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NIT Returns to ESPN on Tuesday; Bill Walton Assigned to Stanford

The National Invitation Tournament is back to allow 32 teams that didn’t make the NCAA Tournament an opportunity to have some postseason play.

The ESPN family of networks will air the entire tournament culminating with the semifinals and finals at Madison Square Garden on April 2 and April 4, respectively. Bob Wischusen will call the games at MSG. He’ll be joined by Bill Raftery for the semis and Bob Knight on the final.

In addition, we have more Bill Walton. His assignments for ESPN are not done yet. He’ll work the Stephen F. Austin-Stanford game with Dave Flemming on Tuesday for ESPN2.

Let’s take a look at what we have for the first round of the NIT on the ESPN family.

Alabama, Kentucky, Southern Mississippi and Virginia among 32 to Play in NIT across ESPN Networks

Exclusive coverage of the entire 76^th National Invitation Tournament (NIT) begins on Tuesday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN, and continues across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3 with coverage of all 31 games. In addition to 5 exclusive ESPN3 games during the first round, every game will be available on WatchESPN.

The NIT Semifinal games from Madison Square Garden will air on ESPN2, Tuesday, April 2,beginning at 7 p.m., and The NIT Championship will follow on Thursday, April 4 at 9 p.m. on ESPN. Play by play commentator Bob Wischusen will be joined by analysts Bill Raftery for the semifinals and Bob Knight for the final game of the tournament.

The 32-team field for the oldest tournament in college basketball was announced Sunday, March 17, during the ESPNU NIT Selection Show and includes teams representing 22 conferences, led by the ACC, Pac-12 and SEC with three selections each. First Round action airs from campus sites with the No.1 seeds Alabama, Southern Mississippi and Virginia competing at home. Defending National Champions, Kentucky, also joins the field as a No. 1 seed, but will play on the road at Robert Morris in Pittsburgh – Coach Calipari’s hometown – due to the unavailability of Rupp Arena.

Seven teams in the 2013 field played in the 2012 tournament, including the defending NIT Champions, Stanford. Three teams are making their first appearance in the tournament – Charleston Southern, Mercer and Norfolk State. St. John’s is making its 29^th appearance, the most all time. Eight teams in this year’s field have previously won an NIT title, including St. John’s, which has won a record six championships. Stanford has a chance to join St. John’s (1943, 1944) and South Carolina (2005, 2006) as the only teams to repeat.

2013 NIT First Round Schedule:

Date	Time (ET)	Game	Network
Tue, March 19	7 p.m.	NIT First Round: Niagara at Maryland Mike Patrick & LaPhonso Ellis	ESPN2
	7 p.m.	NIT First Round: St. John’s at Saint Joseph’s Mike Crispino & Bob Valvano	ESPNU
	7:15 p.m.	NIT First Round: Louisiana Tech at Florida State Rich Hollenberg & Paul Biancardi	ESPN3
	7:30 p.m.	NIT First Round: Kentucky at Robert Morris Bob Wischusen, Jimmy Dykes & Allison Williams	ESPN
	9 p.m.	NIT First Round: Northeastern at Alabama John Saunders & Bob Knight	ESPN2
	9 p.m.	NIT First Round: Norfolk State at Virginia Mitch Holthus & Cory Alexander	ESPNU
	9:15 p.m.	NIT First Round: Ohio at Denver Mark Neely & Corey Williams	ESPN3
	9:30 p.m.	NIT First Round: Washington at BYU Roxy Bernstein & Sean Farnham	ESPN
	11 p.m.	NIT First Round: Stephen F. Austin at Stanford Dave Flemming & Bill Walton	ESPN2
Wed, March 20	7 p.m.	NIT First Round: Indiana State at Iowa Carter Blackburn and Dan Dakich	ESPN2
	7:15 p.m.	NIT First Round: Charlotte at Providence Jason Benetti & Tim Welsh	ESPN3
	7:15 p.m.	NIT First Round: Stony Brook at UMass Doug Sherman & Malcolm Huckaby	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	NIT First Round: Mercer at Tennessee John Saunders & Bob Knight	ESPNU
	9 p.m.	NIT First Round: Long Beach State at Baylor Mark Jones & Fran Fraschilla	ESPN2
	9:15 p.m.	NIT First Round: Charleston Southern at Southern Mississippi Roy Philpott & Joe Dean	ESPN3
	10 p.m.	NIT First Round: Detroit at Arizona State Joe Davis & Miles Simon	ESPNU

That’s it for this post.

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 03/09 & 03/10/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV

Announcing Assignments Courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports

Saturday, March 9

Pregame and Studio Shows
College GameDay live from Washington, DC — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m.
Big Ten Tip-Off Show — Big Ten Network, 11:30 a.m.
Big Ten Game Break — Big Ten Network, 2 p.m.
Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, 4 p.m.
Big Ten Tip-Off Show — Big Ten Network, 4:45 p.m.
Big Ten Game Break — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m.
College GameDay live from Chapel Hill, NC — ESPN, 8 p.m.
Big Ten Finale ’12-’13 — Big Ten Network, 10:30 p.m.
Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, 10:30 p.m.
College Basketball Live — ESPN2, 1:30 a.m. (Sunday)

Conference Tournaments
Men’s
Atlantic Sun Championship, Macon, GA
Mercer vs. Florida Gulf Coast — ESPN2, noon (Roy Philpott/Derek Whittenburg)

CAA Tournament, Richmond, VA
Quarterfinals
George Mason vs. Drexel — Comcast SportsNet (Houston/Mid-Atlantic/New England/NorthWest)/The Comcast Network, 3:30 p.m. (John Castleberry/John Feinstein)
Delaware vs. Hofstra — Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Houston/Mid-Atlantic Plus/New England), 6 p.m. (Al Koken/Ron Thompson)
James Madison vs. William & Mary — Comcast SportsNet (Houston/Mid-Atlantic Plus/New England)/The Comcast Network, 8:30 p.m. (Al Koken/Ron Thompson)

Horizon League Tournament, Valparaiso, IN
Semifinals
Detroit vs. Wright State — ESPN3, 6 p.m. (Jim Barber/Malcolm Huckaby)
Valparaiso vs. Green Bay — ESPNU, 8:30 p.m. (Jim Barber/Malcolm Huckaby)

Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, St. Louis, MO
Semifinals
Creighton vs. Indiana State — MVC TV/Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports Midwest/Fox College Sports Pacific, 2:30 p.m. (John Rooney/Mark Adams)
Wichita State vs. Illinois State — MVC TV/Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports Midwest/Fox College Sports Pacific, 5 p.m. (John Rooney/Mark Adams)

Northeast Conference Tournament
Semifinals
Mount St. Mary’s at Robert Morris — MSG2/Fox College Sports Central, noon (Dave Popkin/Tim Capstraw/Paul Dottino)
Long Island University-Brooklyn at Wagner — MSG 2/Fox College Sports Central, 2:30 p.m. (Dave Popkin/Tim Capstraw/Paul Dottino)

Ohio Valley Conference Championship, Nashville, TN
Belmont vs. Murray State — ESPN2, 7 p.m. (Rich Hollenberg/Adrian Branch)

Patriot League Tournament
Semifinals
Lehigh at Lafayette — CBS Sports Network, 2 p.m. (Don Criqui/Vince Curran)
Army at Bucknell — CBS Sports Network, 4:30 p.m. (Bob Socci/Chris Spatola)

Summit League Tournament, Sioux Falls, SD
Quarterfinals
South Dakota State vs. IUPUI — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 7 p.m. (Brad Niemann/Tom Newitt)
Western Illinois vs. South Dakota — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 9:30 p.m. (Brad Niemann/Tom Newitt)

Sun Belt Conference Tournament, Hot Springs, AR
Quarterfinals
Middle Tennessee vs. Louisiana-Lafayette/North Texas — CSS/Cox Sports Television, 7:30 p.m. (Tom Dore/Bob Donewald)
Arkansas State vs. Florida Atlantic/Troy — CSS/Cox Sports Television, 10 p.m. (Tom Dore/Bob Donewald)

West Coast Conference Tournament, Las Vegas, NV
Semifinals
Gonzaga vs. Loyola Marymount — ESPN2, 9 p.m. (Dave Flemming/Sean Farnham)
St. Mary’s vs. San Diego — ESPN2, 11:30 p.m. (Dave Flemming/Sean Farnham)

Women’s

ACC Tournament, Greensboro, NC
Semifinals
Florida State vs. Duke — Fox Sports Net-regional (Florida/South/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic Plus), 1 p.m. (Mike Hogewood/Debbie Antonelli)
North Carolina vs. Maryland — Fox Sports Net (Florida/South/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic), 3:30 p.m. (Mike Hogewood/Debbie Antonelli)

Big East Tournament, Hartford, CT
Second Round
St. John’s vs. Seton Hall — Big East Network, noon (Bob Picozzi/Brooke Weisbrod/Allison Williams)
Rutgers vs. South Florida — Big East Network, 2:30 p.m. (Bob Picozzi/Broke Weisbrod/Allison Williams)
DePaul vs. Marquette — Big East Network, 6 p.m. (Bog Picozzi/LaChina Robinson/Allison Williams)
Villanova vs. Georgetown — Big East Network, 8:30 p.m. (Bob Picozzi/LaChina Robinson/Allison Williams)

Big Ten Tournament, Hoffman Estates, IL
Semifinals
Nebraska vs. Purdue — Big Ten Network, 5 p.m. (Kevin Kugler/Stephanie White/Lisa Byington)
Penn State vs. Michigan State — Big Ten Network, 7:30 p.m. (Kevin Kugler/Stephanie White/Lisa Byington)

Big 12 Tournament, Dallas, TX
Quarterfinals
Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State — Fox Sports Net, noon (Ron Thulin/Brenda Van Lengen)
Baylor vs. Kansas State — Fox Sports Net, 2:30 p.m. (Ron Thulin/Brenda VanLengen)
Iowa State vs. Kansas — Fox Sports Net, 7 p.m. (Ron Thulin/Brenda Van Lengen)
Oklahoma vs. West Virginia — Fox Sports Net, 9:30 p.m. (Ron Thulin/Brenda Van Lengen)

Pac-12 Tournament, Seattle, WA
Semifinals
UCLA vs. Cal — Pac-12 Network, 9 p.m. (Anne Marie Anderson/Tammy Blackburn/Krista Blunk)
Stanford vs. Colorado — Pac-12 Network, 11:30 p.m. (Anne Marie Anderson/Tammy Blackburn/Krista Blunk)

SEC Tournament, Duluth, GA
Semifinals
Tennessee vs. Texas A&M — ESPNU, 4 p.m. (Cara Capuano/Nell Fortner)
Kentucky vs. Georgia — ESPNU, 6:30 p.m. (Cara Capuano/Nell Fortner)

noon
Georgia Tech at Boston College — ACC Network (Dwayne Ballen/Cory Alexander)
Minnesota at Purdue — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Jim Jackson)
Florida at Kentucky — CBS (Ian Eagle/Jim Spanarkel)
UAB at Memphis — CBS Sports Network (Dave Ryan/Pete Gillen)
Syracuse at Georgetown — ESPN (Sean McDonough/Jay Bilas/Bill Raftery)
Providence at UConn — ESPNU (Beth Mowins/Tim Welsh)

1:30 p.m.
Iowa State at West Virginia — Big 12 Network (Brad Sham/Rich Zvosec)
Kansas State at Oklahoma State — Big 12 Network (Mitch Holthus/Bryndon Manzer)
LaSalle at Saint Louis — NBC Sports Network (Mike Corey/Dave Kaplan)
Mississippi at LSU — SEC Network (Clay Matvick/Joe Dean)
South Carolina at Vanderbilt — SEC Network (Joe Davis/Barry Booker)

2 p.m.
Dayton at George Washington — A-10 Network (Todd Bell/Tony White)
Pittsburgh at DePaul — Big East Network (Anish Shroff/Bob Wenzel)
UCLA at Washington — CBS (Brian Anderson/Doug Gottlieb)
UMass at URI — Cox Sports RI (Mike Mancuso/Chris DiSano)
Marquette at St. John’s — ESPN (Mike Patrick/Len Elmore)
North Carolina State at Florida State — ESPN2 (Dave O’Brien/Doris Burke)
Texas A&M at Arkansas — ESPNU (Tom Hart/Matt Doherty)

2:15 p.m.
Nebraska at Iowa — Big Ten Network (Wayne Larrivee/Shon Morris)

2:30 p.m.
Clemson at Miami (FL) — ACC Network (Tim Brant/Bobby Cremins)
Oregon at Utah — Pac-12 Network (Ted Robinson/Ernie Kent)

3:30 p.m.
San Diego State at Boise State — NBC Sports Network (Paul Burmeister/Blaine Fowler)

4 p.m.
South Florida at Cincinnati — Big East Network (Mike Couzens/Sean Kearney)
Texas at Texas Tech — Big 12 Network (Dave Armstrong/Stephen Howard)
Notre Dame at Louisville — CBS (Verne Lundquist/Mike Gminski)
Missouri at Tennessee — ESPN (Mark Jones/Jimmy Dykes)
Georgia at Alabama — SEC Network (Dave Baker/Jon Sundvold)

4:30 p.m.
Arizona State at Arizona — Fox Sports Net-national (Justin Kutcher/Marques Johnson) (Clair Wyant forced me to include this)
Oregon State at Colorado — Pac-12 Network (Rich Cellini/Dan Belloumini)

5 p.m.
Oklahoma at TCU — Fox Sports Southwest/Fox Sports Arizona Plus (Brian Estridge/John Denton)

5:30 p.m.
Auburn at Mississippi State — Fox Sports Net-regional (Florida/South/Southwest) (Dave Neal/Larry Conley)
Cornell at Harvard — NBC Sports Network (Randy Moss/Dalen Cuff)

6 p.m.
Kansas at Baylor — ESPN (Jon Sciambi/Fran Fraschilla)

6:30 p.m.
Xavier at Butler — CBS Sports Network (Brad Johansen/John Griffin)
USC at Washington State — Pac-12 Network (JB Long/Lamar Hurd)

7 p.m.
Long Beach State at Pacific — Fox College Sports Pacific/Fox Sports West (Mike Pomeranz/Jud Buechler/Cheryl Gorman)

8:30 p.m.
Nevada at Colorado State — CBS Sports Network (Andrew Catalon/Steve Lappas/Lauren Gardner)

9 p.m.
Duke at North North Carolina — ESPN/ESPN 3D (Dan Shulman/Jay Bilas/Dick Vitale/Samantha Ponder)

Sunday, March 10

Studio Shows
ACC Sunday Night — ESPNU, 5:30 p.m.
College Basketball Live — ESPNU, 8 p.m.

Conference Tournaments
Men’s

Big South Championship, Myrtle Beach, SC
Charleston Southern vs. Liberty — ESPN2, noon (Mark Neely/LaPhonso Ellis)

CAA Tournament, Richmond, VA
Semifinals
Northeastern vs. George Mason — NBC Sports Network, 2 p.m. (Todd Harris/Ron Thompson/Mike Corey)
Delaware vs. James Madison — NBC Sports Network, 4:30 p.m. (Todd Harris/Ron Thompson/Mike Corey)

Missouri Valley Conference Championship, St. Louis, MO
Creighton vs. Wichita State — CBS, 2 p.m. (Tim Brando/Bill Raftery)

Summit League Tournament, Sioux Falls, SD
Quarterfinals
Oakland vs. IFPW — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 7 p.m. (Brad Niemann/Tom Newitt)
North Dakota State vs. Missouri-Kansas City — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 9:30 p.m. (Brad Niemann/Tom Newitt)

Sun Belt Conference Tournament, Hot Springs, AR
Semifinals
Florida International vs. Middle Tennessee — CSS/Cox Sports Television, 7:30 p.m. (Tom Dore/Bob Donewald)
Western Kentucky vs. Arkansas State — CSS/Cox Sports Television, 10 p.m. (Tom Dore/Bob Donewald)

Women’s

ACC Championship, Greensboro, NC
Duke vs. North Carolina — ESPN2, 2 p.m. (Pam Ward/Debbie Antonelli)

A-10 Tournament, Philadelphia, PA
Semifinals
Dayton vs. St. Joseph’s — CBS Sports Network, 1:30 p.m. (John Sadak/Julianne Viani)
Temple vs. Fordham — CBS Sports Network, 4 p.m. (John Sadak/Julianne Viani)

Big East Tournament, Hartford, CT
Quarterfinals
Louisville vs. St. John’s — ESPNU, noon (Beth Mowins/Brooke Weisbrod/Allison Williams)
Notre Dame vs. South Florida — ESPNU, 2:30 p.m. (Beth Mowins/Brooke Weisbrod/Allison Williams)
UConn vs. DePaul — Big East Network/ESPN3, 6 p.m. (Bob Picozzi/LaChina Robinson/Allison Williams)
Syracuse vs. Villanova — ESPNU, 8:30 p.m. (Bob Picozzi/LaChina Robinson/Allison Williams)

Big Ten Championship, Hoffman Estates, IL
Purdue vs. Michigan State — ESPN2, 4 p.m. (Adam Amin/Stephanie White)

Big 12 Tournament, Dallas, TX
Semifinals
Oklahoma State vs. Baylor — Fox Sports Net-national, 2 p.m. (Ron Thulin/Brenda VanLengen)
Iowa State vs. Oklahoma — Fox Sports Net-national, 4:30 p.m. (Ron Thulin/Brenda VanLengen)

Pac-12 Championship, Seattle, WA
UCLA vs. Stanford — ESPN2, 8 p.m. (Roxy Bernstein/Mary Murphy)

SEC Championship, Duluth, GA
Kentucky vs. Texas A&M — ESPN2, 6 p.m. (Cara Capuano/Nell Fortner)

noon
Wisconsin at Penn State — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Sean Harrington)
VCU at Temple — CBS (Kevin Harlan/Dan Bonner/Reggie Miller)

12:30 p.m.
Illinois at Ohio State — ESPN (Bob Wischusen/Dan Dakich)

2 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Wake Forest — ACC Network (Steve Martin/Cory Alexander)

4 p.m.
Indiana at Michigan — CBS (Jim Nantz/Clark Kellogg)

6 p.m.
Northwestern at Michigan State — Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler/Tim Doyle)
Maryland at Virginia — ESPNU (Carter Blackburn/Jay Williams)

ESPN’s 2013 Championship Week To Include 136 Men’s Basketball Games

We’re fast approaching the college basketball conference tournaments and some really fun games. Teams that are on the bubble hope to improve their NCAA Tournament selection chances, while those teams firmly assured of a birth hope to improve on their seeding or hope not to get knocked off a certain line.

With the networks of ESPN not having the rights to the NCAA Tournament, this is the next best thing to having the Big Dance. ESPN has the rights to most of the major conference tournaments including the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC.

And the announcing assignments for the “BCS” conferences are as follows:

ACC Tournament (Greensboro, NC): Dan Shulman on 7 games working with Sean Farnham on four games, Doris Burke on one semifinal and Dick Vitale on a semifinal game and the Championship. Dave O’Brien and Doris work the other four games. Sideline reporters will be Allison Williams on four games, Jeannine Williams on 7.

Big East Tournament (New York, NY): Sean McDonough, Jay Bilas, Bill Raftery and Andy Katz call eight games including the semifinals and Championship. Mike Patrick and Len Elmore work the other five tournament games.

