ESPN’s ‘CGD’ Broadcast To Come Live From Coastal Carolina Saturday

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ESPN’s College GameDay Built by The Home Depot air live from South Carolina this weekend.

The network’s flagship college football program will air live from the campus of No. 18 Coastal Carolina University Saturday. It marks the first time that the program will have ever run from the university. It is ahead of the Chanticleers’ matchup with No. 13 BYU.

Rece Davis will anchor the broadcast. Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, David Pollack, Maria Taylor and Chris “The Bear” Fallica will join Davis for the broadcast. Lee Corso will join the broadcast remotely from his home while Jen Lada, Pat McAfee, Tom Rinaldi, and Gene Wojciechowski will also contribute.

The matchup between BYU and Coastal Carolina is just one of the games set for Saturday’s day-long college football schedule. No. 4 Ohio State will visit Michigan State, with coverage starting at noon on ABC. Over on ESPN, No. 5 Texas A&M will visit Auburn.

No. 17 UNC will host the Western Carolina Catamounts at noon on the ACC Network. ESPN2 will broadcast the matchup of No. 15 Oklahoma State and TCU, also at noon. that game will simulcast on ESPN Radio.

No. 12 Indiana will visit No. 16 Wisconsin at 3:30 p.m. ET on ESPN as the day continues. Virginia Tech will host No. 3 Clemson in the day’s headliner on ABC.

The full schedule for this weekend’s college football matchups is noted below.

Updated at noon ET on Thursday, Dec. 3. All rankings are CFP Rankings (Dec. 1).

Date	Time (ET)	Game/Talent	Network
Fri, Dec 4	8:30 p.m.	Louisiana at Appalachian State Jason Benetti, Andre Ware, Taylor Davis	ESPN
Sat, Dec 5	Noon	No. 4 Ohio State at Michigan State Bob Wischusen, Dan Orlovsky, Quint Kessenich	ABC
		No. 5 Texas A&M at Auburn Sean McDonough, Todd Blackledge, Todd McShay, Allison Williams	ESPN
		No. 15 Oklahoma State at TCU TV: Mark Jones, Dusty Dvoracek, Kris Budden Radio: Marc Kestecher, Ben Hartsock	ESPN2/ESPN Radio
		Western Carolina at No. 17 North Carolina Wes Durham, Roddy Jones, Lericia Harris	ACC Network
		Arkansas at Missouri Dave Neal, DJ Shockley, Dawn Davenport	SEC Network
		Toledo at Northern Illinois Shawn Kenney, Bob Chmiel	ESPN3
		Memphis at Tulane David Saltzman, Keith Moreland	ESPN+
		Rice at No. 21 Marshall	ESPN+
	2 p.m.	Ball State at Central Michigan Clay Matvick, Rocky Boiman	ESPNU
		Bowling Green at Akron Michael Reghi, Jerod Cherry	ESPN3
		Troy at South Alabama	ESPN3
		Eastern Michigan at Western Michigan Dan Gutowsky, Devin Gardner	ESPN+
	3 p.m.	Louisiana-Monroe at Arkansas State	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	No. 12 Indiana at No. 16 Wisconsin Joe Tessitore, Greg McElroy, Holly Rowe	ABC
		West Virginia at No. 9 Iowa State Dave Pasch, Mike Golic Sr., Paul Carcaterra	ESPN
		No. 24 Tulsa at Navy Anish Shroff, Tom Luginbill, Alex Chappell	ESPN2
		Boston College at Virginia	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Georgia Tech at NC State Chris Cotter, Mark Herzlich, Eric Wood	ACC Network
		Vanderbilt at No. 8 Georgia Taylor Zarzour, Matt Stinchcomb, Lauren Sisler	SEC Network
	5:30 p.m.	No. 13 BYU at No. 18 Coastal Carolina Bill Roth, Dustin Fox, Ryan McGee	ESPNU
	6 p.m.	Florida Atlantic at Georgia Southern	ESPN+
	7 p.m.	No. 23 Oregon at California Dave Flemming, Rod Gilmore, Taylor McGregor	ESPN
	7:30 p.m.	No. 3 Clemson at Virginia Tech Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Maria Taylor	ABC
		South Carolina at Kentucky Tom Hart, Jordan Rodgers, Cole Cubelic	SEC Network
		No. 1 Alabama at LSU Sean Kelley, Barrett Jones	ESPN Radio
	8 p.m.	No. 10 Miami at Duke Dave O’Brien, Tim Hasselbeck, Katie George	ACC Network
	9 p.m.	Houston at SMU John Schriffen, Rene Ingoglia	ESPNU
	10:30 p.m.	Oregon State at Utah Mike Couzens, Kirk Morrison, Ian Fitzsimmons	ESPN
Sun, Dec 6	Noon	Western Kentucky at Charlotte	ESPN3

