11:00 am kickoff for West Virginia

[Sooner24]

Early kick again.

[deweydw]

These early games interfere with my golf game.

[BetterSoonerThanLater]

^this

[OUinFLA]

They interfere with my fishing

[sendbaht]

I am on the same time as you guys...but opposite...so kick off for me is at 11pm....Boomer Sooner....

[aurorasooner]

Looking at the CFB TV schedule for 10/2


http://www.lsufootball.net/tvschedule.htm


West Virginia at Oklahoma 11:00 am FS1 / FS Go Video

Texas at TCU 11:00 am ABC, ESPN or ESPN2

Alabama at Georgia 2:30 pm CBS / CBS Video

Baylor vs. Texas Tech (Arlington) 2:30 pm ESPN or reverse mirror

Kansas State at Oklahoma State 3:00 pm FS1 / FS Go Video

Arkansas at Tennessee 6 or 6:30 ESPN, ESPN2 or SEC Network
Mississippi State at Texas A&M 6 or 6:30 ESPN, ESPN2 or SEC Network
Ole Miss at Florida 6 or 6:30 ESPN, ESPN2 or SEC Network

Notre Dame at Clemson 7:00 pm ABC / espn3

Arizona at Stanford TBA 6 day hold
Arizona State at UCLA TBA 6 day hold

I sure as hell don't know what those Stevie Patterson-esque Fox and Big 12 CFB bean counters are thinking when positioning the KSU/OSU tilt at 3pm-FS-1 and the OU/W Va at 11AM. In the SW/Midwest, The OU/W Va game is going up against the Whorn/TCU game on the mouse network and the KSU/OSU game on FS-1 is going up against the Baylor/Tech game and the 'Bama/Georgia game on CBS. I guess they are thinking there's really no east coast competition for an early OU/W Va game so our game will probably get a lot of those east coast viewers. I don't know who has the 1st choice on those PAC 6 day hold games, but if it's not Fox, they got screwed.


If anyone's got a beotch, it's W Va having to fly half way across the county and then kick it off in an early game, which is somewhat ridiculous, imo with K-State only traveling a short distance to Stoolwater especially since neither team is in the top 20.

One thing's for sure, Fox is getting beaten like a rented mule by the ABC networks not necessarily for the better games, but for the number of viewers, imo, considering that all the Texas Big 12 schools are on the ABC family of networks.

As far OU playing early, after our last year's total collapse and our D giving Tulsa a boatload of yards/1st downs last week, I'm just glad we're still on a non-sport's tier network on Saturdays.

I watched some of that TCU/SMU game replay late last night and with all those TCU defensive starters being hurt, the whorns may beat them by something like 65-60, if the UCal D is somewhat legit.... Don't know.

[Soonerjeepman]

Sure wv will fly in Friday morning...can't imagine the 18/22 yr olds will b tired..

[yermom]

Eff these early games. Gotta keep winning.

[Jacie]

I watched some of that TCU/SMU game replay late last night and with all those TCU defensive starters being hurt, the whorns may beat them by something like 65-60, if the UCal D is somewhat legit.... Don't know.

It isn't.

[FlatLander]

Looking at the CFB TV schedule for 10/2


http://www.lsufootball.net/tvschedule.htm


West Virginia at Oklahoma 11:00 am FS1 / FS Go Video

Texas at TCU 11:00 am ABC, ESPN or ESPN2

Alabama at Georgia 2:30 pm CBS / CBS Video

Baylor vs. Texas Tech (Arlington) 2:30 pm ESPN or reverse mirror

Kansas State at Oklahoma State 3:00 pm FS1 / FS Go Video

Arkansas at Tennessee 6 or 6:30 ESPN, ESPN2 or SEC Network
Mississippi State at Texas A&M 6 or 6:30 ESPN, ESPN2 or SEC Network
Ole Miss at Florida 6 or 6:30 ESPN, ESPN2 or SEC Network

Notre Dame at Clemson 7:00 pm ABC / espn3

Arizona at Stanford TBA 6 day hold
Arizona State at UCLA TBA 6 day hold

I sure as hell don't know what those Stevie Patterson-esque Fox and Big 12 CFB bean counters are thinking when positioning the KSU/OSU tilt at 3pm-FS-1 and the OU/W Va at 11AM. In the SW/Midwest, The OU/W Va game is going up against the Whorn/TCU game on the mouse network and the KSU/OSU game on FS-1 is going up against the Baylor/Tech game and the 'Bama/Georgia game on CBS. I guess they are thinking there's really no east coast competition for an early OU/W Va game so our game will probably get a lot of those east coast viewers. I don't know who has the 1st choice on those PAC 6 day hold games, but if it's not Fox, they got screwed.


So why could FS1 not have a 6:00pm game on that day, right after that 3:00 game was over?

[olevetonahill]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/oklahoma-not-happy-with-prevalence-of-11-a-m--kickoffs-134417684.html

[hawaii 5-0]

They interfere with my tent pitching.


5-0

[OUmillenium]

Good news for me as my 5yr old sons soccer games have been 3:30PM last week and this week. But I hate 11am games. All ou games should be in the1-3pm time slot IMO, as college football should be.

[aurorasooner]

All ou games should be in the1-3pm time slot IMO, as college football should be.

