Can be. Average high that time of year is mid 70s. Had a lot of beautiful days for past Cyhawk games.
Kickoff Times & TV for Early Season Games Announced
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Shocked plus USD's coach retired and they lost 70% of their roster to the portal.
I hope they set up in the rec fields with the greatest bridge in the world as a backdrop. They need to be different from game day.
Here are ESPN, Fox, CBS & NBC early season kickoff times:
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NBC Sports’ 2025 Big Ten and Notre Dame Football games announced to date:
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NBC Sports’ 2025 Big Ten and Notre Dame Football games announced to date:
| Date | Time (ET) | Matchup | Platform(s) |
| Fri., Aug. 29 | 7:30 p.m. | Western Illinois at Illinois | Peacock |
| Sat., Aug. 30 | 7:30 p.m. | New Mexico at Michigan | NBC, Peacock |
| Sat., Sept. 6 | 3:30 p.m. | Miami (OH) at Rutgers | Peacock |
| Sat., Sept. 6 | 7:30 p.m. | Boston College at Michigan State | NBC, Peacock |
| Sat., Sept. 13 | Noon | Towson at Maryland | Peacock |
| Sat., Sept. 13 | 7 p.m. | Ohio at Ohio State | Peacock |
| Sat., Sept. 13 | 7:30 p.m. | Texas A&M at Notre Dame | NBC, Peacock |
| Sat., Sept. 20 | 3:30 p.m. | Purdue at Notre Dame | NBC, Peacock |
| Sat., Sept. 27 | 7:30 p.m. | Oregon at Penn State | NBC, Peacock |
| Sat., Oct. 4 | 3:30 p.m. | Boise State at Notre Dame | NBC, Peacock |
| Sat., Oct. 11 | 3:30 p.m. | NC State at Notre Dame | Peacock |
| Sat., Oct. 18 | 7:30 p.m. | USC at Notre Dame | NBC, Peacock |
| Sat., Nov. 8 | 7:30 p.m. | Navy at Notre Dame | NBC, Peacock |
| Sat., Nov. 22 | 3:30 p.m. | Syracuse at Notre Dame | NBC, Peacock |
| Fri., Nov. 28 | 7:30 p.m. | Indiana at Purdue | NBC, Peacock |
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BIG 12 COMPOSITE SCHEDULE, WEEKS 0-3 (all times CT)
| AUG. 23 | TIME | TV |
| *Iowa State vs. Kansas State (Dublin) | 11:00 | ESPN |
| Fresno State at Kansas | 5:30 | FOX |
| AUG. 28-SEPT. 1 | TIME | TV |
| [THU.] Jacksonville State at UCF | 6:00 | ESPN+ |
| [THU.] UT Martin at Oklahoma State | 6:30 | ESPN+ |
| [THU.] Stephen F. Austin at Houston | 7:00 | ESPN+ |
| [THU.] Cincinnati vs. Nebraska (Kansas City) | 8:00 | ESPN |
| [FRI.] Wagner at Kansas | 6:30 | ESPN+ |
| [FRI.] Auburn at Baylor | 7:00 | FOX |
| [FRI.] Georgia Tech at Colorado | 7:00 | ESPN |
| Robert Morris at West Virginia | 1:00 | ESPN+ |
| South Dakota at Iowa State | 2:30 | FOX |
| North Dakota at Kansas State | 6:00 | ESPN+ |
| Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Texas Tech | 6:30 | ESPN+ |
| Portland State at BYU | 7:00 | ESPN+ |
| Northern Arizona at Arizona State | 9:00 | ESPN+ |
| Hawaii at Arizona | 9:30 | TNT |
| Utah at UCLA | 10:00 | FOX |
| [MON.] TCU at North Carolina | 7:00 | ESPN |
| SEPT. 6 | TIME | TV |
| Iowa at Iowa State (plus Big Noon Kickoff) | 11:00 | FOX |
| Kent State at Texas Tech | 11:00 | TNT |
| Baylor at SMU | 11:00 | CW |
| Oklahoma State at Oregon | 2:30 | CBS |
| Delaware at Colorado | 2:30 | FOX |
| Kansas at Missouri | 2:30 | ESPN2 |
| Bowling Green at Cincinnati | 2:30 | ESPN+ |
| West Virginia at Ohio | 3:00 | ESPNU |
| Cal Poly at Utah | 5:00 | ESPN+ |
| Army at Kansas State | 6:00 | ESPN |
| North Carolina A&T at UCF | 6:00 | ESPN+ |
