries has hit the nail on the head....except its not the 80 year old cheerleaders, its the 60ish UGA President who needs time for downtown to clear out so he can go get banned from another restaurant.
Do I recall correctly that UGA has a rule about only playing one true night game (i.e., 7:45 p.m.) a year? For all the millions CBS and ESPN pay, I can't imagine that rule is worth much more than the paper it probably isn't printed on, but still.
If Vanderbilt and Georgia both win this weekend, it's within the realm of possibility that this could be a top-10 game, though it would of course require some upsets elsewhere. There ain't no damn way the SEC is going to allow a top-10 matchup to be broadcast by the Daves, particularly not when it's setting up to be the biggest game in 50 or 60 years for one of the involved parties.
And I'm gonna go out on a limb and theorize that Penn State and Michigan are going to be less than sympathetic to changing their game time to suit the SEC's whims. I've heard they have kind of an inferiority complex up that way.
(And who would have figured there could be two top-10 matchups in Athens in one year ... and that one of them might involve VANDERBILT.)
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Sounds to me like a certain university who happens to have homecoming that day might be playing a factor in all of this. I'm guessing ESPN wants us and UGA doesn't want to kick off at night. They might be trying to shift games around as ESPN has the Michigan/Penn State game scheduled at 4:30.
I don't remember seeing a mid-week selection happen like this. Typically once the networks see the results of a given week they make up their minds. If they were having a hard time choosing between these games, they'd wait until Sunday to see what everbody does this weekend.
In the end, I have no idea. That'll suck if we get bumped down to the Daves and a 12:30 kick because some 80-year old cheerleaders need to be in bed early and a few colleges don't want to re-schedule the time when they cook hot dogs and bubba burgers.
I think fisheries has hit the nail on the head....except its not the 80 year old cheerleaders, its the 60ish UGA President who needs time for downtown to clear out so he can go get banned from another restaurant.
Do I recall correctly that UGA has a rule about only playing one true night game (i.e., 7:45 p.m.) a year? For all the millions CBS and ESPN pay, I can't imagine that rule is worth much more than the paper it probably isn't printed on, but still.
If Vanderbilt and Georgia both win this weekend, it's within the realm of possibility that this could be a top-10 game, though it would of course require some upsets elsewhere. There ain't no damn way the SEC is going to allow a top-10 matchup to be broadcast by the Daves, particularly not when it's setting up to be the biggest game in 50 or 60 years for one of the involved parties.
And I'm gonna go out on a limb and theorize that Penn State and Michigan are going to be less than sympathetic to changing their game time to suit the SEC's whims. I've heard they have kind of an inferiority complex up that way.
(And who would have figured there could be two top-10 matchups in Athens in one year ... and that one of them might involve VANDERBILT.)
It has now been postponed until Sunday, Oct. 12.
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