[Farm93]

On the positive side, that will have a smaller impact on game times than trying to find time slots so that all could be televised live.

It is a big positive actually.  With 10+ OOC games in each of the first few weekends, the options for achieving 100% live TV broadcasts was looking ridiculous.  Some schools would have needed to play on Friday (5PM & 8PM), Sunday (1, 4 & 7 PM) and/or morning games on Saturday.  I am all for greater TV exposure, but a 10PM kickoff or a 8AM kickoff would have been too much.  Stream all games live, and put them on the Pac-12 network as practical.  I realize there will be some group of Pac-12 fans that only get the Pac-12 national and will not have solid internet streaming abilities, but that should not force teams (and their fans) to odd game times just for that subset of potential Pac-12 fans.

[Farm93]

On the positive side, that will have a smaller impact on game times than trying to find time slots so that all could be televised live.

It is a big positive actually.  With 10+ OOC games in each of the first few weekends, the options for achieving 100% live TV broadcasts was looking ridiculous.  Some schools would have needed to play on Friday (5PM & 8PM), Sunday (1, 4 & 7 PM) and/or morning games on Saturday.  I am all for greater TV exposure, but a 10PM kickoff or a 8AM kickoff would have been too much.  Stream all games live, and put them on the Pac-12 network as practical.  I realize there will be some group of Pac-12 fans that only get the Pac-12 national and will not have solid internet streaming abilities, but that should not force teams (and their fans) to odd game times just for that subset of potential Pac-12 fans.