- 6 Notre Dame at No. 12 Clemson and No. 3 Ole Miss at No. 25 Florida Highlight Week 5 Schedule Featuring Nation’s Top 6 Teams
- Alternate View Available for No. 21 Mississippi State at No. 14 Texas A&M
- College GameDay Returns to Clemson
- SportsCenter on the Road Visits Clemson
- SEC Nation heads to Athens
- College Football Playoff Discussions Get Underway Sunday on ESPN
- ESPN College Football Week 4 Viewership: Three of Four Most-Watched Games; WatchESPN Continues Season of Growth
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No. 6 Notre Dame at No. 12 Clemson and No. 3 Ole Miss at No. 25 Florida Highlight Week 5 Schedule Featuring Nation’s Top 6 Teams
contact: michael.c.humes@espn.com
ESPN’s college football week 5 schedule will feature the nation’s top 6 teams and 15 ranked teams overall when it carries more than 40 games between Thu, Oct. 1, and Sat, Oct. 3, highlighted by Saturday Night Football on ABC presented by Wells No. 6 Notre Dame at No. 12 Clemson (8 p.m. ET) and No. 3 Ole Miss at No. 25 Florida (ESPN at 7 p.m.).
Additional Sat, Oct. 3, highlights:
- ESPN will feature a quadruple header: Iowa at No. 19 Wisconsin (noon), No. 11 Florida State at Wake Forest (3:30 p.m.), and Oregon at Colorado (10 p.m.) in addition to the previously mentioned No. 3. Ole Miss at No. 25 Florida (7 p.m.)
- ABC will also air Texas at No. 4 TCU (noon) and No. 1 Ohio State at Indiana or Texas Tech at No. 5 Baylor (3:30 p.m.)
- SEC Network’s schedule is highlighted by a top 25 matchup: No. 21 Mississippi State at No. 14 Texas A&M (7:30 p.m.)
- Purdue at No. 2 Michigan State (Noon on ESPN2) and Eastern Michigan at No. 9 LSU (7 p.m. on ESPNU) also on the slate
- ESPN Radio will broadcast No. 13 Alabama at No. 8 Georgia (3:30 p.m.)
Full Schedule: http://es.pn/1jroxMl
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Alternate View Available for No. 21 Mississippi State at No. 14 Texas A&M
contact: Gracie.Blackburn@espn.com
SEC Network has added an alternate viewing option for the No. 21 Mississippi State at No. 14 Texas A&M football game on Saturday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. ET. The network will stream a dedicated feed of the AT&T SkyCam live throughout the game as a separate SEC Network + event via WatchESPN.
“SEC Network + continues to be an avenue for us to provide ‘more’ and enhance the viewing experience for Southeastern Conference fans,” said Stephanie Druley, ESPN Senior Vice President, college networks. “In this specific instance the ‘more’ is the opportunity to provide a second-screen experience.”
Traditional game coverage of the Top 25 matchup airs on the SEC Network television channel and includes the legendary voice of Brent Musburger, alongside analyst Jesse Palmer and reporter Maria Taylor. The AT&T SkyCam serves as a companion feed to the telecast and features natural field sounds with the SkyCam view.
Watch the AT&T SkyCam view here, available through the WatchESPN app on smart phones, computers, tablets, Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
Full Release: http://es.pn/1PQlacj
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College GameDay Makes Returns to Clemson
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 return to the campus of Clemson University in Clemson, S.C., for the fourth time Saturday, Oct. 3. The Emmy Award-winning show – Saturday from 9 a.m.-noon on ESPN from Bowman Field – is the precursor for the Saturday Night Football on ABC presented by Wells Fargo matchup between No. 6 Notre Dame and No. 12 Clemson at 8 p.m.
