[Farm93]

I'm surprised they didn't put the Colgate game in another time slot.  I don't know what the other OOC matchups are that weekend but I would think they would have to be a little more attractive in east coast prime time than us versus Colgate.  But I also won't argue if that's where they want to put it.

USC game time and channel makes sense.  Stanford/USC still sounds like a big matchup to a lot of people, even if neither teams is exactly where it was 10 years ago.  Hopefully the game is good enough that it does not permanently shake everyone of that belief.

The most influential and informed folks out there know better. The buzz for this year's USC game will sound like a hive full of dead bees.

That's a bit one sided on the national buzz potential for the Stanford-USC game.

For the rest of the nation the story, and buzz, will be that USC has a new coach.  A coach that was in the Big12 from a school soon to be in the SEC, so that should at least get a few people to watch as Riley has the potential to take one of the CFP slots annually.  

If you look at the games set to start at 4PM, 4:30PM or 5PM, there really is nothing better.   Alabama v Texas will be the game of the day, but it starts at 9AM. 

Lincoln Riley has a number of transfer talents, but can they really get on the same page to beat a Pac-12 team by week #2?   Potentially Stanford benefits from quite a few defensive coverage mistakes and/or poorly executed offensive plays.  One can hope. 

I realize that is not quite game of the century stuff, but most of the best teams play very weak cupcakes that Saturday.

[Farm93]

I'm surprised they didn't put the Colgate game in another time slot.  I don't know what the other OOC matchups are that weekend but I would think they would have to be a little more attractive in east coast prime time than us versus Colgate.  But I also won't argue if that's where they want to put it.

USC game time and channel makes sense.  Stanford/USC still sounds like a big matchup to a lot of people, even if neither teams is exactly where it was 10 years ago.  Hopefully the game is good enough that it does not permanently shake everyone of that belief.

The most influential and informed folks out there know better. The buzz for this year's USC game will sound like a hive full of dead bees.

That's a bit one sided on the national buzz potential for the Stanford-USC game.

For the rest of the nation the story, and buzz, will be that USC has a new coach.  A coach that was in the Big12 from a school soon to be in the SEC, so that should at least get a few people to watch as Riley has the potential to take one of the CFP slots annually.  

If you look at the games set to start at 4PM, 4:30PM or 5PM, there really is nothing better.   Alabama v Texas will be the game of the day, but it starts at 9AM. 

Lincoln Riley has a number of transfer talents, but can they really get on the same page to beat a Pac-12 team by week #2?   Potentially Stanford benefits from quite a few defensive coverage mistakes and/or poorly executed offensive plays.  One can hope. 

I realize that is not quite game of the century stuff, but most of the best teams play very weak cupcakes that Saturday.