ESPN Networks Kick Off Coverage Of The 2016 College Foootball Season This Week

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The wait is nearly over.  The 2016 college football season kicks off this Friday, August 26. And ESPN will have full coverage of Week 0.

The 2016 college football season kicks off this Friday night on ESPN when California and Hawaii face off live from ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia. ESPN will carry full coverage of the game beginning at 10pm ET.  Allen Bestwick, Mike Bellotti and Warren Smith will have the call for the game.

Friday’s live international event will be followed up Saturday night by a matchup between defending Big South Champion and #6 ranked Charleston Southern on the road against five-time defending champion and #1 North Dakota State at 7:30pm ET.  Adam Amin, Mack Brown, and Molly McGrath will have the call for that game live from Fargo, North Dakota.  It will mark the first time that the trio will have worked together on an ESPN broadcast.
As an additional bonus for college football fans, ESPN will air a special one-hour edition of College GameDay Saturday morning at 11am.  Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, David Pollack and Lee Corso (via satellite) will look ahead at the season to come in this week’s special season preview edition of College GameDay.  The weekly college football broadcast will officially launch its 2016 season next Saturday, September 3rd from Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin ahead of the Badgers’ game against the LSU Tigers.

The full broadcast schedule for the ESPN networks’ college football preview shows is noted in whole below.

Date	Time (ET)	Show	Commentators	Network
Mon, Aug. 22	7 p.m. – 8 p.m.	2016 SEC College Football Preview Show	Matt Schick, Tom Luginbill, Kevin Carter	ESPNU
	8 p.m. – 9 p.m.	2016 ACC College Football Preview Show	Anish Shroff, Mike Bellotti, Charles Arbuckle	ESPNU
Tue, Aug. 23	7 p.m. – 8 p.m.	2016 Big Ten College Football Preview Show	Brendan Fitzgerald, Tom Luginbill, Jason Sehorn	ESPNU
	8 p.m. – 9 p.m.	2016 Big 12 College Football Preview Show	Anish Shroff, Kevin Carter, Jason Sehorn	ESPNU
Wed, Aug. 24	7 p.m. – 8 p.m.	2016 Pac-12 College Football Preview Show	Brendan Fitzgerald, Mike Bellotti, Charles Arbuckle	ESPNU
	8 p.m. – 9 p.m.	National College Football Preview	Matt Schick, Mike Bellotti, Tom Luginbill	ESPNU
	8:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.	The Herbies Preseason Special	Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit	ESPN2
Sat, Aug. 27	11 a.m. – noon	College GameDay Season Preview	Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, David Pollack, Lee Corso (via satellite)	ESPN
Sun, Aug. 28	1 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.	The Heisman Trophy Preview Show	Joe Tessitore, Desmond Howard, Danny Kanell	ESPN
	1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.	Championship Drive: College Football Season Preview	Rece Davis	ESPN

More information on the ESPN networks’ coverage of the 2016 college football season is available online now along with all of the latest college football headlines at:

 

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Six Big Ten Games Scheduled For Prime Time On ESPN Family Of Networks

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The upcoming college football season is still months away.  But that doesn’t mean things have slowed down from the world of NCAA football.  ESPN has announced that it will run six Big Ten Conference games in prime time during the upcoming season.  The games will be run on ESPN, ESPN2, and ABC over the course of the season.  Each of the six scheduled games includes at least one ranked team in an early ESPN.com preseason Top 25 Poll.  No. 1 Ohio State will play three times across the ESPN family of networks.  No. 9 Michigan will have two televised games in the schedule.  No. 24 and 25, Northwestern and Wisconsin will each have one game aired.  Two of the six games on the schedule will see a Big Ten member team hosting independent Notre Dame, which is currently ranked No. 10 in the ESPN.com preseason Top 25 poll.  More games will be announced in the coming months.  The current slate of scheduled games is available below.

Date	Time (ET)	Game	Network
Sat, Sep 7	8p.m.	No. 10 Notre Dame at No. 9 Michigan *	ABC, ESPN or ESPN2
Sat, Sep 14	8 p.m.	No. 10 Notre Dame at Purdue	ABC, ESPN or ESPN2
Sat, Sep 28	8p.m.	No. 25 Wisconsin at No. 1 Ohio State	ABC, ESPN or ESPN2
Sat, Oct 5	8p.m.	No. 1 Ohio State at No. 24 Northwestern	ABC, ESPN or ESPN2
Sat, Oct 12	5p.m.	No. 9 Michigan at Penn State	ESPN or ESPN2
Sat, Oct 26	8p.m.	Penn State at No. 1 Ohio State	ABC, ESPN or ESPN2

  

* Previously Announced

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