Host Rece Davis – in his first season at the College GameDay desk – is joined by analysts Kirk 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/1PPHpPw
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SportsCenter on the Road Visits Clemson
contact: andy.hall@ESPN.com
SportsCenter on the Road will originate from Clemson University with a two-hour program Saturday, Oct. 3. Hosted by Matt Barrie and Sara Walsh, the program will begin at 7 a.m. and will lead into College GameDay at 9 a.m. In addition to regular SportsCenter news, highlights and analysis, the program also will have special guests and interviews related to the game and location. ABC will televise the Notre Dame vs. Clemson college football game at 8 p.m. Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit call the game, along with reporter Heather Cox.
Full Release: http://es.pn/1M3GQhF
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SEC Nation Heads to Athens
contact: Gracie.Blackburn@espn.com
On Saturday, SEC Network’s traveling pre-game show, SEC Nation, heads to Athens, Ga., prior to the top-15 meeting of No. 13 Alabama at No. 8 Georgia. The show will be live at Myers Quad from 10 a.m. to noon.
Full Release: http://es.pn/1M3H886
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College Football Playoff Discussions Get Underway Sunday on ESPN
contact: Rachel.M.Siegal@espn.com
One month into the college football season, the College Football Playoff and which teams will be participating in the two Playoff Semifinals is weighing on the minds of fans. ESPN’sChampionship Drive: Who’s In? – the 30-minute discussion, analysis and debate show – will air each Sunday at mostly at 1 p.m., beginning this weekend, through the end of the season. Hosted by Adnan Virk, a rotating cast of analysts include Butch Davis, Heather Dinich, Brad Edwards, Mark May and Robert Smith.
College Football Playoff: Top 25 begins Tuesday, Oct. 20 with two weeks of preview shows before ESPN exclusively reveals the College Football Playoff weekly rankings as determined by the Selection Committee on November 3. The show run seven weeks and will again feature Rece Davis, along with analysts Kirk Herbstreit, Joey Galloway, Kanell and David Pollack.
The November 17 rankings will be revealed live from the United Center in Chicago, host to the annual State Farm Champions Classic basketball event. At approximately 9:30 p.m. in between the night’s two matchups, Davis will be joined by Herbstreit and Pollack to announce the latest College Football Playoff rankings in a special on-site edition of College Football Playoff: Top 25.
Full Release: http://es.pn/1YRKAfB
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ESPN College Football Week 4 Viewership: Three of Four Most-Watched Games; WatchESPN Continues Season of Growth
contact: Derek.Volner@ESPN.com
After setting the pace in the first three weeks of the college football season, ESPN continued the momentum into the final weekend of September. ESPN/ABC televised three of the four most-watched games of week 4, including the most-watched primetime game. Additionally, for the fourth consecutive week, more people streamed live on WatchESPN than in any other regular-season college football week of the 2014 season.
Week 4 Highlights:
- Western Michigan at No. 1 Ohio State and Virginia Tech at East Carolina, regionalized, on ABC (3:30 p.m. ET) set the pace, averaging 3,721,000 viewers, a 42% increase compared to 2014’s comparable window – Texas A&M at SMU and Utah at Michigan (2,613,000 viewers).
- ESPN and WatchESPN’s most-watched, most-streamed game was No. 8 LSU at Syracuse (noon) which garnered 3,204,000 television viewers and, on WatchESPN, an average minute audience of 72,000 people and 359,000 unique viewers.
- The Tigers-Orange stream on WatchESPN resulted in a 136% and 115% increase, respectively, to 2014’s comparable window – Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech –in average minute audience (30,000 people) and unique viewers (167,000 unique viewers). On ESPN, the game resulted in a 2% increase in television viewership (3,144,000 people) to the same 2014 window.
- ESPN/ABC, which has televised the most-watched primetime game each week of the 2015 season, continued the trend when the overtime-thriller between No. 14 Texas A&M and Arkansas on ESPN (7:15 p.m.) earned 3,112,000 viewers.
- Throughout all of week 4, college football on WatchESPN was viewed on 1,700,000 unique devices that streamed 141,100,000 live minutes, a 39% and 44% increase, respectively, compared to 2014’s week 4.
Full Release: http://es.pn/1KRL3Ef
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