Outrage, frustration pour out from USC, UCLA fans after kickoff time news is released
The Pac-12 and the entire college football world are waiting for November 19. On that day, Utah faces Oregon, and UCLA faces USC in a pair of conference-altering games that will decide the conference championship game matchup and a whole lot more.
The College Football Playoff race will be affected that day as well, especially after nine top-25 teams fell this past weekend, suddenly giving hope to USC and UCLA.
The kickoff times for the other games were announced, and everybody is waiting for the decision to be made on when USC-UCLA and Utah-Oregon will be played.
Be warned: They aren’t very good time slots, and hopefully that changes when the Trojans and Bruins move to the Big Ten.
Twitter had a field day reacting to these times, and Jon Wilner of The Mercury News dropped the official announcement.
It will either be 5 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on Fox or 7:30 Pacific — 10:30 in the East — on ESPN. You can see the problem here.
Reaction was swift and forceful:
THE WORST
@Theoldp @PetrosAndMoney
The PAC-12 is THE worst. #LarryScottLegacy https://t.co/xoj1qOdKeB— Frank Ojeda's Parody Account (@UCLADodgerFrank) November 7, 2022
YUP
And this is one of the reasons why the pac 12 is a dying conference https://t.co/rKFpvfy77Z
— 🐻DTR SZN🐻 (@larryberry33) November 7, 2022
TRUTH
ICYMI, here's the least surprising news any of us have ever seen: https://t.co/PvVUBiMY7h
— Reign of Troy (@ReignofTroy) November 7, 2022
UGH
OMFG#Pac12 https://t.co/64VngJMYVO pic.twitter.com/TElkqhgaeH
— USC Psycho (@uscpsycho) November 7, 2022
YOU CAN FEEL IT IN THE AIR
If a top 10 matchup of USC/UCLA is thrown on Pac-12 after dark… https://t.co/IoUfLf1Jnv
— Jeff Dubrof (@j_dubrof) November 7, 2022
GUARANTEED MESS
Top two Pac 12 matchups this year outside of P12 champ game and one will be at 7:30……… THIS IS WHY WE’RE LEAVING #Pac12 https://t.co/vhI0555qMI
— Sidelines – USC (@SSN_USC) November 7, 2022
8:30 IN SALT LAKE CITY IS A POSSIBLE OUTCOME
This sucks and likely means the Utah-Oregon game will be at 8:30 Salt Lake time. Pretty pathetic considering it'll likely be a top-ten matchup. https://t.co/1mmFJNyKYF
— 𝕬𝖓 801 𝕺𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖑 (@TheJazzyUte) November 7, 2022
ABSOLUTELY ACCURATE
Absolutely PATHETIC! https://t.co/7xPKwY1UHZ
— Roscoe Sweetwater🇺🇸 (@RoscoSweetwater) November 7, 2022
OH?
Fox: we’ll take usc-ucla
ESPN: “great news college fans, Gameday is going to Eugene” https://t.co/58y8amvGF5
— ThiccDadof4 ✌🏻 (@Ellison_utes) November 7, 2022
HARD TO ARGUE WITH THAT
This conference is a joke https://t.co/dXWyRME0oc
— Westwood is B1G (@uclagobruins) November 7, 2022
GULP
One of these Top 15 games with CFP ramifications will be on at 10:30 pm ET. (And highly unlikely Fox passes on USC-UCLA) https://t.co/Gi2zaSSe01
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) November 7, 2022
SIGH
This is everything that’s wrong with the Pac-12.
Your two biggest games of the year and one of them won’t start until 10:30 pm ET.
If the most important USC/UCLA game in recent memory is on Pac-12 After Dark, the schools should just leave for the Big Ten before Bowl season. https://t.co/54IEr9Fuoj
— Noah Camras (@noahcamras) November 7, 2022
IT DOES
Sounds about right for the Pac-12 https://t.co/lXfNHNWh0t
— Alicia de Artola Castillo (@PenguinOfTroy) November 7, 2022
IT'S SO ANNOYING
Good News: No early kickoff, meaning that I won't have to wake up at the crack of dawn to get to the Rose Bowl
Bad News: Most of the country won't be awake for one of the top Pac 12 games of the season
And people wonder why USC is leaving the conferencehttps://t.co/SXT18tVnLl
— Adam Bradford (@Adam_Bradford14) November 7, 2022
IT'S SO EXHAUSTING
Good job pac 12. Probably the biggest individual day of games in a decade and 75% of the country will be asleep https://t.co/g5tVl7ucVm
— Matt Goetz (@mattgoetz) November 7, 2022
IT'S SO TIRING
Hey yah totally let’s have the “conference’s” two most important and showing casing games be when half the country is asleep or getting wasted on a Saturday night. Perfect!! We’ll done jokers. https://t.co/KoG2oEJj09
— travler’s trojan (@travlerstrojans) November 8, 2022
CAN'T WAIT
The fact that 2 top 15 matchups will be played at 8 and 10:30 ET is criminal. Can’t wait for the move to B1G https://t.co/P45FScCDor
— Dylan Baker (@D_Bake11) November 7, 2022
SMOOTH
So basically half the country will have to stay up till passed midnight to watch Two top 15 teams play each other. Sharp https://t.co/aTSU6oNvYA
— Todd pierce (@Todd_Pierce04) November 7, 2022
TYPICAL
A ranked matchup at 1030pm est in November? Typical disrespect of the PAC 12 once again. https://t.co/AkXXCsDya2
— Jacob Kilgore (@KjIaLcGoObRE) November 7, 2022
LOL
And this right here is a good illustration on why USC needs to leave. We have 4 ranked teams and 2 of them will be playing to only the west coast. I mean, I guess I should be happy they won't be on Pac-12 network. https://t.co/aiHYi6ZzaX
— Diana Gonzales 🐈 (@trojanchick99) November 7, 2022
