Oklahoma, Iowa State To Headline ESPN Networks’ College Football Broadcast Schedule This Weekend

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The Big 12 will take center stage Saturday night on ABC.

The Iowa State Cyclones will host the No. 18. Oklahoma Sooners on this week’s edition of Saturday Night Football presented by Capital One.  Sean McDonough, Todd Blackledge, Todd McShay, and Molly McGrath will have the call for the Samsung QLED 4K game of the week.

Each team comes into Saturday night’s Big 12 showdown with a 1-1 record overall.  By Comparison, Iowa State comes into the conference matchup with a 1-0 record while the Sooners are 0-1 in conference play.  That means Oklahoma will look to avoid dropping to 0-2 in conference play while the Cyclones will look to get above .500.

 

OKLAHOMA WEEK TWO

The visiting Sooners will come in to Saturday’s showdown on the heels of a 38-35 loss to Kansas State last Saturday.  The teams were relatively evenly matched over the course of the game.  Oklahoma outperformed Kansas St. in net rushing and passing yards, totaling 517 yards against Kansas State’s total of 400.

While the Sooners had more total yardage, Kansas St. averaged more yards per play than Oklahoma at 7.8 yards per play to Oklahoma’s 6.8 per play.  Kansas was better on fourth down efficiency at 2-2 while Oklahoma was better with third down conversions at 7-12 versus Kansas State’s total of 2-11.

Penalties were a problem for Kansas State.  The team racked up 13 penalties for a total of 108 yards while Oklahoma totaled 75 yards from 10 penalties.

Oklahoma additionally recorded three interceptions, versus none for Kansas St., certainly helping Kansas State in its win.

 

IOWA STATE WEEK TWO

Iowa State comes into Saturday’s game on the heels of a 37-34 victory over another of its Big 12 opponents, the TCU Horned Frogs in the second game of its season.  The Cyclones dominated on the ground with 212 rushing yards to TCU’s 99 while the Horned Frogs controlled the passing game, throwing for a net passing total of 400 versus 211 for Iowa State.

On a related note, Iowa State averaged a net gain of 8.3 yards per play throughout the game while TCU netted an average gain of 5.9 yards per play.  All things noted, TCU totaled more yardage throughout the game, with 499 yards while Iowa State had a total of 423, not much less than TCU.

TCU was 8-16 in third down conversion efficiency and 0-1 in fourth down conversion.  On the other side of the ball, Iowa Sate was 3-11 on third down conversion efficiency and 0-0 on fourth down conversions.

 

SATURDAY SCHEDULE

While the Big 12 will headline the ESPN networks’ Saturday’s day-long college football broadcast schedule, it is just one of the many games tapped for the networks’ weekend-long schedule.  Wake Forest will host Campbell in the weekend’s opener at 7 p.m. ET Friday on the ACC Network.  Louisiana Tech and No. 22 BYU follow at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN2.

Saturday’s schedule launches at noon ET on ABC as No. 22 BYU hosts Louisiana Tech.  That broadcast will start following ESPN’s weekly college football program College GameDay Built by The Home Depot, which will air from 9 a.m. to noon ET on ESPN.  The traveling program’s broadcast site is under consideration.

South Florida and Cincinnati are scheduled to play at 3:30 p.m. ET on ESPN+ in a AAC conference matchup while Virginia Tech and Duke will hit the field at 4 p.m .ET on the ACC Network.

No. 1 Clemson hosts Virginia in the day’s final game.  Coverage of that game is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. ET on the ACC Network.

The ESPN networks’ full college football broadcast schedule for this weekend is noted below.

 

