0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/28/2014
All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy Eye on Sky and Air Sports Studio and Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Daily — ESPN2, 3 p.m. SEC Nation — ESPN2/SEC Network, 4 p.m. Pac-12 Football Weekly — Pac-12 Networks, 5 p.m. ESPNU College Football Kickoff — ESPNU, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/14/2014
Airing each week at Friday night at midnight ET/9 p.m. PT, Fox Sports Live shucks the old College Football Saturday show and will try a new route with analysts and insiders talking about the ten biggest stories in the sport on “Countdown to Kickoff.” Instead of Erin Andrews hosting a Saturday morning pregame that attracted […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/6/2014
Later this month, CBS Sports Network will air the Ohio State vs. Navy game live from Baltimore. And calling the game will be the SEC on CBS crew of Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson and new sideline reporter Allie LaForce. The announcement is below. Not much else I can add unless it’s to say LaForce replaces […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/1/2014
In this transition year for college football, ESPN transitions its announcing teams for the 2014 season. For the new College Football Playoff, ESPN has shuffled its announcers for a sport it does quite well. Brent Musburger will no longer be on the “A” team as he has been sent to the new SEC Network where […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/31/2014
On Monday, Big Ten Network gets out of repeat mode and begins to get ready for the upcoming football season. BTN Live returns on Monday with live airings at 6 p.m. ET and simulcasts on Fox Sports Radio. As usual, Dave Revsine, Mike Hall and Rick Rizzo will rotate as hosts with various analysts joining […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/24/2014
ESPN has two former college coaches joining its college football ranks this season. Former Texas Longhorns coach Mack Brown will be on ABC with John Saunders and new studio analyst Danny Kanell on College Football Countdown on Saturdays at 3 p.m. ET and be part of the halftime and postgame shows for the 3:30 p.m. […]
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Notre Dame which has all of its games nationally televised will get another game in primetime in 2014. CBS has slated the Notre Dame at Navy game on Saturday, November 1 for 8 p.m. ET. This will be part of a college football tripleheader which begins at 11:30 a.m. that day. Air Force at Army […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/23/2014
Ok, this was released yesterday, but Fox Sports never sent this to me so I had to cull it off its website. Bad job, Fox. Gotta send these to me in order to get them posted here. First, the studio show has been revamped. With Erin Andrews promoted to the NFL on Fox “A” team […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/22/2014
For its third season of providing live football games, the Pac-12 Networks have unveiled its on-air lineup for the upcoming 2014 campaign. Ted Robinson, JB Long, Kevin Calabro and Roxy Bernstein return as the men who will call the play-by-play. Glenn Parker, Yogi Roth and Anthony Herron are among the game analysts. Ronnie Lott, Rick […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/25/2014
In a move that no one saw coming, former SEC on CBS studio host Tim Brando will be joining Fox Sports this September to call college football and college basketball. It was thought that with Brando’s ties to the SEC that he would go to ESPN’s SEC Network in some capacity, but instead, he opted […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/19/2014
Noted college football and basketball writer Stewart Mandel will be joining Fox Sports.com as a national columnist. Mandel who has gained a very good reputation as a reporter and writer. He joins “Free” Bruce Feldman and Clay Travis on the FoxSports.com team and will make appearances on Fox Sports 1 and other network platforms. He’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/5/2014
While I’m in California attending a wedding, Fang’s Bites will present various guest columns from contributors all over the country. We begin with Nathan Brice of Birmingham, AL who presents the question, which sports work best being televised on cable and which work best on broadcast TV? It’s an interesting question and one Nathan tries […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/28/2014
The most-watched college football package is back for its 14 consecutive season. The SEC on CBS returns with its season premiere on Saturday, September 13 with Georgia at South Carolina at 3:30 p.m. ET. CBS will air 16 regular season games over a 14 week span. Uncle Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson will return to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/2/2014
This from the ESPN-run SEC Network. All 14 teams in the conference will appear on the SEC Network in the first four weeks of the football season. It all begins on Thursday, August 28 with a doubleheader and starting the SEC Network football schedule will be Texas A&M at South Carolina at 6 p.m. ET. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/22/2014
Big Ten Network has unveiled its six game primetime schedule for the 2014 season. The games include incoming schools Maryland and Rutgers playing home games. Rutgers plays host to Michigan on October 4 and Maryland will host Michigan State on November 15. The first primetime college football game of the season on BTN will be […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/16/2014
ESPN has released five neutral site college football season-opening games that will air in August. It begins with the Kickoff Games in Atlanta. ESPN carries Boise State vs. Mississippi on Thursday, August 28 at 8 p.m. and then ABC/ESPN2 has the contest on Saturday, August 30 as West Virginia takes on Alabama at 3 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/15/2014
ESPN has selected six Big Ten football games for Saturday primetime. One game has been slated for ESPN exclusively and that’s Virginia Tech at Ohio State on September 6 at 8 p.m. ET. Four games including Miami (FL) at Nebraska on September 20, Nebraska at Michigan State on October 4 and Ohio State at Penn […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/13/2014
Well, once the dominoes starting falling, this was the logical conclusion. After ESPN announced Brent Musburger was being pushed moved to the SEC Network following several years as the lead college football play-by-play voice, the Alleged Worldwide Leader has announced to the world today that College GameDay host Chris Fowler will be the new lead […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/12/2014
Announced today by ESPN, Brent Musburger who has been the full-time lead college football announcer since 2006, will move to the SEC Network to be the lead play-by-play man there. He’ll be teamed with Jesse Palmer on football games. It’s not a precipitous fall, but certainly not the move Musburger had to be expecting especially […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/5/2014
If Super Bowl Week was big for Fox/Fox Sports 1, then National Signing Day is similar for ESPNU. The network will air 11 hours of continuous coverage starting today at 8 a.m. ET and continuing until 7 p.m. ESPN2 picks up a half-hour simulcast at 5 p.m. in College Football Today’s normal timeslot. Rece Davis […]
