It’s the latest idea from Larry Scott’s handbook of Pac-12 relevance that has divided the conference. Earlier this summer at Pac-12 media day, the commissioner announced that the conference was discussing the idea of starting games at 9 AM pacific time.
“That would be new and out of the box for our conference but I’ve tried to put everything on the table. There’s a lot of frustration from fans in certain markets to the late night kicks,” Scott told NBC Sports. Scott also noted that schools could opt out of the early kickoff.
At the time, the conference was hit with some push back from fans and announced that no games in the 2019 season would move up to the ungodly hour of 9 AM.