re: LSU/Utah State will kickoff at 11am (October 5th) on SEC Network

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11AM home game once every 2 or 3 years isn't going to kill tailgating. Maybe the stands will be 75% full in the second half.

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For a conference game, sure. Also if this game is in November vs. the beginning of October maybe the conversation is different, although I'd still prefer a late kickoff for a non-marquee OOC matchup. "It's Saturday Morning in Death Valley" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Wall of text I posted in the other thread:

The last 11 am kickoff game I went to in Tiger Stadium was a September game against Mississippi State. I say the last because it was absolutely fricking miserable. Concession stands ran out of water by the end of the 1st quarter and ice shortly after halftime. People were falling out left and right and there were more fans under the ramps than in the stands, not that you could sit on the bleachers without burning the shite out of your legs. 

Takes a real genius to schedule an 11 am kickoff against a team no one cares to see after the hottest September for Baton Rouge in recorded history. I guarantee there will be fans and administrators alike bitching because the stadium is half empty, but this will be the main reason why. These are the games that fans who cannot afford season tickets go to, not to mention those who take their kids and grandkids to that first game in Tiger stadium because you can find 4+ seats together without dropping a grand. Wont be as many of those with it being 100+ degrees in the stands.