The SEC football championship is moving to primetime this season.
The SEC announced Thursday afternoon that the major college football game was moving to an 8:00 EST kick. Normally, the SEC title game starts in the late afternoon. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football)
The game is scheduled to happen December 19 in Atlanta.
NEWS-KICKOFF TIME ANNOUNCEMENT: @SEC Football Championship Game on Dec. 19 will kick off at 8 pm ET.
The game will be played in Atlanta’s @MBStadium and will be televised by @CBSSports.
— Southeastern Conference (@SEC) October 29, 2020
Okay, I’m very split on this decision. Part of me loves it. College football games automatically become better when they’re night games.
That’s just a fact. It’s science. Once the sun goes down, college football games become way cooler and the stakes are automatically raised.
I watched BYU play a bad Navy team this year, and I was hooked in part because it was a night game. Now, apply that logic to the SEC title game where teams are fighting for playoff spots.
Here’s the reason I don’t love it, and it’s simple. The Big 10 title game is also a primetime game. How the hell am I supposed to watch both games at the same time?
Yes, I have multiple televisions in my living room, and I can put them on at the same time. However, that’s not what I want to do.
I want to commit my complete and total focus to one game at a time. Seeing as how I highly-doubt that the B1G will move back to the afternoon, I’ll now be forced to split my focus. I don’t really love that at all.
Still, a nighttime SEC title game should be a hell of a lot of fun.