Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Colorado game time moved
The kickoff for the Georgia-Colorado game on Oct. 2 has been shifted back a few hours.
The game will now start at 7 p.m. eastern time, it was announced Tuesday afternoon. It had previously been announced as a 4:30 start.
It will still be televised by Fox Sports Net.
Here's an official explanation the media just got via e-mail:
The change came about after CU’s and the Big 12’s television network partners re-examined an earlier but tentative decision to allow the game to be televised inside an exclusive ABC telecast window.
ABC has only one time slot for a Big 12 Conference game that day, and has already committed to televising the Oklahoma-Texas game in its afternoon window (1:30 p.m. MDT). The kickoff adjustment allows the Colorado-Georgia game to be televised in the later prime time window and afford ABC its full exclusivity in the afternoon.
Translation: Upon further review, FOX decided it really didn't want Georgia-Colorado colliding with the Red River Shootout. (Which normally started at 11 a.m. central time, but has been shifted back to be the prime 3:30 p.m. eastern slot.)
Kind of makes you wonder why they didn't agree to have Georgia-Colorado be a night game in the first place. But oh well, not a huge deal. (Except to those of us who might've liked two nights to party in Boulder.)
The game will now start at 7 p.m. eastern time, it was announced Tuesday afternoon. It had previously been announced as a 4:30 start.
It will still be televised by Fox Sports Net.
Here's an official explanation the media just got via e-mail:
The change came about after CU’s and the Big 12’s television network partners re-examined an earlier but tentative decision to allow the game to be televised inside an exclusive ABC telecast window.
ABC has only one time slot for a Big 12 Conference game that day, and has already committed to televising the Oklahoma-Texas game in its afternoon window (1:30 p.m. MDT). The kickoff adjustment allows the Colorado-Georgia game to be televised in the later prime time window and afford ABC its full exclusivity in the afternoon.
Translation: Upon further review, FOX decided it really didn't want Georgia-Colorado colliding with the Red River Shootout. (Which normally started at 11 a.m. central time, but has been shifted back to be the prime 3:30 p.m. eastern slot.)
Kind of makes you wonder why they didn't agree to have Georgia-Colorado be a night game in the first place. But oh well, not a huge deal. (Except to those of us who might've liked two nights to party in Boulder.)
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4 comments:
Or note to Colorado: YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE BIG 12.
Hey, Seth - If you come to Boulder, I'll buy you a beer!
TrboDawg
how does this stop us from partying 2 nights in boulder?
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