Is this a record for night games?

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Looks like we are also playing a night game for Miss State? I mean its a good thing for the program because if you're playing night games it means you're on prime time. Also it being at home is less annoying but man I don't think I have ever seen a team play this many night games in one season.
 
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pimo1 said:
Looks like we are also playing a night game for Miss State? I mean its a good thing for the program because if you're playing night games it means you're on prime time. Also it being at home is less annoying but man I don't think I have ever seen a team play this many night games in one season.
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I seriously doubt it. In the old days, the norm was the September home games would almost always be at night for comfort reasons. The non conference portion of the schedule in particular. Exceptions were UCLA in the afternoon time slot a few times and I remember sitting in 100+ degree heat and folks passing out in the stands in the early 90's. Add the prime time October and November games in there, and 3 is probably an average number.

Found an old media guide that has the night games marked on the scheudule. Starting in the early 70's, almost all of the September games at home are at night. When more games were televised starting in the 90's, we had 3 night games in 89 against Colorado St, UCLA and Duke to start the season, 4 in 1990 including the bowl game, 3 in 91, 4 in 94 including the bowl game, 3 in 95, 5 in 96 all in the regular season, 5 in 97 including the SEC ship and bowl game, 4 in 98 including the SEC and NC game, 6 in 1999, 4 in 2001, 5 in 2002, 4 in 2003, 5 in 2004, 3 in 2005, 3 in 2006, 4 in 2007, 4 in 2008 and 6 in 2009.

So the record is 6 which has happened at least twice.
 
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ksgovols said:
I seriously doubt it. In the old days, the norm was the September home games would almost always be at night for comfort reasons. The non conference portion of the schedule in particular. Exceptions were UCLA in the afternoon time slot a few times and I remember sitting in 100+ degree heat and folks passing out in the stands in the early 90's. Add the prime time October and November games in there, and 3 is probably an average number.
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We have already played 5 night games. Miss State will make 7. 3 on the road/neutral 4 at home.
NC State (N)
Kent State (H)
Oklahoma (R)
Arkansas (R)
Florida (H)
Kentucky (H)
Miss State (H)
 
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Awesome! I like the September night games. It can be miserable to play an afternoon game in the SEC during the day. The prime time games are a testament to the Vols drawing power. It's all good. I can see playoff games or a bowl game added to that number.

I'm guessing too that having the ABC/ESPN/SECN is only going to make prime time more of the norm than the CBS/ESPN/SECN days.
 
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pimo1 said:
We have already played 5 night games. Miss State will make 7. 3 on the road/neutral 4 at home.
NC State (N)
Kent State (H)
Oklahoma (R)
Arkansas (R)
Florida (H)
Kentucky (H)
Miss State (H)
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My concern is the Vandy game. Not being used to playing that early.
 
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AlsaceFreak said:
My concern is the Vandy game. Not being used to playing that early.
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I stand on I dont think Vandy can sustain the level of football they have been playing and Pavia hasn't had a terrible game yet. His worst game so far this year was against Ga State and he passed for 270 and 2 tds and 0 ints and rushed for another 40. He's only thrown for 3 picks so far. At some point something has to give. The go juice runs out his back gets tired of carrying that whole offense. I think that day will be November 30 coming off a tough road loss to LSU.
 
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IndianaVol said:
I've asked this in other threads as well.

So far we've played NC St, Kent St, OU, Arky, Fla at night - 5 games
Still to play and confirmed are UK, Ms St - 2 games
Potentially UGA at night - 1 game

That would be 8 of 12 at night in prime time.
I think that is a record for Tennessee.
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That was the question of my OP thanks for confirming. I feel like I would have remembered us playing that many night games at least in my lifetime I don't remember so many and I've been watching the vols since the 80's lots of night games only really became a thing in the late 90's anyway (ESPN). These days almost all games are televised in some form, back then only so many were because fewer outlets for them. Night games were usually just west coast games played at 4-5pm their local time..with a few games each week on the east coast televised nationally in prime time.
 
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pimo1 said:
That was the question of my OP thanks for confirming. I feel like I would have remembered us playing that many night games at least in my lifetime I don't remember so many and I've been watching the vols since the 80's lots of night games only really became a thing in the late 90's anyway (ESPN). These days almost all games are televised in some form, back then only so many were because fewer outlets for them. Night games were usually just west coast games played at 4-5pm their local time..with a few games each week on the east coast televised nationally in prime time.
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Most welcome. We are about the same age then - I too don't recall very many night games at all until ESPN got into the fray of college football. To me, it seemed like the SEC and ACC was always on CBS or Jefferson Pilot; Big Ten and Big 12 seemed to be on ABC a lot; and NBC carried Notre Dame obviously but also a lot of the West Coast games from the Pac 12.

Great point about the amount of outlets these days now too. I mean let's be honest, back then would we have really ever seen Tennessee vs. Kent State on TV anywhere?
 
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Neyland is good for TV at night for the networks and with a top 10 team, I can see why we are getting those games. It can't hurt in recruiting either. I remember the days of Pruitt. It seemed like we were always the Noon game.
 
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pimo1 said:
We have already played 5 night games. Miss State will make 7. 3 on the road/neutral 4 at home.
NC State (N)
Kent State (H)
Oklahoma (R)
Arkansas (R)
Florida (H)
Kentucky (H)
Miss State (H)
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Georgia will also likely be a night game at Athens so that makes 8 night tilts for this season.
 
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