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Sunday Night SEC Football?
Posted on 4/22/14 at 5:50 pm
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April 21, 2014
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Are you ready for some football, SEC fans? How does a little Sunday night action sound? According to commissioner Mike Slive, SEC Sunday Funday could be a very real thing this season.
The SEC Network is set to launch on Aug. 14, and it appears that the conference and ESPN are taking aim at NBC’s Sunday night NFL broadcast. On Monday, Slive told reporters that the conference would host a Sunday night game early in the season.
Whether or not this becomes a regular fixture remains to be seen. However, considering Sunday evenings are dominated by the NFL, it isn’t a bad marketing idea to throw a game from college football’s biggest conference into the mix. It would be very interesting to see how a marquee SEC matchup would fair while up against the NFL’s primetime game of the week.
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Posted on 4/22/14 at 5:51 pm to Mizz-SEC
Iron Bowl Sunday
Posted on 4/22/14 at 5:54 pm to Mizz-SEC
Wouldn't even remotely compare to NFL. There was a link posted several years ago with the top rated/viewed sporting events throughout that particular year (2010). The top SIXTEEN spots were all NFL games, playoffs at the top, with the AU/oregon championship coming in at 17. I believe that is accurate, could be wrong but I think I remember that.
Even if my numbers are slightly off, I remember being absolutely floored that the NFL had that much of a gap over NCAA.
ETA: LINK
Granted, most of those were playoff games, but obviously the first NCAA game was the title game as well.
Even if my numbers are slightly off, I remember being absolutely floored that the NFL had that much of a gap over NCAA.
ETA: LINK
Granted, most of those were playoff games, but obviously the first NCAA game was the title game as well.
This post was edited on 4/22/14 at 5:56 pm
Posted on 4/22/14 at 5:55 pm to Mizz-SEC
NFL sunday, college football saturday.
I DON'T LIKE CHANGE
I DON'T LIKE CHANGE
Posted on 4/22/14 at 5:55 pm to Mizz-SEC
Awful idea, it would get crushed by the NFL.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 6:00 pm to Mizz-SEC
I am quickly getting Mike Slive fatigue.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 6:01 pm to Mizz-SEC
Probably be better off going head to head against Monday night football than Sunday but I wouldn't do either. Saturday IS College Football!
Posted on 4/22/14 at 6:01 pm to Mizz-SEC
Kentucky vs. Louisville 
Posted on 4/22/14 at 6:14 pm to Mizz-SEC
Sounds like a terrible idea, but Slive is smarter than the majority of us on here, so let's just see how it plays out.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 6:14 pm to Mizz-SEC
Sunday is for fantasy football. This would be an awful idea.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 6:15 pm to Mizz-SEC
Would never work on a regular basis. Maybe the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, but that's it. College and NFL crowds are very different. Most fans and ticket holders of NFL teams are within an easy drive or in the very city where the team is. Many college ticket holders are not in the town where the university is. With work the next day for most, not a smart move for colleges...especially the SEC.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 6:26 pm to Mizz-SEC
I wish they'd do it, just to see it crash, burn, and fail miserably.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 6:33 pm to Mizz-SEC
Sunday SEC Football would be horrible.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 6:42 pm to Mizz-SEC
Alabama's been playing professional football for 60 years... it wouldn't be that big of a change
Posted on 4/22/14 at 7:01 pm to Mizz-SEC
Don't the NCAA and nfl have contracts to not play on the same day? For the exception of rare occasions.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 7:06 pm to Mizz-SEC
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Slive told reporters that the conference would host a Sunday night game early in the season.
Rest assured he's talking about the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. Remember that the NFL season starts a week later & have no preseason games on Sat-Sun-Mon of Labor Day weekend...
So Labor Day Sunday is a great night for a feature SEC Game...
Posted on 4/22/14 at 7:40 pm to Mizz-SEC
Wow this is retarded 
Posted on 4/22/14 at 10:09 pm to Mizz-SEC
I don't think the idea is to really compete with and defeat the NFL broadcast. That's obviously not going to work.
But keeping the SEC brand a constant throughout the week would add more revenue. They aren't going to put Auburn vs. LSU on Sunday night. It will be some mediocre game that most wouldn't watch on a Saturday.
Like someone said - Kentucky vs. Louisville would be a good choice but I think that game gets its own ESPN day anyway. But something in similar magnitude.
But keeping the SEC brand a constant throughout the week would add more revenue. They aren't going to put Auburn vs. LSU on Sunday night. It will be some mediocre game that most wouldn't watch on a Saturday.
Like someone said - Kentucky vs. Louisville would be a good choice but I think that game gets its own ESPN day anyway. But something in similar magnitude.
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