10 college football April Fools’ pranks you would totally believe

5) Pac 12 will only play past midnight eastern

Pac-12 After Dark is a sacred bonding experience that the most obsessed college football fans take part in. As the rest of the country heads to their beds for a good night’s sleep, and preparation for Sunday’s NFL action, the college football nuts are awake. It’s 2 AM and they’re going nuts over a Cal-Arizona State shootout that didn’t kickoff until 10:30 and is still going at 2:30 in the morning. #Pac12AfterDark is weird and it’s wonderful. It’s also masochism at its finest.

Fed up with not receiving the attention they deserve in national polls, due to their late kickoff times, the PAC-12 essentially takes their ball and goes home. Any conference game will kick off at 12:01 AM eastern time, Sunday morning. They’ve fully embraced the Pac-12 After Dark attitude and entire marketing strategies will be designed around this. Games will end at five in the morning with 50-45 scores and it’s all anybody will be able to talk about.

The idea seems absurd at first, but then the realization hits Pac-12 schools that they essentially own the late night TV block. The West Coast is already awake for them and night owls will be glued in to nothing but Pac-12 action. All of a sudden Pac-12 After Dark is the biggest event of the college football season right up there with the 3:30 kickoffs. If only anybody was awake to see it. Somewhere the journalists forced to watch football from noon to five in the morning weep at the very idea of this.