ESPN’s Complete 2010-11 Bowl Schedule With Announcing Teams

Ok, since the bowl matchups were announced on Sunday, I’ve been waiting for this press release. I even sent an e-mail to ESPN which went unanswered, but no big deal. We have the schedule for all 33 bowl games on the ESPN Family of Networks including the Mothership, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN 3D. ABC gets just one bowl. ESPN Radio will have 23 of the 33 games.

Of course, Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit will call the Rose Bowl and the BCS National Championship Game. The Monday Night Football crew of Mike Tirico, Ron Jaworski and Jon “This Guy” Gruden will call the Orange Bowl. Tirico and Gruden will team up to call the BCS National Championship Game on radio. In addition, Tirico and Gruden will call the Outback Bowl on ABC, January 1. So you have some announcing highlights. Let’s get some more from the press release below.

ESPN’s 33 College Football Bowl Games Highlighted by Entire BCS

ESPN’s comprehensive and in-depth college football bowl coverage – highlighted by the entire Bowl Championship Series on ESPN for the first time – will include approximately 70 commentators, analysts and reporters calling 33 bowl games across ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Radio and ESPN 3D. ESPN3.com will offer a live simulcast of every ESPN and ESPN2 telecast, including all five BCS games.

As part of an extensive four-year agreement with the Bowl Championship Series that begins this season, ESPN will provide exclusive worldwide telecasts, radio broadcasts, digital content and more for the five BCS games from January 2011 through January 2014. It will mark the first time ESPN has televised BCS games. ESPN Radio has broadcast every BCS game since 2000. 

The schedule will kick off with an ESPN tripleheader Saturday, Dec. 18: the New Mexico Bowl (BYU vs. UTEP) at 2 p.m. ET, Humanitarian Bowl (Northern Illinois vs. Fresno State) at 5:30 p.m. and New Orleans Bowl (Ohio vs. Troy) at 9 p.m. 

Schedule Highlights

• ESPN will cover a network record 29 bowl games, highlighted by the five BCS bowls. 
• ESPN’s New Year’s Day lineup will include a game across four networks at the same time. 
• ESPNU will televise the TicketCity Bowl (Northwestern vs. Texas Tech) at noon, ESPNU’s first bowl telecast. 
• ESPN and ABC will each cover a game at 1 p.m.: the Capital One Bowl (No. 16 Alabama vs. No. 9 Michigan State) on ESPN and Outback Bowl (Florida vs. Penn State) on ABC. 
• ESPN2 will televise the Gator Bowl (No. 21 Mississippi State vs. Michigan) at 1:30 p.m. 
• ESPN Radio will broadcast 23 bowl games, including all five BCS matchups, highlighted by the BCS National Championship game. 
• ESPN 3D, ESPN’s newest outlet and the first 3D network to launch in the industry, will provide exclusive 3D coverage of the Fiesta Bowl and BCS National Championship Game. 
• An ESPN platform will televise at least one game a day for 17 out of the 21 days from Dec. 21 to Jan. 10. 
• ESPN, ESPN3.com and ESPN Radio will cover all seven ESPN Regional Television owned-and-operated bowl games: the New Mexico Bowl (Saturday, Dec. 18, at 2 p.m.), St. Petersburg Bowl (Tuesday, Dec. 21, at 8 p.m.); Las Vegas Bowl (Wednesday, Dec. 22, at 8 p.m.); Hawaii Bowl (Friday, Dec. 24, at 8 p.m.); Texas Bowl (Wednesday, Dec. 29, at 6 p.m.); Armed Forces Bowl (Thursday, Dec. 30, at noon); and Compass Bowl (Saturday, Jan. 8, at 8 p.m.). 

Commentator Highlights 

• Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi will work ESPN’s telecast of the BCS National Championship Game (Jan. 10 at 8:30 p.m.) while Monday Night Football announcers Mike Tirico and Jon Gruden, who will be joined by reporter Joe Schad, will call ESPN Radio’s broadcast of the game. ESPN 3D’s coverage will be called by Joe Tessitore, Tim Brown, Todd Blackledge and Wendi Nix. 

It will mark Musburger and Herbstreit’s fourth consecutive BCS National Championship, the first two for ESPN Radio and last year’s ABC telecast from the Rose Bowl. Tirico, Gruden and Nix worked last year’s title matchup for ESPN Radio. 

• Musburger and Herbstreit will also serve as the announcers of ESPN’s telecast of the Rose Bowl with Andrews and the Las Vegas Bowl with Rinaldi. 
• In addition to the title game, Tirico and Gruden will work two ESPN telecasts: the Orange Bowl, with Monday Night Football booth colleague Ron Jaworski and NFL reporter Michele Tafoya, and the Outback Bowl with NFL reporter Suzy Kolber. 
• The “overtime award” will go to Bill Rosinski, David Norrie and Joe Schad, who will call seven games for ESPN Radio, six of them as a team. 
• ESPN commentator Dave Lamont and analyst JC Pearson will pair to work five games across television and radio from Dec. 18-30.

And after the jump, the complete ESPN bowl schedule.

That will do it.