Football Rutgers Football games versus USC, Washington both moved to Friday night

[RUDeac]

TheKnightReport - Rutgers Football games versus USC, Washington both moved to Friday night

Two of Rutgers Football's 2024 games have been moved to Friday night slates and will be televised on FOX this season.

rutgers.rivals.com

The UW game is the black out game.

 

[Knight Shift]

Rutgers football to play multiple Friday night games in 2024, including 1 (very) late kickoff

Rutgers football will play Big Ten games under Friday night lights this fall.

www.nj.com

 

[RobertG]

Why would you move the RU / USC game to Friday night? Take the biggest difference in Timezones between 2 opponents and move it to a night game. That's a sure way to limit your viewing audience on the east coast.

 

[Rutgers Chris]

Blackout per e-mail.

Hmmm, might need to make a September roadtrip

 

[Leonard23]

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[rutgersal]

Hate that the usc game is Friday night. Was looking forward to a Saturday game.

 

[HPNJRUfan]

Glad to hear - have a wedding in Red Bank on Saturday.

 

[T2Kplus20]

+1
Friday night games suck.

 

[RobertG]

Glad to hear - have a wedding in Red Bank on Saturday.

My use to be favorite nephew is getting married on Oct 19th, I'm going to have to find a way to get out of going.

 

[Knight Shift]

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The UW game is the black out game.

The Mergerator merged my thread- how about making the thread title the Washington and USC games, please?

 

[newell138]

coke sales in NJ will be going up the weekend of the USC game

 

[mdk01]

If possible, and it usually should be, West Coast teams should not be scheduled noon East Coast starts (9AM their time) nor East Coast teams for 8 PM (11 PM their time) starts on the West Coast. The players body clocks will be off and affect performance.

 

[MrsScrew]

Good thing I made our flight to LA for Thursday and not Friday. It also means I get to cancel one night of an expensive hotel in Santa Monica and start our road trip to Texas a day early

 

[RU from Jersey]

It is bad enough that the USC game was moved to Friday, but for it to be an 11PM start time here is total BS.

 

[PiscatawayMike]

It's official: I'll be celebrating my 60th birthday on RU-UW gameday...

 

[Knight Shift]

coke sales in NJ will be going up the weekend of the USC game

 

[RUHotTrumpetMonkeyLove]

Can't wait to hear about the pajama watch party for USC.

 

[ClassOf02]

I get spreading around the Friday night games across lots of teams, but couldn’t they have tried to give USC a Friday night game against another west coast team? Forcing RU fans (and players/staff for that matter) to an 11pm start time on the east coast is ridiculous.

 

[letitrip2]

Not one to complain about scheduling and game times - but having an east coast team playing a night game on the west coast is a really unfair move. Same would go for a west coast team coming east and having to play an 11 am game. An unnecessary game impact that could have easily been avoided.

 

[DJ Spanky]

Game time benefits both west coast teams.

 

[koleszar]

All I can think of is that Fresno St. game back in 2013 the 52-51 OT loss. That game didn't get over until well after 1:30am and that was I believe a 10 pm kickoff. This USC game is going to suck ass to watch.

 

[Plum Street]

Silver lining. last time we played a weeknight game on the west coast at an absurd late time we beat Washington state.

 

[Wolv RU]

Apparently Fox has World Series as a lead in to Rutgers/USC so thats why the really late kickoff.

Could get a huge TV number. Start time sucks though for many reasons.

 

[rutgersguy1]

B10 schedule of Friday night games, one B12 game in the first week and at the end.

 

[LotusAggressor]

Why would you move the RU / USC game to Friday night? Take the biggest difference in Timezones between 2 opponents and move it to a night game. That's a sure way to limit your viewing audience on the east coast.

Agree. This is really stupid.

 

[NickRU714]

Hate that the usc game is Friday night. Was looking forward to a Saturday game.

It just means our big win leads all the Saturday morning pregame shows, right?

 

[Section124]

Apparently Fox has World Series as a lead in to Rutgers/USC so thats why the really late kickoff.

Could get a huge TV number. Start time sucks though for many reasons.

Could that mean the start time is delayed if the WS game goes over?

 

[NickRU714]

If possible, and it usually should be, West Coast teams should not be scheduled noon East Coast starts (9AM their time) nor East Coast teams for 8 PM (11 PM their time) starts on the West Coast. The players body clocks will be off and affect performance.

Wasn't the whole point of inviting West Coast teams to broadcast games late night games?

This was always likely to be a late night game.
That's just what happens with West Coast teams.

 

[JayDogSmooth]

Love it
Hoping SHI will be 🔥🔥

 

[LotusAggressor]

Apparently Fox has World Series as a lead in to Rutgers/USC so thats why the really late kickoff.

Could get a huge TV number. Start time sucks though for many reasons.

Do people watch baseball anymore?

 

[Scarlet Blind]

Saw this posted today, not sure if anyone posted this on here before.

 

[rutgersguy1]

Wasn't the whole point of inviting West Coast teams to broadcast games late night games?

This was always likely to be a late night game.
That's just what happens with West Coast teams.

I figured Saturday after dark rather than Friday but you take the money, then you have to deal with whatever schedule the networks want.

 

[Kbee3]

coke sales in NJ will be going up the weekend of the USC game

I'm a Pepsi guy though.

 

[365Poster24Seven]

It’s going to be a great weekend in Southern California. Still plenty of time for all of you to go instead of complaining. So happy our flight is Wednesday and coming back Monday. Go RU!!!

 

[mildone]

My use to be favorite nephew is getting married on Oct 19th, I'm going to have to find a way to get out of going.

I'm here for you with the best solution ever.

Sell the nephew. Although not necessarily specific to this particular issue, I also recommend selling the wife and kids at the same time, as they will surely complain about the sale of the nephew. It goes without saying that you'll have to sell the parents of the to-be-sold nephew since they too may attempt to interfere (alternative plan is to first offer them a cut of the proceeds and only sell them if they are incorruptible).

With the profits from the sale of these relatives, get a seat upgrade for the game(s). Bonus is that you should have plenty left over to donate to NIL which will temporarily placate some of our more vociferous "donate or you suck" fans.

 

[mildone]

coke sales in NJ will be going up the weekend of the USC game

Dude! You're stepping on my schtick. 🙂

 

[MrsScrew]

Apparently Fox has World Series as a lead in to Rutgers/USC so thats why the really late kickoff.

Could get a huge TV number. Start time sucks though for many reasons.

And when the game goes to extra innings either the football game gets pushed back or everyone on the East Coast staying up late don't get to see the game until it's already under way. 🤦‍♀️

 

[Pils86]

Why do we have two Fridays and some have none?

 

[mosito]

@WhiteBus Here it is. Oregon, Washington and UCLA being forced to play 2 Friday games. USC 1. This is how they are getting paid... New TV window making FOX money. And only have to pay WA and OR 30M each.

Just common sense... and i didn't know this was being published today... And John Wilner tweeted this the moment Fox announced Friday Night games.

 

[MrsScrew]

Why do we have two Fridays and some have none?

Have you heard of the RU Screw? 🤣