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ESPN’s College GameDay Built by The Home Depot travels to Columbus, Ohio, this week for Rivalry Week and the record 22nd visit to Ohio State. The show will mark the ninth from ‘The Game’ and the second top-three lineup this season as the No. 3 Wolverines take on the No. 2 Buckeyes in the storied rivalry clash…
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ESPN Events is prepared to flex the kickoff times and networks of the SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl and the New Mexico Bowl on Saturday, Dec. 17 during the upcoming college football bowl season.
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Emmy Award-winning ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit previewed college football’s Rivalry Week on a media conference call. Herbstreit discussed No. 3 Michigan at No. 2 Ohio State – site of this week’s College GameDay – ABC’s Saturday Night Football matchup between No. 13 Notre Dame and No. 5 USC.
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In a weekend filled with upsets, top teams and thrillers, ESPN platforms came away the winner with ABC’s most-watched November Saturday since 2016. ESPN platforms delivered the top three most-viewed games of the weekend and its most-watched Week 12 since 2015. ABC and ESPN won every window (noon, afternoon, primetime, late prime) on the penultimate Saturday of the 2022 regular season, and ESPN won the night as the most-viewed network in primetime among all viewers and all key male and adult demos.
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Southern and Grambling State Renew Rivalry in Traditional Thanksgiving Weekend Matchup from Caesars Superdome in New Orleans
NBCU Academy – a Journalism Training and Development Program – to Offer HBCU Students Professional Development Opportunities and Hands-on Media Experience
STAMFORD, Conn. – Nov. 22, 2022 – NBC Sports presents the 49th annual Bayou Classic between Southern and Grambling State this Saturday, November 26 at 2 p.m. ET live on NBC and Peacock from Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, La.
In last season’s meeting, Grambling topped Southern, 29-26, on a game-winning field goal with two seconds remaining in the fourth quarter. The Bayou Classic rivalry is tied all-time, with Southern and Grambling each winning 24 games since the series began in 1974.
Southern (6-4) is in second place in the SWAC West this season, while Grambling (3-7) is in fifth place.
Halftime of Saturday’s game will include a presentation of the Battle of the Bands, the celebrated tradition between the Southern and Grambling State marching bands.
NBC Sports’ Chris Lewis will handle play-by-play, and will be joined by analyst Anthony Herron and reporters Lewis Johnson and Corey Robinson. New Orleans-native Michael Smith will serve as host.
NBC Sports and the Bayou Classic recently announced a three-year media rights extension, extending a historic partnership which began in 1991.
As part of the extension, Southern and Grambling State will participate in professional development programming through NBCU Academy – a journalism training and development program designed to prepare college students and young professionals for careers in the news and media technology industry. Additionally, NBC Sports will present select journalism students from both Southern and Grambling the opportunity to cover the event for NBCSports.com.
Students at Southern and Grambling State also have access to NBC Sports’ Black Employee Network (BEN), which seeks to foster and grow a strong Black employee base throughout NBCUniversal.
The Bayou Classic is one of NBC Sports’ three presentations of college football games highlighting HBCU universities this season, including the Toyota HBCU New York Football Classic, which was played on Sept. 27, and the HBCU Pigskin Showdown live at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday, Dec. 17, on CNBC and Peacock.
HOW TO WATCH – SATURDAY, NOV. 26
| Date | Platform | Time (ET) |
| Sat., Nov. 27 | NBC, Peacock | 2 p.m. (LIVE) |
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Rivalry Week has arrived, with some of the sport’s most storied and intense rivalries set for ESPN’s industry-leading college football coverage in Week 13. Seventeen currently ranked teams are slated to play across ESPN platforms, with nearly 40 matchups on the menu for Thanksgiving Week.
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ESPN recently announced its newest brand creative as part of the next installment of ‘The Greatest Story Ever Played’ campaign. A collaboration with Arts & Letters, the campaign highlights the sentiment surrounding great college football stories – on and off the field – and the variety of ways the sport captures the attention of fans.
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ESPN’s College GameDay Built by The Home Depot travels to Bozeman, Mont., this weekend for Montana State’s rivalry game against Montana – the third time this season that GameDay is visiting a new campus site…
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ACC Network (ACCN) will carry the memorial service honoring the lives of Virginia football players Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry, as well as the two students injured in the shooting, Mike Hollis and Marlee Morgan, live on Saturday, Nov. 19 beginning at 3:30 p.m. ET.
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ACC Network (ACCN) will take its signature studio programs ACC Huddle, In Play and ACC PM on the road this weekend and travel to Winston-Salem, N.C., for the Week 12 ACC Primetime Football matchup between Syracuse and Wake Forest.
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