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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/sebsasour on 2024-05-11 18:04:26+00:00.
With west coast teams joining leagues primarily based in the central and eastern time zones, are east coast teams going to be forced into “After Dark” games that kickoff after 10 PM (ET)? Or are Networks going to try and limit those to exclusively west vs west games? Do east coast schools have any power at preventing this, or are they 100% at the mercy of the networks? Networks like having that 4th window and are likely not always going to have a west vs west matchup to put in it
Just looking at some schedules this year, here’s some games happening in the Pacific and Mountain Time Zones against Central and Eastern Time Teams
Cal hosts Miami, Syracuse and NC State
Stanford hosts Louisville, Virginia Tech, and Wake.
UCLA hosts Indiana, Iowa, and Minnesota
USC hosts Wisconsin, Rutgers, and Penn State
Oregon hosts Michigan State, Maryland, Ohio State, and Illinois
Washington hosts Northwestern and Michigan
Colorado hosts Cincy and Oklahoma State
BYU hosts Houston, Kansas, K-State, and Oklahoma State
Arizona hosts Texas Tech, Houston, and West Virginia
Utah hosts Baylor, TCU, and Iowa State
Arizona State hosts UCF, Kansas (plus a non con game vs Mississippi State)
Obviously plenty of these games will get more normal slots anyway, but I have to imagine Fox and ESPN would love to put a few of these at late night