Date	Time (ET)	Matchup/Commentators	Network
Fri, Oct 2	7 p.m.	Campbell at Wake Forest Mike Morgan, Eric Mac Lain, Lauren Sisler	ACC Network
	9 p.m.	Louisiana Tech at No. 22 BYU Dave Flemming, Andre Ware, Stormy Buonantony	ESPN2
Sat, Oct 3	Noon	Baylor at West Virginia Bob Wischusen, Dan Orlovsky, Rocky Boiman	ABC
		South Carolina at No. 3 Florida TV: Mark Jones, Dusty Dvoracek, Marty Smith Radio: Sean Kelley, Barrett Jones	ESPN
		Arkansas State at Coastal Carolina Beth Mowins, Kirk Morrison, Taylor Davis	ESPN2
		East Carolina at Georgia State Mike Couzens, Dustin Fox	ESPNU
		Missouri at No. 21 Tennessee Dave Neal, DJ Shockley, Dawn Davenport	SEC Network
		NC State at No. 24 Pittsburgh Wes Durham, Roddy Jones, Eric Wood	ACC Network
	1 p.m.	North Alabama at Liberty	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Houston Baptist at Eastern Kentucky	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	No. 12 North Carolina at Boston College Joe Tessitore, Greg McElroy, Paul Carcaterra	ABC
		No. 17 Oklahoma State at Kansas Dave Pasch, Mike Golic, Sr., Quint Kessenich	ESPN
		No. 25 Memphis at SMU Anish Shroff, Tom Luginbill, Kris Budden	ESPN2
		South Florida at No. 15 Cincinnati David Saltzman, Keith Moreland	ESPN+
		Central Arkansas at North Dakota State	ESPN+
	4 p.m.	Charlotte at Florida Atlantic Mike Corey, Jay Walker	ESPNU
		Ole Miss at Kentucky Taylor Zarzour, Matt Stinchcomb, Taylor McGregor	SEC Network
		Virginia Tech at Duke Chris Cotter, Mark Herzlich, Tiffany Blackmon	ACC Network
		Jacksonville State at Florida State	ESPN3
	5 p.m.	Western Kentucky at Middle Tennessee	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Georgia Southern at Louisiana-Monroe	ESPN+
	7:30 p.m.	No. 18 Oklahoma at Iowa State Sean McDonough, Todd Blackledge, Todd McShay, Molly McGrath	ABC
		No. 7 Auburn at No. 4 Georgia Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Allison Williams	ESPN
		Tulsa at No. 11 UCF Jason Benetti, Rod Gilmore, Lericia Harris	ESPN2
		No. 20 LSU at Vanderbilt Tom Hart, Jordan Rodgers, Cole Cubelic	SEC Network
		Arkansas at No. 16 Mississippi State Roy Philpott, Kelly Stouffer, Tera Talmadge	SEC Network Alternate
	8 p.m.	Virginia at No. 1 Clemson Dave O’Brien, Tim Hasselbeck, Katie George	ACC Network

 

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ESPN Networks To Present Double Headliner Schedule Saturday Night

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The ESPN family of networks will round out Saturday’s college football broadcast schedule with a double headliner slate of games.

 

GAME ONE

The first game on Saturday’s special double headliner schedule is a matchup of Southeastern Conference foes No. 2 Alabama and unranked Missouri.  Coverage for the weekly broadcast is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN.  The game is ESPN’s College Football Primetime Samsung QLED 4K Game of the Week.

Sean McDonough will have the call for Saturday night’s SEC showdown.  Todd Blackledge, Todd McShay, and Allison Williams will provide additional commentary and reports.

With this week being the SEC’s official return to play, each team comes into Saturday’s game looking to start the season with a win.

 

GAME TWO

The second of the day’s headlining games is an Atlantic Coast Conference matchup between the No. 12 Miami Hurricanes and unranked Florida State Seminoles.  Coverage of the Saturday Night Football presented by Capital One game is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC.

Chris Fowler will have the call for the game.  Analyst Kirk Herbstreit will provide additional commentary.  Reporter Molly McGrath will have all of the game’s key headlines.

Miami come into Saturday night’s matchup on the heels of a 13-point win (47-34) over Louisville on Sept. 19 and a 17-point win (31-14) over the University of Alabama at Birmingham Sept. 10 in its first game of the season.

The Hurricanes outperformed the Blazers in almost every category in the teams’ Sept. 10 meeting, from first downs to average gain per play, to total yardage.  On the other hand, the Blazers recorded 205 passing yards in the game versus Miami’s total of 155 passing yards.

Louisville gave Miami a harder fight than UAB, performing almost as well as the Hurricanes from the first quarter to the last.  The Cardinals outdid the Hurricanes in Net  Rushing Yards, 209-160, but Miami’s Net Passing Yards total of 325 just barely beat Louisville’s total of 307.

In the battle of the QBs, Louisville went 16-36 in completions, outdoing Miami there, too, 18-30.  The Hurricanes also saw more impact in the penalties category than Louisville, racking up 11 penalties for a total of 89 yards.  Louisville, on the other hand, had seven penalties for a total of 70 yards.

Miami’s Third-Down efficiency rate of 6-13 outdid Louisville’s 4-14.  At the same time, Louisville was 3-4 in Fourth-Down efficiency.  Louisville also outdid Miami in total yardage, 516-485.

Florida State comes into Saturday night’s game hoping to rebound from a Week 1 loss to Georgia Tech.  The Seminoles lost the game 16-13.

Florida State struck early in the game, putting up 10 points in the first quarter, but the Yellow Jackets kept the Seminoles scoreless in the second and to only a field goal in the third quarter.  Georgia State meanwhile put up 16 points between the third and fourth quarters.