Note: Not all digital games are exclusive

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ESPN’s ‘CGD’ To Air Live From Penn State Saturday

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ESPN’s flagship college football program will air live from the campus of Penn State Saturday.

The weekly college football program will broadcast live from Beaver Stadium in State College, PA. The broadcast will preview the week’s headline matchup between the No. 18 Penn State and No. 3 Ohio State.

Rece Davis will anchor the broadcast, which will air from 9 a.m. – noon ET. Kirk Herbstreit, David Pollack, Maria Taylor and Chris “The Bear” Fallica will join the broadcast for additional commentary. Lee Corso and Desmond Howard will join the program remotely from their homes due to COVID-19 restrictions.

OHIO STATE WEEK 1

Ohio State (1-0, 1-0) opened its season last weekend with a 52-17 win over Nebraska while Penn State (0-1, 0-1) was upset by Indiana in that matchup, 36-35.

Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields was 20-21 in last weekend’s opener for Ohio State, throwing for 276 yards and two touchdowns. At the same time, Nebraska QB Adrian Martinez shined, too, going 12-15 for 105 yards.

Ohio State racked up a total of 498 yards to Nebraska’s total of 377 yards. Penalties also impacted Nebraska. The Cornhuskers incurred eight penalties for a total of 90 lost yards while Ohio State totaled three penalties for 14 yards lost.

Ohio State also outperformed Nebraska on third and fourth down conversions. The Buckeyes went 8-13 on third down conversions and 2-2 on fourth down conversions.

On the other side of the ball, Nebraska was 4-10 on third down conversions, and had no fourth down conversions.

First downs went in favor of the Buckeyes, too, with Ohio State totaling 28 first downs to Nebraska’s 17. Approximately 13 of Ohio State’s first downs were from rushing, 12 from passing, and three from penalties against Nebraska.

Rushing yardage earned Nebraska 11 first downs while passing helped the Cornhuskers gain another six first downs. Penalties accounted for none of Nebraska’s first downs.

In regards to scoring, the Buckeyes held the Cornhuskers to one touchdown each in the first and second quarters, and only a field goal in the third. Ohio State’s defense kept Nebraska’s offense from reaching the end zone in the fourth quarter. Meanwhile, Ohio State’s offense relied on a field goal only once throughout the game, and scored touchdowns twice in three of four quarters.

Nebraska is scheduled to face #9 Wisconsin at 3:30 p.m. ET Saturday on Fox Sports 1.

PENN STATE WEEK 1

Despite totaling more overall yardage, passing yards, and rushing yards than Indiana, Penn State dropped its opener to the Hoosiers 36-35.

Penalties ultimately are what doomed ultimately doomed Penn State. The Nittany Lions racked up 10 penalties for a total of 100 yards lost. By comparison, Indiana incurred four penalties for a total of 36 yards.

Also hurting Penn State in the game was turnovers. Penn State had three turnovers, two of which came from interceptions. Indiana’s two total turnovers came from one interception and a fumble.

The Nittany Lions totaled 238 passing yards and 250 rushing yards for a total of 488 yards in their season opener. By comparison, the Hoosiers had 170 passing yards and 41 rushing yards for a total of 211 total yards in the game.

Penn State even outdid Indiana on first downs, third down conversions and fourth down conversions in last weekend’s game. Penn State totaled 27 first downs to Indiana’s 16, with the majority (13) coming through rushing yards and another 12 from passing yards. Two of the team’s first downs came as a result of penalties against the Hoosiers.

