Re: 2018 Playoff thread
Originally Posted by
Professor Chaos
Next week's Saturday semifinal is at 2PM ET/11AM PT. I'd agree with you on the Saturday quarterfinal TV spot never going to a team west of the central time zone but I think the semi time slots are set up to where a team in any time zone can host either day.
In 2010 Eastern Washington hosted a Friday night semifinal against Villanova:
http://www.espn.com/college-football...meId/303510331
GSU-UD did kickoff at noon eastern that year, kind of left them stuck with Friday night. I think ESPN will try to accomodate the schools as best as possible, I don't think there is a big enough difference between the two time slots...It was a bigger issue when previously one game was on ESPNU, glad they made things more equal.
ESPN is also probably more worried about drawing in viewers to the bowl game on ESPN than the FCS game on ESPN2.
NDSU to the FBS always. In all ways.