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BCS matchups

B

bpatrick

ABC will be carrying all four games in the Bowl
Championship Series. For those who missed the
selection show, USC and Texas meet for the national
championship in the Rose Bowl January 4 at 8 PM (ET).
The other matchups:

Orange Bowl January 3 8 PM (ET): Penn State vs.
Florida State

Fiesta Bowl January 2 4:30 PM (ET): Ohio State vs.
Notre Dame

Sugar Bowl January 2 8 PM (ET): Georgia vs. West
Virginia
 
> ABC will be carrying all four games in the Bowl
> Championship Series. For those who missed the
> selection show, USC and Texas meet for the national
> championship in the Rose Bowl January 4 at 8 PM (ET).
> The other matchups:
>
> Orange Bowl January 3 8 PM (ET): Penn State vs.
> Florida State
>
> Fiesta Bowl January 2 4:30 PM (ET): Ohio State vs.
> Notre Dame
>
> Sugar Bowl January 2 8 PM (ET): Georgia vs. West
> Virginia
>


Congrats, LSU, you got screwed.
 
Isn't this the last year ABC is going to get to cover all four BCS bowl games??

I thought that next year (or in 2007), Fox would get three of the four BCS bowls (I believe the Rose Bowl and ABC have a long-term deal).
 
> Isn't this the last year ABC is going to get to cover all
> four BCS bowl games??
>
> I thought that next year (or in 2007), Fox would get three
> of the four BCS bowls (I believe the Rose Bowl and ABC have
> a long-term deal).
>


Yes it is, Fox will have 3/4ths of the BCS games starting next year. I wonder how Fox will go about televising the BCS being that the FOX Broadcast Network has only televised the Cotton Bowl since 1999. I wonder who will be handling announcing during those three or four games (counting the Cotton Bowl). I really wish CBS would've landed the BCS because they've had experience and the announcers to do it. I know Major League Baseball is a big deal with FOX but I would like to see FOX at least land a contract with one conference televising their games, like the Pac-10 which their cable sports net already televises.
 
> > Isn't this the last year ABC is going to get to cover all
> > four BCS bowl games??
> >
> > I thought that next year (or in 2007), Fox would get three
>
> > of the four BCS bowls (I believe the Rose Bowl and ABC
> have
> > a long-term deal).
> >
>
>
> Yes it is, Fox will have 3/4ths of the BCS games starting
> next year. I wonder how Fox will go about televising the BCS
> being that the FOX Broadcast Network has only televised the
> Cotton Bowl since 1999. I wonder who will be handling
> announcing during those three or four games (counting the
> Cotton Bowl). I really wish CBS would've landed the BCS
> because they've had experience and the announcers to do it.
> I know Major League Baseball is a big deal with FOX but I
> would like to see FOX at least land a contract with one
> conference televising their games, like the Pac-10 which
> their cable sports net already televises.
>
Amen to your comment about CBS and the BCS. I'd like to
have Verne Lundquist and Todd Blackledge doing some of the
games.
 
Re: LSU isn't the only one's being screwed (was BCS matchups)

LSU isn't the only one being screwed. All College football fans are being screwed. New Year's Day lands on a Sunday this year. The is the first year that that no college football will be played on New Year's Day. Granted that most bowls have moved to January 2nd on years when Jan 1st is a Sunday but there used to be a few before and after the NFL Wild Card games. However this is the first New Year's Day in the age of the NFL that pushed back the Super Bowl into February so that the networks could use the Super Bowl for Sweeps time. Now instead of the 12 hours of football frenzy, we only get (at the most) three NFL games.

Hopefully they will make up for it next year. With New Year's Eve in 2006 being a Sunday that means no bowl games on that day at all. That either means more bowls being played on the 30th or the 1st (I guess).

Also how could the BCS let a network that airs one college game per year (Cotton Bowl) to win the bid war for their games. As if the BCS already has a bad rap, their plight just got worse.

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> Yes it is, Fox will have 3/4ths of the BCS games starting
> next year. I wonder how Fox will go about televising the BCS
> being that the FOX Broadcast Network has only televised the
> Cotton Bowl since 1999. I wonder who will be handling
> announcing during those three or four games (counting the
> Cotton Bowl). I really wish CBS would've landed the BCS
> because they've had experience and the announcers to do it.
> I know Major League Baseball is a big deal with FOX but I
> would like to see FOX at least land a contract with one
> conference televising their games, like the Pac-10 which
> their cable sports net already televises.

Since Fox will have the National Championship game next year, my guess is that Joe Buck & Troy Aikman will do that game.

As for the others (2 BCS bowls and the Cotton Bowl), I think Thom Brennaman will do one (I think he does the Cotton Bowl now), maybe Dick Stockton on another, and Steve Physioc (the Pac-10 play-by-play guy on FSN) doing the third.
 
> > ABC will be carrying all four games in the Bowl
> > Championship Series. For those who missed the
> > selection show, USC and Texas meet for the national
> > championship in the Rose Bowl January 4 at 8 PM (ET).
> > The other matchups:
> >
> > Orange Bowl January 3 8 PM (ET): Penn State vs. Florida State

Call this one the Geezer Bowl, what with two 70-something-year-old head coaches. Despite winning the ACC title game, the 7-4 Seminoles absolutely don't belong in a major bowl game this year. But it should do well ratings-wise.

> > Fiesta Bowl January 2 4:30 PM (ET): Ohio State vs. Notre Dame

This one was a given. Since it's not the National Championship game, the next criteria are (1) BCS standing, (2) putting butts in the seats, and (3) good ratings for ABC, not necessarily in that order. This'll probably be the top-rated game that day.

> > Sugar Bowl January 2 8 PM (ET): Georgia vs. West Virginia

Mark this one down as a yawner. Few outside the southeast will care. Georgia should win this one rather easily. WVA may be 10-1, but that's 10-1 in the not-so-Big East, not the Big Ten or SEC.

> Congrats, LSU, you got screwed.

Well, if LSU hadn't been spanked by Georgia... The early loss to Tennessee didn't help matters either.
 
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