September 30th, 2019 at 12:00 PM ^
At least we're not on FOX. I will never watch a game on FOX unless Michigan is playing. Absolutely awful experience. And I like Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt. I think they're a great pairing. But the game flow is just miserable.
September 30th, 2019 at 12:03 PM ^
A lot of that has to do with the game being at noon. It has all the ads of a primetime or 3:30 game at noon. During 3:30 games (for those not at the games) you are kind of getting dinner ready, firing the grill up, having some beers, doing some yard-work, etc., so you don't mind the stoppages as much. At noon you are doing nothing other than watching the game and "OMG just hurry up!" that it is hard to enjoy.
tl;dr - noon actually does really suck.
September 30th, 2019 at 12:32 PM ^
I think it has more to do with the endless commercials.
September 30th, 2019 at 12:03 PM ^
I'm very interested in seeing how Brandon Peters looks against his old teammates.
September 30th, 2019 at 12:08 PM ^
I'm getting married that day and thankfully it's at 5. Game on!
September 30th, 2019 at 12:14 PM ^
MGoCongrats!
September 30th, 2019 at 1:33 PM ^
Thank you!
September 30th, 2019 at 12:36 PM ^
Shame on you for agreeing to a football Saturday wedding.
September 30th, 2019 at 1:37 PM ^
Fall was best for both sides of the family. My family has to travel down south and her brother and father run a tennis academy and her brother is a city director of tennis so spring and summer are totally booked up for him. I was ok with it cause she let me pick what weekend.
September 30th, 2019 at 3:07 PM ^
Real fans schedule their weddings on bye weeks.
September 30th, 2019 at 12:11 PM ^
Damn I was hopin for 4:00.
September 30th, 2019 at 12:26 PM ^
As a cross country coach, this means I'll be missing the first half of yet another game. Of course, this year that means I haven't missed much.
I missed the complete Army game and the Wisconsin game was 28-0 before I got home, so I didn't watch that. And we were up 21-0 on Rutgers last week, so that game was basically over.
September 30th, 2019 at 12:29 PM ^
And that makes seven noon games.... so far.
September 30th, 2019 at 12:30 PM ^
Ugh... Noon games suck - my least favorite time slot. Right smack in the middle of the day - not enough time to do anything before or after the game. You just sit there, through the best part of an afternoon, slogging through commercial breaks while the rest of the day's warm-up games are going on. If you do need to get the wife out to a store, or whatever, doing so after a noon game means that you miss all of the (mostly better) 3:30 games.
I get that Michigan plays a lot of warm-up games, like against Illinois. So fine, noon for Ill, etc... But I need Harbaugh and Manual to change their tunes about 3:30 and 7:30 kicks.
September 30th, 2019 at 2:03 PM ^
Why do you need to escort your wife to a store?
September 30th, 2019 at 12:31 PM ^
Who doesn't like a noon-er every once in a while...
September 30th, 2019 at 12:33 PM ^
Hate the noon games.
September 30th, 2019 at 12:44 PM ^
me too. may be good for tv watchers but they suck for people who actually go to the games. you have to rush to set up tailgaiting only to enjoy it for maybe an hour or so. then you have to rush and tear it all down. and it's actually 11am for us going to the IL game.
September 30th, 2019 at 3:05 PM ^
True, but on the plus side, you get to actually watch the games between ranked teams on TV later without them getting spoiled for you, and usually during the noon time slot you aren't missing anything.
September 30th, 2019 at 4:19 PM ^
Maybe for you out of staters it sucks. But not for us in Michigan.
Night games are favorites of tv watchers.
September 30th, 2019 at 4:53 PM ^
Noon games are the worst. From a local.
September 30th, 2019 at 12:33 PM ^
Like the Wisconsin game this will be an 11:00am local start so hopefully the team is more alert/prepared this time around.
September 30th, 2019 at 12:38 PM ^
NOON VS 3:30 STARTS.......
GO!
September 30th, 2019 at 12:59 PM ^
Dang, I'll be at the game and was hoping for 3:30 for more tailgating time. Oh well.
September 30th, 2019 at 12:59 PM ^
I understand that no one knows, but is everyone thinking penn st will be a night game?
September 30th, 2019 at 1:05 PM ^
I doubt it will be. If Fox carries it, you’re looking at noon. ABC, 3:30. The next week is ND, so ABC would most likely prefer to air that game at night. Doubt they would want to put Michigan on prime time two weeks in a row.
September 30th, 2019 at 10:18 PM ^
OSU is getting prime time 2 weeks in a row.
September 30th, 2019 at 1:10 PM ^
Far more likely noon on Fox.
September 30th, 2019 at 1:19 PM ^
Washington vs. Oregon is the only other decent match-up that weekend.
I could see our game slotted as a night game on FS1.
September 30th, 2019 at 1:13 PM ^
Good.
September 30th, 2019 at 1:16 PM ^
I'll throw some sacrilege onto the fire:
I have watched MAYBE six or seven games live in the last decade or so. I just can't stand watching the games and all the stoppages. Plus I get so tense, it's 3-plus hours of elevated blood pressure.
I have YouTube TV now, and it just automatically tapes my MI games. I come in right around when the second half is kicking off, start watching from the beginning, skipping 15 secs forward between plays and eliminating commercial breaks.
It's glorious.
September 30th, 2019 at 1:18 PM ^
I get it but I couldn't help myself to check the real score. I just couldn't put off not knowing.
September 30th, 2019 at 1:27 PM ^
This is like as good of a place to ask this is there anywhere else – what is the thinking on the kick off time for ND? I know it won’t be announced for a few weeks but we are flying out for the game and just wanted to get everyone’s best guesses. Thanks.
October 1st, 2019 at 8:08 AM ^
I was assuming it was going to be MSU @ 3:30 and ND at night and it seems to be what many others are assuming as well but feels like everyone is kind of guessing.
September 30th, 2019 at 1:43 PM ^
330 is the ideal but for a game like this I prefer noon games. Not a big time opponent and the game ends and you have the rest of the day to do anything
September 30th, 2019 at 3:03 PM ^
Love the noon games. Was hoping it would be on BTN or FS1 though. Getting through a season without Disney's horribly shitty, self-aggrandizing, focus-tested-on-retarded-adolescents coverage would have been nice. Hopefully we'll get one of the two or three PxP guys who actually belongs in the booth.
September 30th, 2019 at 6:19 PM ^
I like the noon games when they are away.
September 30th, 2019 at 8:35 PM ^
October 1st, 2019 at 8:06 AM ^
Well since we are all giving their two cents....
- Noon Game: I like it when I'm at the game. I live in columbus, OH so for noon games when I go I leave at 4am tailgate from 7am to gametime and home in columbus by 7:30pm or so.
- 3:30 game: Prefer it when I'm not at the game. Things to do with the kiddo and the house in the AM, can start a bonfire by 1pm and tailgate/drink/cornhole through the game and the night.
Whatever...doesn't matter that much lol.