Indiana totaled 16 first downs in the game, the majority (9) of which came from rushing yards. Rushing yards garnered the team another five first downs and penalties against Penn State giving them two more.

Penn State was 9-17 on third down conversions while Indiana was 4-12 In regards to fourth down conversions, Penn State was 1-2 while Indiana was 0-1.

WEEKEND SCHEDULE

While Penn State and Ohio State are scheduled as the headliners for this week’s college football broadcast schedule on the ESPN networks, it is just one of the weekend’s featured games. This week’s schedule opens at 7:30 p.m. ET Thursday on ESPN as Georgia Southern hosts South Alabama.

Friday will feature a double header on ESPN and ESPN2. First up at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN, Maryland will host Minnesota. Tulsa and East Carolina University will follow at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN2.

Saturday’s schedule opens at high noon with seven games spread across the ESPN networks. No. 1 Clemson will host Boston College on ABC. Memphis will be on the road against the now #7-ranked Bearcats on ESPN in a re-match of last year’s AAC title game opponents. West Virginia will host No. 16 Kansas State on ESPN2 while No. 20 Coastal Carolina is scheduled to visit Georgia State on ESPNU.

Kentucky will host No. 5 Georgia at noon on the SEC Network. The ACC Network will feature a face-off between Wake Forest and Syracuse. Over on ESPN+, Tulane will host Temple.

Houston and UCF will follow at 2 p.m. on EPSN+ while ESPN3 will feature either Rice at Southern Miss or Troy at Arkansas State, depending on the schedule and coverage area.

Later at 7:30 p.m. ET, No. 10 Florida will host Missouri on the SEC Alternate network.

This week’s full college football broadcast schedule is noted below.

Date	Time (ET)	Game/Talent	Network
Thu, Oct 29	7:30 p.m.	South Alabama at Georgia Southern Matt Barrie, Mike Golic Jr., Lericia Harris	ESPN
Fri, Oct 30	7:30 p.m.	Minnesota at Maryland Jason Benetti, Andre Ware, Quint Kessenich	ESPN
	9 p.m.	East Carolina at Tulsa Clay Matvick, Rocky Boiman	ESPN2
Sat, Oct 31	Noon	Boston College at No. 1 Clemson Joe Tessitore, Greg McElroy, Holly Rowe	ABC
		Memphis at No. 7 Cincinnati Mark Jones, Dusty Dvoracek, Paul Carcaterra	ESPN
		No. 16 Kansas State at West Virginia Roy Philpott, Kelly Stouffer, Jerry Punch	ESPN2
		No. 20 Coastal Carolina at Georgia State Mike Corey, Jay Walker	ESPNU
		No. 5 Georgia at Kentucky Tom Hart, Jordan Rodgers, Cole Cubelic	SEC Network
		Wake Forest at Syracuse Chris Cotter, Mark Herzlich, Kelsey Riggs	ACC Network
		Temple at Tulane Lincoln Rose, Keith Moreland	ESPN+
	2 p.m.	UCF at Houston David Saltzman, Stan Routt	ESPN+
	3 p.m.	Rice at Southern Mississippi	ESPN3
		Troy at Arkansas State	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	No. 4 Notre Dame at Georgia Tech Dave Pasch, Mike Golic Sr., Marty Smith	ABC
		Northwestern at Iowa Bob Wischusen, Dan Orlovsky, Allison Williams	ESPN
		TCU at Baylor Dave Flemming, Rod Gilmore, Kris Budden	ESPN2
	4 p.m.	Appalachian State at Louisiana-Monroe Bill Roth, Dustin Fox	ESPNU
		Ole Miss at Vanderbilt Dave Neal, DJ Shockley, Dawn Davenport	SEC Network
		Virginia Tech at Louisville TV: Wes Durham, Roddy Jones, Eric Wood Radio: Sean Kelley, Barrett Jones	ACC Network/ESPN Radio
	7 p.m.	Mississippi State at No. 2 Alabama Sean McDonough, Todd Blackledge, Todd McShay, Molly McGrath	ESPN
		Charlotte at Duke	ESPN3
	7:30 p.m.	No. 3 Ohio State at No. 18 Penn State Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Maria Taylor	ABC
		Navy at No. 22 SMU Anish Shroff, Tom Luginbill, Ian Fitzsimmons	ESPN2
		Arkansas at No. 8 Texas A&M Taylor Zarzour, Matt Stinchcomb, Lauren Sisler	SEC Network
		Missouri at No. 10 Florida Mike Morgan, Hutson Mason, Taylor Davis	SEC Network Alternate
	8 p.m.	Louisiana at Texas State Mike Couzens, Rene Ingoglia	ESPNU
		No. 15 North Carolina at Virginia Dave O’Brien, Tim Hasselbeck, Katie George	ACC Network
	10:15 p.m.	Western Kentucky at No. 11 BYU Beth Mowins, Kirk Morrison, Stormy Buonantony	ESPN

