Purdue game (Nov. 12th)

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If we win next week and Purdue does as well, our matchup against them is a huge game. A win by us would clinch division.

Could we get college gameday? The other option for College Gameday would be Bama @ Ole Miss (they were on Ol Miss last year but of course this is Kiffin Vs Saban which ESPN thinks we all care about)

IF they skip us that week, they could have us @ Michigan for Gameday (which sucks since it's @ Michigan) The only competition that week would be Pac 12 Conference title battles between USC @ UCLA, or Utah @ Oregon (which gameday has been at this year)

Now of course Gameday will be in Ohio for Michigan@ Ohio St so would they actually have Michigan included 2 weeks in a row?

I'm thinking we could see Game day of Purdue @ Illinois, USC @ UCLA, then Michigan @ Ohio St
 
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turnaround3

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Do we not get a Purdue kick time until this weekend? I thought previously I'd read something about 13 days in advance but then I noticed we just now got our MSU time a week prior to the game.
 
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If we win next week and Purdue does as well, our matchup against them is a huge game. A win by us would clinch division.

Could we get college gameday? The other option for College Gameday would be Bama @ Ole Miss (they were on Ol Miss last year but of course this is Kiffin Vs Saban which ESPN thinks we all care about)

IF they skip us that week, they could have us @ Michigan for Gameday (which sucks since it's @ Michigan) The only competition that week would be Pac 12 Conference title battles between USC @ UCLA, or Utah @ Oregon (which gameday has been at this year)

Now of course Gameday will be in Ohio for Michigan@ Ohio St so would they actually have Michigan included 2 weeks in a row?

I'm thinking we could see Game day of Purdue @ Illinois, USC @ UCLA, then Michigan @ Ohio St
I am lobbying on Twitter to get College Gameday here for Purdue. Of course we need to beat Michigan State, and Purdue has to beat Iowa (I see Iowa winning that game). So may be difficult if Purdue does not hold up their end of the bargain.
 
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turnaround3

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I'd really like to get into the nuts and bolts of this because if it's 11 AM I'm fully able to make the trek to Champaign and if it's 2:30 best I can do is an Illini bar in Wrigleyville.

Does FOX have priority of pick for that 11 AM slot?
 
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I bet it's 11 am on Fox

What other game would they show?
I would have to assume that we are ... without getting into the headache of considering conferences besides the Big Ten and Big XII (Big Noon Kickoff contenders, to my knowledge) or what teams ABC or ESPN would want, this lineup of games (with times still TBD) isn't that inspiring:

Big Ten
Purdue at #14 Illinois (likely for the West)
Nebraska at #4 Michigan
Indiana at #2 Ohio State
Maryland at #16 Penn State
Wisconsin at Iowa
Rutgers at Michigan State
Northwestern at Minnesota

Big XII
Iowa State at #18 Oklahoma State
#13 Kansas State at Baylor
Oklahoma at West Virginia
Kansas at Texas Tech

(#7 TCU at Texas is already slated for a 6:30 pm CST kickoff)

Looking just within the Big Ten ... yes, we get it, OSU/Michigan/PSU deliver massive ratings. However, those teams have been in this FOX slot SO many times already, and if Illinois and Purdue both win this coming week, I think they would opt for the better story (and likely better game) than watching OSU/Michigan/PSU demolish inferior teams at home. We will have to wait until tomorrow to know for sure, but I am optimistic that the Illinois/Nebraska game pulled a very good rating, and there is no reason to believe Illinois wouldn't pull good ratings in a slot like that.
 
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Dan

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I don't know what's going to happen but let's dive into this. Here's the Big Ten's November 12th games (none of these games have been given a game time yet)-

Purdue at Illinois
Indiana at Ohio State
Nebraska at Michigan
Wisconsin at Iowa
Maryland at Penn State
Northwestern at Minnesota
Rutgers at Michigan State

From the tweet in post #9 there won't be any night games, so best I can tell* the following timeslots are available-

11:00am FOX
11:00am BTN
11:00am ESPN2
2:30pm ABC
2:30pm BTN
2:30pm FS1
2:30/3:00pm FOX

Fun fact, there can be 2 BTN games at the same time, even in November.

There's also 4 Pac-12 games to be selected. These can be ESPN networks/FS1/FOX/P12 network, and can be night games-

Arizona at UCLA
California at Oregon St.
Stanford at Utah
Washington at Oregon

* I certainly could be wrong..take a look at the following link, it's quite helpful in trying to figure out what is/is not potentially available-

 
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I'd really like to get into the nuts and bolts of this because if it's 11 AM I'm fully able to make the trek to Champaign and if it's 2:30 best I can do is an Illini bar in Wrigleyville.

Does FOX have priority of pick for that 11 AM slot?
Working backwards, Fox most likely has priority for the Purdue week, but not Michigan. Hard to know exactly, though. But Fox doesn't have total priority it is a week to week thing they share with ABC/ESPN. Fox rarely puts anybody but Michigan or OSU on their Big Noon game, but if they ever did you would think Purdue-Illinois for the division would probably be the one. If not, likely something like 2:30 ABC game.
 
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