Jason SnellGoing to really enjoy going to two Cal day games in a row the next two Saturdays. College Football is meant to be played in the early afternoon.
Mike Doel@jsnell could be a long-term benefit of being in the...checks notes…ACC?
Jonathan Dechko@jsnell @mikedoel I’m east coast native and currently east coast, but we lived in Seattle for 6+ years, so I totally get the 9am CFB and 10:30 NFL thing.
The Super Bowl was always weird too with the mid-afternoon start.
Also, there’s a big sign on the interstate in Atlanta that says “Why not Cal?” So I‘ve sort of adopted Cal as a second team this season.
Casey Liss@jsnell ::: weeps from his second consecutive nooner :::
(We had to miss this past game, which was a blessed 3:30 kick. 😭)
@caseyliss Why do you hate it? Not enough tailgate time? Too hot? Afraid of the sunshine?
Jack Wellborn@jsnell @caseyliss Liss or Lisstat?
@jsnell I don't like noon games:
• No other games to watch during the tailgate
• Breakfast food is *amazing*, but doing it more than once a season is too much
• Especially later in the year, it's too goddamn cold during the tailgate, and then too goddamn hot in the game.
3:30 is *perfect* IMHO
David Cohen@caseyliss @jsnell I read this and can’t help feeling that if you just stopped tailgating and just went to the game, it would be fine…
Mike Taffet
Mark Richard@caseyliss @jsnell For your first point, definitely a difference between living on the east and west coasts! I just moved from California to Connecticut and am having a tough time adapting to sports schedules 😅
@caseyliss @jsnell nothing quite like a Berkeley Breeze to keep you cool during a mid-day event.
Allen Finchum@caseyliss @jsnell 330 for you is 1230 for him
@AllenFinchum as I said to @jsnell privately, “your PST is showing”
@caseyliss @AllenFinchum turns out the big difference is the tailgating, which is your priority and which I basically don't do
@caseyliss @jsnell as a Central Time watcher of college football (God’s time according to a professor I had at Tennessee) I prefer evening kickoffs - I only live 3 miles from stadium and it is not hot (which it is in Stillwater OK thru October). I have been to all but 2 games at Oklahoma State since 1996 and before that went to every home game at Tennessee between 1984 and 95 - can be hot in Knoxville too.
@AllenFinchum @caseyliss when you live 3 miles away it's a lot easier to get home at 11:30 after a 7pm game
@jsnell @caseyliss true that - plus most of those games are 6pm Central Time - 7pm is an Eastern Time thing
Dan Morgan 
@AllenFinchum @jsnell @caseyliss Waking up to this. (sorry about the delayed commentary.)
Since the Big 8/12 “welcomed” a handful of former PAC10/12 teams this season my team 
has played twice at 9:30 CDT.
I ABSOLUTELY DESPISE those late games. I’m an old Gen X’er now and my night owl days are long behind me.
@DanMorgan @AllenFinchum @jsnell 9:30p is way too late to start a football game. Anything after about 730p is lunacy.
@DanMorgan @jsnell @caseyliss I understand - this Friday Oklahoma State plays at BYU - 915 Kickoff - I am not looking forward to it (of course that is 815 in Utah, but still…. - as an even more senior Baby Boomer this is just nuts.
@caseyliss and for Casey - as someone who lived in the Eastern Time zone from birth to age 38 (in East Tennessee and Ohio) and have lived in Central Time since 1996 - I have to say I prefer Central Time (if you had not guessed I am 66 yrs old)
bubbajet
Don Whiteside@caseyliss @jsnell this… is not what I understand a nooner to be.
Schamschula@jsnell The way it was when I was a UG @ Cal in the early 1980's!
Chris@jsnell The late games are why, after 27 years post-graduation, I let the season tix go. (Driving from Sac area.)
@chrisclauson they're brutal for me and I'm 45 minutes away. The TV money decides all, but I don't blame people for not being willing to make those late night drives.
Craig@jsnell Go Bears! You missed the drone show last weekend. Since I didn't see it at last year's Auburn game I was glad they did it again this year. So far every game has had great energy despite our transition to the ACC.
@craigtheguru very happy to have waited to go in the daytime
@jsnell I love a noon kickoff, but if last week's game was at noon we'd have had almost 0 people on the sunny side! Also: I am still not sure about swapping the home/away sidelines.
Hayley/Dragon🏳️⚧️@jsnell I got to see the end of the game between Cal and Pitt on my way to the airport in Pittsburgh on Saturday, it was close!
johnniesan 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽@jsnell I grew up in Ann Arbor in the 1970s and noon games were the best! Little tailgate before, and friends over for dinner after the game. Fun childhood days!!