Let's face it, TV drives CFB, and the eyeballs on the TVs drives the networks.

As far as the 1-3 PM exclusive KO time for OU games, w/o a unified conference network, with the last several year's few and far between quality performances and especially after last year's end of the year fiasco cluster*&^%, just be glad that we're still on anything but the FCS sport's tier (or PPV) this year, and we're still kicking off anytime this year on Saturdays and not Thursday or Friday nights.

If BM doesn't just fall into our lap, I don't know how long OU can hold off these types of 1 or 2 games/Thur/Fri night KOs unless we just simply win and with some style.

Luckily beating a dismal whorn's team while they're in their "down years" by a few points ""ain't going to cut it when they are getting trounced by the NDs, BYUs, Baylors, TCUs and even Arkansas. (outside of OU and Texas fans, no other CFB fans know that the RRR/RRS is a war of player emotion) Not to mention that absolutely ridiculous Derp fiasco a couple of year's ago. Sheesh, now that I think about it, we're pretty damn lucky to be on anything but PPV this year.

[S.PadreIsl.Sooner]

These early games interfere with my drinking!.

FIFY

[Breadburner]

Lol...At everyone acting like this just started....

[olevetonahill]

Lol...At everyone acting like this just started....

Yup,

[cyclonesooner]

Has been many years since I have attended a OU home game but plan on attending the WVA game. I do not have a ticket. Where would be the best location to buy one. Also, how much do you think I can buy a ticket for. Thanks

[yermom]

At the game is the cheapest option.

Stubhub and eBay are generally more expensive but you can pick your seats better if you are worried about where you sit

[cyclonesooner]

Thanks. Is there any particular area around the stadium where tickets are best sought and bought ?

[yermom]

on my route in, they are usually around the North end of the stadium east of the Armory/Price hall

i've also had people hand me free tickets as i was walking past where the tour buses drop people off on Asp, on the east side of the stadium just north of Lindsey

people are usually selling on Campus Corner at Boyd and Asp or Jenkins as well, but they always seemed more high end prices

but really you can just walk around and look for people holding up tickets. try to find a regular guy holding an extra vs. some professional looking guy with a stack of them

[BigTip]

11am starts make me feel like an alcoholic, having to drink beer at 9:30 am at the tailgate.

[cyclonesooner]

Thanks for the advice, yermom, appreciate it.

[papawlambert]

Will not make the game this time. My Grandson likes late games in order that he can sleep in. West Virginia coaches like the 11AM game. It is 12 noon in Morgantown. I think it will be a good game and I think the Mountaineers are pretty much injury free. We do have a defense this year. This game will be a great test for us.
Good luck from a born Okie, but I do have a WV Grandson football player.

[BoulderSooner79]

Good luck to your grandson and may he never be bothered by having to trot out there for those silly extra point attempts. :D

[SicEmBaylor]

I detest 11am kickoffs.

[SoonerorLater]

11am starts make me feel like an alcoholic, having to drink beer at 9:30 am at the tailgate.

No, i'm pretty sure you would have to start drinking by 8:00 a.m. to be considered an alcoholic, maybe even 7:30.

[Pride1Mom]

Also, striping the stadium. Even sections red, odd are white. Alternate uniforms for the occasion. UGH!! I saw the WVA vs Maryland and WVA looked like bananas running around. Let's hope that is they way they will look...not knowing what hit them when OU's defense shows up.

[aurorasooner]

The biggest problem with game is probably not the 11 AM KO, but how many drive momentum killing commercial TV TOs Fox will try and squeeze in early. It's just my non-scientific observation from having games on multiple TVs, but it seems that network is notorious for squeezing in as many commercials as possible from the game itself and not from their talking heads commentary time, half-time commentary, or injury/official review TOs.

Looking at that networks CFB listings for Sat they probably won't have many eyeballs on their afternoon and prime-time games due to the competition from ABC/ESPiN's better games (on paper), so they'll probably try maximize their take in this early game.

I read some article this week that said that this season there have already been 66 CFB games that lasted over 3:30 (hrs:min) in length with 6 games over 4 hrs with the average being 3:23. The division 2 games average last year was only 2:45 with Div 3 -- 2:41 and NFL games lasted only a little over 3 hrs (geez I don't know how with all the commercial breaks on Thurs/Sun/Mon night FB, but that's what the article said.

It would be interesting if some DO/TW/NT journalist, instead of just getting his/her columns from the CFB message boards , would actually do some homework and put a stop watch on our games and even count the TV commercial TOs (not team TOs) that came during critical drives or in critical situations and if these TOs had any consequences for the team with the momentum. Also put a stop-watch to some of these "official reviews" that take forever when any fan watching can see the results immediately.

I don't know if the coaching staff actually prepares the team for this commercial TO game "down time" in practice or if they could even somehow prep the players for these numerous TV TOs, but if they could, then it may give that team some advantage over the competition because it doesn't appear that the NCAA/Conferences/teams-on-the-field have much say. Also, I would imagine that this has some effect on whether the fans that have tickets actually show up (or stay) especially when their team has boring performances like we had from last year's EOY offense or inexplicable coaching brain-spasms.

[oupride]

Early kick again.
ugh