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I was holding out hope for a 230 or 6pm kick

Was alway going to be Big Noon. That’s why it we flipped it to 2024 in AA instead of 2025 

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11am is perfect for us. A severely depleted Michigan team getting a not fully lubed up Big House. The entire reason this game moved was so Fox could have one of 2 last Texas games. The other will be Ohio State in 2025.

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2 minutes ago, mdmost said:

11am is perfect for us. A severely depleted Michigan team getting a not fully lubed up Big House. The entire reason this game moved was so Fox could have one of 2 last Texas games. The other will be Ohio State in 2025.

Also plenty of time to get back to Detroit and get back home; looking forward to day before in AA, not so much night after….

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Night after in AA will not be fun win or lose. It’s a big bummer from a fan experience that it’s not a night game because night games at the big house are legendary, but it was always a big noon game and they don’t give a shit about the day of experience for fans. 

Im cooking some stuff up that should be pretty fun. 

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1 minute ago, immamac said:

Night after in AA will not be fun win or lose. It’s a big bummer from a fan experience that it’s not a night game because night games at the big house are legendary, but it was always a big noon game and they don’t give a shit about the day of experience for fans. 

Im cooking some stuff up that should be pretty fun. 

Up there is your stomping grounds, correct?  

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Up there is your stomping grounds, correct?  

We have had season tickets for 8 years or more I can’t remember as it’s a shared thing with the in law family. My wife’s mother is from AA and we spend quite a bit of time up there. Been to games at all the time slots and the night game was top 5 college football experiences of all time for me. (Monsoon game vs notre dame at night) 

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Great, gotta leave Chicago by 5am to make it with enough time to park & eat.  It's actually a fairly scenic drive for the most part, but that's gonna make for a long day.  But yeah, as stated above...we all likely knew this was coming.

If anybody else is staying in Chicago versus Detroit, consider hitting up Wrigley on Friday or Sunday, Cubs host the Yankees.  Will be wild to my childhood brain to see those two teams on the same field in person.  

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42 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

If anybody else is staying in Chicago versus Detroit, consider hitting up Wrigley on Friday or Sunday, Cubs host the Yankees.  Will be wild to my childhood brain to see those two teams on the same field in person.  

The Cubs game the day before we played Notre Dame up there last time was epic. Probably 10K people in burnt orange; got a March Grandiso and 3-4 rounds of the fight song from the organist, plus probably another 5-6 impromptu Texas Fight chants. 

The next day, on the other hand…
 

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I remember seeing that on TV, was so cool to see my alma mater's song played on the organ in the place was essentially my church growing up.  We took the train the next day to South Bend and that, as they say, was that.  Ann Arbor is a much longer haul and I suspect most UT fans, if not all, will be staying in Detroit.  Although the Texas-Exes Chicago chapter is working on some group travel plans to Ann Arbor for the day (I'm assuming charter buses since the rail lines don't really go that way except for Amtrak which doesn't do early Saturday service).  I plan on driving with either my cousin or BiL from Chicago.  But both those guys are raging drunks so that makes me DD both ways, long day.  Almost went to undergrad at UM, but for all the times I visited Michigan...never saw a game at the Big House.  And away we go...

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1 hour ago, immamac said:

Night after in AA will not be fun win or lose. It’s a big bummer from a fan experience that it’s not a night game because night games at the big house are legendary, but it was always a big noon game and they don’t give a shit about the day of experience for fans. 

Im cooking some stuff up that should be pretty fun. 

Interested Season 10 GIF by Curb Your Enthusiasm

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1 hour ago, immamac said:

Night after in AA will not be fun win or lose. It’s a big bummer from a fan experience that it’s not a night game because night games at the big house are legendary, but it was always a big noon game and they don’t give a shit about the day of experience for fans. 

Im cooking some stuff up that should be pretty fun. 

Looking forward to it man; last year in Tuscaloosa was a blast…

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Fox isn't beholden to the SEC on anything for scheduling. It was always going to be a Big Noon game. That's Fox's prime time spot now. That's where they're getting the most eyeballs every week. Now when Michigan eventually comes to Austin, that will be a night game on ABC/ESPN. 

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8 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

Hell yes! That means we get Gus Johnson on the call and Big Noon Kickoff covers the pregame! What's bad about that?

Nothing. Uniform fashion and game times are two Surly issues that dorks get absurdly passionate and picky about with very little value for the rest of us. I knew clicking on this thread that a) it would probably confirm an 11am Big Noon kickoff and b) multiple people would be immediately upset about it and somehow surprised. 

Now, conspiracy theories about the SEC getting involved with a non-conference game airing on Fox? Didn’t see that silliness coming. 

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Still debating where to stay, have a reservation in both Ann Arbor (but on the edge of town it looks like no where near anything) and Detroit (good location).

This game time actually makes driving back a little easier. 

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Just bring about 400 pounds of chorizo and make friends by handing out literally a "shit ton" of Chorizo egg and cheese breakfast tacos, to Michigan fans.  Always give Michigan fants two! 

No matter the outcome of the game, they will remember halftime when Texas came to town in '24

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15 minutes ago, horn4life said:

Just bring about 400 pounds of chorizo and make friends by handing out literally a "shit ton" of Chorizo egg and cheese breakfast tacos, to Michigan fans

They won’t know what breakfast tacos are.

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3 hours ago, hornbri said:

Still debating where to stay, have a reservation in both Ann Arbor (but on the edge of town it looks like no where near anything) and Detroit (good location).

This game time actually makes driving back a little easier. 