Big Ten Tournament (Chicago, IL): Mike Tirico, Dan Dakich and Samantha Ponder will work four tournament games. CBS has the rights to the semifinals and finals.

Big 12 Tournament (Kansas City, MO): Brent Musburger, Fran Fraschilla and Holly Rowe work five games including the semifinals and Championship.

Pac-12 Tournament (Las Vegas, NV): Dave Pasch and Bill Walton call one quarterfinal, one semifinal and the Championship. Samantha Ponder joins Pasch and Walton for the Championship.

SEC Tournament (Nashville, TN): Brad Nessler, Jimmy Dykes and Shannon Spake will call seven tournament games including the semifinals and Championship on ABC.

Let’s look at what ESPN is saying about Championship Week.

Championship Week: 136 Overall Men’s Games

Includes Pac-12 Title Game for First Time as Part of Crowning of 23 Champions

ESPN’s 2013 Championship Week will showcase 136 men’s college basketball conference tournament games across ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3 from Wednesday, March 6 to Sunday, March 17. ESPN3 will simulcast 37 of the matchups that are available in the local markets via syndication. Coverage highlights:

• For the first time, ESPN will televise Pac-12 Tournament games, covering a quarterfinal, semifinal and the Championship. In addition to ESPN’s telecast, ESPN Deportes will televise the Pac-12 title game. As part of a 12-year agreement with the conference, ESPN will televise one conference quarterfinal and semifinal game, and the championship every other year.
• The networks will combine to offer coverage of 23 Division I conference title games and action from 25 conferences overall.
• This season will mark ESPN’s 28th, ESPN2’s 19th and ESPNU’s eighth year of comprehensive coverage. ESPN will televise 20 games, ESPN2 24, ESPNU 19 and ABC three games, while ESPN3 will offer a platform record 29 exclusive contests.
• ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3 will combine to provide action of multiple men’s games from several top conferences, including all 13 of the BIG EAST games; all 11 of the SEC and ACC; all nine from the Big 12 and four from the Big Ten.

ESPN3 will tip off Championship Week with coverage of the Atlantic Sun Conference Quarterfinals with two games each on Wednesday, March 6 and Thursday, March 7. The matchups will tip off at 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. ET on both days. Championship Week will conclude on Sunday, March 17 with the ACC (ESPN) and SEC (ABC) title games at 1 p.m. Additional platform coverage:

• ESPN Buzzer Beater will provide live cut-ins, highlights and up-to-the-minute commentary from numerous Championship Week games from across the ESPN networks on Thursday, March 14 and Friday, March 15.
• The entire Championship Week coverage will also be available via WatchESPN, which delivers live access to ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3 and ESPN Buzzer Beater/Goal Line on computers, smartphones, tablets and Xbox to fans who receive ESPN’s linear networks as part of their video subscription. The WatchESPN app is available free to download for iOS, Android and Kindle Fire devices in the App Store, Google Play Store and Amazon Appstore for Android. It is also accessible online at WatchESPN.com and through ESPN on Xbox LIVE to Gold members.
• ESPN 3D will offer coverage of all 11 ACC tournament matchups.
• ESPN International will offer extensive coverage, reaching 152 countries and territories on ESPN America – Great Britain (41 games), ESPN America – Europe (33  games), ESPN America -Middle East (32 games), ESPN2 Caribbean (22  games), ESPN Pac Rim (3 games), ESPN2 Australia (25 games), ESPN Atlantic (14 games), ESPN Middle East (20 games) and ESPN Brazil HD (9 games).

Week Concludes with Extensive Day-Long Coverage
The final day of Championship Week – Selection Sunday, March 17 – will begin at noon with College Basketball Live on ESPN, followed by the ACC Championship (on ESPN) and SEC Championship (on ABC), both at 1 p.m. Extensive coverage of the men’s NCAA Championship selection will include a three-hour Bracketology at 3 p.m. and a two-hour edition at 7 p.m., both on ESPN. ESPN will also offer selection coverage during SportsCenter at 6 p.m.ESPNU will televise the seventh annual NIT Selection Show at 9 p.m. and a three-hour Tournament Countdown edition of The Experts at 9:30 p.m.

Debut of Documentary Survive And Advance
ESPN’s Selection Sunday coverage on March 17 will conclude with the ESPN Films 30 for 30 documentary Survive And Advance, focusing on NC State’s 1983 season, at 9 p.m. When the 1982-83 college basketball season began, Jim Valvano and his NC State Wolfpack faced high expectations with equally high aspirations. But with ten losses for the season, the Wolfpack’s only hope of making the NCAA Tournament was to win the ACC Tournament and earn the conference’s automatic berth. Nine straight improbable tournament wins later over the likes of Sampson, Jordan, Olajuwon and Drexler, NC State had “survived and advanced” its way to a national championship. In Survive and Advance, director Jonathan Hock takes a poignant look through the eyes of senior captain Dereck Whittenburg at a dream fulfilled and explores what at times has been a tragic and heartbreaking aftermath in the 30 years since.

Commentator Notes

• BIG EAST: Sean McDonough, Jay Bilas, Bill Raftery and Andy Katz will pair up to call eight  BIG EAST games, including the semifinals and championship. Mike Patrick and Len Elmore will work the remaining five games.
• ACC: Dan Shulman will call seven of the ACC games, including the semifinals and championship. He will work four games with analyst Sean Farnham, a semifinal with Doris Burke and a semifinal and championship with Dick Vitale. Dave O’Brien, Burke and reporter Allison Williams will pair up on four games. Jeannine Edwards will report on seven including the semifinals and championship.
• Pac-12: Dave Pasch and Bill Walton will call all three of ESPN’s Pac-12 telecasts with reporter Samantha Ponder joining them on the championship.
• Big 12 & SEC: Brad Nessler, Jimmy Dykes and Shannon Spake will call seven SEC games including semifinals and title game on ABC, while Brent Musburger, Fran Fraschilla and Holly Rowe will work five Big 12 telecasts.
• Big Ten: Mike Tirico, Dan Dakich and Samantha Ponder will call the four Big Ten telecasts.

ESPN.com
ESPN.com’s Championship Week index page will feature news, analysis, information and results for every conference tournament as well as previews, in-depth expert examination and key storylines for select conferences. ESPN.com’s Bubble Watch with writer Eamonn Brennan will give fans an in-depth look at teams on the bubble and the latest developments on NCAA tournament selection status. In addition, writers will file stories from several tournament sites, including the ACC, BIG EAST, Big Ten, Mountain West, Pac-12 and SEC. ESPN.com’s Bracketologist Joe Lunardi will also update and adjust his Bracketology projections and outlook daily.

ESPN Radio: Greenberg & Greenberg Tips Off Championship Week
ESPN Radio’s Championship Week coverage will begin with the inaugural Greenberg & Greenberg in the Morning show on Friday, March 8 (6-10 a.m. ET simulcast on ESPN2). Mike & Mike in the Morning co-host Mike Greenberg will be joined by former Virginia Tech men’s head basketball coach Seth Greenberg for a hoops-heavy four-hour broadcast.

The Network’s play-by-play coverage will include the Big 12 Semifinals and Championship (March 15-16) for the fourth straight season, and every game of the ACC Tournament (March 14-17) for the second year.

Studio coverage will feature the SportsCenter Tonight Selection Sunday Special with Bram Weinstein and Dan Dakich on Sunday, March 17 from 6:30 p.m. (immediately after Knicks-Clippers NBA broadcast) to 10 p.m. featuring analysis of the brackets and interviews with tournament bound coaches and players.

Additionally, regularly scheduled ESPN Radio programming will include previews and reviews of key games, analysis by ESPN experts, and interviews with coaches and players preparing for the NCAA Tournament.

And after a jump break, I’ll provide the entire ESPN Family of Networks Championship Week schedule. Get ready to scroll.

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ESPN2 Airs BNP Paribas Showdown At MSG

As part of today’s World Tennis Day festivities, ESPN2 will air the BNP Paribas Showdown. It will join the action at Madison Square Garden in New York in progress at 9 p.m. ET. The exhibition matches will include a matchup between the women’s world #1 and #2 ranked players, Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams and one between the returning Rafael Nadal and Juan Martin del Potro.

Chris Fowler will call the matches and be joined by Cliff Drysdale, Mary Jo Fernandez and Patrick McEnroe. ESPN3 will start the coverage at 7 p.m. with ESPN2 joining at 9 p.m.

Here are the particulars of the coverage from ESPN.

Tennis’ BNP Paribas Showdown Live from MSG on March 4

No. 1 Serena vs. No. 2 Azarenka in US Open Rematch
Nadal – Sidelined July-February – in First U.S. Match in 11 Months vs. Del Potro

ESPN3 and ESPN2 will present live the BNP Paribas Showdown 2013 from Madison Square Garden in New York on Monday, March 4, with two star-studded matches:  a US Open rematch between the world’s top two ranked players, Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka followed by Rafael Nadal – who recently returned to action after being sidelined since Wimbledon last summer – facing former US Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro.

ESPN holds exclusive live rights to the matches, and ESPN3 will begin at 7 p.m. ET with ESPN2 joining at 9 p.m. Chris Fowler will call the matches with Cliff Drysdale, Mary Joe Fernandez and Patrick McEnroe. The Nadal-Del Potro match will also be available on broadband in the U.S. in Spanish on ESPN Deportes +.

“The BNP Paribas Showdown – with top stars in compelling matchups from a venue rich in tennis history – launches a great month of tennis from ESPN, crisscrossing the country from Indian Wells to Miami and in early April the Family Circle Cup from Charleston,” said Jason Bernstein, senior director, programming and acquisitions in ESPN’s programming department. “We enjoyed a successful start to the year with the Australian Open, and ESPN is there with a year-round narrative, showcasing the deepest tennis schedule on television, broadband and via WatchESPN for fans on the go.”

Williams, holder of 15 major titles, regained the world’s top ranking after last week’s WTA event in Qatar, despite losing to Azarenka in the final 7-6 (6), 2-6, 6-3. Azarenka, winner of the last two Australian Open championships, is now ranked No. 2. The two return to New York, where Williams defeated Azarenka in last September’s thrilling three-set US Open final.

Nadal, who counts seven French Open titles among his 11 major victories, recently returned to action after a seven-month hiatus because of injury. He recently reached the final of both singles and doubles in his first comeback event and is ranked No. 5 in the world.  He has not competed in the U.S. since playing in Miami last March.  Del Potro, the 2009 US Open champ, is currently ranked No. 7.

The BNP Paribas Showdown from MSG will air live internationally on ESPN’s networks in more than 130 countries and over 47 million households throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, UK, Middle East, Africa and the Pacific Rim, including on ESPN Latin America in Del Potro’s home country of Argentina.  In addition, ESPN’s broadband players in Latin America & the Caribbean (ESPN Play) and Australia & New Zealand (ESPN3) will also stream live simulcast coverage of this event.

That’s it.

A Late Friday Night/Early Saturday Morning Sports Media Notebook

Let’s do a notebook tonight, shall we? If I can’t do linkage and it always seems something gets in the way these days, I might as well do a notebook.

I’ll try to provide as many links and stories as possible here.

• Interesting story from The Big Lead. The daily 9 a.m.-3 p.m. ET SportsCenter block on ESPN is going to get a bit of a facelift. Jason McIntyre reports that instead of two shifts of three hours, ESPN will go to three two hour blocks. Kevin Negandhi and Hannah Storm will continue to be the combination to start off the block, but instead of going from 9 a.m.-noon, they’ll be reduced by one hour. Chris McKendry/Jay Crawford and Sage Steele/David Lloyd will be the other two weekday teams. ESPN has not confirmed the report, but The Big Lead’s confidence on this story is quite high.
• Here’s another story from The Big Lead. This upcoming season is the last year in Tim McCarver’s contract with MLB on Fox. Jason McIntyre gets comment from Fox on this.
• Add Cablevision to DirecTV and Verizon Fios to the providers tacking on a surcharge on subscribers who have packages with sports regional networks. In Cablevision’s case, it’s a $2.98 monthly fee that begins in April. Mike Farrell of Multichannel News says the surcharge is for subscribers who have the MSG Networks, SNY and YES RSN’s. This is the providers’ pushback on increasing subscriber fees from RSN’s which come as a result of high media rights for various professional teams. We’ll see if there’s any outcry from subscribers.
• ESPN Radio hack Colin Cowherd continues to say stupid things about the Midwest, this time about Indiana Pacers fans. This guy really needs to shut up.
• Joe Posnanski has been officially hired by NBC Sports to become its main columnist on its website and be featured on its multiple platforms. Ed Sherman of The Sherman Report wonders if this is the right move for Posnanski who left the fledgling Sports on Earth site after less than a year.
• Speaking of Ed, he speaks with Jim Romenesko about blogging for little to no money, something I’m quite familiar with.
• From David Goetzl of MediaPost comes this analysis of a lawsuit brought forth by Dish Network against ESPN. Very good background on a dispute that has been simmering for quite some time.
• To Sports Video Group where we have an interesting look at how ESPN3 produces a women’s college basketball that will be streamed on its platform.
• A few items from Paulsen at Sports Media Watch. First, NBA All-Star Saturday on TNT hit a three-year low, but still is among the best ratings ever for the event. Despite Danica Patrick, still not a good start for Fox for the Daytona 500 Speedweeks. And Paulsen has some various ratings news and notes.
• Ken McMillan at the Middletown (NY) Times Herald has the Arena Football League schedule on CBS Sports Network for the 2013 season. CBSSN takes over the rights after the AFL had been on NFL Network from 2010-2012. CBS will have the Arena Bowl in August.
• Robert Feder at TimeOut Chicago notes that Comcast SportsNet has ended its partnership with the Chicago Tribune and will rebrand its roundtable show as SportsTalk Live.
• Bruce Dowbiggin at the Toronto Globe and Mail reviews the first week of TSN’s new radio format and its new afternoon drive host.
• Could the NFL move the Draft to May into a ratings sweeps period? Tim Baysinger of Broadcasting & Cable says it’s entirely possible.
• By the way, this is not necessarily sports media, but it’s related. NBC definitely misses Sunday Night Football. Since the NFL season ended, the Peacock is having a hard time attracting viewers. The network will finish in 5th place in the 18-49 demographic for the February sweeps. Dominic Patten of Deadline notes that NBC will finish below CBS, Fox, ABC and wait for it…. Univision for the first time in its history. It’s not been a good 2013 for NBC thus far.
• This week, Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss passed away at the age of 80. He was first in the L.A. market to televise all of his team’s games creating the Prime Ticket regional sports network to air all of the Lakers’ home games and putting the road games on an over the air station. Before his passing, the Lakers went a step further in creating another RSN, Time Warner Cable SportsNet and doing two feeds, one in English and another in Spanish, another innovation. Jim Carlisle of the Ventura County Star looks at the impact Buss had on sports television.
• Media Life Magazine notes a new study which shows low recall of Super Bowl ads, something the NFL TV partners and its sponsors do not want to hear.
• Jonah Keri at Grantland says MLB has opened up the vault and released some of its old highlights.
• Formula 1′s ratings are down worldwide, a concern for the sport.

I think that’s where I’ll end things for now.

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 02/23 & 02/24/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports

Saturday, February 22

Pregame & Studio Shows
College GameDay live from Lexington, KY — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m.
75 Years of NCAA March Madness: Top 10 Upsets — CBS, 1 p.m.
75 Years of NCAA March Madness: Top 10 Champs That Never Were — CBS, 1:30 p.m.
Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, 6:30 p.m.
College GameDay live from Lexington, KY — ESPN, 8 p.m.
College Basketball Live — ESPN2, midnight

BracketBusters
Iona at Indiana State — ESPNU, 11 a.m. (Doug Sherman/Sean Harrington)
Pacific at Western Michigan — ESPN3, 1 p.m. (Dan Gutowsky/Nate Ross)
Canisius at Vermont — ESPN3, 1 p.m. (Ed Cohen/Rob Kennedy)
Eastern Kentucky at Valparaiso — ESPNU, 1 p.m. (Jim Barbar/Brooke Weisbrod)
Montana at Davidson — ESPNU, 3 p.m. (Ray Philpott/Paul Biancardi)
Northwestern State at Niagara — ESPN3, 3 p.m. (Mike Gleason/Daymeon Fishback)
Detroit at Wichita State — ESPN2, 4 p.m. (Dave Lamont/Darrin Horn)
Creighton at St. Mary’s — ESPN, 6 p.m. (Mark Jones/Jimmy Dykes)
South Dakota State at Murray State — ESPN2, 8 p.m. (Roxy Bernstein/Mark Adams)
Denver at Northern Iowa — ESPN3, 8 p.m. (Mike Couzens/Rich Zvosec)
Ohio at Belmont — ESPN2, 10 p.m. (Mike Crispino/Malcolm Huckaby)

noon
Seton Hall at Louisville — Big East Network (Anish Shroff/Bob Wenzel)
Clemson at Maryland — ESPN2 (Carter Blackburn/Jay Williams)

Women’s: Johnson C. Smith at Shaw — CBS Sports Network
Women’s: Akron at Kent State — STO (Mike Cairns/Jackie Windon)

1 p.m.
Southern Mississippi at Memphis — Fox Sports Net-national (Ron Thulin/Perry Clark/Jenn Hildreth)
Miami (FL) at Wake Forest — Fox Sports Net-regional (Carolinas/Detroit Plus/Florida/South/Tennessee/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic Plus/NESN) (Rich Waltz/Eddie Fogler)

Women’s: Wisconsin at Northwestern — Big Ten Network (Lisa Byington/Shelley Till/Kara Lentz)
Women’s: Texas at Baylor — Fox Sports Southwest/Fox College Sports (Kris Radcliffe/Jim Haller)

1:30 p.m.
Texas Tech at Iowa State — Big 12 Network (Dave Armstrong/Stephen Howard)
Alabama at LSU — SEC Network (Joe Davis/Barry Booker)
Vanderbilt at Mississippi State — SEC Network (Dave Baker/Jon Sundvold)

2 p.m.
South Carolina at Georgia — CBS (Spero Dedes/Doug Gottlieb)
Virginia Commonwealth at Xavier — CBS Sports Network (Brad Johansen/Steve Wolf)
Oklahoma State at West Virginia — ESPN2 (Jon Sciambi/Fran Fraschilla)

Women’s: Syracuse at South Florida — Big East Network (Bob Picozzi/LaChina Robinson)

3 p.m.
Washington State at Arizona — Fox Sports Net-national (Steve Physioc/Marques Johnson)

Women’s: Indiana at Illinois — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Stephanie White)
Women’s: Iowa State at Kansas State — Fox Sports Midwest/Fox College Sports Pacific (Brian Smoller/Missy Heidrick)
Women’s: Oklahoma State at Oklahoma — Fox Sports-regional (Detroit Plus/North Plus/Oklahoma Plus/Southwest) (Mike Wolfe/Casey Kendrick)

