[82lsju]

The best time announcement was the 7:30PM for Thursday.  A 5PM game runs the extreme risk of empty stands, but most people around the USA would understand how that could happen. 6PM probably is the worst.  At many places 6PM should enable time to leave work at 5PM and still get to the venue.  The Bay Area is not one of those places, and the empty stands look bad with comments about apathetic fans or whatever.  7:30PM is more similar to the traditional basketball start times, so I suspect most fans can get to the venue for the kickoff.  I hope all of the Pac-12 Thursday games use that same time slot since 5 & 6 PM are hard for U$€, UCLA, UCB and Stanford for traffic and/or campus parking reasons.

just hope they don't show the stands after the third quarter as I would expect a lot of folks who have to work the next day (like me) to be gone by then.

[82lsju]

The best time announcement was the 7:30PM for Thursday.  A 5PM game runs the extreme risk of empty stands, but most people around the USA would understand how that could happen. 6PM probably is the worst.  At many places 6PM should enable time to leave work at 5PM and still get to the venue.  The Bay Area is not one of those places, and the empty stands look bad with comments about apathetic fans or whatever.  7:30PM is more similar to the traditional basketball start times, so I suspect most fans can get to the venue for the kickoff.  I hope all of the Pac-12 Thursday games use that same time slot since 5 & 6 PM are hard for U$€, UCLA, UCB and Stanford for traffic and/or campus parking reasons.

just hope they don't show the stands after the third quarter as I would expect a lot of folks who have to work the next day (like me) to be gone by then.