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ESPN and PlayStation Unveil Innovative Player Impact Rating for College Football Coverage

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ESPN and PlayStation today announced their new Player Impact Rating system for the 2019-20 college football season. The first-of-its-kind metric evaluates the impact of every player in college football relative to their position on a 0-100 scale, accounting for the skill of their teammates and opponents on every play. This process allows for players’ ratings to be updated each week.

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ESPN’s Award-Winning Storytelling Expands Across Multiple Platforms This Fall

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Coming off a year filled with prestigious honors including a Peabody, a Murrow, and several Emmys among many other awards, ESPN will enhance its storytelling content offerings this fall with a mix of series debuts and scheduling developments, including E:60, Backstory, ESPN Cover Story and ESPN Daily.

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Zero to 150: ESPN Enhances College Football’s Week 0 Experience, Commencing Full College Football 150 Multifaceted Storytelling

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College football’s 150th season will be the sport’s most extensive across ESPN, as the network turns Week 0 (Saturday, Aug. 24) into a signature day to start the season and ramps up its multifaceted College Football 150 storytelling experience through an all-day extravaganza celebrating the best the sport has to offer.

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Judah & the Lion’s “Let Go” Chosen as ESPN’s New College Football Anthem for 2019-20 Season

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Today at the Capitol Congress in Los Angeles, ESPN announced that Cletus the Van/Caroline recording artist Judah & the Lion will provide the musical backdrop for the 2019-20 College Football Season. The newest single from the band – “Let Go” – will serve as the anthem for ESPN’s coverage of College Football’s 150th season, which kicks off on August 24. This marks the fifth year ESPN has collaborated with Universal Music Group. Once again, music from the labels’ biggest artists will be incorporated into ESPN college football programming, promotion and games throughout the season.

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Matt Barrie and Kevin Connors Lead ESPN and ESPN2’s College Football Studio Coverage This Season; ESPN Re-Signs Analysts Jesse Palmer and Jim Mora

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Matt Barrie and Kevin Connors Lead ESPN and ESPN2’s College Football Studio Coverage This Season; ESPN Re-Signs Analysts Jesse Palmer and Jim Mora

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Premiering Next Month on Big 12 Now on ESPN+: New Series Starring Les Miles

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Premiering exclusively on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ next month, a new 18-part series will give fans a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes look at Kansas Head Coach Les Miles and Athletic Director Jeff Long as they seek to raise the Kansas football program to national prominence. The series will include four preseason episodes in August, followed by weekly installments during the college football season. Filming began this offseason, before Miles was hired, and will cover the entire 2019 season from start to finish.

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Respected Voices, Accomplished Former Players and Intrepid Reporters Form ESPN’s College Football Commentator Teams for Sport’s 150th Anniversary Season

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ESPN has solidified its commentator teams for the 2019-20 college football season

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