BYU is willing to play on Sunday

With the scheduling of the BYU-New Mexico State on Saturday, Nov. 19, at 8:15 PM Mountain Time BYU is conceding the fact they could possibly play on Sunday. How so? While the average NCAA college football game is between 3 hours and 3 hours and 15 minutes they routinely go well over that. BYU is opening itself up to a probability, I would guess less than 5%, that it will still be playing past midnight.

Here are some BYU games from the past 20 years that all would have broken the "sabbath" for BYU.

Date Opponent Time Result
9/24/05 vs. TCU 4:42 L, 50-51
12/8/01 at Hawaii 4:24 L, 45-72
9/7/89 vs. Washington State 4:04 L, 41-46
11/24/84 vs. Utah State 4:03 W, 38-13
9/6/02 vs. Hawaii 4:00 W, 35-32
10/8/94 at Fresno State 3:54 W, 32-30
11/16/91 at San Diego State 3:54 T, 52-52
11/20/93 vs. Utah 3:53 L, 31-34
9/4/93 at New Mexico 3:50 W, 34-31
10/30/93 at Utah State 3:50 L, 56-58

I wonder what the contingency is it the game approaches midnight? Forfeit? What about the employees at Lavell Edwards Stadium? I can't imagine that they'll be finished with all their work by midnight. Is this all just to make ESPN happy with their TV contract?