Time zone changes can get the best of most people. For some it is the small matter of sleep discrepancies or craving dinner at an unorthodox time, but for some West Coast football teams, it can be a far more frustrating endeavor. Stanford head football coach David Shaw spoke out in stark opposition to his team's upcoming time slot to Stewart Mandel of The Athletic.

"I am pissed at Fox for our kickoff time against Kansas State," he told Mandel. "… For Stanford in particular and Oregon to be going and playing in a different time zone, and give us an early kickoff, to me, is incredibly disrespectful. And it shows a lack of understanding of what we have to do, and the way that time difference truly affects us. It shows a lack of care for our student athletes.

"That, to me, is something that is egregious, and I don't care who I piss off, but I think they're wrong. A lot of our people in our conference are upset too."

Stanford will travel to Manhattan, Kansas in Week 1, and the noon kick in Central Time means the game starts at 10 a.m. Palo Alto time. Matters are even worse for the Oregon Ducks in Week 2 when they travel to Columbus, Ohio for a meeting with the Ohio State Buckeyes at noon Eastern Time, three hours ahead of the Ducks' Pacific Time.

Also in Week 1, Oregon State travels to Purdue, also in the Central Time Zone, for a 7:30 EST kick, meaning due to TV contracts and time slots, either OSU or Stanford were going to have to bite the bullet of a noon start. Shaw seems to have a point as Stanford has lost two critical games in recent years in the noon slot as they traveled east: 2015 to Northwen and 2009 to Wake Forest.

FOX declined to comment to Mandel on Shaw's remarks.