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ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ Season Premiere To Come Live From Wake Forest University

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ESPN’s College GameDay Built By the Home Depot will make its season debut Saturday in North Carolina.

The long-running weekly college football program will broadcast live from the campus of Wake Forest University.  The three-hour show starts at 9 a.m. ET and will air live from Truist Field at WFU.  It marks the first time that the show has ever broadcast from the university.

Rece Davis will anchor the broadcast.  Analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, and David Pollack will provide additional commentary.  Additionally, Chris “The Bear” Fallica, Jen Lada, Pat McAfee, Tom Rinaldi, Maria Taylor, and Gene Wojciechowski will provide insight.

Coverage of Saturday’s game is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. ET.

The game is just one of the matchups on tap for next weekend’s college football schedule.  South Florida will represent the American Athletic Conference as it hosts The Citadel live on ESPN+.  Coverage of the game is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. ET.

App State is scheduled to host UNC-Charlotte at noon on ESPN2.  Louisiana is on the road against Iowa State live at noon on ESPN.  The ACC Network will feature UNC Chapel Hill hosting Syracuse.

Before any of these games take place, the ACC Network will feature the Miami Hurricanes hosting the UAB Blazers Sept. 10.  Coverage of that game is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. ET.

The latest college football coverage schedule from the ESPN family of networks is noted below.

