December 20, 2011 

Spotlight:
ESPN College Sports Communications Team

 

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

College Sports Media Kit
ESPN MediaZone’s Home for Everything College Sports

Exclusive coverage of 33 football bowl games continues through Monday, Jan. 9, with the Allstate BCS National Championship at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN, ESPN 3D, ESPN3 and ESPN Radio. Highlights through Saturday, Dec. 24: 

   

San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl: No. 

ESPN: Joe Tessitore, Lou Holtz, Mark May & Samantha 

  

MAACO Bowl Las Vegas: Arizona State vs. No. 7 Boise 

State 

(Thursday at 8 p.m., ESPN & ESPN3) 

Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit & Tom Rinaldi 

• One-loss No. 7 Boise State, led by senior quarterback Kellen Moore, against Arizona State 

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ESPN’s men’s hoops schedule will include four of the remaining seven undefeated teams and exclusive coverage of the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic:

Western Kentucky at unbeaten No. 4 Louisville

(Friday at 7 p.m. on ESPN2 & ESPN3)

Carter Blackburn & Jimmy Dykes

UMBC at undefeated No. 18 Indiana

(Thursday at 6 p.m. on ESPN3)

Steve Andress & Perry Clark

Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic

Thursday to Sunday on ESPNU, ESPN2 & ESPN3

• The field includes three one-loss teams in No. 15 Xavier, Kansas State, Auburn as well as Clemson, Hawaii, Long Beach State, UTEP and Southern Illinois

Schedules & Announcers

Studio | Football | Men’s Basketball

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ESPN Bowl Coverage by the Numbers

ESPN’s coverage of the 2011 college football season will conclude with 33 post-season bowl games across ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D, ESPN Radio and ESPN Deportes from Saturday, Dec. 17 to Monday, Jan. 9 (full bowl schedule).

 

Numbers are ingrained in football – wins and losses, rankings, yardage gained, yardage lost, total points, pass attempts, rush attempts, players wearing them, play clock and penalty yards to name a few. The game around the games is no different. Some noteworthy numbers heading into an ESPN tripleheader that kicked off action on Saturday, Dec. 17:

 

· Thirty-three bowl games in 24 days, highlighted by at least one game a day for 17 of the 24 days

· All five Bowl Championship Series games

· One crowning of a national champion with the Allstate BCS National Championship on Monday, Jan. 9, at 8:30 p.m.)

· Six bowl games in 3D on ESPN 3D, including the BCS National Championship for the second straight year

·Twenty-three bowl games on ESPN Radio, including all five BCS matchups

· Six games on Monday, Jan. 2, including one game across four networks at the same time

o    TicketCity Bowl (No. 19 Houston vs. No. 22 Penn State) at noon on ESPNU & ESPN3

o    Outback Bowl (No. 17 Michigan State vs. No. 16 Georgia) at 1 p.m. on ABC & ESPN Radio

o    Capital One Bowl (No. 20 Nebraska vs. No. 9 South Carolina) at 1 p.m. on ESPN, ESPN3, ESPN 3D & ESPN Radio

o    TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl (Ohio State vs. Florida) at 1 p.m. on ESPN2 & ESPN3

o    Rose Bowl Game Presented by Vizio (No. 10 Wisconsin vs. No. 5 Oregon) at 5 p.m. on ESPN, ESPN3 & ESPN Radio

o    Tostitos Fiesta Bowl (No. 4 Stanford vs. No. 3 Oklahoma State) at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN, ESPN3 & ESPN Radio

·Fourteen games in four days across ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN 3D & ESPN3 from Friday, Dec. 30 to Monday, Jan. 2

·Twenty-three of the 25 teams in the BCS Standings, concluding with No. 1 LSU vs. No. 2 Alabama in the Allstate BCS National Championship on Monday, Jan. 9, at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN, ESPN3, ESPN 3D, ESPN Radio & ESPN Deportes

·Seventy-one on-air commentators to provide play-byplay, analysis and sideline reports

· Multiple game assignments for 53 of the 71 announcers led by Bill Rosinski, David Norrie and Joe Schad working five ESPN Radio broadcasts together

· Announcers working four games include play-byplay commentator Joe Tessitore; analyst Danny Kanell; and reporters Tom Rinaldi, Heather Cox, Holly Rowe, Eamon McAnaney, Jeannine Edwards and Quint Kessenich

·Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit working their fifth consecutive BCS National Championship together with the first two on ESPN Radio and the past three on ABC or ESPN

· Two BCS games in consecutive days for Sean McDonough, Matt Millen and Heather Cox beginning with the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl on Monday, Jan. 2, at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN & ESPN3 followed by the Allstate Sugar Bowl on Tuesday, Jan. 3, at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN Radio

o    Additional announcers working two games in two days, all on December 30-31, include commentator Dave Neal and reporters Ian Fitzsimmons and Cara Capuano

·Schools representing 33 states, led by six from Texas, five from Ohio and four from California

·Bowls located in 14 states plus the District of Columbia across five time zones, led by six in Florida; four in California, Texas and Louisiana; and two in Alabama, Arizona and Tennessee

· The Big Ten with a conference-leading 10 teams represented followed by the SEC with eight; Big 12 and ACC with seven; Pac-12 with six; BIG EAST, Conference USA, Mid-American Conference and Mountain West Conference with five; Western Athletic Conference and Sun Belt Conference with three; and independents BYU and Notre Dame

· ESPN’s coverage of last year’s BCS title game averaged 27,316,000 viewers and 17,718,000 households, making it the most watched program in the history of cable television.

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