[NU Sports] Bowls on TV

[Jonathan Hodges]

No, the Rose Bowl will indeed be on ESPN, the cable network, beginning this
year.

The Rose Bowl is on the same contract with ABC/ESPN that it was on prior to
this year, but it included a provision that allowed it to be moved to ESPN
if the other BCS bowls moved to a cable network.  And since ESPN bought the
TV rights to the other 4 BCS bowls & national title game for the 4 year
cycle starting this season, it allowed them to move it to ESPN.

All in all, 33 of the 35 bowls this season are on ESPN networks.  I believe
the Citrus Bowl is the only one on ABC, and the TicketCity Bowl will be the
only one on ESPNU (the first ever one on ESPNU).  The rest will be mixed
between ESPN & ESPN2.  The only non-ABC/ESPN bowls are the Sun Bowl (CBS)
and Cotton Bowl (FOX).

In terms of the Big Ten's 5 New Year's Day games - I see this as a clear
strategy by Delany & the Big Ten to take over New Year's Day just as they
have taken over the 11AM CT time slot on Saturdays during the regular
season.  No matter where you turn on Jan. 1, a Big Ten team will be on TV,
all leading up to the Rose Bowl.  I was a bit dismayed by the fact that so
many games will be on at the same time, but I think that we'll be pleasantly
surprised to see the publicity and ratings Big Ten teams get on one of the
highest viewership days of the college football calendar.

Jonathan

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Scott Zeller <scottzel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kid yourself not, the Rose Bowl will be on ABC. It will just be an "ESPN
> production" that is airing on the ABC network. They do this all the time
> with big games.
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Labbe John <johnl at mac.com> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, just like Monday Night Football, all the BCS bowls are on ESPN this
> > year.  It's part of ESPN's effort to take over the world (the Big Ten
> > Network has essentially followed the same playbook).
> >
> > Also, note that 4 of the Big Ten Bowl games are at overlapping times on
> New
> > Year's Day: TicketCity, Capital One, Outback, and Gator (3 of which
> feature
> > Big Ten vs. SEC).  The Outback and Capital One use to always overlap, but
> > four overlapping Big Ten games is a new development.
> >
> > You would think they would try to spread out the games featuring the same
> > conferences given that they will attract a lot of the same viewers.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Dec 14, 2010, at 10:45 AM, NEONRye at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > I was just looking in NY POST at listing of bowls with point spreads (NU
> is
> >> 9 1/2 pt 'dog).  It also lists TV slots.  On New Year's Day Outback is
> now
> >> on ABC at 1 PM EST, while Capital One drops down to ESPN and Gator is on
> >> ESPN2.  I was even more surprised to learn that Rose (which for years
> was an
> >> NBC production, and then went to ABC, is now on ESPN, and the Fiesta
> follows
> >> that night on ESPN.  Guess I forgot that ESPN "won" the BCS Bowls
> Package,
> >> but somehow I thought those games would wind up--at least in part--on
> sister
> >> network ABC.  By the time BCS rolls around on Jan. 10 (after Orange,
> Sugar,
> >> GoDaddy.com, Cotton, BBVA Compass, and Fight Hunger Bowls, each night
> from
> >> Jan. 3-9) who will care or be able to watch any more college pigskin
> action?
> >>  Talk about saturation!
> >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> >>
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