Friday Night Game Next Year

[Orangello]

Was told one of ND, Clemson or Louisville will be played on Friday night next year.

 

[DPCuse]

 

[Cuse12]

Sounds good to me

 

[HRE Otto IV]

Is ESPN even looking that far ahead? They can't get game times out more than 12 days before.

Also if we are decent, wouldn't ESPN want the ND or Clemson games available for Saturday?

I would think Cal, Louisville, SMU are the safe picks.

 

[NJCuse97]

Was told one of ND, Clemson or Louisville will be played on Friday night next year.

Can we call it an orange out (or blue, or white) now and plan it?

 

[upperdeck]

what are the ratings for Fri vs Sat though ?

 

[Archbold44]

I predict Louisville. Good enough to get some eyeballs, but not SO good as to take eyeballs away from Saturday. Louisville/Syracuse could benefit from being one of the main Friday games.

 

[Briancuse]

Can't see it being ND, do.they ever play on Thursday or Friday?

 

[Archbold44]

Can't see it being ND, do.they ever play on Thursday or Friday?

The playoffs last year. And then sometime in 1900. An interesting tidbit regarding Notre Dame football and Friday home games

 

[CNYGuy]

Can I bet Louisville on Friday, Sept. 11 right now?

Looking at the schedules of our opponents, everyone else has a non-con game scheduled on Sept. 12. Louisville plays Georgia the following week, so the ACC wouldn’t mind giving them an extra day I bet.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

what are the ratings for Fri vs Sat though ?

JMU/Louisville didn’t do well. The Baylor/SMU game on the CW beat it by a bunch.

 

[CNYGuy]

JMU/Louisville didn’t do well. The Baylor/SMU game on the CW beat it by a bunch.

In fairness to both of those teams, they got the bad draw of going up against the rare Friday NFL game.

 

[FrancoPizza]

Is it too much to ask for a Saturday night game???

 

[cliftonparksufan]

The playoffs last year. And then sometime in 1900. An interesting tidbit regarding Notre Dame football and Friday home games

So I can rule out that it's not because they are honoring the shabbat rituals?

 

[Chip]

I remember playing Louisville on a Friday night once.

Their first 5 plays went for 224 yards and 3 TDs.

And all of that was before this:

 

[HRE Otto IV]

In fairness to both of those teams, they got the bad draw of going up against the rare Friday NFL game.

I forgot about that.

 

[orange_in_VA]

I remember playing Louisville on a Friday night once.

Their first 5 plays went for 224 yards and 3 TDs.

And all of that was before this:

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Didn't we beat a ranked Ville on a Friday sometime in the last decade too? I swear I remember that. Marrone years maybe?

Edit: just realized Marrone left 13 years ago. Oof

 

[Scooch]

We beat Louisville on a Friday night late in the 2018 season.

Yeesh.

 

[310Pigpen]

Was a good crowd that night!

 

[richmondcuse03]

Doesn’t surprise me. JW said earlier this summer we volunteered to play more of these. You get better TV ratings for a Friday night game vs Saturday on the CW. Just the way it is when TV drives everything.

If we had a bigger in person attendance base, we wouldn’t do this. But alas.

 

[SUFaninNJ]

Didn't we beat a ranked Ville on a Friday sometime in the last decade too? I swear I remember that. Marrone years maybe?

Edit: just realized Marrone left 13 years ago. Oof

It was a Thursday night game, and then they lit up the Empire State Building in our team colors. Oh wait, now that I think about it, that wasn't SU.

 

[Eric15]

I love Friday night home games. Sign me up.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

I think ultimately you want to be on ABC. I would guess that the Notre Dame and Clemson games have a good shot at that. When it comes to the ESPN/2 games, it is better to be on ESPN/2 than not to be. In which case a Friday game guarantees that. Where as a Saturday game you will not know until 2 weeks out.

As to Friday vs Saturday ratings, I think it depends. Who are you going up against? The Fox games (both Friday and Saturday) are going to steal a bunch of viewers being on network TV, even for a poor matchup. And a good matchup will hurt even more. But all things being equal, I think Friday would do better.


Looking at last year's ESPN Friday games with an ACC team compared to other ESPN/2 games (no ABC)...

Week 9
Louisville/BC was worse than the 730 TH (SU/Pitt), 7 (FSU/Miami)

Week 8
FSU/Duke was worse then 330 (ND/GA Tech) and better than 7 TH (BC/VA Tech)

Week 5
VA Tech/Miami did better than 7 (Stanford/Clemson), 4 (UNC/Duke)

Week 4
Stanford/Cuse did better than 7 (Miami/UCF), 7 (Cal/FSU), 330 (GA Tech/Louisville)

Week 2
BYU/SMU did worse than 330 (Cal/Auburn) and better than 7 (UVA/Wake), 1200 (Pitt/Cincy)