The Atlantic Coast Conference Monday announced the following
gametimes and networks for Saturday, Oct. 20.
Virginia Tech at Clemson, ABC, ESPN or ESPN2*, Noon
Wake Forest at Virginia, ACC Network, 12:30 p.m.
Boston College at Georgia Tech, RSN, 3 p.m.
NC State at Maryland, ESPNU, 3:30 p.m.
North Carolina at Duke, ESPN2 or ESPNU*, 7 p.m.
Florida State at Miami, ABC, 8 p.m. (split national)
Wooooohoooooo!!!! I was thinking 3pm; I never expected to see an October night game...woohooo!! All day tailgate! (And I'm very happy we didn't get the 12:30 and I didn't have to eat my foot.)
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
To me, the real significance is not that it's a night game in October, but that it's a prime time national game -- maybe not ESPN, but 2 or U is still national.
We played a Thursday night ESPN game at Georgia Tech in 1996 (and got hammered 48-22). Has there been one since then?
ESPNU is only regional in that sometimes games that are found on ESPN2 in some parts of the country are on ESPNU in others. ESPN2/U means that the entire nation will be able to see us play on one of those channels.
Now, there's the situation that way more people have ESPN2 than ESPNU, but that's another story.
That's not what he means by regional - he means that some of the big sports networks (think ABC) will show a different game in different markets.
Anyhow, blazin may not be correct, according to the espn acc blog, the ESPN2/U games will be determined between those two AFTER this week's game. So it may not be regional as much as seeing how the teams do this week.
<devildeac> anyone playing drinking games by now?
7:49:36<Wander> drink every qb run?
7:49:38<loran16> umm, drink every time asack rushes?
7:49:38<wolfybeard> @devildeac: drink when Asack runs a keeper
7:49:39 PM<CB&B> any time zack runs, drink
Carolina Delenda Est
7PM game is going to be horrible for student attendance. I've already heard the excuses start to crop up - "I can't make it because I have [social event] later that night." Ugh.
I have a dream that the student section will be full to the gills with a bunch of young, enthusiastic, rowdy fans, hungry to bring the innovation of CIS chanting to WW. Wouldn't it be great to have a home game VS U of Win at any cost, dark blue out, fans drowning out that nauseating drone of "Tar...Heels" with creative anti Heels chant. Agree 1000% that this game IS the social event.
I hate the thought of the goal posts being the center of a great party on the quad in the middle of a bunch of students that didn't even go to the game. Hopefully attitudes will change by kickoff.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."