Here’s another press release from last week that is being posted now. From the NBC Sports Group, over 30 college football games will air on NBC and the NBC Sports Network. NBC will show 7 Notre Dame games and the annual Bayou Classic between Grambling State and Southern University. NBC Sports Network will have a schedule consisting of games from the Mountain West Conference, Colonial Athletic Association, the Ivy League and the annual Atlanta Football Classic.
Liam McHugh, Doug Flutie and newbie analyst Hines Ward will be the NBC Sports college football studio team. Tom Hammond and Mike Mayock will call Notre Dame football. Other announcers for the Mountain West, CAA and Ivy League will be brought forth at a later date.
Here’s the NBC Sports Group college football schedule.
NBC & NBC SPORTS NETWORK TO TELEVISE 32 COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAMES IN 2012
2012 Coverage of Notre Dame, Mountain West, CAA & Ivy League Kicks Off Sept. 8
NBC to Broadcast Bayou Classic between Grambling & Southern for 21st Consecutive Year; NBC Sports Network to Televise Atlanta Football Classic between Florida A&M & Southern for 5th Straight YearNEW YORK – June 7, 2012 – NBC and NBC Sports Network will combine to televise 32 college football games during the 2012 season, beginning with a triple-header on Saturday, Sept. 8. The combined NBC and the NBC Sports Network 2012 college football schedule is comprised of Notre Dame home games; games from the Mountain West Conference, the Colonial Athletic Association, and the Ivy League; the annual Bayou Classic between Grambling State and Southern, which NBC has broadcast every year since 1991; and the Atlanta Football Classic, this year between Florida A&M and Southern, which NBC Sports Network has televised since 2008.
Coverage kicks off on Saturday, Sept. 8, with Purdue at Notre Dame on NBC at 3:30 p.m. ET and Delaware State at Delaware (CAA) at 3:30 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Network. Later that night, NBC Sports Network will air Army at San Diego State (MWC) at 7:30 p.m. ET. The first Ivy League telecasts air on NBC Sports Network on Saturday, Sept. 22, when Cornell hosts Yale at 1 p.m. ET followed by defending champion Harvard at Brown at 4:30 p.m. ET.
The NBC and NBC Sports Network 2012 college football schedule includes seven Notre Dame games, 10 Mountain West Conference games, six Colonial Athletic Association games, seven Ivy League games, plus the Bayou Classic and Atlanta Football Classic.
NBC Sports’ college football studio team of Liam McHugh, Doug Flutie and Hines Ward will provide pre- and post-game coverage on NBC and/or NBC Sports Network every Saturday. Game commentators will be announced closer to the start of the season.
Highlights of the 2012 College Football schedule include:
- Seven primetime/nighttime games, including Army at San Diego State on Sept. 8 on NBC Sports Network and Michigan at Notre Dame on Sept. 22 on NBC.
- Three quadruple-headers on Sept. 22, Nov. 10 (all on NBC Sports Network) and Nov. 17.
- Continuing its off-site home series, Notre Dame will host the Miami Hurricanes at Chicago’s Soldier Field on Saturday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC.
- For the fifth consecutive year, NBC Sports Network will present the Atlanta Football Classic from the Georgia Dome at 3:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, Sept. 29. This year’s game features Florida A&M taking on Southern.
- Perennial Mountain West powerhouse Boise State plays four times on NBC Sports Network.
- The Game: Yale at Harvard airs at Noon ET on NBC Sports Network on Saturday, Nov. 17.
- On Saturday, Nov. 24 at 2:30 p.m. ET, NBC will broadcast the 39th Annual Bayou Classic between Grambling State and Southern for the 21st time from the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, La.
NBC SPORTS GROUP COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE (all times ET)
3:30 p.m. Sat, Sept. 8 Purdue at Notre Dame NBC 3:30 p.m. Sat., Sept. 8 Delaware State at Delaware NBCSN 7:30 p.m. Sat., Sept. 8 Army at San Diego State NBCSN 12:00 p.m. Sat., Sept. 15 William & Mary at Towson NBCSN 4:00 p.m. Sat., Sept. 15 Miami (Ohio) at Boise State NBCSN 1:00 p.m. Sat., Sept. 22 Yale at Cornell NBCSN 4:30 p.m. Sat., Sept. 22 Harvard at Brown NBCSN 7:30 p.m. Sat., Sept. 22 Michigan at Notre Dame NBC 10:30 p.m. Sat., Sept. 22 Nevada at Hawaii NBCSN
12:00 p.m. Sat., Sept. 29 Penn at Dartmouth NBCSN 3:30 p.m. Sat., Sept. 29 Atlanta Football Classic: Florida A&M vs. Southern NBCSN 1:00 p.m. Sat., Oct. 6 Towson at James Madison NBCSN 7:30 p.m. Sat., Oct. 6 Miami at Notre Dame (Soldier Field) NBC 12:00 p.m. Sat., Oct. 13 Brown at Princeton NBCSN 3:30 p.m. Sat., Oct. 13 Stanford at Notre Dame NBC 3:30 p.m. Sat., Oct. 13 Fresno State at Boise State NBCSN 12:00 p.m. Sat., Oct. 20 Penn at Yale NBCSN 3:30 p.m. Sat., Oct. 20 BYU at Notre Dame NBC 3:30 p.m. Sat., Oct. 20 UNLV at Boise State NBCSN 12:00 p.m. Sat., Oct. 27 Delaware at Old Dominion NBCSN 12:00 p.m. Sat., Nov. 3 Towson at Delaware NBCSN 3:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 3 Pittsburgh at Notre Dame NBC 12:00 p.m. Sat., Nov. 10 Harvard at Penn NBCSN 3:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 10 Air Force at San Diego State NBCSN 7:00 p.m. Sat., Nov. 10 Boise State at Hawaii NBCSN 10:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 10 Fresno State at Nevada NBCSN 12:00 p.m. Sat., Nov. 17 Yale at Harvard NBCSN 3:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 17 Wake Forest at Notre Dame NBC 3:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 17 Colorado State at Boise State NBCSN 7:00 p.m. Sat., Nov. 17 Old Dominion at James Madison NBCSN 2:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 24 Bayou Classic: Grambling State vs. Southern NBC 3:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 24 Air Force at Fresno State NBCSN
That’s going to do it.
