ESPN College Sports Update – Sept. 3

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ESPN College Sports Update – Sept. 3

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College Football: 11 of Top 15 Teams across ESPN Networks
The second week of the college football season will include 50 games across ESPN networks, highlighted by 11 of the top 15 teams in the Associated Press poll on the schedule. ESPN’s schedule will be highlighted by a tripleheader of marquee matchups: No. 12 Florida at Miami, noon; No. 6 South Carolina at No. 11 Georgia, 4:30 p.m.; and No. 14 Notre Dame at No. 17 Michigan, 8 p.m. Full schedule


College GameDay Heads to the Big House and Michigan
ESPN’s iconic college football pregame show College GameDay Built by The Home Depot will travel to Ann Arbor, Mich., on Saturday, Sept. 7, for its three-hour show (9 a.m.–noon) of features, analysis on ESPN. The set will originate from Ingalls Mall on the campus of the University of Michigan. Hosted by Chris Fowler with Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack with reporting by Samantha Ponder, Tom Rinaldi, Scott Van Pelt and Gene Wojciechowski, GameDay’s September 7, edition will be at the site of the Saturday Night Football game between No. 17 Michigan and No. 14 Notre Dame (8 p.m., ESPN). Full release


ESPN.com Continues College Football Season Coverage
The college football season is underway, and ESPN.com has everything covered with game previews and recaps, expert analysis and features. Full release


ESPNU Goes Inside the Program before Michigan vs. Notre Dame
Before the lights go on for Notre Dame at Michigan (Saturday, Sept. 7, ESPN), ESPNU will give viewers access to each team’s preparation with Inside the Program: Notre Dame/Michigan on Thursday, Sept. 5, at 7 p.m. The half-hour show will have ESPN reporter Sam Ponder behind the scenes with coaches and players during the week as they prepare for the second night game in Michigan Stadium history.


ESPNU Road Trip Debuts with the Scene at Clemson
ESPNU Road Trip: Georgia vs. Clemson Presented by Dr. Pepper rolled into Clemson for the first time this past weekend. The season’s debut show will air Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 7:30 p.m. with returning hosts Niki Noto and Ali Nejad once again featuring the tradition, rivalry and revelry in college towns on game day each week. While at Clemson, the duo met coach Dabo Swinney, hung out with the water ski team and stormed the field with 80,000 fans after the Tigers beat Georgia in the first upset of the college football season.  This weekend Road Trip trucks into Louisville to see the Cardinals play in-state rival Eastern Kentucky.


SEC TV Game to Feature Western Kentucky at Tennessee

SEC TV – ESPN’s SEC syndication package launched in 2009 and previously referred to in local markets as “SEC Network” – will offer Western Kentucky, coming off a victory over Kentucky, at Tennessee at 12:21 p.m this Saturday. ESPN3 will provide coverage of the game outside of the SEC territory.

“We decided to rebrand our SEC football and basketball syndication package as SEC TV to alleviate any potential confusion with the national SEC Network that will launch in August, 2014” said Justin Connolly, senior vice president, programming college networks. “Consumers will continue to receive the same quality content.”


ESPN’s 2014 Pac-12 Conference Men’s Basketball Schedule
ESPN’s 2014 Pac-12 men’s college basketball regular-season schedule will showcase 37 conference games across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU. Full release


Minnesota Matchup Slated for Sept. 13 High School Football Showcase Game
A match-up of in-state rivals — Stillwater (Minn.) vs. Cretin-Derham Hall (Minn.) – has been added to The GEICO High School Football Showcase schedule for Friday, Sept. 13. The game, which will be televised at 8 p.m. on ESPN2 from the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, Minn., is one of 13 high school games that will air across ESPN networks this season. Full Schedule

The Showcase continues this week on ESPNU with games from Texas and Virginia, respectively, on Thursday and Friday. 2012 state champions Katy (TX) and Lake Taylor (Va.) will both be in action, as will top-five recruit Andrew Brown (No. 5, ESPN 300), who has verbally committed to Virginia.

Date Time (ET) Matchup Location Network
Thu, Sep 5 8 p.m. Katy (Texas) at Taylor (Texas) Crump Stadium ESPNU
Fri, Sep 6 8 p.m. Oscar Smith (Va.) at Lake Taylor (Va.) Lake Taylor High School ESPNU

 


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Rachel Margolis Siegal

A part of the Internal Communications team at ESPN, I began with the network in 2010 as part of the College Sports PR team. Always an avid sports fan and not an athlete – I grew up a huge fan of the Hartford Whalers, while also watching my brother compete at different levels. I became the manager of several high school sports teams and continued that hobby into college. While at Quinnipiac, I worked in the Sports Information Department, which led me to a summer internship at the New Haven Ravens, a AA baseball team, and an eventual job with the Athletic Communications Department at the University of Connecticut. After my five-year stint at Connecticut, I spent six years as Director of Communications at the BIG EAST Conference in Providence, R.I. before joining ESPN.
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