College Football Press Release Reading

Let’s post some college football press releases for tonight. Lots of good stuff to get to.

First, this is the schedule of games the ESPN networks will air this week.

College Football: Three Undefeateds in Action, Plus No. 10 Ohio State at Michigan & No. 11 Oregon at Arizona

ESPN’s college football coverage this week will include telecasts involving three of the remaining six undefeated teams, No. 10 Ohio State at Michigan in one of sports’ greatest rivalries and No. 11 Oregon at Arizona in a key matchup that could help decide the Pac-10 title. The telecasts involving unbeaten teams include:

• No. 2 Alabama against Chattanooga Saturday, Nov. 21, at noon on ESPN Regional Television’s SEC Network;

• No. 3 Texas against Kansas Saturday, Nov. 21, at 8 p.m. on ABC’s Saturday Night Football;

• No. 6 Boise State at Utah State Friday, Nov. 20, at 9:30 p.m. on ESPN2.

• The Thursday night game on ESPN Nov. 19 will feature a Big 12 showdown pitting Colorado at No. 12 Oklahoma State at 7:30 p.m.

Date	Time (ET)	Game	Network
Wed, Nov. 18	6 p.m.	Buffalo at Miami (Ohio) TBD & Tom Luginbill	ESPNU
	8 p.m.	Central Michigan at Ball State Dave Lamont & Trent Dilfer	ESPN2 / ESPN360.com
Thu, Nov. 19	6 p.m.	Tennessee State at Eastern Illinois Charlie Neal & Jay Walker	ESPNU
	7:30 p.m.	Colorado at No. 12 Oklahoma State Chris Fowler, Craig James, Jesse Palmer & Erin Andrews	ESPN / ESPN360.com
Fri, Nov. 20	5:30 p.m.	Akron at Bowling Green Kevin Negandhi & David Jon Berger	ESPNU
	9:30 p.m.	No. 6 Boise State at Utah State Joe Tessitore & Rod Gilmore	ESPN2 / ESPN360.com
Sat, Nov. 21	Noon	No. 10 Ohio State at Michigan Sean McDonough, Matt Millen & Holly Rowe	ABC
		Minnesota at No. 13 Iowa Dave Pasch, Bob Griese & Chris Spielman	ESPN / ESPN360.com
		North Carolina at Boston College Pam Ward & Ray Bentley	ESPN2 / ESPN360.com
		Duke at No. 20 Miami Clay Matvick & David Diaz-Infante	ESPNU
		Mississippi State at Arkansas Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	SEC Network ** ^
		Chattanooga at No. 2 Alabama Doug Bell & Chris Doering	SEC Network ** ^
		Louisville at South Florida Mike Gleason, John Congemi & Quint Kessenich	BIG EAST Game of the Week **
	2:30 p.m.	Florida Classic: Florida A&M vs. Bethune-Cookman (from Orlando) Charlie Neal & Jay Walker	ESPN Classic / ESPN360.com
	3:30 p.m.	No. 14 Penn State at Michigan State * Mike Patrick, Craig James & Heather Cox	ABC
		Virginia at No. 23 Clemson * Bob Wischusen & Brian Griese	ABC
		Reverse Mirror of Big Ten and ACC games on ABC *	ESPN / ESPN360.com
		N.C. State at No. 15 Virginia Tech Todd Harris & Charles Arbuckle	ESPNU
		Rutgers at Syracuse TBD & TBD	ESPN360.com
	7 p.m.	Vanderbilt at Tennessee Eric Collins & Brock Huard	ESPNU
	7:45 p.m.	Kansas State at Nebraska Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Erin Andrews	ESPN / ESPN360.com
		Kentucky at Georgia Mark Jones & Bob Davie	ESPN2 / ESPN360.com
	8 p.m.	No. 11 Oregon at Arizona Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Lisa Salters	ABC
		Kansas at No. 3 Texas Ron Franklin & Ed Cunningham	ABC
	10:20 p.m.	Nevada at New Mexico State Terry Gannon & David Norrie	ESPNU

* Reverse mirror: ESPN or ESPN2 will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast

** Syndication

^ Split window

To CBS College Sports which previews Tuesday’s Tony Barnhart Show.

“THE TONY BARNHART SHOW” ON CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK GETS BLINDSIDED WITH DIRECTOR JOHN LEE HANCOCK AND CO-STARS

PHILLIP FULMER AND TOM LEMMING PLUS CBS SPORTS’ JIM NANTZ

Barnhart to Look at Coaching Situation at Notre Dame – Is Charlie Weis In or Out and Who Could Replace Him?

CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK’s THE TONY BARNHART SHOW, a new weekly one-hour primetime college football talk show, features John Lee Hancock, director of the new movie The Blind Side, along with two of its co-stars, CBS College Sports Network’s announcers Phillip Fulmer and Tom Lemming; plus CBS Sports’ Jim Nantz on Tuesday, Nov. 18 (9:00 PM, ET).

“Mr. College Football” Tony Barnhart hosts the show along with Brian Jones. The hard-hitting program will debate and analyze the hot topics and issues facing college football both on and off-the-field. This week Barnhart and Jones look at the Notre Dame coaching situation: should Charlie Weis stay? Should he be fired? And who should replace him?

Throughout the season Barnhart will invite a variety of high-profile guests from the college football community, including coaches, administrators, writers, broadcasters and former players to the program.The distinguished guests will offer in-depth, lively, opinionated, topical discussions on the world of college football.

The TONY BARNHART SHOW will air each Tuesday throughout the college football season at 9:00 PM, ET. Mike Aresco serves as Executive Producer. Tyler Hale and Stefan Van Engen produce.

And finally, CBS has made its pick for November 28’s SEC game.

CBS Sports has announced its college football game for Saturday, Nov. 28 (3:30-7:00 PM, ET) will feature Florida State at undefeated and *No. 1-ranked Florida. 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, Spencer Tillman and Tony Barnhart. The game will be available in high definition.

* AP Poll as of 11/16/09

I’ll do a couple of more posts before shutting off the computer.