Nebraska-Illinois Friday Night Game

[vailhusker]

 

[Huskersballz]

TV contract money machine go brrrrr

 

[Fargo Husker]

This honestly doesn't really bother me at all.

I was actually planning on coming down for this game, but now my cousin is getting married on that Saturday so I can't, but it all probably works out better with it being moved to Friday.

 

[HerbRedman]

This honestly doesn't really bother me at all.

I was actually planning on coming down for this game, but now my cousin is getting married on that Saturday so I can't now, but it all probably works out better with this being a Friday game now.

Doesn't bother me either. I love the FRI night games honestly because it gives us our own stage. This being on national TV FOX is big.

If it's 3-0 vs 3-0 that game could pull a very strong TV rating. It'll probably be in our top 4 most watched games of the year. Which it wouldn't be if it was buried on a Saturday afternoon vs 55 other games.

 

[Cornicator]

This honestly doesn't really bother me at all.

I was actually planning on coming down for this game, but now my cousin is getting married on that Saturday so I can't now, but it all probably works out better with this being a Friday game now.

Amen. I'm getting tired of our fans who are freaking out about this development. If you have a son who plays HS football, I will let you vent. But for everyone else, quit crying.

1. Nebraska will now have 2 Nationally Televised Night games on Network TV in back to back weeks.
2. This also likely helps Nebraska avoid an 11 am home kick off time during the season.

 

[vailhusker]

 

[HerbRedman]

Nebraska will now have 2 Nationally Televised Night games on Network TV in back to back weeks.

You mean 2 over 3 week span, right? Assume you're talking about Colorado and then Illinois.

 

[Kaladin]

Friday night games are nice because it frees up your entire saturday

 

[SoCal_Corn]

I wonder if every NEB HS now moves that weeks game to SAT ?


They should.

 

[Cornicator]

You mean 2 over 3 week span, right? Assume you're talking about Colorado and then Illinois.



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Yes. My bad. And I also think the UTEP game has a chance at a 7 pm kickoff on BTN.



Can we also add its about fucking time that Illinois has to come and play an actual difficult game at Nebraska? Let's think about this for a minute:

2018 - Illinois plays at Nebraska in an 11 am game in front of maybe 60,000 fans during year one of the Frost regime.
2020 - Ilinois plays at Nebraska in an empty covid stadium.
2022 - Illinois plays at Nebraska at 11 am in front of maybe 60,000 fans total after two weeks of misery in Lincoln during the Mickey Joseph days following a loss at Purdoodoo.

There are two teams that haven't had to face any type of adversity in Lincoln for years:

Illinois and Minnesota.

Fuck em.

 

[alt f4]

I wonder if every NEB HS now moves that weeks game to SAT ?


They should.

Lincoln has a scheduling nightmare for that week.

Lincoln East plays Lincoln SW. Lincoln High, Lincoln Northstar, Lincoln Southeast, Lincoln Standing Bear, and Lincoln Pius X all have home games scheduled as well.

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

 

[BIGSTICK67]

Doesn't bother me either. I love the FRI night games honestly because it gives us our own stage. This being on national TV FOX is big.

If it's 3-0 vs 3-0 that game could pull a very strong TV rating. It'll probably be in our top 4 most watched games of the year. Which it wouldn't be if it was buried on a Saturday afternoon vs 55 other games.

Plus you can get your Fred Flintstone on with a nice bone-in ribeye Saturday afternoon as you down a case of Fat Tire. ZERO STRESS...

After Big Red buries the Illini.

 

[BIGSTICK67]

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Is that Pelini's boy?

 

[BIGSTICK67]

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Or be an innovator like Nebraska and leave those sexual deviants in the rear view mirror of the B1G.

UCLAbia just scored in the Rose Bowl again vs. Michigan, Purdoodoo, Ohio State and Northwestern, etc., etc. - circa 2005

 

[Scott Hall]

Amen. I'm getting tired of our fans who are freaking out about this development. If you have a son who plays HS football, I will let you vent. But for everyone else, quit crying.

1. Nebraska will now have 2 Nationally Televised Night games on Network TV in back to back weeks.
2. This also likely helps Nebraska avoid an 11 am home kick off time during the season.

Someone on this board, definitely wasn’t you, said just the other day that Nebraska has told the B1G they wouldn’t host Friday night home games.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Or be an innovator like Nebraska and leave those sexual deviants in the rear view mirror of the B1G.

UCLAbia just scored in the Rose Bowl again vs. Michigan, Purdoodoo, Ohio State and Northwestern, etc., etc. - circa 2005

My guess is that those 3 are big ratings draws no matter when they play so you might as well put them against stronger tv competition, while Nebraska can pop a really nice rating Friday assuming... Friday Night SmackDown doesn't have a hot pro wrasslin angle.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Someone on this board, definitely wasn’t you, said just the other day that Nebraska has told the B1G they wouldn’t host Friday night home games.

To be fair that could have been like 6 university president and 4 ADs ago, so like 2021

 

[HerbRedman]

My guess is that those 3 are big ratings draws no matter when they play so you might as well put them against stronger tv competition, while Nebraska can pop a really nice rating Friday assuming... Friday Night SmackDown doesn't have a hot pro wrasslin angle.

I think they want to avoid Fridays being the Buttgers-Purdoodoo-MN-Illinois show. That's why on the Friday schedule you see: Oregon, Washington (x2), Nebraska, USC, Michigan State, Cockeye, etc. Taters are way too concerned with what PSU/OSU/UM are doing. They really need to chill out.

My prediction: I think some of these Friday games might get 3-4m+ viewers this year. That will change a lot of opinions about the Friday night time slot. National TV FOX with the schedule all to yourself in Friday is a HELL of a lot better than BTN at 11am vs 30 other games. This is a no-brainer for me.

***Remember, our biggest home game of the last few years (vs Michigan 2021) was not seen by a lot of mainstream CFB fans bc they were watching #2 Alabama at Texas A&M (41-38 A&M victory). The SEC game was in the same time slot on CBS and pulled a way bigger TV rating. And if you followed Twitter that night, 75% of CFB posts were about the Bama/A&M game. No one was watching NU/MICH. Point is that having a national TV time slot all to yourself is a massive deal.

 

[Skerz4Life50]

Someone on this board, definitely wasn’t you, said just the other day that Nebraska has told the B1G they wouldn’t host Friday night home games.

You may be referring to my post. And that was in reference to 2017 when the Big Ten started playing Friday night games, but they were only on FS1 and BTN. Now that actual Fox is airing the games, I had mentioned that would likely change things and they may be able to force a lot of the teams that had previously said no to hosting them, to actually have to host them. That turns out to be true. In 2017, OSU, PSU, Michigan, Michigan State, Wisconsin, and Nebraska all said no for sure, and Cockeye may have also been one that said no.