Pac-12 chooses not to start the send-offs of the Pacific season at 9 am this season – Revisit Bleacher's Report

University football teams residing on the West Coast have just slept more on Saturday this fall.

The Pac-12s will not kick off at 9 am during the 2019-20 season while coaches such as Chip Kelly (UCLA), Kyle Whittingham (Utah) and Justin Wilcox (California) ) showed interest in the concept last month at Pac-12. Press Day, ESPN's Kyle Bonagura reported on Wednesday night.

A spokesman for the conference confirmed to Bonagura that he was "open to revisiting the idea in the future".

Commissioner Larry Scott, Pac-12 During the media day, he told reporters that there had been "preliminary discussions" about the possibility of playing a list of games in conference at 9 o'clock in the morning.

"There is a lot of frustration on the part of fans in some markets at the late-night kicks," added Scott (h / t Jon Wilner of Mercury News"I'd like to see one or two games this season that are [noon ET] kicks are Pac-12 games and see which markets could respond positively. "

For the context, 247Sports unveiled in December the top 10 top-rated television football games of last season, none with the Pac-12.

Wilner relayed Further information on Wednesday's development:

Andrew Walker, the Pac-12's communications officer, said several schools wanted to play early, but the conference did not find "good options" over the next three months. added Walker, is to monitor the matches of 12 and Big Ten are placed in the window of 9 hours, and then are evaluated for the next season.

"By delaying at least the first launches of at least 2020, the Pac-12 will leave schools and fans time to plan unusual logistics."

Although there is interest in testing previous matches, Stanford head coach David Shaw is opposed.

"I do not know if you can find a group of young people aged 18 to 22 who will go to bed at 10 o'clock in the evening and get up at 6 in the morning to perform sports. "Shaw told Yahoo Sports Sam Cooper July 24th.

Shaw noted that he thought games starting at "11 am, 11:30 am or noon … would be excellent".

The Pac-12 now has at least another year to put everyone on the same page.