We have a bunch of press releases that flew into the Fang’s Bites inbox on Monday. Let’s post them before they pile up.
First, College Gameday pays a visit to Fort Worth, TX this Saturday.
College GameDay Live from No. 16 Utah at No. 4 TCU
College GameDay (Saturdays at 10 a.m. on ESPN) will originate from Fort Worth, Texas, site of No. 16 Utah at No. 4 TCU. It will mark the fourth time this season College GameDay has originated from a game not shown on the ESPN family of networks. It also is the third Mountain West Conference site in four weeks. College GameDay is hosted by Chris Fowler with analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard.
This leads us to the college football schedule for the ESPN family of networks this week.
College Football: Telecasts Involving 10 of Top 14 Teams Include Three Unbeatens & Showdown for Big Ten Conference Title
ESPN’s college football schedule this week will 10 of the top 14 teams in the BCS standings, highlighted by three of the remaining six undefeated teams:
- No. 2 Alabama at Mississippi State Sat., Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. on ESPN;
- No. 5 Cincinnati against No. 25 West Virginia Fri., Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. on ESPN2;
- No. 6 Boise State against Idaho Sat., Nov. 14, at 3:30 p.m. on ESPNU.
In addition, ABC will televise a showdown for the Big Ten Conference title between No. 10 Iowa and No. 11 Ohio State Saturday, Nov. 14, at 3:30 p.m. Additional highlights for Saturday:
- No. 7 Georgia Tech at Duke at noon on ESPN2;
- No. 8 LSU hosts Louisiana Tech at 7 p.m. on ESPNU;
- No. 12 Pittsburgh hosts Notre Dame on Saturday Night Football on ABC at 8 p.m.;
- No. 13 Oregon hosts Arizona State at 10:20 p.m. on ESPN;
- No. 14 Miami at North Carolina at 3:30 p.m. on ABC.
Date
Time (ET)
Game
Network
Tue, Nov 10
7 p.m.
Ohio at Buffalo
Todd Harris & Charles Arbuckle
ESPN2 / ESPN360.com
Wed, Nov 11
8 p.m.
Toledo at Central Mic
higanEric Collins, Ray Bentley & Robert Smith
ESPN2 / ESPN360.com
Thu, Nov 12
6 p.m.
Ball State at Northern Illinois
Dan McLaughlin & David Jon Berger
ESPNU
7:30 p.m.
No. 24 South Florida at Rutgers
Chris Fowler, Craig James, Jesse Palmer & Erin Andrews
ESPN / ESPN360.com
9 p.m.
Texas Southern at Grambling State
Charlie Neal & Jay Walker
ESPNU
Fri, Nov 13
8 p.m.
No. 25 West Virginia at No. 5 Cincinnati
Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore & Quint Kessenich
ESPN2 / ESPN360.com
8 p.m.
Temple at Akron
Justin Kutcher & Tom Luginbill
ESPNU
Sat, Nov 14
Noon
Michigan State at Purdue
Dave Pasch, Bob Griese & Chris Spielman
ESPN / ESPN360.com
Noon
No. 7 Georgia Tech at Duke
Pam Ward & Ray Bentley
ESPN2
Noon
Florida State at Wake Forest
Clay Matvick & David Diaz-Infante
ESPNU
Noon
Northwestern at Illinois
Mike Morgan & Jon Berger
ESPN Classic
Noon
Kentucky at Vanderbilt
Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano
SEC Network **
Noon
Syracuse at Louisville
Mike Gleason, John Congemi & Quint Kessenich
BIG EAST Game of the Week **
1 p.m.
No. 21 Virginia Tech at Maryland
Dave Weekley and Danny Kanell
ESPN360.com
3:30 p.m.
No. 10 Iowa at No. 11 Ohio State *
Sean McDonough, Matt Millen & Holly Rowe
ABC
No. 14 Miami at North Carolina *
Bob Wischusen & Brian Griese
ABC
Nebraska at Kansas
Ron Franklin & Ed Cunningham
ABC
3:30 p.m.
Reverse Mirror of Big Ten and ACC games on ABC *
ESPN / ESPN360.com
3:30 p.m.
Idaho at No. 6 Boise State
Todd Harris and Charles Arbuckle
ESPNU
3:30 p.m.
Boston College at Virginia
Ryan Rose and John Gregory
ESPN360.com
7 p.m.
No. 2 Alabama at Mississippi State
Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Erin Andrews
ESPN / ESPN360.com
7 p.m.
Auburn at Georgia
Mark Jones & Bob Davie
ESPN2 / ESPN360.com
7 p.m.
Louisiana Tech at No. 8 LSU
Eric Collins & Brock Huard
ESPNU
8 p.m.
Notre Dame at No. 12 Pittsburgh
Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Lisa Salters
ABC
Texas Tech at No. 19 Oklahoma State
Mike Patrick, Craig James & Heather Cox
ABC
10:20 p.m.
Arizona State at No. 13 Oregon
Terry Gannon & David Norrie
ESPN / ESPN360.com
* Reverse mirror: ESPN or ESPN2 will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast
** Syndication
CBS Sports has made its SEC Game of the Week selection for November 21.
CBS Sports has announced its college football game for Saturday, Nov. 21 (3:30-7:00 PM, ET) will feature *No. 9-ranked LSU at Ole Miss. Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson will call the contest, along with reporter Tracy Wolfson. COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY kicks off the day (3:00 PM, ET) with host Tim Brando and analyst Spencer Tillman. The game will be available in high definition.
*AP Poll as of 11/09/09
We started with College Gameday being live at Utah-TCU and we’ll end with CBS College Sports having its pregame and postgame shows live from Utah-TCU as the network is carrying the game on Saturday.
CBS College Sports Network will broadcast a special pregame (7:00 PM, ET) and postgame show, INSIDE COLLEGE FOOTBALL LIVE FROM FORT WORTH, on Saturday, Nov. 14 surrounding its broadcast of *No. 14-ranked Utah at undefeated and *No. 4-ranked TCU (7:30 PM, ET). Adam Zucker hosts both shows live from Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas along with Aaron Taylor and Tony Barnhart with Lauren Shehadi reporting.
Play-by-play announcer Tom Hart is joined in the booth by Taylor
to call the game. Shehadi reports from the sidelines.CBS College Sports Network is available to fans across the country through various local cable and video operators, and nationally via satellite on DIRECTV (CHOICE XTRA Package – Channel 613) and Dish Network (CLASSIC SILVER 200 Package – Channel 152). For more information, go to www.cbscollegesports.com.
* Coaches Poll as of 11/8/09
That will complete this press release post. An NFL-centric press release post is next.