| Houston at Rice | 6:00 | ESPN+ |
| Arizona State at Mississippi State | 6:30 | ESPN2 |
| Weber State at Arizona | 9:00 | ESPN+ |
| Stanford at BYU | 9:15 | ESPN |
| SEPT. 12-13 | TIME | TV |
| [FRI.] *Colorado at Houston | 6:30 | ESPN |
| [FRI.] Kansas State at Arizona [NC] | 8:00 | FOX |
| Samford at Baylor | 11:00 | ESPN+ |
| Pittsburgh at West Virginia | 2:30 | ESPN |
| Oregon State at Texas Tech | 2:30 | FOX |
| Northwestern State at Cincinnati | 2:30 | ESPN+ |
| Iowa State at Arkansas State | 3:00 | ESPN2 |
| Utah at Wyoming | 7:00 | CBS SN |
| Abliene Christian at TCU | 7:00 | ESPN+ |
| Texas State at Arizona State | 9:30 | TNT |
Looking forward to NOT driving home at 10/11pm for those first home games.
I know I'm not alone in being good with dumping the Iowa game. I would rather have a different P4 non con game.
ESPN has been scheduled to broadcast two Week Zero games from Ireland and they planned on hosting College Gameday both times.
2020 - Notre Dame @ Navy
2024 - Florida State @ Georgia Tech
The 2020 game was ultimately cancelled, making the 2024 College Gameday the first to be broadcast from outside the US.
ESPN2 hosted two games from Ireland in 2014 and 2016, but these were both Week One games and College Gameday broadcast from neutral site games in the US on each of those dates.
2014 - Penn State v Central Florida
2016 - Georgia Tech v Boston College
Our game with Kansas State would be the third, scheduled, ESPN, Week Zero game and I would guess that ESPN would send College Gameday to Ireland. I also know that Iowa State is not the same brand to ESPN as Notre Dame and Florida State, so I would not be surprised if they do skip sending the crew over to Ireland.
I've heard that Tyrese and Georges will both be heading to Ireland, so maybe we could return the CGD favor and have an ISU guest picker for a KSU "home game".
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I will never understand this. The Iowa game is fun, it's always been fun, it will always be fun - why in the world would you ever want to get rid of the biggest rivalry game on the schedule each year?
Yeah, ISU loses sometimes, but the booze and trash talk with your Iowa buddies still stays the same.
I have always found the game annoying, especially tailgating in the lots at JTS. I have seen so much horrible behavior by the Hok fans in the lots thru the years. Especially cringy in front of the kids. The game is what it is. Banning them from the lots would be great.
But at least the season ticket lots will be open before the weekly lots with an 11 AM game, right? Or have they gone away with that? Seems like it’s been a long time since we’ve had an 11:00 game.
European soccer has this right. Only allow visiting fans in certain sections of the stadium. Mixing fans in the stadium or in the lots only ends badly.
2024 rules: all lots open at 6:00 for an 11:00 start
2019 GameDay: all lots opened at 5:00 to allow fans to get to the show set; kickoff wasn't until 3:00
2021 GameDay: all lots opened at 6:00; kickoff wasn't until 3:30
I thought it was 5:00 AM?
Either way - getting up and being on the road by 4 is going to SUCK.
They get worse every year. Had to explain to my young daughter at the last Iowa game in Ames why a grown man in a Fry era Hawk hat had his pants down and was pissing in the middle of C4. Fun times.