Georgia State outplayed Florida State through most of the team’s Sept. 12 game.  The Yellowjackets racked up a total of 438 yards versus Florida State’s 307 yards.  Georgia State totaled more passing yards than Florida State (277-198) and more rushing yards (161-109).  Even the two interceptions thrown by GT quarterback Jeff Simms weren’t enough to stop the Yellowjackets.

On the positive side for Florida State, Georgia State incurred more penalties and lost more yardage than Florida State throughout the game.  The Seminoles were charged with eight penalties for 55 yards while the Yellowjackets had a total of 10 penalties for a loss of 80 yards.

 

SATURDAY SCHEDULE

While Saturday night’s college football schedule will be busy, the two games on tap for the evening are not the only games scheduled to air on the ESPN networks.  Saturday’s schedule kicks off at noon ET on ABC — following ESPN’s weekly College GameDay Built by The Home Depot broadcast (9 a.m. to noon ET) — with East Carolina University hosting No. 13 UCF in an AAC matchup.

The previously scheduled game between No. 7 Notre Dame and Wake Forest, which was scheduled to air at noon on ABC, was postponed Tuesday due to concerns about COVID-19.

The full schedule for Saturday’s games is noted below.

Date	Time (ET)	Matchup/Commentators	Network
Thu, Sep 24	7:30 p.m.	UAB at South Alabama Matt Barrie, Mike Golic, Jr., Lauren Sisler	ESPN
Sat, Sep 26	Noon	No. 7 Notre Dame at Wake Forest Dave Pasch, Mike Golic, Sr., Paul Carcaterra	ABC
		No. 5 Florida at Ole Miss TV: Joe Tessitore, Greg McElroy, Marty Smith Radio: Sean Kelley, Barrett Jones	ESPN/ESPN Radio
		Georgia Southern at No. 19 Louisiana Beth Mowins, Kirk Morrison, Dawn Davenport	ESPN2
		Georgia State at Charlotte Mike Couzens, Jay Walker	ESPNU
		No. 23 Kentucky at No. 8 Auburn Tom Hart, Jordan Rodgers, Cole Cubelic	SECN
		No. 24 Louisville at No. 21 Pittsburgh Wes Durham, Roddy Jones, Kelsey Riggs	ACCN
		Georgia Tech at Syracuse	ESPN3
		No. 13 UCF at East Carolina Lincoln Rose, Keith Moreland	ESPN+
		Campbell at Appalachian State	ESPN+
	1 p.m.	Florida International at Liberty	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	West Virginia at No. 15 Oklahoma State Bob Wischusen, Dan Orlovsky, Kris Budden	ABC
		No. 22 Army at No. 14 Cincinnati Mark Jones, Dusty Dvoracek, Quint Kessenich	ESPN
		Tulsa at Arkansas State Anish Shroff, Tom Luginbill, Lericia Harris	ESPN2
		UTEP at Louisiana-Monroe Clay Matvick, Rocky Boiman	ESPNU
	4 p.m.	No. 4 Georgia at Arkansas Dave Neal, DJ Shockley, Tera Talmadge	SEC Network
		Duke at Virginia Chris Cotter, Mark Herzlich, Eric Wood	ACC Network
	6 p.m.	Texas State at Boston College	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	No. 2 Alabama at Missouri Sean McDonough, Todd Blackledge, Todd McShay, Allison Williams	ESPN
		Houston Baptist at Louisiana Tech	ESPN3
		North Texas at Houston Tyler Denning, Stan Routt	ESPN+
		Stephen F. Austin at SMU David Saltzman, LaDarrin McLane	ESPN+
	7:30 p.m.	Florida State at No. 12 Miami Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Molly McGrath	ABC
		No. 16 Tennessee at South Carolina Taylor Zarzour, Matt Stinchcomb, Alyssa Lang	SEC Network
		Vanderbilt at No. 10 Texas A&M Mike Morgan, Andre Ware, Taylor Davis	SEC Network Alternate
		Kansas at Baylor Roy Philpott, Kelly Stouffer	ESPNU
	8 p.m.	NC State at No. 20 Virginia Tech Dave O’Brien, Tim Hasselbeck, Katie George	ACC Network
	10:15 p.m.	Troy at No. 18 BYU Dave Flemming, Rod Gilmore, Stormy Buonantony	ESPN

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NBA TV To Offer Extensive Coverage Of NBA Summer League Play

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The 2015 – 2016 NBA season is officially over.  But that doesn’t mean that the basketball action is over.  NBA TV is going to have plenty of NBA action this summer beginning with coverage of the NBA Summer League.