4 p.m.
TCU at Kansas — Big 12 Network (Mitch Holthus/Reid Gettys)
Georgetown at Syracuse — CBS (Tim Brando/Bill Raftery)
George Washington at St. Joseph’s — Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Chicago/Mid-Atlantic Plus)/CSS/The Comcast Network (Scott Graham/Joe Lunardi)
William & Mary at George Mason — Comcast SportsNet (Houston/Mid-Atlantic/Northwest/Philadelphia) (Al Koken/Ron Thompson)
North Carolina State at North Carolina — ESPN (Dave O’Brien/Doris Burke)
New Mexico at Colorado State — NBC Sports Network (Steve Schlanger/Stan Van Gundy)
Tennessee at Texas A&M — SEC Network (Clay Matvick/Joe Dean)

Women’s: Seton Hall at UConn — SNY

5 p.m.
Baylor at Oklahoma — ESPNU (Brad Sham/Bob Valvano)
Auburn at Mississippi — Fox Sports Net-regional (Detroit/Midwest/North/Prime Ticket/San Diego/South/Southwest/Sun Sports) (Dave Neal/Larry Conley)
Binghamton at New Hampshire — WBIN/Fox College Sports Central (Mike Murphy/Bob Lipman)
Santa Clara at Portland — WCC TV (Ari Wolfe/Brad Holland)

6 p.m.
Marquette at Villanova — ESPN2 (Mike Patrick/Len Elmore)
Nevada at San Diego State — NBC Sports Network (Todd Harris/Blaine Fowler)
Cal at Oregon State — Pac-12 Network (JB Long/Lamar Hurd)

7 p.m.
Arkansas at Florida — ESPNU (Tom Hart/Matt Doherty)

8 p.m.
UConn at DePaul — Big East Network (Lou Canellis/Sean Kearney)
Harvard at Yale — CBS Sports Network (Don Criqui/Alaa Abdelnaby)
Kansas State at Texas — Longhorn Network (Paul Sunderland/Bruce Bowen/Kaylee Hartung)
Stanford at Oregon — Pac-12 Network (Ted Robinson/Ernie Kent)

8:30 p.m.
Weber State at Oral Roberts — Fox College Sports Pacific (Bob Carpenter/Mickey Michalec)

Women’s: Sacramento State at Northern Arizona — Fox Sports Arizona

9 p.m.
Missouri at Kentucky — ESPN/ESPN 3D (Dan Shulman/Dick Vitale/Samantha Ponder)
Providence at Rutgers — ESPNU (Beth Mowins/Tim Welsh)

11 p.m.
Washington at Arizona State — ESPNU (Dave Flemming/Sean Farnham)

Sunday, February 24

noon
Pittsburgh at St. John’s — Big East Network (Eamon McAnaney/John Celestand)
Lehigh at Lafayette — CBS Sports Network (Bob Socci/Chris Spatola)

1 p.m.
Illinois at Michigan — ESPN (Bob Wischusen/Dan Dakich)

Women’s: Michigan at Penn State — Big Ten Network (Lisa Byington/Patricia Babcock-McGraw/Dave Leno)
Women’s: Purdue at Minnesota — ESPN2 (Jim Barbar/Maria Taylor)
Women’s: Texas Tech at Kansas — Fox Sports Net-national (Ron Thulin/Brenda VanLengen)
Women’s: Miami at Georgia Tech — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Carolinas/Detroit Plus/North Plus/Prime  Ticket/South/Tennessee/Sun Sports/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic) (Mike Hogewood/Christy Winters-Scott)

1:30 p.m.
Women’s: North Carolina State at North Carolina — ESPNU (Roy Philpott/LaChina Robinson)

2 p.m.
Boston College at Duke — ACC Network (Tim Brant/Cory Alexander)
Georgia Tech at Virginia — ACC Network (Tom Werme/Debbie Antonelli)
Cincinnati at Notre Dame — CBS (Ian Eagle/Jim Spanarkel)
LaSalle at URI — Comcas SportsNet Philadelphia/Cox Sports RI (Mike Mancuso/Chris DiSano)

Women’s: St. Bonaventure at George Washington — CBS Sports Network (John Sadak/Julianne Viani)
Women’s: Georgia at Mississippi — CSS/Comcast Sportsnet California (Matt Stewart/Joe Ciampi)
Women’s: Tennessee at Arkansas — SEC Network (Melissa Lee/Nell Fortner)

3 p.m.
Women’s: Iowa at Nebraska — Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler/Stephanie White)
Women’s: Duke at Maryland — ESPN2 (Pam Ward/Carolyn Peck)
Women’s: Arizona at Arizona State — Pac-12 Network (Ann Schatz/Kyndra de St. Aubin)

3:30 p.m.
UCLA at USC — Fox Sports Net-national (Justin Kutcher/Marques Johnson/Steve Kerr)

Women’s: Notre Dame at DePaul — ESPNU (Lou Canellis/Brooke Weisbrod)

4 p.m.
Michigan State at Ohio State — CBS (Kevin Harlan/Clark Kellogg)

4:30 p.m.
Women’s: James Madison at Delaware — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/CSS/The Comcast Network (Al Koken/Pam Roecker)

5 p.m.
Women’s: Texas A&M at Vanderbilt — ESPN2 (Adam Amin/Swin Cash)
Women’s: USC at UCLA — Pac-12 Network (Anne Marie Anderson/Tammy Blackburn)
Women’s: Oregon State at Cal — Pac-12 Network (Bay Area/Oregon/Washington) (Krista Blunk/Mary Murphy)

6 p.m.
Northwestern at Purdue — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Dan Bonner)
Florida State at Virginia Tech — ESPNU (Carter Blackburn/Jay Williams/Allison Williams)

7 p.m.
Old Dominion at Hofstra — Comcast SportsNet (California/Houston/Mid-Atlantic/Northwest)/CSS/SNY/The Comcast Network (Joe Beninati/John Feinstein)

Women’s: Oregon at Stanford — Pac-12 Network (Jim Watson/Rose Gold-Onwude)

8 p.m.
LIU-Brooklyn at Wagner — ESPNU (Bob Picozzi/Derek Whittenburg)

ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 14 Including Announcing Assignments

This week marks for all intents and purposes, the final week of conference play in college football. There are conference championships in the ACC, Big Ten, C-USA, MAC, Pac-12 and SEC. ESPN platforms will carry four of them either through TV or radio.

The ESPN family of networks also will air the regular season finales in conferences that don’t have championship games including the Big East, the Big 12 and Mountain West.

And with the Football Championship Subdivision in the midst of the second round of its playoffs, ESPN3 will be carrying games online from across the country.

We have the schedule for Week 14 across ESPN’s platforms.

Football Championship Week Highlighted by Games with Conference Championship & Bowl Bid Implications

ESPN’s college football “Championship Week” schedule will include games with conference championship and bowl bid implications, highlighted by five matchups in which the winning team will win the conference title.

• ESPN’s Thursday prime-time telecast on November 29 will pit Louisville at Rutgers in a BIG EAST matchup at 7:30 p.m. Rutgers will win the conference with a victory over Louisville. ABC will also televise Cincinnati at Connecticut on Saturday, Dec. 1, at 3:30 p.m. If Louisville and Cincinnati win and create a four-way tie for the championship, the higher-ranked team in the BCS Standings between Louisville and Rutgers will receive the conference’s BCS berth. The highest-ranked team in the BCS Standings between Louisville, Rutgers and Syracuse will receive the BCS bid with a Louisville and Connecticut victory.
• ESPN2 and ESPN Radio will each offer a conference championship game on Friday, Nov. 30:
  • ESPN2 will televise the MAC Football Championship, No. 21 Northern Illinois vs. No. 17 Kent State in a showdown of one-loss teams at 7 p.m. ET.
  • ESPN Radio will broadcast No. 16 UCLA at No. 8 Stanford in the Pac-12 Championship Game at 8 p.m.
• The lineup for Saturday, Dec. 1, will include ACC and Conference USA championship games and a matchup between the top two teams of the Sun Belt:
  • ESPN’s prime-time telecast will feature No. 13 Florida State vs. Georgia Tech in the ACC Championship Game at 8 p.m.
  • ESPN2 and ESPN 3D will televise Central Florida at Tulsa in a matchup of 9-3 teams in the Conference USA Championship Game at noon.
  • ESPN3 will carry Middle Tennessee at Arkansas State in a matchup for the Sun Belt Conference title at 3 p.m. Both teams have an 8-3 overall and 6-1 in conference record.
• Additional games with conference and bowl implications on Saturday, Dec. 1:
  • No. 6 Kansas State will host No. 18 Texas on the ABC Saturday Night Football broadcast at 8 p.m. One-loss Kansas State will clinch the Big 12 title and the conference’s automatic BCS berth with a win or a No. 11 Oklahoma loss. ESPN will televise Oklahoma at TCU Saturday, Dec. 1 at noon.
  • ABC will also broadcast No. 20 Boise State at Nevada at 3:30 p.m. Boise State can clinch a share of the Mountain West Conference title with a win.
• ESPN3 will carry eight games from the Football Championship Subdivision quarterfinals on Saturday, Dec. 1.

ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D and ESPN Radio Schedule

Date	Time (ET)	Game / Commentators	Network
Thu, Nov 29	7:30 p.m.	Louisville at Rutgers Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Steele	ESPN
Fri, Nov 30	7 p.m.	MAC Football Championship: No. 21 Northern Illinois vs. No. 17 Kent State (from Detroit) Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore & Jemele Hill	ESPN2
	8 p.m.	Pac-12 Championship Game: No. 16 UCLA at No. 8 Stanford Bill Rosinski, David Norrie, Joe Schad	ESPN Radio
Sat, Dec 1	Noon	No. 11 Oklahoma at TCU Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen & Shannon Spake	ESPN
	Noon	Conference USA Championship Game: UCF at Tulsa Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Jenn Brown	ESPN2 & ESPN 3D
	Noon	No. 23 Oklahoma State at Baylor Dave Lamont, Tom Ramsey, Ian Fitzsimmons	ESPN Radio
	2 p.m.	FCS Championship Second Round: New Hampshire at Wofford	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	FCS Championship Second Round: Coastal Carolina at Old Dominion	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	FCS Championship Second Round: Central Arkansas at Georgia Southern	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	FCS Championship Second Round: Illinois State at Appalachian State	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Middle Tennessee at Arkansas State Brock Bowling & Cole Cubelic	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	No. 20 Boise State at Nevada Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards	ABC & ESPN3 *
		Cincinnati at Connecticut Bob Wischusen, Danny Kanell & Maria Taylor	ABC & ESPN3 *
	4 p.m.	FCS Championship Second Round: South Dakota State at North Dakota State	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	FCS Championship Second Round: Cal Poly at Sam Houston State	ESPN3
	6 p.m.	FCS Championship Second Round: Wagner at Eastern Washington	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Pittsburgh at South Florida Mark Jones, Brock Huard & Quint Kessenich	ESPN2
	7 p.m.	FCS Championship Second Round: Stony Brook at Montana State	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	No. 18 Texas at No. 6 Kansas State Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe	ABC
	8 p.m.	ACC Championship Game: No. 13 Florida State vs. Georgia Tech (Charlotte) ESPN: Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather Cox Radio: Bill Rosinski, David Norrie, Joe Schad	ESPN & ESPN Radio

* Local blackout may apply

And the Fox Sports Media Group’s college football games for Week 14 will be posted next.

SEC/Big East Challenge Highlights ESPN’s College Basketball Games This Weekend

With college football winding down, college basketball is revving up. Starting on Thursday, the ESPN Family of Networks will be all over the SEC/Big East Challenge that lasts through Saturday.

In addition, there will be plenty of interconference games involving the ACC, A-10, the Big Ten, Big 12, Ivy League, Pac-12 and other leagues.

We have the schedule of games involving all ESPN platforms and announcing assignments. Take a look at what’s in store for college basketball on the ESPN Family below. It’s all in black and white for you.

Check it out.

Men’s College Hoops: Schedule Includes 12 SEC/BIG EAST Challenge Games Thursday-Saturday

ESPN’s upcoming men’s college basketball schedule of 25 games from Thursday, Nov. 29, to Sunday, Dec. 2, is highlighted by all 12 games of the 2nd annual SEC/BIG EAST Challenge. The three-day event includes three top-eight teams: defending national champion No. 8 Kentucky at Notre Dame, last season’s BIG EAST regular-season champion No. 6 Syracuse at Arkansas and Marquette at No. 7 Florida in a showdown of each conference’s 2012 second place finishers. The BIG EAST won the inaugural Challenge eight games to four.

In addition, ESPNU will televise four games involving at least one ranked team Saturday, Dec. 1: No. 3 Michigan at Bradley at 4 p.m., No. 14 North Carolina against UAB at 6 p.m., No. 9 Arizona at Texas Tech at 8 p.m. and No. 23 San Diego State vs. UCLA in the Wooden Classic at 10 p.m.

Date	Time (ET)	Game / Commentators	Network
Thu, Nov 29	7 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: No. 8 Kentucky at Notre Dame Dan Shulman & Dick Vitale	ESPN2
	7 p.m.	New Hampshire at Connecticut Bob Picozzi & Tim Welsh	ESPN3 & BIG EAST Network
	7:30 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: South Carolina at St. John’s Mike Crispino & Kara Lawson	ESPNU
	9 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Marquette at No. 7 Florida Dave Pasch & Fran Fraschilla	ESPN2
	9:30 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Seton Hall at LSU Tom Hart & Bob Valvano	ESPNU
Fri, Nov 30	6:30 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Tennessee at No. 20 Georgetown TBD & Bob Knight	ESPN
	7 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Georgia at South Florida Rich Hollenberg & Carolyn Peck	ESPNU
	8:30 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: No. 6 Syracuse at Arkansas Dave O’Brien & Jimmy Dykes	ESPN
	9 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: DePaul at Auburn Doug Bell & Stephen Howard	ESPNU
Sat, Dec 1	Noon	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Mississippi State at Providence Mike Crispino & Kara Lawson	ESPNU
	1 p.m.	NJIT at St. John’s	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Rutgers at Ole Miss Joe Davis & Joe Dean	ESPNU
	2 p.m.	Pennsylvania at Penn State Dave Leno & Nate Ross	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	No. 15 Oklahoma State at Virginia Tech Booker Corrigan & Cory Alexander	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Alabama at No. 17 Cincinnati Jon Sciambi & LaPhonso Ellis	ESPN2
	3 p.m.	St. Joseph’s at No. 11 Creighton Cory Provus & Mac McCausland	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	No. 3 Michigan at Bradley Jim Barbar & Bruce Pearl	ESPNU
	5 p.m.	SEC/BIG EAST Challenge: Villanova at Vanderbilt Bob Picozzi & Len Elmore	ESPN2
	6 p.m.	UAB at No. 14 North Carolina Clay Matvick & Jay Williams	ESPNU
	7 p.m.	Detroit at Pittsburgh Tim Neverett & Mark Adams	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	No. 9 Arizona at Texas Tech Roxy Bernstein & Stephen Bardo	ESPNU
	10 p.m.	Wooden Classic: No. 23 San Diego State vs. UCLA (Anaheim) Dave Flemming & Sean Farnham	ESPNU
	TBD	UT Arlington at Texas Kevin Dunn, Reid Gettys & Kat Kelly	Longhorn Network
Sun, Dec 2	Noon	Clemson at South Carolina Dari Nowkhah & Dino Gaudio	ESPNU
	2 p.m.	Mercer at Florida State	ESPN3

That is it for this post.

ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 13 Including Announcing Assignments

We have the Week 13 college football schedule for the ESPN family of networks for what will be the last full week of games. While next week will have some games, many will be Conference Championship games. But we’ll get to that next week.

This is what we have for Week 13 on the ESPN platforms.

Showdown Saturday: Top Rivalries, Last Two Unbeatens, Three Games between Ranked Squads, No. 1 Notre Dame Playing for BCS Title Slot

“Showdown Saturday” will include 16 of the teams in the BCS Standings across ESPN networks, top rivalries, the last two undefeated programs, matchups between ranked teams, Notre Dame competing for a spot in the BCS National Championship and more. Highlights for Saturday, Nov. 24:

• An ABC tripleheader of three of the nation’s top rivalries includes two unbeaten teams and a showdown between two top 10 teams, each with one loss:
  • Undefeated Ohio State will host rival No. 19 Michigan at noon ET. It marks the 109th meeting between the programs, and 95th straight, with Ohio State winning 8 of the past 10. Michigan won last year 40-34.
  • In a matchup of one-loss teams, No. 4 Florida will travel to No. 10 Florida State at 3:30 p.m. It will mark the 57th meeting between the in-state rivals. The week’s game is the first time in 12 years both teams will be ranked in the top 10 when they meet.
  • Undefeated No. 1 Notre Dame will take on USC for a shot at the Discover BCS National Championship at 8 p.m. It marks the 84th meeting between the squads with USC winning nine of the last 10 games against Notre Dame. The game will also be broadcast on ESPN Radio.
• ESPN’s tripleheader features three intrastate showdowns highlighted by two telecasts between ranked teams: No. 21 Oklahoma State at No. 13 Oklahoma at 3:30 p.m. (also on ESPN Radio) followed by two-loss No. 12 South Carolina at one-loss No. 11 Clemson at 7 p.m. The action kicks off with Georgia Tech at one-loss No. 3 Georgia at noon.

ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D and ESPN Radio Schedule

Date	Time (ET)	Game/Commentators	Network
Thursday, November 22	4 p.m.	Turkey Day Classic: Tuskegee vs. Alabama State Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU
	7:30 p.m.	TCU at No. 16 Texas Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Steele	ESPN
Friday, November 23	11 a.m.	Syracuse at Temple Tom Hart & John Congemi	ESPN2
	11 a.m.	Ohio at No. 23 Kent State Adam Amin & Tom Luginbill	ESPNU
	Noon	No. 14 Nebraska at Iowa Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards	ABC
	1 p.m.	Northern Illinois at Eastern Michigan Frank Giardina & Bob Chmeil	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Buffalo at Bowling Green Greg Franke & Tom Cole	ESPN3
	2:30 p.m.	No. 7 LSU at Arkansas	ESPN Radio
	3:30 p.m.	West Virginia at Iowa State Dave Lamont & Kelly Stouffer	ABC
	7 p.m.	South Florida at Cincinnati Mark Neely & Ray Bentley	ESPN
	10 p.m.	Arizona State at No. 24 Arizona Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore & Jemele Hill	ESPN
Saturday, November 24	Noon	No. 19 Michigan at Ohio State Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman & Quint Kessenich	ABC
	Noon	Georgia Tech at No. 3 Georgia Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Jenn Brown	ESPN & ESPN 3D
	Noon	No. 18 Rutgers at Pittsburgh Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway & Paul Carcaterra	ESPN2
	Noon	Virginia at Virginia Tech Tom Hart & John Congemi	ESPNU
	Noon	Kentucky at Tennessee Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	Noon	Connecticut at No. 20 Louisville Eamon McAnaney, David Diaz-Infante & Adam Amin	ESPN3 * & BIG EAST Network
	Noon	FCS First Round: Colgate at Wagner Bob Picozzi & Rene Ingoglia	ESPN3
	12:30 p.m.	Miami (Fla.) at Duke	ESPN3 * & ACC Network
	1 p.m.	North Texas at Western Kentucky	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	FCS First Round: Coastal Carolina at Bethune-Cookman Jim Barbar & Cory Chavous	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Boston College at NC State Frank Giardina & Forrest Conolly	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Maryland at North Carolina	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Idaho at Utah State Trey Bender & Jay Taylor	ESPN3 *
	3 p.m.	FCS First Round: Eastern Illinois at South Dakota State Shawn Kenney & John Bunting	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	FCS First Round: Villanova at Stony Brook Dan Gutowsky & John Gregory	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	No. 4 Florida at No. 10 Florida State Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe	ABC
	3:30 p.m.	No. 21 Oklahoma State at No. 13 Oklahoma ESPN: Bob Wischusen, Danny Kanell & Maria Taylor	ESPN & ESPN Radio
	3:30 p.m.	Wisconsin at Penn State Mark Jones, Brock Huard & Jessica Mendoza	ESPN2
	3:30 p.m.	Vanderbilt at Wake Forest Anish Shroff & Dan Hawkins	ESPNU
	3:30 p.m.	BYU at New Mexico State Peter Young & John Fina	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Troy at Middle Tennessee	ESPN3
	5 p.m.	South Alabama at Louisiana-Lafayette	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	No. 12 South Carolina at No. 11 Clemson Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen & Shannon Spake	ESPN
	7 p.m.	Missouri at No. 9 Texas A&M Steve Levy, Ed Cunningham & Kaylee Hartung	ESPN2
	7 p.m.	Mississippi State at Ole Miss Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb & Allison Williams	ESPNU
	8 p.m.	No. 1 Notre Dame at USC ABC: Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather Cox Radio: Bill Rosinski, David Norrie, and Joe Schad	ABC & ESPN Radio
	10:30 p.m.	Louisiana Tech at San Jose State Joe Davis & Tom Luginbill	ESPN2

* Local blackout may apply

That will do it.

