Atlanta-area college football fans slam FOX for cutting off Nebraska-Northwestern game, switching to Falcons preseason coverage

Saturdays in the fall belong to college football.

Apparently, FOX forgot that on Saturday. It’s not a good way to earn fans, but it is a great way to earn serious ire on Twitter, as they found out on Saturday. The network cut off the Nebraska-Northwestern game in favor of Falcons preseason coverage, leaving college football fans angry. Those fans took their displeasure to Twitter.

First the Falcons game preempts The Bachelorette on Monday. Now the pre-game show is taking the Nebraska game off the air?

What is happening?!

— Woody Wommack (@RivalsWoody) August 27, 2022

Woah woah woah NO WAY Fox is cutting Nebraska-Northwestern for a Falcons preseason game?

— SportsTalkATL Jake (@cantguardjake) August 27, 2022

Watching Nebraska game and it just switched over to the Falcons preseason game… what the heck! I’m on Hulu, anyone know what’s up?

— Aaron Murray (@aaronmurray11) August 27, 2022

So while I get the fact that Atlanta is Falcons country, how dare Fox get away from the Nebraska-Northwestern for a meaningless preseason game between the Falcons and Jaguars???

— Christopher Nichols (@cnorthside85) August 27, 2022

Fox really just bumped Nebraska Northwestern for a damn falcons preseason PRE GAME SHOW!!????

— AllTheDawgs (@DawgsBaseballi1) August 27, 2022

Some fans were a little more helpful, sharing ways that college football fans could still catch the game.

PSA: the Nebraska-Northwestern game is on the Fox Sports app if your game got booted for Falcons preseason

— Wes Jackson (@wesj_42) August 27, 2022

FYI Northwestern & Nebraska fans in Atlanta. We will be switching to #Falcons pregame at 2:30, you can watch the rest of the game on 5.3 over the air, or channel 234 on Xfinity

— Cody Chaffins (@Cody_Fox5) August 27, 2022

It appears as though Fox might want to reconsider their programming that might conflict with college football. It is Saturday Down South, after all.