NBA TV announced this week that it will offer basketball fans extensive coverage of all three of the NBA’s summer leagues this summer.  In all, it will present a total of 60 games in 14 days from all three leagues.  It all kicks off this Saturday, July 2nd with 24 games in the Southwest Airlines Orlando Pro Summer League.  Those games will be played at Amway Center, practice facility of the Orlando Magic.  They will be played between July 2^nd and July 8^th.  Six other games will be broadcast from The Utah Jazz Summer League presented by America First Credit Union and Siegfried and Jensen in association with the Utah Sports Commission.  Along with all of that coverage, NBA TV will also present 30 games from the Samsung Summer League 2016 from Las Vegas.  Those games will be presented from July 8^th – 15^th.  The top 10 selections in the 2016 NBA Draft are expected to take part in the games at the Thomas & Mack Center and COX Pavilion.

The Orlando Summer League opens its play July 2^nd with 10 team in action on the hard court.  Up first will be the Oklahoma City Thunder and Dallas Mavericks at 9am ET.  The Thunder picked up 1^st Round draft pick Domantas Sabonis from the Orlando Magic in this year’s draft.  Speaking of the Magic, Orlando has a pair of split squad games on the same day at 11am ET (against the Charlotte Hornets) and 1pm ET (against the Indiana Pacers).  Up next on the day’s schedule are the New York Knicks and Detroit Pistons at 3pm ET.  The Pistons drafted Henry Ellenson 18^th overall in this year’s draft.  The Heat and Clippers follow at 5pm ET.  That is just part of the day’s schedule.  More information on the day’s schedule is available online via NBA TV’s official website.

Day 2 for the Orlando Summer League will feature a key matchup between the Clippers and Thunder at 5pm ET.  The Clippers picked up Brice Johnson in the first round of this year’s draft.  Before that, the Pacers and Hornets tip off at 1pm ET.  The Knicks and Heat follow at 3pm ET.

Moving on to the Utah Jazz Summer League, NBA TV launches coverage of that league July 4^th with a showdown between the 76ers and Celtics.  It will be the teams’ first meeting in the summer league schedule.  Coverage of that game begins July 4^th at 7pm ET.  It is the first of a double-header schedule for the league’s opening day.  The Jazz and Spurs follow in a 9pm ET matchup.  The Spurs drafted Dejounte Murray 29^th overall in the 2016 NBA Draft.  Philadelphia and Boston were just as busy in the draft.  Philadelphia picked up Ben Simmons with the #1 pick.  They also drafted Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot (24^th overall) and Furkam Korkmaz (26^th overall).  Boston meanwhile drafted Jaylen Brown 3^rd overall), Guerschon Yabusele (16^th overall), and Ante Zizic (23^rd overall).

Over in the Samsung Summer League, the 2016 NBA Champion Cleveland Cavaliers open play there when they take on the Milwaukee Bucks July 8^th at 6pm ET.  The Bucks drafted Thon Maker in the #10 spot in this year’s draft.  The Hawks and Rockets tip off at 8pm ET with the Raptors and Kings rounding out the day’s coverage at 10:30pm ET.  The Hawks were busy in their own right in this year’s draft, picking up Taurean Prince 12^th overall via trade and DeAndre Bembry 21^st overall.  The Raptors picked up Jakob Peltl 9^th overall.  The Kings were quite busy in this year’s draft.  Sacramento acquired Georgios Papagiannis and Skal Labassiere in a trade with the Suns.  The team also picked up Malachi Richardson in a trade with the Hornets.

The Suns open their summer play July 9^th at 4pm ET against the Portland Trailblazers.  Phoenix picked up two players in last week’s draft action.  The team took Dragan Bender 4^th overall and Marquese Chriss 8^th overall via a trade with Sacramento.  The Bulls and Celtics follow in their first summer league showdown at 6pm.  Chicago drafted Denzel Valentine 14^th overall in the 2016 NBA Draft.

The Lakers and Warriors round out this year’s NBA TV summer league coverage on Monday, July 16^th at 10:30pm ET.  The Lakers drafted Brandon Ingram 2^nd overall in this year’s draft. The Warriors meanwhile drafted Damien Jones 30^th overall.

Those that won’t be near a television throughout NBA TV’s extensive coverage of the league’s summer play can always catch the action online.  That is thanks to the league’s NBA app. It will offer live scoring, video, top stories, game alerts and more.  NBA.com will have its own coverage with the Summer League Hub presented by Samsung.  It will have daily updates, game trackers, video recaps, schedules, stats, bracket pages, and NBA style content.  More information on NBA TV’s coverage of the NBA’s summer league play is available online now at:

 

 

Website: http://www.nba.com/nbatv

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nbatv

Twitter: http://twitter.com/NBATV

 

 

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