- 14 Ranked Teams Highlighted by No. 9 UCLA at No. 16 Arizona
- College GameDay Makes Second-Ever Stop in Tucson at Univ. of Arizona
- SEC Nation Stops Weeks 4-7 Revealed: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas A&M
- ESPN College Football Week 3 Viewership: TV’s Two Most-Watched Games, Led by No. 15 Ole Miss at No. 2 Alabama
- Longhorn Network to Air Kansas at Texas Football Game
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14 Ranked Teams Highlighted by No. 9 UCLA at No. 16 Arizona
contact: michael.c.humes@espn.com
ESPN’s college football schedule this week includes 14 ranked teams, highlighted by No. 9 UCLA at No. 16 Arizona on ABC’s Saturday Night Football on September 26 at 8 p.m. ET. The first two games of ABC’s Saturday tripleheader include No. 22 BYU at Michigan at noon and No. 1 Ohio State against Western Michigan and Virginia Tech at East Carolina at 3:30 p.m. (one on ABC, one on ESPN2, check local listings). Additional highlights for Saturday:
- SEC Network will offer a tripleheader with a top 25 team in each: No. 7 Georgia against Southern at noon, No. 12 Alabama against Louisiana-Monroe at 4 p.m. and No. 25 Missouri at Kentucky at 7:30 p.m.
- ESPN and ESPNU will each carry a team involving an SEC program ranked in the top eight: No. 8 LSU at Syracuse at noon on ESPN and No. 3 Ole Miss against Vanderbilt at 7 p.m. on ESPNU.
Full Schedule: http://es.pn/1Kx5RDS
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College GameDay Makes Second-Ever Stop in Tucson at Univ. of Arizona
contact: Rachel.M.Siegal@espn.com
ESPN College GameDay Built by The Home Depot – college football’s longest running and most celebrated pregame show – will stop at the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz., for just the second time in 295 road shows Saturday, Sept. 26. The Emmy Award-winning show – airing Saturday from 9 a.m.-Noon on ESPN from the UA Mall east of Old Main – is the precursor for the Saturday Night Football on ABC presented by Wells Fargo matchup between No. 9 UCLA and No. 16 Arizona at 8 p.m. Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit will be on the call of the Bruins-Wildcats matchup, along with reporter Heather Cox.
Host Rece Davis – in his first season at the College GameDay desk – is joined by analysts Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard and David Pollack, as well as contributors Samantha Ponder, Tom Rinaldi, George Whitfield and Gene Wojciechowski.
College Football Live will originate from the College GameDay set Friday, Sept. 25, at 2 p.m. on ESPN with Ponder, Howard and Pollack.
Full Release: http://es.pn/1NOyH4U
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SEC Nation Stops Weeks 4-7 Revealed: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas A&M
contact: Gracie.Blackburn@espn.com
SEC Network’s traveling pregame show, SEC Nation, unveiled the show’s next four stops today on Twitter. In Weeks 4-7, the show will travel to Florida (Sept. 26), Georgia (Oct. 3), South Carolina (Oct. 10) and Texas A&M (Oct. 17).
Full Release: http://es.pn/1iNZ5Rg
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ESPN College Football Week 3 Viewership: TV’s Two-Most-Watched Games, Led by No. 15 Ole Miss at No. 2 Alabama
contact: Derek.Volner@ESPN.com
After televising the most-watched games of both week 1 and week 2, ESPN/ABC continued the trend in week 3 with the week’s two most-watched games. ESPN’s Saturday night matchup featuring then-No. 15 Ole Miss at No. 2 Alabama (9:15 p.m. ET), led the way with 7,605,000 viewers, up 335% year-over-year (USC at Boston College) and the season’s fourth most-watched game overall, across all networks. Additionally, the high-scoring SEC matchup was WatchESPN’s second-best regular season college football game ever across all major metrics, achieving an average minute audience of 128,000 people; 615,000 unique viewers; and 35,712,000 total minutes.
Northern Illinois at No. 1 Ohio State and Nebraska at Miami (Fla.), regionalized, on ABC (3:30 p.m.) was the second most-watched telecast of the weekend, averaging 5,254,000 viewers and peaking at 6,459,000 viewers from 6:30-7 p.m., when both games were in the fourth quarter. The window was up 63% from 2014’s comparable telecast (Arkansas at Texas Tech).
ESPN Season to Date
ESPN/ABC is up 39% in viewership from the first three weeks of last season and has televised the seven most-watched games across all networks:
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Longhorn Network to Air Kansas at Texas Football Game
contact: Gracie.Blackburn@espn.com
Longhorn Network, the 24-hour network devoted to The University of Texas, is set to televise the Kansas at Texas football game presented by My All-American on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. CT.
Anish Shroff will provide play-by-play for the game alongside analysts Ahmad Brooks and Keith Moreland. LHN’s Jane Slater will provide additional reporting throughout the telecast.
LHN is the exclusive national distributor of the game, except within the state of Kansas and the Kansas City DMA, where the game also will be aired live via the Jayhawk Television Network.
Full Release: http://es.pn/1YuMsuy
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