College Football Press Release Stuff

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 higan Eric 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.