ESPN Family Goes Wall-to-Wall College Basketball With Holiday Tournaments

This is the time of year that I love as a college basketball fan as games begin all over the place in exotic locations like Puerto Rico, Hawaii, the Bahamas and so many more.

ESPN’s networks will have coverage of 60 games between Thursday and next Tuesday. So many games on so many platforms including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3. Let’s take a look at the schedule for the next few days on the ESPN family.

Men’s College Hoops: Early Season Tournaments Highlight Schedule

ESPN’s men’s college basketball schedule for this week will be highlighted by extensive coverage of seven early season tournaments: Puerto Rico Tip-Off, Charleston Classic, 2K Sports Classic, Hall of Fame Tip-Off, Maui Invitational, Edward Jones CBE Hall of Fame Classic and Legends Classic. Overall, ESPN networks will cover 60 games from Thursday, Nov. 15 to Tuesday, Nov. 20.

ESPN’s annual Feast Week – celebrating all of the men’s matchups surrounding the Thanksgiving Holiday – will begin Monday, Nov. 19 and conclude Sunday, Nov. 25.

ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3 schedule through November 20

Thu, Nov 15	10:30 a.m.	Puerto Rico Tip-Off (Quarterfinal): Akron vs. Oklahoma State Doug Sherman & Dino Gaudio	ESPNU
	12:30 p.m.	Puerto Rico Tip-Off (Quarterfinal): UNC Asheville vs. Tennessee Doug Sherman & Dino Gaudio	ESPNU
	12:30 p.m.	Charleston Classic (Quarterfinal): Dayton vs. Colorado Bob Picozzi & Jay Williams	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Charleston Classic (Quarterfinal): No. 16 Baylor vs. Boston College Bob Picozzi & Jay Williams	ESPNU
	5 p.m.	Puerto Rico Tip-Off (Quarterfinal): No. 6 NC State vs. Penn State Jon Sciambi & Dan Dakich	ESPN2
	5 p.m.	Charleston Classic (Quarterfinal): St. John’s vs. College of Charleston Rich Hollenberg & Tim Welsh	ESPNU
	7 p.m.	2K Sports Classic (Semifinal #1): Alabama vs. Oregon State (New York City) Marc Kestecher, Len Elmore & Andy Katz	ESPN2
	7 p.m.	VMI at Virginia Tech John Sadak & Cory Alexander	ESPN3
	7:30 p.m.	Puerto Rico Tip-Off (Quarterfinal): Providence vs. Massachusetts Jon Sciambi & Dan Dakich	ESPNU
	8 p.m.	Charleston Classic (Quarterfinal): Murray State vs. Auburn Rich Hollenberg & Tim Welsh	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	Tennessee State at Minnesota Clay Matvick & Danny Schayes	ESPN3
	9 p.m.	2K Sports Classic (Semifinal #2): Villanova vs. Purdue (New York City) Marc Kestecher, Len Elmore & Andy Katz	ESPN2
Fri, Nov 16	10:30 a.m.	Puerto Rico Tip-Off (Semifinal #1): TBD Doug Sherman & Dino Gaudio	ESPNU
	12:30 p.m.	Charleston Classic (Semifinal #1): TBD Bob Picozzi & Jay Williams	ESPNU
	1 p.m.	Puerto Rico Tip-Off (Consolation): TBD Doug Sherman & Dino Gaudio	ESPN3
	2:30 p.m.	Charleston Classic (Consolation): TBD Bob Picozzi & Jay Williams	ESPNU
	5 p.m.	2K Sports Classic (3rd Place Game): TBD (New York City) Marc Kestecher, Len Elmore & Andy Katz	ESPN2 or ESPNU
	5 p.m.	Puerto Rico Tip-Off (Semifinal #2): TBD Jon Sciambi & Dan Dakich	ESPN2 or ESPNU
	5:30 p.m.	Charleston Classic (Semifinal #2): TBD Rich Hollenberg & Tim Welsh	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Clemson at Furman Mike Gleason & Nate Ross	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	LIU Brooklyn at Maryland Dave Weekley & Glenn Consor	ESPN3
	7:30 p.m.	2K Sports Classic (Championship): TBD (New York City) Marc Kestecher, Len Elmore & Andy Katz	ESPN2
	7:30 p.m.	Puerto Rico Tip-Off (Consolation): TBD Jon Sciambi & Dan Dakich	ESPN3
	7:30 p.m.	Charleston Classic (Consolation): TBD Rich Hollenberg & Tim Welsh	ESPN3
	11 p.m.	No. 11 North Carolina at Long Beach State Dave Flemming & Sean Farnham	ESPNU
Sat, Nov 17	4 p.m.	Seattle at Virginia Dave Weekley & Cory Alexander	ESPN3
	5 p.m.	Hall of Fame Tip-Off (Semifinal #1): No. 4 Ohio State vs. Rhode Island (Uncasville, Conn.) Mike Crispino & Dereck Whittenburg	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Hall of Fame Tip-Off (Semifinal #2): Washington vs. Seton Hall (Uncasville, Conn.) Mike Crispino & Dereck Whittenburg	ESPN3
Sun, Nov 18	11 a.m.	Puerto Rico Tip-Off (7th Place Game): TBD Doug Sherman & Dino Gaudio	ESPNU
	Noon	Charleston Classic (7th Place game): TBD Rich Hollenberg & Tim Welsh	ESPN3
	1:30 p.m.	Puerto Rico Tip-Off (5th Place Game): TBD Doug Sherman & Dino Gaudio	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Charleston Classic (5th Place game): TBD Rich Hollenberg & Tim Welsh	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Puerto Rico Tip-Off (3rd Place Game): TBD Jon Sciambi & Dan Dakich	ESPNU
	4:30 p.m.	Hall of Fame Tip-Off: Ohio State vs. Seton Hall or Washington (Uncasville, Conn.) Mike Crispino & Seth Greenberg	ESPN2
	6 p.m.	Charleston Classic (3rd Place game): TBD Bob Picozzi & Jay Williams	ESPNU
	6 p.m.	Cornell at No. 22 Wisconsin Mike Couzens & Mark Adams	ESPN3
	6:30 p.m.	Puerto Rico Tip-Off (Championship): TBD Jon Sciambi & Dan Dakich	ESPN2
	7 p.m.	Hall of Fame Tip-Off: Rhode Island vs. Seton Hall or Washington (Uncasville, Conn.) Mike Crispino & Dereck Whittenburg	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	Florida Gulf Coast at No. 9 Duke Tom Hart & Adrian Branch	ESPNU
	8:30 p.m.	Charleston Classic (Championship): TBD Bob Picozzi & Jay Williams	ESPN2
Mon, Nov 19	3:30 p.m.	Maui Invitational (Quarterfinal): Butler vs. Marquette Dave O’Brien & Jimmy Dykes	ESPN2
	5:30 p.m.	Legends Classic (Semifinal): No. 1 Indiana vs. Georgia (Brooklyn, NY) Dan Shulman, Bob Knight & Andy Katz	ESPNU
	6 p.m.	Maui Invitational (Quarterfinal): Mississippi State vs. No. 11 North Carolina Dave O’Brien & Jimmy Dykes	ESPN2
	7 p.m.	Virginia Tech at UNC Greensboro Mike Gleason & Stan Lewter	ESPN3
	7:30 p.m.	CBE Hall of Fame Classic (Semifinal #1): Texas A&M vs. Saint Louis (Kansas City) Bob Wischusen & Stephen Bardo	ESPNU
	8 p.m.	Legends Classic (Semifinal #2): No. 13 UCLA Vs. Georgetown (Brooklyn, NY) Dan Shulman, Dick Vitale & Andy Katz	ESPN2
	9:30 p.m.	Maui Invitational (Quarterfinal): Texas vs. Chaminade Sean McDonough, Jay Bilas & Bill Raftery	ESPNU
	10 p.m.	CBE Hall of Fame Classic (Semifinal #2): Washington State vs. No. 7 Kansas (Kansas City) Bob Wischusen & Stephen Bardo	ESPN2
Tue, Nov 20	Midnight	Maui Invitational (Quarterfinal): USC vs. Illinois Sean McDonough, Jay Bilas & Bill Raftery	ESPN2
	2:30 p.m.	Maui Invitational (Consolation): TBD Dave O’Brien & Jimmy Dykes	ESPN2
	5 p.m.	Maui Invitational (Consolation): TBD Dave O’Brien & Jimmy Dykes	ESPN2
	7 p.m.	CBE Hall of Fame Classic (3rd Place Game): TBD (Kansas City) Mitch Holthus & Greg Gurley	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Columbia at Villanova Dave Leno & John Celestand	ESPN3
	7:30 p.m.	Legends Classic (3rd Place Game): TBD (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Dan Shulman, Bob Knight & Andy Katz	ESPNU
	7:30 p.m.	Boston University at Rutgers Ed Cohen & Dalen Cuff	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	Maui Invitational (Semifinal #1): TBD Sean McDonough, Jay Bilas & Bill Raftery	ESPN
	8 p.m.	Presbyterian at No. 22 Wisconsin Mike Couzens & Brooke Weisbrod	ESPN3
	9:30 p.m.	CBE Hall of Fame Classic (Championship): TBD (Kansas City) Bob Wischusen & Stephen Bardo	ESPNU
	10 p.m.	Legends Classic (Championship): TBD (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Dan Shulman, Dick Vitale & Andy Katz	ESPN
	10:30 p.m.	Maui Invitational (Semifinal #2): TBD Sean McDonough, Jay Bilas & Bill Raftery	ESPN2

That is all.

ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 12 Including Announcing Assignments

Believe it or not, we’re in the home stretch of the college football season. Just a couple of more weeks before we have the conference championship games and then bowl season in December. It’s not long now.

We’re not quite at the traditional blood rivalry games yet, but we’re getting close.

This week, ESPN’s college football schedule begins on Wednesday with MACtion on both ESPN2 and ESPNU. Then the games will continue through late night Saturday so there will be a lot of games to watch on TV and online.

We have the complete schedule of games on the ESPN family of networks and platforms.

No. 1 Kansas State & No. 2 Oregon in Prime Time

ESPN’s college football schedule this week is highlighted by prime time telecasts of the top two teams in the BCS Standings, both undefeated, on Saturday, Nov. 17: No. 1 Kansas State at Baylor in a Big 12 showdown at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN and No. 1 Oregon against two-loss No. 13 Stanford at 8 p.m. on ABC.

Overall, ESPN networks will offer coverage of eight of the top 10 teams in the BCS Standings and 15 of the top 22. In addition to teams in the BCS Standings, ABC will televise unbeaten Ohio State against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 17, at 3:30 p.m.

ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D and ESPN Radio Schedule

Date	Time (ET)	Game / Commentators	Network
Wed, Nov 14	8 p.m.	Ohio at Ball State Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU
	9 p.m.	Toledo at Northern Illinois Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman & Quint Kessenich	ESPN2
Thu, Nov 15	7:30 p.m.	North Carolina at Virginia ESPN: Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Steele Radio: Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Joe Schad	ESPN & ESPN Radio
Fri, Nov 16	8 p.m.	Florida International at Florida Atlantic Adam Amin & Tom Luginbill	ESPNU
	9:30 p.m.	Hawaii at Air Force Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore & Jemele Hill	ESPN2
Sat, Nov 17	Noon	Iowa at No. 21 Michigan ESPN: Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Jenn Brown Radio: Dave Lamont, Pete Najarian & Brett McMurphy	ESPN, ESPN 3D & ESPN Radio
	Noon	Northwestern at Michigan State Bob Wischusen, Danny Kanell & Maria Taylor	ESPN2
	Noon	No. 10 Florida State at Maryland Tom Hart & John Congemi	ESPNU
	Noon	Western Carolina at No. 4 Alabama Mike Morgan, Chris Doering & Jill Montgomery	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	Noon	Arkansas at Mississippi State Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	Noon	No. 22 Rutgers at Cincinnati Eamon McAnaney, David Diaz-Infante & Paul Carcaterra	ESPN3 * & BIG EAST Network
	Noon	Kent State at Bowling Green Greg Franke & Tom Cole	ESPN3 *
	12:30 p.m.	Virginia Tech at Boston College	ESPN3 * & ACC Network
	12:30 p.m.	North Dakota State at Illinois State	ESPN3
	1 p.m.	Jacksonville State at No. 6 Florida	ESPN3
	1 p.m.	Wofford at No. 9 South Carolina	ESPN3
	1:30 p.m.	Georgia Southern at No. 5 Georgia	ESPN3
	1:30 p.m.	Lehigh at Lafayette	ESPN3
	1:30 p.m.	Liberty at Virginia Military Institute	ESPN3
	1:30 p.m.	The Citadel at Furman	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Alabama A&M at Auburn	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	2012 Florida Classic: Bethune-Cookman vs. Florida A&M (from Orlando) Mike Corey & Jay Walker	ESPN Classic
	2 p.m.	Indiana State at Youngstown State	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	South Florida at Miami (Fla.)	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	No. 18 USC at No. 17 UCLA Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Joe Schad	ESPN Radio
	3:30 p.m.	Ohio State at Wisconsin Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen & Quint Kessenich	ABC & ESPN2 **
		NC State at No. 11 Clemson Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards	ABC & ESPN2 **
	3:30 p.m.	Duke at Georgia Tech Anish Shroff & Dan Hawkins	ESPNU
	3:30 p.m.	Sam Houston State at No. 8 Texas A&M	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Charleston Southern at Coastal Carolina	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Utah State at No. 20 Louisiana Tech Trey Bender & John Bunting	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Northwestern State at Stephen F. Austin	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Tennessee at Vanderbilt Mark Jones, Brock Huard & Jessica Mendoza	ESPN2
	7 p.m.	Syracuse at Missouri Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb & Allison Williams	ESPNU
	7 p.m.	Western Kentucky at Louisiana-Lafayette Jonathon Yardley & Forrest Conoly	ESPN3
	7:30 p.m.	Samford at Kentucky Matt Stewart, Cole Cubelic & Angela Mallen	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	No. 13 Stanford at No. 2 Oregon Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather Cox	ABC
	8 p.m.	No. 1 Kansas State at Baylor Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe	ESPN
	10 p.m.	Arizona at Utah Joe Davis & Kelly Stouffer	ESPNU
	10:30 p.m.	BYU at San Jose State Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway & Kaylee Hartung	ESPN2
Tue, Nov 20	7 p.m.	Akron at Toledo TBD	ESPN2

* Local blackout may apply
** Reverse mirror in which ESPN2 will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast

That will do it.

ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 11 Including Announcing Assignments

ESPN has some showcase games this week including three undefeated teams having some big tests on the road. All of the games will be

Notre Dame is in the ABC primetime game for the second time in three weeks as the Fighting Irish head to Chestnut Hill to take on Boston College.

Louisville heads to the Carrier Dome in Syracuse to face the Orangemen on ABC.

And Oregon faces Cal late Saturday night on ESPN.

In addition, College GameDay will be live on board the USS San Diego Museum Aircraft Carrier which means Kirk Herbstreit will be in San Diego in the morning and then fly across the country to Boston for the ND-BC game. He’s going to be one tired pup by the end of the night.

Here’s the ESPN press release.

Telecasts of Three Undefeated Teams on the Road: No. 3 Oregon, No. 4 Notre Dame & No. 9 Louisville

ESPN’s college football schedule this week includes seven of the top 10 teams in the BCS Standings, highlighted by telecasts of undefeated No. 3 Oregon, No. 4 Notre Dame and No. 9 Louisville all on the road Saturday, Nov. 10.

• No. 3 Oregon at Pac-12 foe California at 10:30 p.m. ET on ESPN
• No. 4 Notre Dame at Boston College on the ABC Saturday Night Football broadcast at 8 p.m.
• No. 9 Louisville at Syracuse at noon on ABC

In addition, ESPN and ESPN2 will each televise a Saturday 7 p.m. game involving SEC teams in the top seven of the BCS Standings: No. 7 LSU against No. 21 Mississippi State on ESPN and No. 5 Georgia at Auburn on ESPN2.

ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D, Longhorn Network and ESPN Radio Schedule

Date	Time (ET)	Game / Commentators	Network
Wed, Nov 7	8 p.m.	Bowling Green at Ohio Mark Neely & Ray Bentley	ESPN2
Thu, Nov 8	7 p.m.	Louisiana-Monroe at Arkansas State Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU
	7:30 p.m.	No. 10 Florida State at Virginia Tech Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Steele	ESPN & ESPN Radio
Fri, Nov 9	8 p.m.	Pittsburgh at Connecticut Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore & Jemele Hill	ESPN2
Sat, Nov 10	Noon	Miami (Fla.) at Virginia Tom Hart & John Congemi	ABC & ESPN3 *
		No. 9 Louisville at Syracuse Bob Wischusen, Danny Kanell & Maria Taylor	ABC & ESPN3 *
	Noon	No. 24 Northwestern at Michigan Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Jenn Brown	ESPN & ESPN 3D
	Noon	Wisconsin at Indiana Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway & Niki Noto	ESPN2
	Noon	Army at No. 23 Rutgers Joe Beninati, Peter Najarian & George Smith	ESPNU
	Noon	Iowa State at No. 17 Texas LHN: Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards ABC: Mark Neely & Ray Bentley	Longhorn Network ABC in state of Iowa
	Noon	Missouri at Tennessee Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	Noon	Louisiana-Lafayette at No. 6 Florida Mike Morgan & Chris Doering	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	Noon	Cincinnati at Temple Eamon McAnaney, David Diaz-Infante & Paul Carcaterra	ESPN3 * & BIG EAST Network
	Noon	St. Francis (Pa.) at Monmouth	ESPN3
	12:30 p.m.	Georgia Tech at North Carolina	ESPN3 * & ACC Network
	1 p.m.	Kent State at Miami (Ohio)	ESPN3
	1 p.m.	Florida Atlantic at Western Kentucky	ESPN3
	1 p.m.	Northern Iowa at South Dakota	ESPN3
	1:30 p.m.	Gardner-Webb at Charleston Southern	ESPN3
	1:30 p.m.	Chattanooga at Wofford	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Youngstown State at Western Illinois	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Wake Forest at NC State	ESPN3 *
	3 p.m.	Arizona State at No. 19 USC Rich Cellini, John Mackovic & Brett McMurphy	ESPN Radio
	3:30 p.m.	Penn State at No. 16 Nebraska Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman & Quint Kessenich	ABC & ESPN2 **
		West Virginia at Oklahoma State ABC: Dave Lamont & Kelly Stouffer Radio: Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Joe Schad	ABC & ESPN2 ** & ESPN Radio
	3:30 p.m.	Maryland at No. 13 Clemson Anish Shroff & Dan Hawkins	ESPNU
	3:30 p.m.	Navy at Troy Dave Weekley & Forest Conoly	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Stony Brook at Liberty	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	San Jose State @ New Mexico State	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Baylor at No. 12 Oklahoma Marc Kestecher, Tom Ramsey & Ian Fitzsimmons	ESPN Radio
	7 p.m.	No. 21 Mississippi State at No. 7 LSU Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe	ESPN
	7 p.m.	No. 5 Georgia at Auburn Mark Jones, Brock Huard & Allison Williams	ESPN2
	7 p.m.	Vanderbilt at Ole Miss Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb & Angela Mallen	ESPNU
	7 p.m.	No. 20 Louisiana Tech at Texas State Dave Armstrong & Ray Bentley	Longhorn Network
	8 p.m.	No. 4 Notre Dame at Boston College Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather Cox	ABC
	10:15 p.m.	Idaho at BYU Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU
	10:30 p.m.	No. 3 Oregon at California Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen & Samantha Steele	ESPN
	10:30 p.m.	No. 18 UCLA at Washington State Adam Amin, Tom Luginbill & Shelley Smith	ESPN2

* Local blackout may apply
** Reverse mirror in which ESPN2 will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast

That concludes this post.

College Football Viewing Picks For Week 9, 10/27/2012, All Times Eastern

Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports

Pregame & Studio Shows
College GameDay live from Norman, OK — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m.
Big Ten Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m.
Fox College Football Preview Show — Fox Sports Net, 11:30 a.m.
ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon
Pac-12 Football Pregame Show — Pac-12 Network, 2 p.m.
College Football Countdown — ABC, 3 p.m.
College Football Today — CBS, 3 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN, 3 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
BTN Football Gamebreak 2012 — Big Ten Network, 3 p.m.
Fox College Saturday — Fox, 3 p.m.
ESPN Goal Line — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.
BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m.
SEC Tonight — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Fox College Saturday — Fox, 7 p.m.
Pac-12 Football Postgame Report — Pac-12 Network, 9:45 p.m.
The Final Drive — Big Ten Network, midnight
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, midnight
College Football Final — ESPN2, 12:30 a.m. (Sunday)
Pac-12 Football Postgame Report — Pac-12 Network, 1:45 a.m. (Sunday)

noon
Temple at Pittsburgh — Big East Network (Eamon McAnaney/David Diaz-Infante/Paul Carcaterra)

Indiana at Illinois — Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler/Chris Martin/Jon Jansen)

Ball State at Army — CBS Sports Network (Ben Holden/Randy Cross/Cadet Geoff Easteling)

Tennessee at South Carolina — ESPN/ESPN 3D (Dave Pasch/Brian Griese/Jenn Brown)
Iowa at Northwestern — ESPN2 (Beth Mowins/Joey Galloway/Lewis Johnson)
Kentucky at Missouri — ESPNU (Tom Hart/John Congemi)
Northern Illinois at Western Michigan — ESPN Plus (Michael Reghi/Doug Graber)

Texas at Kansas — Fox Sports Net (national)/Fox College Sports Central/WLVI/KICU (Ron Thulin/Dave Lapham/Desmond Purnell)
Eastern Illinois at Eastern Kentucky — Fox College Sports Pacific (Bob Melvin/Kevin Ingram)

Delaware at Old Dominion — NBC Sports Network

Mississippi at Arkansas — SEC Network, 12:21 p.m. kickoff (Dave Neal/Andre Ware/Cara Capuano)

12:30 p.m.
NC State at North Carolina — ACC Network

Yale at Columbia — YES

1 p.m.
Southern Mississippi at Rice — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Chicago/Houston/Philadelphia)

3 p.m.
UCLA at Arizona State — FX (Craig Bolerjack/Joel Klatt/Petros Papadakis)
BYU at Georgia Tech — Fox Sports Net (regional) (Rich Waltz/Keith Jones/Jenn Hildreth)

Colorado at Oregon — Pac-12 Network (Kevin Calabro/Adam Archuleta/Yogi Roth)

3:30 p.m.
Michigan State at Wisconsin — ABC/ESPN2 (Mike Patrick/Ed Cunningham/Jeannine Edwards)
USC at Arizona — ABC/ESPN2 (Joe Tessitore/Matt Millen/Maria Taylor)

Kent State at Rutgers — Big East Network (Mike Corey/Rene Ingoglia)

Purdue at Minnesota — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Drerek Rackley/J Leman)

Florida vs. Georgia at Jacksonville, FL — CBS (Verne Lundquist/Gary Danielson/Tracy Wolfson)
Boise State at Wyoming — CBS Sports Network (James Bates/Todd Christensen/Lauren Gardner)

Towson at Villanova — Comcast SportsNet (Mid-Atlantic/Philadelphia)

Duke at Florida State — ESPNU (Anish Shroff/Dan Hawkins/Tom Luginbill)

Texas Tech at at Kansas State — Fox (Gus Johnson/Charles Davis/Julie Alexandria)
TCU at Oklahoma State — Fox Sports Net (national)/Fox College Sports Pacific/WMCN/WDCA/KICU (Joel Myers/Brian Baldinger/Jim Knox)
Navy at East Carolina — Fox College Sports Atlantic (Adam Alexander/Gary Reasons/Lesley McCaslin)
Southern Illinois at North Dakota State — Fox College Sports Central (Brian Shawn/Lee Timmerman/Kevin Feeney)

Idaho State at Montana — Root Sports (Northwest/Rocky Mountain)/Audience Network (DirecTV)

4:30 p.m.
UTEP at Houston — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Houston)

5 p.m.
Illinois State at Northern Iowa — Comcast SportsNet Chicago
Harvard at Dartmouth — Comcast SportsNet New England

5:30 p.m.
Ohio State at Penn State — ESPN (Sean McDonough/Chris Spielman/Quint Kussenich)

6:15 p.m.
Washington State at Stanford — Pac-12 Network (Rich Cellini/Rick Neuheisel/Curtis Conway/Jeremy Bloom)

7 p.m.
Texas A&M at Auburn — ESPNU (Clay Matvick/Matt Stinchcomb/Alison Williams)

Baylor at Iowa State — Fox Sports Net (national)/Fox College Sports Pacific (Mike Morgan/JC Pearson/Laura McKeeman)
UMass at Vanderbilt — Fox Sports Net (regional)/NESN (Bob Rathbun/Tim Couch/Elizabeth Moreau)

8 p.m.
Notre Dame at Oklahoma — ABC (Brent Musburger/Kirk Herbstreit/Heather Cox)

Central Florida at Marshall — CBS Sports Network (Dave Ryan/Corey Chavous/Evan Washburn)

Michigan at Nebraska — ESPN2 (Mark Jones/Brock Huard/Jessica Mendoza)

8:30 p.m.
Mississippi State at Alabama — ESPN (Brad Nessler/Todd Blackledge/Holly Rowe)

9:45 p.m.
Cal at Utah — Pac-12 Networks (Bay Area/Mountain) (Ron Pitts/Kelly Stouffer)

10:15 p.m.
Oregon State at Washington — Pac-12 Network (Ted Robinson/Glenn Parker/Ryan Nece)

The 2012-13 ESPN Family of Networks College Basketball Regular Season Schedule

Ready for some college hoops? ESPN is. It’s sent a 4,300-word press release which I edited down to 4,059 after taking out a few things.

Suffice to say that ESPN will present more than 1,450 games across its platforms, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, Longhorn Network as well as ESPN Regional Television-produced games for the Big East, Big 12, SEC Network and other syndicated networks.

First, I’ll provide the text of what ESPN is saying about its extensive schedule and then I’ll post the games after a jump break. Probably best to do that as you’ll be scrolling for a while. So here’s ESPN’s preview of the schedule, then we’ll post the non-conference and then the conference schedules.

Men’s College Basketball Schedule Tips Off with 350 Non-Conference Games

Full Season of More than 1,450 Matchups Tips Off with First Regular-Season Game from Europe; Champions Classic Doubleheader Anchors Nov 13 24-Hour Marathon; ESPN3 Provides 125 Exclusive Non-Conference Games

ESPN’s extensive coverage of the 2012-13 men’s college basketball season – more than 1,450 games across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3 and Longhorn Network – will tip off with 350 regular-season nonconference games.

The season will begin with 12 games on Friday, Nov. 9 led by Michigan State vs. Connecticut in the Armed Forces Classic from the Ramstein Air Base in Kaiserslautern, Germany at 5:30 p.m. ET on ESPN. It will mark the first regular-season men’s college basketball game from Europe. ESPN will also televise Maryland vs. defending National Champion Kentucky in the Barclays Center Classic from Brooklyn, N.Y. at 8:30 p.m.

For the second straight year, ESPN will showcase four of the all-time winningest programs in the Champions Classic doubleheader as part of the College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon on Tuesday, Nov. 13. The matchups from Atlanta will pit Michigan State vs. Kansas at 7 p.m. and Duke vs. Kentucky at 9 p.m. Kentucky holds an 11-8 all-time series lead against Duke but lost the last meeting between the programs 95-92 in 2001. Michigan State has won five the nine games against Kansas, including two victories in 2009.

Season highlights:

• The schedule consists of approximately 125 exclusive contests on ESPN3, a record for the platform. Later in the season, ESPN3 will offer more than 100 exclusive conference games as well as simulcasts of syndicated matchups, providing fans with nearly 750 live games on the network.
• All live telecasts of college basketball games on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN Buzzer Beater as well as exclusive games on ESPN3 – ESPN’s live multi-screen sports network – will be available on computers at WatchESPN.com and on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app.  WatchESPN is currently available in 40 million households nationwide to fans who receive their video subscription from Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, Verizon FiOS TV, Comcast Xfinity TV or Midcontinent Communications.
• For the fifth consecutive year, ESPN will celebrate the opening of the season with a marathon of coverage across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU with the College Hoops Tip-off Marathon on Tuesday, Nov. 13. This year’s marathon will include 11 men’s games over 24 consecutive hours on ESPN – plus a schedule of matchups across ESPN2 and ESPNU – beginning at midnight with West Virginia at Gonzaga in the Old Spice Classic.
• ESPN will provide college basketball fans with live coverage of at least one game every day but five from November 9 to March 10 (December 7, 13, 14, 24 and 26).
• Multiple marquee early season non-conference events return, including the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, SEC/BIG EAST Challenge, Jimmy V Classic, Maui Invitational, CBE Hall of Fame Classic, Puerto Rico Tip-Off, NIT Season Tip-Off, Charleston Classic, Old Spice Classic, DIRECTV Classic, Diamond Head Classic, BracketBusters, 2K Sports Classic, Legends Classic, Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off and Las Vegas Invitational.
• In addition, ESPN networks will cover two new events from the new Barclays Center, home of the Brooklyn Nets, in Brooklyn, N.Y. The first annual Barclays Center Classic on Friday, Nov. 9: Morehead State vs. LIU Brooklyn at 5:45 p.m. on ESPN3 followed by Maryland vs. Kentucky at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN. The second event will pit West Virginia vs. Michigan in the Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival on Saturday, Dec. 15, at 8 p.m. on ESPN.

Top nonconference games:

• Indiana vs. Georgia in the Legends Classic on Monday, Nov. 19, at 5:30 p.m. on ESPNU
• Mississippi State vs. North Carolina in the Maui Invitational on Monday, Nov. 19, at 6 p.m. on ESPN2
• Creighton vs. Wisconsin in the Las Vegas Invitational on Friday, Nov. 23, at 10 p.m. on ESPN2
• North Carolina at Indiana in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 9:30 p.m. on ESPN
• Ohio State at Duke in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 9:30 p.m. on ESPN
• Kentucky at Notre Dame in the SEC/BIG EAST Challenge on Thursday, Nov. 29, at 7 p.m. on ESPN2
• San Diego State vs. UCLA in the Wooden Classic from the Honda Center in Anaheim on Saturday, Dec. 1, at 10 p.m. on ESPNU
• Jimmy V Classic doubleheader on ESPN on Tuesday, Dec. 4: Texas vs. Georgetown at 7 p.m. and NC State vs. Connecticut at 9 p.m.
• Florida at Florida State on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 7 p.m. on ESPN2
• UCLA vs. Texas in The Showcase from Reliant Stadium in Houston on Saturday, Dec. 9, at 5:15 p.m. on ESPN
• Florida at Arizona on Saturday, Dec. 15, at 10 p.m. on ESPN
• North Carolina at Texas on Wednesday, Dec. 19, at 9 p.m., on ESPN2
• Baylor at Gonzaga on Friday, Dec. 28, at 8 p.m. on ESPN2
• Missouri at UCLA on Friday, Dec. 28, at 10 p.m. on ESPN2

Next, a jump break and then the extensive ESPN Family of Networks non-conference college basketball schedule which includes holiday tournaments, the various non-conference challenges as well as other games.

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ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 9 Including Announcing Assignments

Let’s provide the college football games for Week 9 which actually began on Tuesday. ESPN has an ACC matchup on Thursday night.

For Saturday, the big game is Notre Dame at Oklahoma, both hoping to move up in the BCS rankings. College GameDay will be in Norman, OK and that will be the showcase game on ABC in primetime with Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit and Heather Cox.

There are plenty of more games that will be aired on the ESPN family in Week 9. It’s Week 9 already! Amazing.

Here’s the ESPN listing of games for you. It’s all below in black & white.

No. 5 Notre Dame at No. 8 Oklahoma & No. 11 Mississippi State at No. 1 Alabama in Prime Time

ESPN’s college football schedule this week will be highlighted by two Saturday night telecasts matching ranked teams with all four in the top 11 of the BCS standings:

• ABC will broadcast undefeated No. 5 Notre Dame at one-loss No. 8 Oklahoma as part of the Saturday Night Football series at 8 p.m. ET. Notre Dame has defeated Oklahoma eight of the nine all-time meetings against the Sooners, including the last meeting in 1999.
• ESPN will televise No. 11 Mississippi State at No. 1 Alabama in a showdown of unbeaten SEC teams at 8:30 p.m. Mississippi State, at 7-0, has had its best start to a season since 1999 and won its first seven games for only the second time in 113 years of playing football. Alabama has won eight of the last 10 games against the Bulldogs.

Overall, ESPN platforms will offer coverage of seven of the remaining 11 undefeated teams: No. 1 Alabama, No. 5 Notre Dame, No. 11 Mississippi State, No. 15 Rutgers, No. 16 Louisville, No. 24 Ohio and Ohio State. Additional highlights:

• An ESPN Friday night matchup on October 26 will pit one-loss Cincinnati at undefeated BIG EAST foe No. 16 Louisville at 8 p.m.
• ESPN will televise unbeaten Ohio State at a Penn State squad that has won five straight since opening the season 0-2 on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 5:30 p.m.
• ESPN3 will provide coverage of Kent State, with a 6-1 record, at undefeated No. 15 Rutgers on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 3:30 p.m.

ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D and ESPN Radio Schedule

Date	Time (ET)	Game / Commentators	Network
Thu, Oct 25	7:30 p.m.	No. 18 Clemson at Wake Forest Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Steele	ESPN
	7:30 p.m.	Delaware State at Morgan State Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU
	7:30 p.m.	Valdosta State at Shorter	ESPN3
Fri, Oct 26	8 p.m.	Cincinnati at No. 16 Louisville Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore & Jemele Hill	ESPN
Sat, Oct 27	Noon	Tennessee at No. 13 South Carolina Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Jenn Brown	ESPN & ESPN 3D
	Noon	Iowa at Northwestern Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway & Lewis Johnson	ESPN2
	Noon	Kentucky at Missouri Tom Hart & John Congemi	ESPNU
	Noon	Ole Miss at Arkansas Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	Noon	Temple at Pittsburgh Eamon McAnaney, David Diaz-Infante & Paul Carcaterra	ESPN3 * & BIG EAST Network
	Noon	Northern Illinois at Western Michigan Michael Reghi & Doug Graber	ESPN3 *
	12:30 p.m.	NC State at North Carolina	ESPN3 * & ACC Network
	1 p.m.	Maryland at Boston College Shawn Kenney & John Bunting	ESPN3
	1 p.m.	Stony Brook at Presbyterian	ESPN3
	1:30 p.m.	The Citadel at Wofford	ESPN3
	1:30 p.m.	Presbyterian at Charleston Southern	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Utah State at Texas-San Antonio Jonathan Yardley & Forrest Conoly	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	South Dakota at Indiana State	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	BYU at Georgia Tech	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Youngstown State at South Dakota State	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Michigan State at No. 25 Wisconsin Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards	ABC & ESPN2 *
		No. 9 USC at Arizona Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen & Maria Taylor	ABC & ESPN2 *
	3:30 p.m.	Duke at No. 12 Florida State Anish Shroff, Dan Hawkins & Tom Luginbill	ESPNU
	3:30 p.m.	Kent State at No. 15 Rutgers Mike Corey & Rene Ingoglia	ESPN3 *
	3:30 p.m.	No. 24 Ohio at Miami (Ohio)	ESPN3 *
	3:30 p.m.	Eastern Michigan at Bowling Green Greg Franke & Tom Cole	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	North Texas at Middle Tennessee	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Liberty at Coastal Carolina	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Sam Houston State at Lamar	ESPN3
	5:30 p.m.	Ohio State at Penn State Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman & Quint Kessenich	ESPN
	6 p.m.	Western Kentucky at Florida International Drew Fellios & Warrick Dunn	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	No. 20 Texas A&M at Auburn Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb & Allison Williams	ESPNU
	7 p.m.	Syracuse at South Florida Mike Gleason & John Gregory	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Massachusetts at Vanderbilt	ESPN3 *
	8 p.m.	No. 5 Notre Dame at No. 8 Oklahoma Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather Cox	ABC
	8 p.m.	No. 22 Michigan at Nebraska ESPN: Mark Jones, Brock Huard & Jessica Mendoza ESPN Radio: Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Joe Schad	ESPN2 & ESPN Radio
	8 p.m.	Louisiana Tech at New Mexico State	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	Stephen F. Austin at McNeese State	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	West Texas A&M at West Georgia	ESPN3
	8:30 p.m.	No. 11 Mississippi State at No. 1 Alabama Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe	ESPN
	10:30 p.m.	Magic City Classic: Alabama A&M vs. Alabama State (from Birmingham) Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU ***

* Local blackout may apply
** Reverse mirror in which ESPN2 will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast
*** Live on ESPN3 at 3:30 p.m. ET & same day delay on ESPNU

ESPN will use BCS Standings through the remainder of the season

That is all.

ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 8 Including Announcing Assignments

Week 8 in college football actually begins tonight with a game on ESPN2 between Louisiana-Lafayette and North Texas to be called by the SEC Network crew of Dave Neal, Andre Ware and Cara Capuano.

Then on Thursday, ESPN has a Pac-12 showdown between Oregon and Arizona State, two teams with one loss among them.

In addition, there’s a rare SEC game at noon ET on ESPN between LSU and Texas A&M this Saturday. Also on Saturday, ABC will have regional action at noon, 3:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. It includes Beth Mowins making her ABC College Football debut on Purdue at Ohio State.

Let’s check out the schedule for ESPN’s family of networks this week.

College Football: 17 Games Featuring Undefeated or One-Loss Teams

ESPN’s college football schedule this week will include 17 telecasts involving an undefeated or one-loss team. The weekday schedule is highlighted by an ESPN telecast pitting undefeated No. 3 Oregon at one-loss Arizona State in a Pac-12 showdown between Division leaders on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 9 p.m. ET.

Highlights for Saturday, Oct. 20:

• ESPN and ABC will each televise a game between ranked, one-loss teams: No. 6 LSU at No. 18 Texas A&M in a matchup between SEC West Division squads at noon on ESPN and No. 17 Texas Tech at No. 23 TCU in a Big 12 contest at 3:30 p.m. on ABC and ESPN2.
• ESPN2 will televise unbeaten No. 8 Oregon State against Utah at 10:30 p.m.
• The ABC Saturday Night Football broadcast at 8 p.m. will feature regional coverage of two intrastate matchups: No. 14 Florida State at Miami (Fla.) and Baylor at No. 25 Texas.
• ESPN platforms will carry eight of the remaining 12 undefeated teams: No. 1 Alabama, No. 3 Oregon, No. 8 Oregon State, No. 12 Mississippi State, No. 15 Rutgers, No. 16 Louisville, No. 21 Cincinnati and Ohio State.
• ESPN and ESPN2 will each televise an unbeaten SEC team at 7 p.m.: No. 1 Alabama (at Tennessee) on ESPN and No. 12 Mississippi State (against Middle Tennessee) on ESPN2.
• ESPN will offer coverage of all three remaining undefeated BIG EAST teams: No. 15 Rutgers (at Temple) at noon on ESPN3 and the BIG EAST Network, No. 16 Louisville (against South Florida) at 3:30 p.m. on ABC and ESPN3, and No. 21 Cincinnati (at 6-1 Toledo from the Mid-American Conference) at 7 p.m. on ESPN3.

ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D and ESPN Radio Schedule

Date	Time (ET)	Game / Commentators	Network
Tue, Oct 16	9 p.m.	Louisiana-Lafayette at North Texas Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	ESPN2
Thu, Oct 18	7:30 p.m.	Hampton at North Carolina Central Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU
	7:30 p.m.	North Alabama at West Georgia	ESPN3
	9 p.m.	No. 3 Oregon at Arizona State Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Steele	ESPN
Fri, Oct 19	8 p.m.	Connecticut at Syracuse Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore & Jemele Hill	ESPN
Sat, Oct 20	Noon	Purdue at Ohio State Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway & Lewis Johnson	ABC & ESPN2 **
		Virginia Tech at No. 19 Clemson Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards	ABC & ESPN2 **
	Noon	No. 6 LSU at No. 18 Texas A&M Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Jenn Brown	ESPN & ESPN 3D
	Noon	Minnesota at Wisconsin Tom Hart & John Congemi	ESPNU
	Noon	Auburn at Vanderbilt Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	Noon	No. 15 Rutgers at Temple Eamon McAnaney, David Diaz-Infante & Paul Carcaterra	ESPN3 * & BIG EAST Network
	Noon	Northern Illinois at Akron Michael Reghi & Doug Graber	ESPN3 *
	12:30 p.m.	Wake Forest at Virginia	ESPN3 * & ACC Network
	1 p.m.	Army at Eastern Michigan	ESPN3
	1 p.m.	Harvard at Princeton	ESPN3
	1 p.m.	Florida International at Troy	ESPN3
	1:30 p.m.	Presbyterian at Charleston Southern	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	San Jose State at Texas-San Antonio	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Boston College at Georgia Tech	ESPN3 *
	3 p.m.	Western Carolina at Elon	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Nebraska at Northwestern Bob Wischusen, Danny Kanell & Maria Taylor	ABC & ESPN2 *
		No. 17 Texas Tech at No. 23 TCU Dave Lamont & Kelly Stouffer	ABC & ESPN2 *
		South Florida at No. 16 Louisville Mark Neely & Ray Bentley	ABC & ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	NC State at Maryland Anish Shroff & Dan Hawkins	ESPNU
	3:30 p.m.	Michigan State at Michigan	ESPN Radio
	3:30 p.m.	Ball State at Central Michigan	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Pittsburgh at Buffalo Bob Picozzi & Chris Doering	ESPN3 *
	3:30 p.m.	Concord at Liberty	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Louisiana-Monroe at Western Kentucky	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Nicholls State at Stephen F. Austin	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Shorter at West Alabama	ESPN3
	6 p.m.	Colorado at No. 10 USC	ESPN Radio
	7 p.m.	No. 1 Alabama at Tennessee Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe	ESPN
	7 p.m.	Middle Tennessee at No. 12 Mississippi State Mark Jones, Brock Huard & Jessica Mendoza	ESPN2
	7 p.m.	North Carolina at Duke Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb & Allison Williams	ESPNU
	7 p.m.	No. 21 Cincinnati at Toledo	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	No. 11 Georgia at Kentucky	ESPN3 *
	7 p.m.	Idaho at Louisiana Tech Trey Bender & Jay Taylor	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	Baylor at No. 25 Texas Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman & Quint Kessenich	ABC & ESPN3 *
		No. 14 Florida State at Miami (Fla.) Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather Cox	ABC & ESPN3 *
	10:30 p.m.	Utah at No. 8 Oregon State Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen & Shannon Spake	ESPN2
	10:30 p.m.	South Carolina State at Florida A&M Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU ***

* Local blackout may apply
** Reverse mirror in which ESPN2 will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast
*** Live on ESPN3 at 6 p.m. ET & same day delay on ESPNU

ESPN will use BCS Standings through the remainder of the season.

That is all.

ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 7 Including Announcing Assignments

Time for the college football games on the ESPN family of networks for Week 7. ABC has an afternoon doubleheader featuring the annual Red River Shootout between Texas and Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas at noon ET. Then the network splits its coverage three ways at 3:30 p.m. ET with Illinois-Michigan, West Virginia-Texas Tech and Oregon State at BYU.

In primetime, ESPN has Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit (flying over from South Bend in the morning) and Heather Cox at Baton Rouge for South Carolina at LSU for one of their rare SEC appearances.

It should be noted that Heather Mitts of the US Women’s Soccer Team will be making her sideline debut at the Northwestern-Minnesota game at noon at ESPN2 with Beth Mowins and Joey Galloway.

Here’s the ESPN slate of games that begin tonight.

ESPN College Football Schedule Includes Three Games between Ranked Teams

ESPN’s college football schedule this week will be highlighted by telecasts of three of the four matchups between ranked teams, all on Saturday, Oct. 13: No. 3 South Carolina at No. 9 LSU (8 p.m. ET on ESPN); the Red River Rivalry pitting No. 15 Texas vs. No. 13 Oklahoma from Dallas (noon on ABC); and No. 22 Texas A&M vs. No. 23 Louisiana Tech from Shreveport, a game postponed from opening weekend due to weather (9 p.m. on ESPNU).

Additional notes for Saturday, Oct. 13:

• ESPNU will televise four games, including three unbeaten – and four ranked – teams: No. 18 Louisville (at Pittsburgh at 11 a.m.), No. 4 Florida (at Vanderbilt at 6 p.m.) and No. 23 Louisiana Tech (against one-loss No. 22 Texas A&M at 9 p.m.)
• ESPNU and ESPN3 will combine to carry all three of the remaining undefeated BIG EAST teams: No. 18 Louisville (at Pittsburgh at 11 a.m. on ESPNU), No. 20 Rutgers (against Syracuse at noon on ESPN3 and the BIG EAST Network) and No. 21 Cincinnati (against Fordham at 7 p.m. on ESPN3).
• ESPN2 will televise No. 19 Mississippi State, one of four remaining unbeaten teams in the SEC, against conference rival Tennessee at 9 p.m. Mississippi State’s 5-0 record is its best start to a season since 1999. It is also only the fourth time Mississippi State has won its first five games in its 113 years of playing football. Tennessee leads the series 28-15-1, including wins in 9 of the last 10 games.
• ESPN platforms will carry 10 undefeated teams in action Saturday, Oct. 13: No. 3 South Carolina, No. 4 Florida, No. 5 West Virginia, No. 10 Oregon State, No. 18 Louisville, No. 19 Mississippi State, No. 20 Rutgers, No. 21 Cincinnati, No. 23 Louisiana Tech and Ohio.

ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D and ESPN Radio Schedule

Date	Time (ET)	Game / Commentators	Network
Thu, Oct 11	7:30 p.m.	Western Kentucky at Troy Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU
	9 p.m.	Arizona State at Colorado Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Steele	ESPN
Fri, Oct 12	8 p.m.	Navy at Central Michigan Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore & Jemele Hill	ESPN2
Sat, Oct 13	11 a.m.	No. 18 Louisville at Pittsburgh Tom Hart & John Congemi	ESPNU
	Noon	No. 15 Texas vs. No. 13 Oklahoma (from Dallas) Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe	ABC
	Noon	Iowa at Michigan State Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Jenn Brown	ESPN & ESPN 3D
	Noon	Northwestern at Minnesota Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway & Heather Mitts	ESPN2
	Noon	Auburn at Ole Miss Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	Noon	Syracuse at No. 20 Rutgers Eamon McAnaney, David Diaz-Infante & Paul Carcaterra	ESPN3 * & BIG EAST Network
	Noon	Lafayette at Yale	ESPN3
	12:30 p.m.	Duke at Virginia Tech	ESPN3 * & ACC Network
	1 p.m.	Temple at Connecticut Dave Weekley & Rene Ingoglia	ESPN3
	1:30 p.m.	Tennessee-Chattanooga at Furman	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Akron at Ohio Dan Gutowsky & John Gregory	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Youngstown State at Illinois State	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Liberty at Presbyterian	ESPN3
	2:30 p.m.	North Carolina at Miami (Fla.) Anish Shroff & Dan Hawkins	ESPNU
	3 p.m.	Western Michigan at Ball State Jim Barbar & Ben Leber	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Maryland at Virginia	ESPN3 *
	3:30 p.m.	Illinois at No. 25 Michigan Bob Wischusen, Danny Kanell & Lewis Johnson	ABC & ESPN **
		No. 5 West Virginia at Texas Tech Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman & Quint Kessenich	ABC & ESPN **
		No. 10 Oregon State at BYU Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards	ABC & ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Stony Brook at Coastal Carolina	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Miami (Ohio) at Bowling Green	ESPN3 *
	3:30 p.m.	Buffalo at Northern Illinois	ESPN3 *
	4 p.m.	Utah State at San Jose State Trey Bender & Jay Taylor	ESPN3 *
	4 p.m.	Indiana State at North Dakota State	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Northwestern State at Southeastern Louisiana	ESPN3
	5:30 p.m.	Boston College at No. 12 Florida State Mark Jones, Brock Huard & Maria Taylor	ESPN2
	6 p.m.	No. 4 Florida at Vanderbilt Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb & Tom Luginbill	ESPNU
	7 p.m.	Kentucky at Arkansas	ESPN3 *
	7 p.m.	Fordham at No. 21 Cincinnati Mike Gleason, John Bunting & Rontina McCann	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Western Illinois at South Dakota State	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	TCU at Baylor Bill Rosinkski, David Norrie & Ian Fitzsimmons	ESPN Radio
	8 p.m.	No. 3 South Carolina at No. 9 LSU Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather Cox	ESPN
	8 p.m.	Florida Atlantic at Louisiana-Monroe	ESPN3
	9 p.m.	Tennessee at No. 19 Mississippi State Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen & Allison Williams	ESPN2
	9 p.m.	No. 22 Texas A&M vs. No. 23 Louisiana Tech (from Shreveport) Joe Davis & Kelly Stouffer	ESPNU

* Local blackout may apply
** Reverse mirror in which ESPN will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast

Fox Sports Media Group’s college football games are next.

ESPN3 To Stream KHL Games

After an announcement was prematurely made earlier this week on the Kontinental Hockey League’s website, ESPN has officially stated that it will pick up 6 games this month, most to stream on ESPN3. ESPN2 will carry the first game on Tuesday with Steve Levy and Barry Melrose calling the game off a monitor in Bristol, CT.

The rest of the games will be called by another crew in Bristol.

ESPN says the league’s KHL All-Star Game will also be carried. More games could added later.

Let’s check out the press release from ESPN regarding the 2012-13 Kontinental Hockey League schedule.

ESPN to Carry Kontinental Hockey League Games

Minimum of seven games to be carried exclusively in the US, including the KHL All-Star Game
Games will also air on ESPN in UK

ESPN today officially announced that it will deliver a minimum of seven games from 2012-13 season of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) exclusively on ESPN3 in the US and on ESPN UK.  Coverage begins Tuesday, October 9 at 1 p.m. ET with ESPN SportsCenter anchor Steve Levy and NHL studio analyst Barry Melrose calling the Lev vs. Dynamo Moscow game live on ESPN2 and ESPN3. The game will re-air in primetime on ESPN2 at 8 p.m. ET and will air on delay on ESPN in the UK (Wednesday, Oct. 10 at 2 p.m. BST).

Confirmed games through the end of the month feature an all-star lineup of hockey players, including Alex Ovechkin (Dynamo Moscow), Ilya Kovalchuk (SKA), Evgeni Malkin and Sergei Gonchar (Metallurg Mg).

KHL on ESPN3 (US)
Date	Time (ET)	Match-Up
Tue, Oct 9	1:00 p.m.	Lev vs. Dynamo Moscow **
Sun, Oct 14	9:00 a.m.	Dynamo Moscow vs. Amur
Tue, Oct 16	11:30 a.m.	Dynamo Moscow vs. Sibir HD
Thu, Oct 18	11:45 a.m.	SKA vs. Sibir HD
Mon, Oct 22	12:30 p.m.	Dinamo Riga vs. Metallurg Mg
Mon, Oct 29	11:30 a.m.	Dynamo Moscow vs. Dinamo Riga HD

** Also airing on ESPN2

Full schedule information for games on ESPN in the UK will be released shortly and will be available on www.espn.co.uk/TV.

In addition to Levy and Melrose, commentary will be delivered in English language by play-by-play announcer Paul Romanuk and analyst Aaron Murphy. Previously, ESPN3 in the US carried more than 50 games from the KHL live in Russian throughout the 2009-10 and 2010-11 regular seasons and playoffs. In January 2010, ESPN3 distributed the KHL All-Star Game with Levy and Melrose commentating live from Bristol.

There you have it.

College Football Viewing Picks For Week 6, 10/06/2012, All Times Eastern

Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Pregame & Studio Shows
College GameDay live from Columbia, SC — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m.
BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 11 a.m.
ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon
College Football Countdown — ABC, 3 p.m.
College Football Today — CBS, 3 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN/ESPN2, 3 p.m.
BTN Football Gamebreak — Big Ten Network, 3:30 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN/ESPN2, 6:30 p.m.
Fox College Saturday — Fox, 6:30 p.m.
BTN Football Postgame — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m.
SEC Tonight — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN, 10 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 11:30 p.m.
College Football Final — ESPN2, 1:30 a.m. (Sunday)

11:30 a.m.
Navy at Air Force — CBS (Spero Dedes/Steve Beuerlein/Otis Livingston)

noon
South Florida at Temple — Big East Network (Eamon McEnaney/David Diaz-Infante/Paul Carcaterra)

Michigan State at Indiana — Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler/Chris Martin/Jon Jansen)

Boston College at Army — CBS Sports Network (Ben Holden/Randy Cross/Cadet Tommy Busterud)

Northwestern at Penn State — ESPN/ESPN 3D (Dave Pasch/Brian Griese/Jenn Brown)
Arkansas at Auburn — ESPN2 (Beth Mowins/Joey Galloway/Tom Luginbill)
UConn at Rutgers — ESPNU (Tom Hart/John Congemi)
Buffalo at Ohio — ESPN Plus/ESPN3 (Michael Reghi/Doug Graber)

Kansas at Kansas State — FX (Justin Kutcher/Eric Crouch/Darius Walker)
Boise State at Southern Mississippi — Fox Sports Net (national)/Fox College Sports Central/WLVI/KICU (Joel Myers/Brian Baldinger/Jim Knox)
Albany at Bryant — Fox College Sports Atlantic/Cox Sports RI/Time Warner Cable Albany (Paul Dottino/Steve Levy)

Mississippi State at Kentucky — SEC Network, 12:21 p.m. kickoff (Dave Neal/Andre Ware/Cara Capuano)

12:30 p.m.
Virginia Tech at North Carolina — ACC Network

1 p.m.
Towson at James Madison — NBC Sports Network (Randy Moss/Anthony Herron/Carolyn Manno)

3 p.m.
Arizona at Stanford — Fox/Fox Deportes (Craig Bolerjack/Joel Klatt/Petros Papadakis)
Virginia at Duke — Fox Sports Net (regional) (Paul Kennedy/Keith Jones/Jenn Hildreth)

3:30 p.m.
Illinois at Wisconsin — ABC/ESPN2 (Bob Wischusen/Danny Kanell/Maria Taylor)
Oklahoma at Texas Tech — ABC/ESPN2 (Sean McDonough/Chris Spielman/Quint Kessenich)

LSU at Florida — CBS (Verne Lundquist/Gary Danielson/Tracy Wolfson)
Tulsa at Marshall — CBS Sports Network (Brad Johansen/Doug Chapman/Tammy Blackburn)

Maine at Delaware — Comcast SportsNet (California/Chicago/Mid-Atlantic Plus/New England/Northwest/Philadelphia)

Georgia Tech at Clemson — ESPN (Mike Patrick/Ed Cunningham/Jeannine Edwards)
Wake Forest at Maryland — ESPNU (Anish Shroff/Dan Hawkins)

Iowa State at TCU — Fox Sports Net (national)/Fox College Sports Pacific/WDCA/KICU (Mike Morgan/JC Morgan/Laura McKeeman)

Montana at Northern Colorado — Root Sports (Northwest/Rocky Mountain/Audience Network (DirecTV)

4 p.m.
Michigan at Purdue — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Derek Rackley/J Leman)

6 p.m.
Washington State at Oregon State — Pac-12 Network (Kevin Calabro/Adam Archuleta/Yogi Roth)

7 p.m.
North Texas at Houston — CSS/Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area Plus/Chicago/Houston/Mid-Atlantic)

Georgia at South Carolina — ESPN (Brent Musburger/Kirk Herbstreit/Heather Cox)
Texas A&M at Mississippi — ESPNU (Clay Matvick/Matt Stinchcomb/Angela Mallen)
UNLV at Louisiana Tech — ESPN Plus/ESPN3 (Trey Bender/Jay Taylor)

West Virginia at Texas — Fox (Gus Johnson/Charles Davis/Julie Alexandria)
Vanderbilt at Missouri — Fox Sports Net (regional) (Bob Rathbun/Tim Couch/Elizabeth Moreau)
Rice at Memphis — Fox College Sports Central (Steve Physioc/Ben Leber/Lesley McCaslin)

Montana State at Cal Davis — Root Sports (Northwest/Pittsburgh/Rocky Mountain)/Audience Network (DirecTV)

7:30 p.m.
Miami (FL) vs. Notre Dame in Chicago, IL — NBC (Tom Hammond/Mike Mayock/Alex Flanagan)

8 p.m.
Nebraska at Ohio State — ABC (Brad Nessler/Todd Blackledge/Holly Rowe)

Hawaii at San Diego State — CBS Sports Network (James Bates/Todd Christensen/Lauren Gardner)

Florida State at North Carolina State — ESPN2 (Mark Jones/Brock Huard/Shelley Smith)

10 p.m.
UCLA at Cal — Pac-12 Network (Ted Robinson/Glenn Parker/Ryan Nece)

10:30 p.m.
Washington at Oregon — ESPN (Joe Tessitore/Matt Millen/Lewis Johnson)
Southern at Alcorn State — ESPNU (Joe Davis/Jay Walker) (same day coverage)

ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 6 Including Announcing Assignments

For Week 6, the ESPN family of networks has a slew of college football games. ABC/ESPN2 has two games at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. Some will see Oklahoma at Texas Tech while others will watch Illinois at Wisconsin.

