Illinois game set for 1:30pm next Saturday

QChawks · 2026-11-09T12:14:35-0600

Odd start time

Jonesy5960 · 2026-11-09T12:24:18-0600

Lots of great seats available for under $100 Hawk fans

Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo · 2026-11-09T12:25:37-0600

1:30?? 1987 called and wants it's start time back!

AFM22 · 2026-11-09T12:46:35-0600

lol a potential top 15 team on BTN

Natchrlman2 · 2026-11-09T13:00:12-0600

well hopefully we don’t miss most the first half watching post game interviews for an earlier game

WeBeHerkin · 2026-11-09T13:06:48-0600

QChawks said:
Odd start time

Like the good old days almost. Get them am radios fired up and your tin foil pointed in the right direction.

WeBeHerkin · 2026-11-09T13:07:25-0600

AFM22 said:
lol a potential top 15 team on BTN

Required by contract to be on twice and we had only been on once. No way out as they say.

WeBeHerkin · 2026-11-09T13:08:08-0600

Jonesy5960 said:
Lots of great seats available for under $100 Hawk fans

Already got ours in row one behind Iowa bench on the 50-ish

DukeSlater · 2026-11-09T13:16:11-0600

AFM22 said:
lol a potential top 15 team on BTN

It's Iowa's turn. And the 1:30 start time is nostalgic for those who remember when schools set start times instead of TV networks. Ah, the days when all games in the Midwest started at 1 pm, ended around 4, and you listened to the score parade from around the country on the drive home: Slippery Rock 24, Colgate 20 / Princeton 17, Columbia 7 . . . and only the teams down south played night games. And then real Iowa fans listened to Jim Zabel's WHO radio rebroadcast of the Hawkeye game about 10 pm. What a crazy era it was . . . or so I hear.

Nvhwk · 2026-11-09T13:41:34-0600

Almost perfect start time for a November game in the Midwest as it should be the warmest time of the day.

NorthernHawkeye · 2026-11-09T14:09:21-0600

Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo said:
1:30?? 1987 called and wants it's start time back!

* 1:05PM

Hawkfan_08* · 2026-11-09T14:58:56-0600

Are we on the CW? Wtf...

uihawk82 · 2026-11-09T15:25:17-0600

Natchrlman2 said:
well hopefully we don’t miss most the first half watching post game interviews for an earlier game

I doubt that BTN will have an earlier game, it would have to start 3.5 hours before 1:30 so that means 10 AM. BTN has been starting their TV games about 1/2 hour or so after the 11 AM slot probably so they get some viewers while other games are at halftime. Plus BTN can do an 11:30 game then 3 or 3:30 game then a 8 PM west coast game now with the 4 west coast Big teams.

uihawk82 · 2026-11-09T15:26:53-0600

DukeSlater said:
It's Iowa's turn. And the 1:30 start time is nostalgic for those who remember when schools set start times instead of TV networks. Ah, the days when all games in the Midwest started at 1 pm, ended around 4, and you listened to the score parade from around the country on the drive home: Slippery Rock 24, Colgate 20 / Princeton 17, Columbia 7 . . . and only the teams down south played night games. And then real Iowa fans listened to Jim Zabel's WHO radio rebroadcast of the Hawkeye game about 10 pm. What a crazy era it was . . . or so I hear.

Yeah, and that was back in the 50's mid 70's when there were only 1 or 2 games on TV each Saturday, ONE OR TWO GAMES on TV wow

DukeSlater · 2026-11-09T15:30:45-0600

uihawk82 said:
Yeah, and that was back in the 50's mid 70's when there were only 1 or 2 games on TV each Saturday, ONE OR TWO GAMES on TV wow

Of course there were only one or two games on TV . . . there were only three channels.

