{"id":12395,"date":"2020-09-29T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12395"},"modified":"2020-09-27T12:12:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T17:12:50","slug":"the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The first time*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s going to be a first this week for Iowa State football: A Saturday night game on ABC with a nationwide audience. All it took was\u00a0a plague and sidelining 40% of power-conference football teams to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there are some caveats for each part of this &#8220;first&#8221;, and I&#8217;m going to walk through them with help from <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/isu-footballs-longtime-bigtime-primetime-drought\/\">this 2017 blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The every-game-televised era is around a decade old. For certain teams, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/a\/2007-college-football-season\/appalachian-state-michigan\">it began September 1, 2007<\/a>. For Iowa State, it didn&#8217;t start until a few years later.<\/li>\n<li>The first night game at then-Cyclone Stadium was October 20, 1984. Musco portable lights were brought in. The Cyclones lost to the Sooners 12-10.\u00a0It was ESPN&#8217;s game of the week.<em> Iowa State has not had a Saturday night regular-season game on ESPN since.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The 2006 Nebraska game was a night game on ABC. It was the main game of the night, since the top broadcast team was in Ames. It was <em>not<\/em> shown to the entire country, as Oregon-Cal was given priority on the West Coast. The Cyclones lost to the Cornhuskers 28-14. <em>Iowa State has not had a Saturday night game on ABC since.<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>This also means I must make a correction to <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/against-all-odds-gameday-coming-to-iowa-state\/\">last year&#8217;s GameDay post<\/a>. So noted!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Iowa State has had <em>two<\/em> Saturday night games on Fox. The first was a 49-28 home loss to Baylor in 2014. The second was last year&#8217;s 42-41 loss to Oklahoma in Norman.<em><\/em><\/li>\n<li>The 2015 game at TCU, a 45-21 loss, was a night game on ESPN2.<\/li>\n<li>In a normal year, this time slot would be one of the two main contenders for &#8220;ESPN College GameDay&#8221;.\u00a0But of course, this is not a normal year, and after the cascade of events in and following the 2019 Iowa game, it&#8217;s probably better this way. (Auburn-Georgia, the night game on ESPN, gets the fan-less version instead.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In conclusion, this week&#8217;s game is the <em>first<\/em> nationwide on ABC on Saturday night, the\u00a0<em>second<\/em> in ABC prime-time, the <em>third<\/em> on Saturday night on a network nationwide, the <em>fourth<\/em> on Saturday night on a network to a substantial part of the country, the <em>fourth<\/em>\u00a0Saturday prime-time major-channel game in Ames, and the <em>sixth<\/em> Saturday night game in the ABC\/Fox\/ESPN\/ESPN2 group.\u00a0It&#8217;s the <em>third<\/em> of that group of games that involves Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>The next prime-time network <em>win<\/em>, though, will be the first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s going to be a first this week for Iowa State football: A Saturday night game on ABC with a nationwide audience. All it took was\u00a0a plague and sidelining 40% of power-conference football teams to make it happen. Now, there &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-first-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12400,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395\/revisions\/12400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}