The primetime games will be Georgia at South Carolina on ESPN at 7 p.m. ET with Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit and Heather Cox. ESPN2 will carry Florida at NC State at 8 p.m. as Mark Jones, Brock Huard and Shelley Smith will be in Raleigh. ESPNU has Texas A&M at Mississippi as Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb and Angela Mallen will call the game. Then ABC’s game at 8 p.m. will be Nebraska at Ohio State with Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge and Holly Rowe live in Columbus.

The late night contest has Washington at Oregon on ESPN at 10:30 p.m. with Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen and Lewis Johnson.

For the other games, check out ESPN’s games below.

Three Prime Time Games between Ranked Teams Highlights Television Schedule

ESPN’s college football schedule this week will include telecasts of three matchups between ranked teams in prime time on Saturday, Oct. 6 highlighted by an ESPN doubleheader: No. 5 Georgia at No. 6 South Carolina at 7 p.m. ET followed by No. 23 Washington at No. 2 Oregon at 10:30 p.m. The ABC Saturday Night Football broadcast at 8 p.m. will pit No. 21 Nebraska at No. 12 Ohio State.

In addition, ESPN Radio will broadcast two games between undefeated, ranked squads on Saturday, Oct. 6: No. 4 LSU at No. 10 Florida at 3:30 p.m. and No. 8 West Virginia at No. 11 Texas at 7 p.m.

Overall, ESPN platforms will carry 16 of the 20 undefeated teams playing games this Saturday: No. 2 Oregon, No. 3 Florida State, No. 4 LSU, No. 5 Georgia, No. 6 South Carolina, No. 8 West Virginia, No. 10 Florida, No. 11 Texas, No. 12 Ohio State, No. 20 Mississippi State, No. 22 Rutgers, No. 24 Northwestern, Cincinnati, Louisiana Tech, Ohio and Texas Tech. There are 23 unbeaten teams total with Alabama, Louisville and University of Texas-San Antonio having bye weeks.

Additional highlights for Saturday, Oct. 6:

• A showdown of Big 12 rivals at 3:30 p.m. will feature one-loss No. 17 Oklahoma at undefeated Texas Tech on ABC and ESPN2.
• No. 24 Northwestern, leaders of the Big Ten Legends Division at 5-0, will visit Penn State, winners of three straight games, at noon on ESPN and ESPN 3D.
• ESPNU will televise unbeaten No. 24 Rutgers against Connecticut at noon.
• The ESPN2 primetime game at 8 p.m. will pit No. 3 Florida State at NC State.

ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D and ESPN Radio Schedule

Date	Time (ET)	Game / Commentators	Network
Thu, Oct 4	7:30 p.m.	Arkansas State at Florida International Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU
	7:30 p.m.	Midwestern State at West Alabama	ESPN3
	9 p.m.	No. 13 USC at Utah Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Steele	ESPN
Fri, Oct 5	7 p.m.	Pittsburgh at Syracuse Dave Lamont, Kelly Stouffer & Paul Carcaterra	ESPN
	10:15 p.m.	Utah State at BYU Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore & Shelley Smith	ESPN
Sat, Oct 6	Noon	No. 24 Northwestern at Penn State Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Jenn Brown	ESPN & ESPN 3D
	Noon	Arkansas at Auburn Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway & Tom Luginbill	ESPN2
	Noon	Connecticut at No. 22 Rutgers Tom Hart & John Congemi	ESPNU
	Noon	No. 20 Mississippi State at Kentucky Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	Noon	South Florida at Temple Eamon McAnaney, David Diaz-Infante & Paul Carcaterra	ESPN3 * & BIG EAST Network
	Noon	Buffalo at Ohio Michael Reghi & Doug Graber	ESPN3 *
	Noon	Albany at Bryant	ESPN3
	12:30 p.m.	Virginia Tech at North Carolina	ESPN3 * & ACC Network
	1:30 p.m.	Presbyterian at Virginia Military Institute	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Youngstown State at North Dakota State	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Southern Illinois at Illinois State	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Virginia at Duke	ESPN3 *
	3 p.m.	Central Michigan at Toledo Mike Gleason & John Bunting	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Northern Illinois at Ball State Jim Barbar & John Gregory	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	No. 17 Oklahoma at Texas Tech Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman & Quint Kessenich	ABC & ESPN2 **
		Illinois at Wisconsin Bob Wischusen, Danny Kanell & Maria Taylor	ABC & ESPN2 **
	3:30 p.m.	Georgia Tech at No. 15 Clemson Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards	ESPN
	3:30 p.m.	Wake Forest at Maryland Anish Shroff & Dan Hawkins	ESPNU
	3:30 p.m.	No. 4 LSU at No. 10 Florida Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Allison Williams	ESPN Radio
	3:30 p.m.	Louisiana-Monroe at Middle Tennessee	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Gardner-Webb at Liberty	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Stephen F. Austin at Sam Houston State	ESPN3
	5 p.m.	Tulane at Louisiana-Lafayette	ESPN3
	5 p.m.	Southern at Alcorn State	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	No. 5 Georgia at No. 6 South Carolina Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather Cox	ESPN
	7 p.m.	Texas A&M at Ole Miss Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb & Angela Mallen	ESPNU
	7 p.m.	No. 8 West Virginia at No. 11 Texas Mark Neely, Ray Bentley & Owen Fitzsimmons	ESPN Radio
	7 p.m.	Vanderbilt at Missouri Rich Hollenberg & Stan Lewter	ESPN3 *
	7 p.m.	UNLV at Louisiana Tech Trey Bender & Jay Taylor	ESPN3 *
	7 p.m.	Miami (Ohio) at Cincinnati	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	No. 21 Nebraska at No. 12 Ohio State Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe	ABC
	8 p.m.	No. 3 Florida State at NC State Mark Jones, Brock Huard & Shelley Smith	ESPN2
	10:30 p.m.	No. 23 Washington at No. 2 Oregon Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen & Lewis Johnson	ESPN
	10:30 p.m.	Southern at Alcorn State Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU ***

* Local blackout may apply
** Reverse mirror in which ESPN2 will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast
*** Live on ESPN3 at 5 p.m. ET & same day delay on ESPNU

More coming shortly.

ESPN Gets Hockey Again! Well, ESPN3 Does

With the National Hockey League mired in its silly lockout, hockey fans have been jonesing for some puck action. While some fans turn to college hockey to get their fix, others are wondering if one American TV outlet would pick up the Kontinental Hockey League from Russia. Well, an American outlet has and it’s a bit surprising.

ESPN has signed a deal to stream KHL games on ESPN3. While it’s not on TV, at least US hockey fans will be able to watch games on their computers. Starting tomorrow, ESPN3 will stream games and will have five KHL games on its schedule over the next week. Here’s the announcement from the Kontinental Hockey League.

Bringing the KHL to the World

The Kontinental Hockey League has reached an agreement with the US sports TV channel ESPN to broadcast games in the 2012/2013 KHL Championship. The games will be shown on the ESPN3 channel in the United States, Territories of the United States, and also in Great Britain.

ESPN3 reaches 73 million American households and devotes most of its output to live broadcasts of events, including college football, college basketball, the NBA, MLB, ICC (International Cricket Council) competitions and qualifying matches of FIFA tournaments.

During the first ten days of October, the channel will broadcast five KHL games. The planned schedule includes:

• Dynamo Moscow vs Ak Bars on Oct. 3rd
• Lev vs SKA on Oct. 6th
• Slovan vs Dynamo Moscow on Oct. 7th
• CSKA vs SKA on Oct. 8th
• Lev vs Dynamo Moscow on Oct. 9th

That will do it.

College Football Viewing Picks For Week 5, 09/29/2012, All Times Eastern

Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports

Pregame & Studio Shows
College GameDay live from East Lansing, MI — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m.
BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m.
ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon
College Football Countdown — ABC, 3 p.m.
BTN Football Gamebreak 2012 — Big Ten Network, 3 p.m.
College Football Today — CBS, 3 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 6;30 p.m.
SEC Tonight — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 11:30 p.m.
The Final Drive — Big Ten Network, midnight
College Football Final — ESPN2, 1:30 a.m. (Saturday)

noon
Buffalo at UConn — Big East Network (Eamon McAnaney/David Diaz-Infante/Paul Carcaterra)

Indiana at Northwestern — Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler/Chris Martin/Jon Janesen)

Stony Brook at Army — CBS Sports Network (Ben Holden/Randy Cross/Cadet Linc Bradham)

Penn State at Illinois — ESPN/ESPN3D (Dave Pasch/Brian Griese/Jenn Brown)
Minnesota at Iowa — ESPN2 (Beth Mowins/Joey Galloway/Lewis Johnson)
NC State at Miami (Florida) — ESPNU (Tom Hart/John Congemi)
Ball State at Kent State — ESPN Plus/CSS (Michael Reghi/Doug Graber)

Baylor at West Virginia — FX (Justin Kutcher/Eric Crouch/Darius Walker)
Missouri at Central Florida — Fox Sports Net (national)/Fox College Sports Central/WLVI/KICU (Ron Thulin/Shaun King/Desmond Purnell)
Middle Tennessee State at Georgia Tech — Fox Sports Net (regional) (Mike Hogewood/Riley Skinner/Elizabeth Moreau)
Central Connecticut Stat at Sacred Heart — Fox College Sports Atlantic (Paul Dottino/Steve Levy)
Eastern Kentucky at Tennessee-Martin — Fox College Sports Pacific (Kevin Ingram/Bob Belvin)

Penn at Dartmouth — NBC Sports Network (Randy Moss/Ross Tucker/Carolyn Manno)

Arkansas at Texas A&M — SEC Network, 12:21 p.m. kickoff (Dave Neal/Andre Ware/Cara Capuano)

12:30 p.m.
Duke at Wake Forest — ACC Network

2 p.m.
Nevada at Texas State — Longhorn Network (Dave Armstrong/Kelly Stouffer)

3:15 p.m.
Marshall at Purdue — Big Ten Network (Eric Collins/Derek Rackley/J Leman)

3:30 p.m.
Ohio State at Michigan State — ABC (Brent Musburger/Kirk Herbstreit/Heather Cox)

Tennessee at Georgia — CBS (Verne Lundquist/Gary Danielson/Tracy Wolfson)
San Jose State at Navy — CBS Sports Network (Grant Boone/Todd Christensen/Sheehan Stanwick Burch)

Clemson at Boston College — ESPN2 (Bob Wischusen/Danny Kanell/Maria Taylor)
Virginia Tech vs. Cincinnati at Landover, MD — ESPNU (Anish Shroff/Dan Hawkins)
URI at Bowling Green — ESPN3 (Greg Franke/Tom Cole)

Houston vs. Rice (at Reliant Stadium) — Fox Sports Net (national)/Fox College Sports Atlantic/WMCN/WDCA/KICU (Mike Morgan/JC Pearson/Laura McKeeman)
Idaho at North Carolina — Fox Sports Net (regional) (Paul Kennedy/Keith Jones/Jenn Hildreth)
West Chester at California (PA) — Fox College Sports Pacific (Stan Savern/John Sanders)

Atlanta Football Classic
Florida A&M vs. Southern — NBC Sports Network (James Verrett/Anthony Herron/Rashan Ali)

Montana State at Southern Utah — Root Sports (Northwest/Rocky Mountain)/Audience Network (DirecTV)

4 p.m.
Arizona State at Cal — FX (Craig Bolerjack/Joel Klatt/Petros Papadakis)

6 p.m.
Florida State at South Florida — ESPN (Sean McDonough/Chris Spielman/Quint Kessenich)

UCLA at Colorado — Pac-12 Network (Ted Robinson/Adam Archuleta/Yogi Roth)

7 p.m.
Georgia State at William & Mary — Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Chicago/Mid-Atlantic/Northwest)/CSS

South Carolina at Kentucky — ESPN2 (Mike Patrick/Ed Cunningham/Jeannine Edwards)
Towson at LSU — ESPNU (Clay Matvick/Matt Stinchcomb/Allison Williams)

TCU at SMU — Fox Sports Net (national)/Fox College Sports Atlantic (Joel Myers/Brian Baldinger/Jim Knox)
Texas Tech at Iowa State — Fox College Sports Central (Mike Gleason/Dave Lapham/Lesley McCaslin)

Montana at Eastern Washington — Root Sports (Northwest/Rocky Mountain)/Audience Network (DirecTV)

7:50 p.m.
Texas at Oklahoma State — Fox (Gus Johnson/Charles Davis/Julie Alexandria)

8 p.m.
Wisconsin at Nebraska — ABC (Brad Nessler/Todd Blackledge/Holly Rowe)

Louisville at Southern Mississippi — CBS Sports Network (James Bates/Aaron Taylor/Lauren Gardner)

9:15 p.m.
Mississippi at Alabama — ESPN (Joe Tessitore/Matt Millen/Jessica Mendoza)

10 p.m.
Oregon State at Arizona — Pac-12 Network (Kevin Calabro/Glenn Parker/Ryan Nece)

10:30 p.m.
Oregon vs. Washington State at Seattle, WA — ESPN2 (Mark Jones/Brock Huard/Shelley Smith)
Grambling State at Alabama A&M — ESPNU (Joe Davis/Jay Walker) (same night coverage)

ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 5 Including Announcing Assignments

Let’s look at the college football games ESPN will air this week. It all begins tonight with two games on the ESPN family, one on ESPNU and a Pac-12 game on ESPN.

Interesting week, ABC has just two games, one at 3:30 p.m. ET with Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit and Heather Cox in East Lansing, MI for the Ohio State-Michigan State. ABC’s primetime game will have Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge and Holly Rowe calling Wisconsin at Nebraska.

The other ESPN networks have lots of action including Mississippi at Alabama called by Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen and Shelley Smith Jessica Mendoza.

Let’s take a look at the games that ESPN’s networks will air this weekend.

Seven of Top Eight Teams across ESPN Networks; Five of Top Six in Prime Time on Saturday

ESPN’s college football schedule this week will include seven of the top eight teams in the Associated Press Top 25 poll. The lineup is highlighted by five of the top six in prime time across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU on Saturday, Sept. 29.

• An ESPN doubleheader kicks off with No. 4 Florida State at South Florida at 6 p.m. ET followed by No. 1 Alabama against SEC West rival Ole Miss at 9:15 p.m. ESPN Radio will also broadcast the Ole Miss at Alabama game.
• An ESPN2 doubleheader showcases SEC and Pac-12 conference contests beginning with No. 6 South Carolina at SEC East foe Kentucky at 7 p.m. followed by No. 2 Oregon versus Pac-12 North rival Washington State from Seattle at 10:30 p.m.
• ESPNU will televise No. 3 LSU against Towson at 7 p.m.

ESPN and ESPN Radio will combine to cover the other two of the top eight teams. The Thursday ESPN College Football Primetime matchup on September 27 will pit undefeated No. 8 Stanford at Washington at 9 p.m. ESPN Radio will broadcast No. 5 Georgia against Tennessee on Saturday, Sept. 29, at 3:30 p.m.

In addition, ABC will broadcast two Big Ten contests on Saturday, Sept. 29: unbeaten No. 14 Ohio State at one-loss No. 20 Michigan State at 3:30 p.m. and Wisconsin at No. 22 Nebraska in a showdown of 3-1 teams at 8 p.m.

ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D, Longhorn Network and ESPN Radio Schedule

Date	Time (ET)	Game / Commentators	Network
Thu, Sep 27	7:30 p.m.	Morgan State at North Carolina A&T Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU
	9 p.m.	No. 8 Stanford at Washington ESPN: Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Steele Radio: Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Shelley Smith	ESPN & ESPN Radio
Fri, Sep 28	8 p.m.	Hawaii at BYU Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore & Jemele Hill	ESPN
Sat, Sep 29	Noon	Penn State at Illinois Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Jenn Brown	ESPN & ESPN 3D
	Noon	Minnesota at Iowa Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway & Lewis Johnson	ESPN2
	Noon	NC State at Miami Tom Hart & John Congemi	ESPNU
	Noon	Arkansas at Texas A&M Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	Noon	Buffalo at Connecticut Eamon McAnaney, David Diaz-Infante & Paul Carcaterra	ESPN3 * & BIG EAST Network
	Noon	Ball State at Kent State Michael Reghi & Doug Graber	ESPN3 *
	Noon	Middle Tennessee at Georgia Tech	ESPN3 * & RSN
	Noon	Central Connecticut at Sacred Heart	ESPN3
	12:30 p.m.	Duke at Wake Forest	ESPN3 * & ACC Network
	2 p.m.	Nevada at Texas State Dave Armstrong & Kelly Stouffer	Longhorn Network
	2 p.m.	Miami (Ohio) at Akron Dave Weekley & Rocky Boiman	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	No. 14 Ohio State at No. 20 Michigan State Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather Cox	ABC
	3:30 p.m.	No. 17 Clemson at Boston College Bob Wischusen, Danny Kanell & Maria Taylor	ESPN2
	3:30 p.m.	Virginia Tech vs. Cincinnati (from Landover, Md.) Anish Shroff & Dan Hawkins	ESPNU
	3:30 p.m.	Tennessee at No. 5 Georgia Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Joe Schad	ESPN Radio
	3:30 p.m.	Louisiana Tech at Virginia John Sadak, John Gregory & Angela Mallen	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Ohio at Massachusetts Bob Picozzi & Rene Ingoglia	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Central Michigan at Northern Illinois Dan Gutowsky & Cory Chavous	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Rhode Island at Bowling Green Greg Franke & Tom Cole	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Idaho at North Carolina	ESPN3 * & RSN
	3:30 p.m.	Troy at South Alabama	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Southeastern Louisiana at Lamar	ESPN3
	5 p.m.	North Texas at Florida Atlantic Shawn Kenney & John Bunting	ESPN3
	6 p.m.	No. 4 Florida State at South Florida Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman & Quint Kessenich	ESPN
	6 p.m.	Samford at Georgia Southern	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	No. 6 South Carolina at Kentucky Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards	ESPN2
	7 p.m.	Towson at No. 3 LSU Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb & Allison Williams	ESPNU
	7 p.m.	Toledo at Western Michigan Jim Barbar & Ben Leber	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Western Kentucky at Arkansas State Rich Hollenberg & Stan Lewter	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Florida International at Louisiana-Lafayette Jonathan Yardley & Forrest Conoly	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Indiana State at Southern Illinois	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Missouri State at South Dakota State	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	Wisconsin at No. 22 Nebraska Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe	ABC
	8 p.m.	UNLV at Utah State Trey Bender & Jay Taylor	ESPN3
	9:15 p.m.	Ole Miss at No. 1 Alabama ESPN: Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen & Jessica Mendoza Radio: Dave Lamont, Tom Ramsey & Brett McMurphy	ESPN & ESPN Radio
	10:30 p.m.	No. 2 Oregon at Washington State (from Seattle) Mark Jones, Brock Huard & Shelley Smith	ESPN2
	10:30 p.m.	Grambling State at Alabama A&M Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU ***

* Local blackout may apply
*** Live on ESPN3 at 7 p.m. ET & same day delay on ESPNU

That will do it.

ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 4 Including Announcing Assignments

About to complete the first month of the college football season and it all begins with some MACtion tonight on ESPNU. Gotta love the MAC.

We still have some interconference games on the schedule. ESPN’s networks have plenty of games this weekend including one ACC matchup between Top 20 teams on ABC.

Let’s take a look at the games on the ESPN family schedule for Week 4 including the announcing assignments. Take a look at what we have for you below.

All Top Five Teams on ESPN Networks Saturday, Four in Prime Time

ESPN’s college football schedule this week will be highlighted by coverage of the top five teams in the Associated Press Top 25 poll on Saturday, Sept. 22. ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 will televise four of the teams in prime time:

• ABC’s weekly Saturday Night Football broadcast will showcase No. 10 Clemson at No. 4 Florida State in a contest of unbeaten ACC Atlantic Division squads at 8 p.m. ET.
• An ESPN doubleheader will kick off with No. 2 LSU at Auburn in a showdown of SEC West Division powers at 7 p.m. followed by No. 22 Arizona at No. 3 Oregon in a matchup of undefeated Pac-12 programs at 10:30 p.m. ESPN Radio will also broadcast LSU at Auburn.
• ESPN2 will televise No. 5 Georgia against SEC East rival Vanderbilt at 7:45 p.m.

ESPN3 will cover three ranked undefeated SEC teams on Saturday, Sept. 22, highlighted by No. 1 Alabama against Florida Atlantic at 5 p.m. Additional games include No. 14 Florida against Kentucky at noon (also on the SEC Network) and No. 23 Mississippi State against South Alabama at 7 p.m. (subject to local blackout).

 

ESPN’s weeknight series will be highlighted by BYU at No. 24 Boise State on Thursday, Sept. 20, at 9 p.m. and unbeaten Baylor at Louisiana-Monroe on Friday, Sept. 21, at 8 p.m.

ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D and ESPN Radio Schedule

Date	Time (ET)	Game / Commentators	Network
Wed, Sep 19	7 p.m.	Kent State at Buffalo Eamon McAnaney, David Diaz-Infante & Paul Carcaterra	ESPNU
Thu, Sep 20	7:30 p.m.	Arkansas Pine-Bluff at Alabama State Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU
	9 p.m.	BYU at No. 24 Boise State Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Steele	ESPN
Fri, Sep 21	7 p.m.	Georgetown at Princeton Joe Beninati & Rene Ingoglia	ESPNU
	8 p.m.	Baylor at Louisiana-Monroe Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore & Jemele Hill	ESPN
Sat, Sep 22	Noon	Virginia at No. 17 TCU Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Jenn Brown	ESPN & ESPN 3D
	Noon	UTEP at Wisconsin Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway & Lewis Johnson	ESPN2
	Noon	Bowling Green at Virginia Tech Tom Hart & John Congemi	ESPNU
	Noon	Kentucky at No. 14 Florida Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	Noon	Massachusetts at Miami (Ohio) Michael Reghi & Doug Graber	ESPN3 *
	Noon	Furman at Presbyterian	ESPN3 *
	12:30 p.m.	Army at Wake Forest	ESPN3 * & ACC Network
	2 p.m.	Connecticut at Western Michigan Dan Gutowsky, Bob Chmeil & Brooke Weisbrod	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Norfolk State at Ohio Keith Morehouse & Jerod Cherry	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Southern Illinois at Missouri State	ESPN3 *
	3 p.m.	Miami at Georgia Tech	ESPN3 * & RSN
	3:30 p.m.	Oregon State at No. 19 UCLA Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman & Quint Kessenich	ABC & ESPN2 **
		Temple at Penn State Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards	ABC & ESPN2 **
	3:30 p.m.	East Carolina at North Carolina Anish Shroff & Dan Hawkins	ESPNU
	3:30 p.m.	Kansas at Northern Illinois Jim Barbar & John Bunting	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Gardner-Webb at Pittsburgh Shawn Kenney, John Gregory & Rontina McCann	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Prairie View A&M at North Dakota State	ESPN3 *
	4 p.m.	Sam Houston State at Central Arkansas	ESPN3 *
	4:30 p.m.	South Florida at Ball State Eamon McAnaney & David Diaz-Infante	ESPN3 * & BIG EAST Network
	5 p.m.	Wyoming at Idaho Peter Young & John Fina	ESPN3
	5 p.m.	Florida Atlantic at No. 1 Alabama	ESPN3 *
	6 p.m.	The Citadel at NC State Mike Gleason, Paul McGuire & Sarah Stankavage	ESPN3
	6 p.m.	Memphis at Duke Ryan Rose, Doug Chapman & Beth McDade	ESPN3
	6 p.m.	California at No. 13 USC Rich Cellini, John Mackovic & Brett McMurphy	ESPN Radio
	7 p.m.	No. 2 LSU at Auburn ESPN: Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe Radio: Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Joe Schad	ESPN & ESPN Radio
	7 p.m.	Rutgers at Arkansas Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb & Allison Williams	ESPNU
	7 p.m.	South Alabama at No. 23 Mississippi State	ESPN3 *
	7 p.m.	Southern Mississippi at Western Kentucky Dave Weekley & Cory Chavous	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Troy at North Texas Jonathon Yardley & Stan Lewter	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Coastal Carolina at Toledo Frank Giardina & Robert Griffith	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Alcorn State at Arkansas State Brock Bowling & Forrest Conoly	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	No. 20 Louisville at Florida International Drew Fellios, Rene Ingoglia & Anastasia Saunders	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Lehigh at Liberty	ESPN3 *
	7 p.m.	Northern Iowa at Youngstown State	ESPN3 *
	7 p.m.	South Carolina State at Texas A&M	ESPN3 * & FSN
	7:30 p.m.	Akron at Tennessee Matt Stewart, Chris Doering & Angela Mallen	ESPN3 & CSS
	7:45 p.m.	Vanderbilt at No. 5 Georgia Mark Jones, Brock Huard & Maria Taylor	ESPN2
	8 p.m.	No. 10 Clemson at No. 4 Florida State Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather Cox	ABC
	8 p.m.	New Mexico at New Mexico State Trey Bender & Jay Taylor	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	Langston at Lamar	ESPN3 *
	10:30 p.m.	No. 22 Arizona at No. 3 Oregon Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen & Shelley Smith	ESPN & ESPN3 (Spanish language)

* Local blackout may apply
** Reverse mirror in which ESPN2 will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast

That’s going to do it.

ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 3 Including Announcing Assignments

Let’s take a look at the ESPN Family of Networks’ schedule of college football games for Week 3. Conference play will begin in some leagues. Florida at Tennessee on ESPN this Saturday is one highlight and Knoxville will be the site for this week’s College GameDay visit.

ABC has a tripleheader starting at noon highlighted by Notre Dame at Michigan State in primetime with Brent, Herbie and Heather.

We have the entire schedule including announcing assignments for you.

Matchup of Undefeated Teams in Five Telecasts, Two between Ranked Squads

ESPN’s college football schedule this week is highlighted by telecasts of five of the week’s six Football Bowl Subdivision matchups between undefeated teams. Two of the games will include a matchup of ranked teams, both on Saturday, Sept. 15: No. 18 Florida at No. 23 Tennessee (6 p.m. ET on ESPN and ESPN Radio) and No. 20 Notre Dame at No. 10 Michigan State (8 p.m. on ABC). Additional games between unbeaten squads:

• The Thursday ESPN College Football Primetime game on September 13 at 7:30 p.m. will kick off the action with Rutgers at South Florida in a BIG EAST Conference showdown.
• ESPN will televise Wake Forest at ACC rival No. 5 Florida State on Saturday, Sept. 15, at noon. Wake Forest has defeated Florida State in four of the series’ six previous games, including a 35-30 victory over then-No. 23 Florida State last season.
• ESPN will televise No. 14 Texas of the Big 12 at Ole Miss of the SEC in a non-conference matchup on Saturday, Sept. 15, at 9:15 p.m. It will mark the first game between the programs since 1966.

Overall, ESPN networks will cover 14 teams ranked in the AP Top 25, including four games on ESPN3 on Saturday, Sept. 15: No. 3 LSU against Idaho at 8 p.m., No. 7 Georgia against Florida Atlantic at 7:30 p.m., No. 8 South Carolina against UAB at 7 p.m. and No. 11 Clemson against Furman at 3 p.m.

ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D and ESPN Radio Schedule

Date	Time (ET)	Game / Commentators	Network
Thu, Sep 13	7:30 p.m.	Rutgers at South Florida Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Steele	ESPN
	7:30 p.m.	Mississippi Valley State at Southern Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU
Fri, Sep 14	9 p.m.	Washington State at UNLV Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore & Jemele Hill	ESPN
Sat, Sep 15	Noon	California at No. 12 Ohio State Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman & Quint Kessenich	ABC
	Noon	Wake Forest at No. 5 Florida State Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Jenn Brown	ESPN & ESPN 3D
	Noon	Arkansas State at Nebraska Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway & Lewis Johnson	ESPN2
	Noon	No. 13 Virginia Tech at Pittsburgh Tom Hart & John Congemi	ESPNU
	Noon	Bethune-Cookman at Miami Drew Fellios, Doug Garber & Tiffany Green	ESPN3
	Noon	Louisiana-Monroe at Auburn Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	12:30 p.m.	Connecticut at Maryland	ESPN3 * & ACC Network
	12:30 p.m.	Presbyterian at Vanderbilt Bob Neal & Cole Cubelic	ESPN3 & CSS
	3 p.m.	Furman at No. 11 Clemson	ESPN3 * & RSN
	3:30 p.m.	North Carolina at No. 19 Louisville Bob Wischusen, Danny Kanell & Maria Taylor	ABC & ESPN2 **
		Navy at Penn State Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards	ABC & ESPN2 **
	3:30 p.m.	Virginia at Georgia Tech Anish Shroff & Dan Hawkins	ESPNU
	3:30 p.m.	Morgan State at Akron Dan Gutowsky & Jerod Cherry	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Stony Brook at Syracuse	ESPN3 * & BIG EAST Network
	6 p.m.	No. 18 Florida at No. 23 Tennessee Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe Radio: Bill Rosinski, David Norrie, Joe Schad	ESPN & ESPN Radio
	6 p.m.	South Alabama at NC State Bob Picozzi, Forrest Conoly & Sarah Stankavage	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Arizona State at Missouri Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen & Shelley Smith	ESPN2
	7 p.m.	Western Kentucky at Kentucky Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb & Allison Williams	ESPNU
	7 p.m.	Rice at Louisiana Tech Rich Hollenberg & Ralph Friedgen	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Mississippi State at Troy Shawn Kenney & John Bunting	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Bowling Green at Toledo Frank Giardina & TBD	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Delaware State at Cincinnati Jim Barbar, John Gregory & Rontina McCann	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	North Carolina Central at Duke Dave Weekley, Stan Lewter & Beth McDade	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	UAB at No. 8 South Carolina	ESPN3 * & FSN
	7:30 p.m.	Florida Atlantic at No. 7 Georgia Matt Stewart & Chris Doering	ESPN3 & CSS
	8 p.m.	No. 20 Notre Dame at No. 10 Michigan State Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather Cox	ABC
	8 p.m.	Colorado State at San Jose State Trey Bender & John Fina	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	Idaho at No. 3 LSU	ESPN3
	9:15 p.m.	No. 14 Texas at Mississippi Mark Jones, Brock Huard & Jessica Mendoza	ESPN
	10 p.m.	No. 25 BYU at Utah Mark Neely, Ray Bentley & Paul Carcaterra	ESPN2
	10:30 p.m.	Howard at Norfolk State Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU ***

* Local blackout may apply
** Reverse mirror in which ESPN2 will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast
*** Live on ESPN3 at 4 p.m. ET & same day delay on ESPNU

I’ll have Fox’s college football schedule coming next.

ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 2 Including Announcing Assignments

Week 2 in college football doesn’t have ranked teams facing each other, but ESPN will try its best to hype games for us. You have Missouri’s and Texas A&M’s first games in the SEC. ABC doesn’t have a primetime game this week as it carries a NASCAR race. But it still has a doubleheader at noon and at 3:30 p.m. ET.

ESPN does have a primetime doubleheader so there are plenty of games on the ESPN Family.

Check out the games with the announcing assignments.

Seven of Top Nine Ranked Teams; SEC Debut for Missouri & Texas A&M

This week’s college football schedule of 48 games will include a SEC tripleheader on ESPN, the first SEC conference games for new members Texas A&M and Missouri, and seven of the top nine – and 16 of the Top 25 – teams in the AP poll.

Highlights for Saturday, Sept. 8:

• Missouri and Texas A&M will make their SEC debut Saturday, each against a ranked opponent: Texas A&M will host No. 24 Florida at 3:30 p.m. on ESPN while Missouri will host No. 7 Georgia at 7:45 p.m. on ESPN2.
• Additional ranked SEC teams in action include two games on ESPN3 and the SEC Network: No. 1 Alabama against Western Kentucky at 3:30 p.m. and No. 9 South Carolina against East Carolina at noon.
• An ESPN prime time doubleheader will include No. 3 LSU against Washington at 7 p.m. and Illinois at Arizona at 10:30 p.m.
• The ABC and ESPN2 reverse mirror telecast at 3:30 p.m. will showcase a ranked team in each game: No. 2 USC at Syracuse and No. 19 Michigan against Air Force.
• The ESPNU night game will spotlight No. 8 Arkansas against Louisiana-Monroe at 7 p.m.

ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D, Longhorn Network and ESPN Radio Schedule

Date	Time (ET)	Game / Commentators	Network
Thu, Sep 6	8 p.m.	Pittsburgh at Cincinnati Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Steele	ESPN
Fri, Sep 7	8 p.m.	Utah at Utah State Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore & Jemele Hill	ESPN2
Sat, Sep 8	Noon	Penn State at Virginia Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & George Smith	ABC
	Noon	Auburn at Mississippi State Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Jenn Brown	ESPN & ESPN 3D
	Noon	Central Florida at No. 14 Ohio State Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway & Lewis Johnson	ESPN2
	Noon	Maryland at Temple Tom Hart & John Congemi	ESPNU
	Noon	East Carolina at No. 9 South Carolina Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	Noon	NC State at Connecticut Eamon McAnaney, David Diaz-Infante & Paul Carcaterra	ESPN3 * & BIG EAST Network
	12:30 p.m.	Ball State at No. 12 Clemson	ESPN3 * & ACC Network
	1 p.m.	Maine at Boston College Bob Picozzi, Paul Maguire & Cat Whitehill	ESPN3
	1 p.m.	Southern Illinois at Miami (Ohio) Michael Reghi & Rocky Boiman	ESPN3
	1 p.m.	Illinois State at Eastern Michigan	ESPN3 *
	1:30 p.m.	Austin Peay at No. 15 Virginia Tech John Sadak, John Gregory & Rontina McCann	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	North Carolina at Wake Forest	ESPN3 * & ACC Network
	3:30 p.m.	Air Force at No. 19 Michigan Bob Wischusen, Danny Kanell & Maria Taylor	ABC & ESPN2 **
		No. 2 USC at Syracuse Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman & Shelley Smith	ABC & ESPN2 **
	3:30 p.m.	No. 24 Florida at Texas A&M Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather Cox Radio: Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Joe Schad	ESPN & ESPN Radio
	3:30 p.m.	No. 11 Michigan State at Central Michigan Anish Shroff & Dan Hawkins	ESPNU
	3:30 p.m.	Indiana at Massachusetts Shawn Kenney, John Bunting & John Brickley	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Western Kentucky at No. 1 Alabama Mike Morgan, Chris Doering & Jill Montgomery	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	3:30 p.m.	Howard at Rutgers Mike Corey & Rene Ingoglia	ESPN3 * & BIG EAST Network
	3:30 p.m.	Missouri State at No. 23 Louisville	ESPN3 *
	4 p.m.	Georgia State at Tennessee	ESPN3
	5 p.m.	Nicholls State at South Alabama Jared Schwartz & Stan Lewter	ESPN3
	6 p.m.	Savannah State at No. 6 Florida State Dave Weekley, Ralph Friedgen & Tiffany Green	ESPN3
	6 p.m.	Akron at Florida International Drew Fellios & Doug Graber	ESPN3
	6:30 p.m.	Montana at Appalachian State	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Washington at No. 3 LSU Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe	ESPN
	7 p.m.	Louisiana-Monroe at No. 8 Arkansas Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb & Allison Williams	ESPNU
	7 p.m.	Memphis at Arkansas State Brock Bowling & Cory Chavous	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Texas Tech at Texas State Trey Bender & Jay Taylor	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Presbyterian at Georgia Tech Ryan Rose, Warrick Dunn & LaChina Robinson	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Louisiana-Lafayette at Troy Jonathon Yardley & Forest Conoly	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	New Mexico State at Ohio TBD & Jerod Cherry	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Tennessee-Martin at Northern Illinois Jim Barbar & Bob Chmeil	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Eastern Illinois at Western Michigan Dan Gutowsky & Ben Leber	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Florida Atlantic at Middle Tennessee	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Texas Southern at North Texas	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Idaho at Bowling Green Greg Franke & Tom Cole	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	UTEP at Mississippi	ESPN3 * & FSN
	7 p.m.	Norfolk State at Liberty	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Lafayette at William & Mary	ESPN3
	7:30 p.m.	Kent State at Kentucky Matt Stewart, Cole Cubelic & Angela Mallen	ESPN3 & CSS
	7:30 p.m.	No. 16 Nebraska at UCLA	ESPN Radio
	7:45 p.m.	No. 7 Georgia at Missouri Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen & Quint Kessenich	ESPN2
	8 p.m.	New Mexico at No. 17 Texas Mark Neely, Ray Bentley & Kaylee Hartung	Longhorn Network
	10:30 p.m.	Illinois at Arizona Mark Jones, Brock Huard & Jessica Mendoza	ESPN & ESPN3 (Spanish language)
	10:30 p.m.	Bethune Cookman at South Carolina State Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU ***

* Local blackout may apply
** Reverse mirror in which ESPN2 will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast
*** Live on ESPN3 at 6 p.m. ET & same day delay on ESPNU

That will do it for this post.