3-D_chess · 2026-11-09T15:40:31-0600

1:30 against Illannoy and then 7:30 against Purdon't on the same day.
That's a FULL Saturday. I hope the players are up for it.

uihawk82 · 2026-11-09T15:52:46-0600

DukeSlater said:
Of course there were only one or two games on TV . . . there were only three channels.

And cameras were huge and expensive non digital monsters

Natchrlman2 · 2026-11-09T16:47:19-0600

uihawk82 said:
I doubt that BTN will have an earlier game, it would have to start 3.5 hours before 1:30 so that means 10 AM. BTN has been starting their TV games about 1/2 hour or so after the 11 AM slot probably so they get some viewers while other games are at halftime. Plus BTN can do an 11:30 game then 3 or 3:30 game then a 8 PM west coast game now with the 4 west coast Big teams.

turn up your sarcasm meter brother……. I was attempting humor

MeetTheFerentzes · 2026-11-09T19:22:38-0600

uihawk82 said:
I doubt that BTN will have an earlier game, it would have to start 3.5 hours before 1:30 so that means 10 AM. BTN has been starting their TV games about 1/2 hour or so after the 11 AM slot probably so they get some viewers while other games are at halftime. Plus BTN can do an 11:30 game then 3 or 3:30 game then a 8 PM west coast game now with the 4 west coast Big teams.

FWIW, instead of a football game at 11 AM, BTN is broadcasting Detroit @ Michigan St MBB. Accounts for the odd kickoff times for IA-IL (1:30) and MD-USC (5:15).

AFM22 said:
lol a potential top 15 team on BTN

WeBeHerkin said:
Required by contract to be on twice and we had only been on once. No way out as they say.

Yeah, BTN kinda lucked out here with the networks selecting Iowa every week to the point that they are stuck on BTN for Illinois. BTN now has what could be a rather consequential game to broadcast in mid-November.

r_desihawk · 2026-11-09T19:28:58-0600

illinois gets an extra day to prep for iowa since they play on fri this week

airhawk · 2026-11-09T20:05:17-0600

DukeSlater said:
It's Iowa's turn. And the 1:30 start time is nostalgic for those who remember when schools set start times instead of TV networks. Ah, the days when all games in the Midwest started at 1 pm, ended around 4, and you listened to the score parade from around the country on the drive home: Slippery Rock 24, Colgate 20 / Princeton 17, Columbia 7 . . . and only the teams down south played night games. And then real Iowa fans listened to Jim Zabel's WHO radio rebroadcast of the Hawkeye game about 10 pm. What a crazy era it was . . . or so I hear.

Listening to the game while pheasant hunting. Great memory as a kid

bobchawk · 2026-11-09T20:14:26-0600

Jonesy5960 said:
Lots of great seats available for under $100 Hawk fans

Great seats for under $50. We are on the 30. Lower level for $30 ea.

Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo · 2026-11-09T20:19:28-0600

DukeSlater said:
It's Iowa's turn. And the 1:30 start time is nostalgic for those who remember when schools set start times instead of TV networks. Ah, the days when all games in the Midwest started at 1 pm, ended around 4, and you listened to the score parade from around the country on the drive home: Slippery Rock 24, Colgate 20 / Princeton 17, Columbia 7 . . . and only the teams down south played night games. And then real Iowa fans listened to Jim Zabel's WHO radio rebroadcast of the Hawkeye game about 10 pm. What a crazy era it was . . . or so I hear.

"William & Mary defeated James Madison 20-13..."

Well they should. After all it was 2 against 1!

IaHawks03 · 2026-11-09T20:22:45-0600

Assuming iowa beats Purdue, there should be 20,000 iowa fans in champaign. Easy drive to get there and tickets only 20 bucks

Nvhwk · 2026-11-09T20:39:23-0600

r_desihawk said:
illinois gets an extra day to prep for iowa since they play on fri this week

And Iowa will have one less day for Nebraska

Driftless_Hawk · 2026-11-09T20:58:02-0600

I will be making the drive to Champaign. Let's get 25k hawk fans there!

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