Same. Even thought about flying out Saturday eve, but cuts it too close. I’d rather stay in Ann Arbor, soak up the win and enjoy the drinks their fans will buying as a peace offering after talking shit leading up to kickoff. 

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12 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

11am kick seems like a great thing for a visiting team.

yeah i never understand why people get upset about 11:00am kicks in potentially hostile environments.  upthread someone was bitching about the game at the shoe in 25 being 11:00.  from what i read about the '05 trip on hornfans/shaggy/here, why would anyone want to be in that environment for a night game again?

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michigan is not a hostile environment

texas - aggy (double weird)

wolverine - tosu (hostile and weird)

wolverine are us, although it melts their brain to contemplate that we are them

regardless, a night game up there would have been dope

i look at it like this

we get a guaranteed morning game at the shoe which as just posted is the best outcome

we get fair park at 230 (THE REAL START TIME) a year earlier - and everyone that wants 11am 0u kicks keep your fucking mouths shut don't say a fucking word you are WRONG do not waste the bandwidth embarrassing yourself

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1 hour ago, Hagbard Celine said:

we get fair park at 230 (THE REAL START TIME) a year earlier - and everyone that wants 11am 0u kicks keep your fucking mouths shut don't say a fucking word you are WRONG do not waste the bandwidth embarrassing yourself

Pretty sure CDC said Fair Park and Dallas PD want the game to remain at 11am for crowd control. 

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1 minute ago, mdmost said:

Pretty sure CDC said Fair Park and Dallas PD want the game to remain at 11am for crowd control. 

Plus the new TV deal means 2:30 is no longer the SEC game of the week on CBS.

11am on ABC/ESPN is very likely to remain for OU 

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5 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Pretty sure CDC said Fair Park and Dallas PD want the game to remain at 11am for crowd control. 

As long as Fair Park starts making an effort to keep the post-halftime bum rush slightly more orderly than the evacuation of Saigon, they can kick that fucker off at 6AM for all I care…

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Just now, Js1 said:

Plus the new TV deal means 2:30 is no longer the SEC game of the week on CBS.

11am on ABC/ESPN is very likely to remain for OU 

Well, yes and no. 2:30 is no longer the CBS game of the week but the 2:30 window is open for ABC to use for an SEC game but it won't be the "game of the week". ESPN will still have the nighttime game. 7pm on ABC will be an SEC, ACC, or Big 12 game that's prominent. You can imagine which conference will get the bulk of that. Texas OU will never be that though.

This is from article back in November:

SEC’s Greg Sankey: Mid-afternoon broadcast TV game will continue after move to ABC/ESPN in 2024

Updated: Nov. 30, 2023, 5:34 p.m.|

Creg Stephenson | cstephenson@al.com

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said Thursday that the weekly college football broadcast schedule will look very much the same as it does now after the move to ABC/ESPN next year.

There will be an SEC game at 2:30 p.m. Central/3:30 p.m. Eastern each Saturday on ABC, just as there has been on CBS since 1996. There will also be SEC games at 11 a.m. Central/noon Eastern on ABC and/or ESPN and the SEC Network as well as multiple primetime games on the various networks.

What will change beginning next year is that the mid-afternoon game will not necessarily be the No. 1 game of the week. That marquee matchup could shift to primetime, Sankey said.

“The broadcast windows become all day from an ABC standpoint,” Sankey said when speaking to reporters in Atlanta to preview Saturday’s SEC championship game between Alabama and Georgia. “Now, obviously there are other conferences with those affiliations. We have our ESPN or ESPN2, ESPNU and SEC Network commitments. But one of the opportunities that’s created with our new agreement is the ability to have more than only one game a day on broadcast TV.

“… We are accustomed through our CBS relationship that the best game of that particular day was often selected by CBS to go into that 3:30 window. … [Starting in 2024], we don’t have those same limits. So the best game of the day might be in primetime with great frequency. We will always have a 3:30 p.m. Eastern time SEC game broadcast on ABC, but a little bit more variability.”

Another thing the move to ESPN/ABC will allow the SEC to do is schedule kickoff times and broadcast assignments further out, Sankey said. In recent years, the league has announced kickoff times and television information for the first three weeks of the season and other select games during the summer, with the remainder announced on a week-to-week basis.

That will change with the SEC having only one broadcast partner to satisfy rather than two. Sankey said he is hopeful that up to half of the SEC’s kickoff times and television information will be announced by the time SEC Media Days takes place in July.

“Our staff is already working on what that broadcast schedule might look like,” Sankey said. “… The opportunity to know the noon Eastern time kickoffs throughout the season will allow our campuses and our fans to plan, rather than having those six-day and 12-day experiences around that early kickoff. We’ll have some flexibility between the midday and the primetime games and some scheduling, which is a bit of an hour differential rather than just waiting and wondering about the entire broadcast day.”

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1 minute ago, mdmost said:

Sankey said he is hopeful that up to half of the SEC’s kickoff times and television information will be announced by the time SEC Media Days takes place in July.

We should know then by July. I’d imagine if they keep it at 11am, that’s one they’ll announce at media days 

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1 hour ago, Ignatius said:

As long as Fair Park starts making an effort to keep the post-halftime bum rush slightly more orderly than the evacuation of Saigon, they can kick that fucker off at 6AM for all I care…

Wait, you guys are getting helicopters to the game?/meme

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10 hours ago, smwhorn said:

Anybody ever made the drive from DTW to Ann Arbor the morning of an 11:00 am kickoff?

 

Yes, it’s not bad if you aren’t trying to get there just for kick. Get there as early as you can and experience the tailgating. 

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