Date	Time (ET)	Game	Network
Thu, Sep 10	8 p.m.	UAB at Miami	ACC Network
Sat, Sep 12	Noon	Louisiana at Iowa State	ESPN
		Charlotte at Appalachian State	ESPN2
		Syracuse at North Carolina	ACC Network
	1 p.m.	The Citadel at South Florida	ESPN+
	3:30 p.m.	Georgia Tech at Florida State	ABC
		UTSA at Texas State	ESPN2
		Campbell at Georgia Southern	ESPNU
	4 p.m.	Austin Peay at Pittsburgh	ACC Network
	7:30 p.m.	Clemson at Wake Forest	ABC
		Tulsa at Oklahoma State	ESPN or ESPNU
		Tulane at South Alabama	ESPN2
	8 p.m.	UTEP at Texas	Longhorn Network
		Western Kentucky at Louisville	ACC Network
		Houston Baptist at Texas Tech	Big 12 Now on ESPN+
Fri, Sep 18	7:30 p.m.	Houston at Memphis	ESPN
Sat, Sep 19	Noon	Navy at Tulane	ABC
		Austin Peay at Cincinnati	ESPN
		Louisiana at Georgia State	ESPN2
		Liberty at Western Kentucky	ESPNU
		Syracuse at Pittsburgh	ACC Network
		Boston College at Duke	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Stephen F. Austin at UTSA	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.	Virginia at Virginia Tech	ABC
	3:30 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.	Miami at Louisville	ABC
	3:30 p.m.	UCF at Georgia Tech	ESPN
		Charlotte at North Carolina	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Florida Atlantic at Georgia Southern	ESPN2
		Troy at Middle Tennessee	ESPNU
		The Citadel at Clemson	ACC Network
	7 p.m.	Central Arkansas at Arkansas State	ESPN+
	7:30 p.m.	Louisiana Tech at Southern Mississippi	ESPN2
		Texas State at Louisiana-Monroe	ESPNU
	8 p.m.	Wake Forest at NC State	ACC Network
	9 p.m.	Abilene Christian at UTEP	ESPN3
	TBD	Campbell at Coastal Carolina	ESPN3
Thu, Sep 24	7:30 p.m.	UAB at South Alabama	ESPN
Sat, Sep 26	Noon	Florida at Ole Miss	ESPN
		Kentucky at Auburn	SEC Network
	4 p.m.	Georgia at Arkansas	SEC Network
	7 p.m.	Alabama at Missouri	ESPN
	7:30 p.m.	Tennessee at South Carolina	SEC Network
		Vanderbilt at Texas A&M	SEC Network Alternate
	10:15 p.m.	Troy at BYU	ESPN
Sat, Oct 3	Noon	South Carolina at Florida	ESPN
		Missouri at Tennessee	SEC Network
	4 p.m.	Ole Miss at Kentucky	SEC Network
	7:30 p.m.	Auburn at Georgia	ESPN
		LSU at Vanderbilt	SEC Network
		Arkansas at Mississippi State	SEC Network Alternate
Wed, Oct 7	7:30 p.m.	Louisiana at Appalachian State	ESPN
Thu, Oct 8	7:30 p.m.	Tulane at Houston	ESPN
Fri, Oct 9	7 p.m.	Louisville at Georgia Tech	ESPN
	8 p.m.	Campbell at Wake Forest	ACC Network
Wed, Oct 14	7:30 p.m.	Appalachian State at Georgia Southern	ESPN
Thu, Oct 15	7:30 p.m.	Georgia State at Arkansas State	ESPN
Fri, Oct 16	7:30 p.m.	SMU at Tulane	ESPN2
Sat, Oct 17	Noon or 3:30/4 p.m.	Auburn at South Carolina	ESPN or ESPN2 or ESPNU or SEC Network
	Noon or 3:30/4 p.m.	Kentucky at Tennessee	ESPN or ESPN2 or ESPNU or SEC Network
	Noon or 3:30/4 p.m.	Texas A&M at Mississippi State	ESPN or ESPN2 or ESPNU or SEC Network
	Noon or 3:30/4 p.m.	Ole Miss at Arkansas	ESPN or ESPN2 or ESPNU or SEC Network
	3:30 p.m.	LSU at Florida	ESPN or ESPN2
	7:30 p.m.	Vanderbilt at Missouri	SEC Network
Thu, Oct 22	7:30 p.m.	Arkansas State at Appalachian State	ESPN
Fri, Oct 23	7:30 p.m.	Tulsa at South Florida	ESPN
Thu, Oct 29	7:30 p.m.	South Alabama at Georgia Southern	ESPN
Sat, Oct 31	Noon	Kentucky at Missouri	SEC Network
	4 p.m.	Ole Miss at Vanderbilt	SEC Network
	7 p.m.	Mississippi State at Alabama	ESPN
	7:30 p.m.	Arkansas at Texas A&M	SEC Network
Thu, Nov 5	7:30 p.m.	SMU at Temple	ESPN
Fri, Nov 6	7:30 p.m.	Miami at NC State	ESPN
Sat, Nov 7	4 p.m.	Vanderbilt at Mississippi State	SEC Network
	7:30 p.m.	Tennessee at Arkansas	ESPN or SEC Network
		Texas A&M at South Carolina	ESPN or SEC Network
Sat, Nov 14	TBD	Memphis at Navy	TBD
Fri, Nov 20	7:30 p.m.	Syracuse at Louisville	ESPN
Fri, Nov 27	TBD	Iowa State at Texas	TBD
	TBD	Notre Dame at North Carolina	TBD
	TBD	UCF at South Florida	TBD
	TBD	Memphis at Tulane	TBD
	TBD	Louisville at Boston College	TBD

As an added bonus for fans, the ESPN networks will carry coverage of championships in the American Athletic Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference, Big 12, and Sun Belt Conference in December.

More information on the ESPN networks’ college football coverage is available online along with all of the latest college football news at:

 

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