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games, as well as pre- and post-game reports, analysis, and human-interest stories. Within the United States, the college version of
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annually garners high television ratings. College football games have been broadcast since
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, beginning with the
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on September 30 in New York City. College football telecasts were historically very restricted due to there being only three major television networks and also because the NCAA controlled all television rights and limited the number of games that aired to protect attendance. A 1984 ruling declaring the NCAA's television restrictions illegal, along with the introduction of sports-specific television networks has increased the amount of air-time available for coverage. Today, dozens of games are available for viewing each week of the football season. Other coverage includes local broadcasts of weekly coach's programs. These programs have become an important sources of revenue for the universities and their athletics programs. Here is a list of the College Football Television and game results from this past season in 2020. Coverage is dependent on negotiations between the broadcaster and the college football conference or team. The televised games may change from year-to-year depending on which teams are having a strong season, although some traditional rivalry games are broadcast each year. Some games are traditionally associated with a specific event or holiday, and viewing the game itself can become a holiday tradition for fans. Post-season
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s, including the
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, are presently all televised, most of them by the
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networks. Universities found to have seriously violated
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rules have occasionally been penalized with a "television ban"; the effect can equal that of the "
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". The sanction is rarely applied except for the most egregious of circumstances, such as the
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.


History


Prior to television

College football games have been broadcast on radio since
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, beginning with the
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on October 8 in
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. Prior to that, various other means of communication were used. For example, in 1911, more than 1,000 people gathered in downtown
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, to watch a mechanical reproduction of the
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while it was being played. A
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wire was set up direct from
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, to relay the action.


Early televised broadcasts

The first televised college football game occurred during the "experimental" era of television's broadcasting history, when a game between
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and Waynesburg College was broadcast on September 30, 1939. One month later, Kansas State's
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contest against the
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was the second broadcast and first homecoming game to be broadcast on October 23, 1939. The following season, on October 5, 1940, what is described as the "first commercially televised game" between the
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and the
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was broadcast by Philco. Fairly sporadic broadcasts continued throughout World War II. By 1950, a small number of football schools, including Penn (
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) and the
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(
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), had entered into individual contracts with networks to broadcast their games regionally. In fact, all of Penn's home games were broadcast on
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during the 1950 season under a contract that paid Penn $150,000. However, prior to the 1951 season, the
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 – alarmed by reports that indicated television decreased attendance at games – asserted control and prohibited live broadcasts of games. Although the NCAA successfully forced Penn and Notre Dame to break their contracts, the NCAA suffered withering attacks for its 1951 policy, faced threats of
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hearings, and eventually caved in and lifted blackouts of certain sold-out games. Nonetheless, the first national broadcast of a live college football game, which was also the first coast-to-coast live broadcast of any sports contest, was
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at the
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on September 29, 1951 on NBC. Bowl games were always outside the control of the NCAA, and the
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at the end of that season was the first national telecast of a college bowl game, on NBC. For the 1952 season, the NCAA relented somewhat, but limited telecasts to one nationally broadcast game each week. The NCAA sold the exclusive rights to broadcast the weekly game to NBC for $1,144,000. The first game shown under this contract was
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against the
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, on September 20, 1952. In
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, the NCAA allowed NBC to add what it called "panorama" coverage of multiple regional broadcasts for certain weeks – shifting national viewers to the most interesting game during its telecast. NBC lost the college football contract beginning in 1954, prompting it to carry
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instead. There were some attempts at workarounds during this time frame; ABC Sports ran some
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games, condensed to remove time between plays and featuring
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at the microphone, in fall 1953. The Notre Dame games were filmed and broadcast the night after they were played; the service would not continue beyond that year. The NCAA believed that broadcasting one game a week would prevent further controversy while limiting any decrease in attendance. However, the
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was unhappy with the arrangement, and it pressured the NCAA to allow regional telecasts as well. Finally, in 1955 the NCAA revised its plan, keeping eight national games while permitting true regional telecasts during five specified weeks of the season. This was essentially the television plan that stayed in place until the
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and the
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filed suit against the NCAA in 1981, alleging
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violations.
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s were always exempt from the NCAA's television regulations, and the games' organizers were free to sign rights deals with any network.
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, for instance, carried many of the bowl games (mostly lower-end bowls) despite not holding any regular season rights.


Decentralization

On June 27, 1984, the
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ruled in ''
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'' that the NCAA's television plan violated the
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. As a result, individual schools and athletic conferences were freed to negotiate contracts on their own behalf. The year after the Supreme Court decision, nearly 200 games were televised, compared to the previous year's 89. College football's television ratings slumped due to market saturation, and the price of a 30-second advertisement plunged from $57,000 in 1983 to $15,000 in 1984, while the combined take from network television fell more than 60 percent. Despite the monetary suffering of the universities, the additional coverage had a positive impact for fans of college football. "Everyone talks about money, but no one seems to care about the football fan. He is the one who benefited from deregulation. And he isn't complaining", said
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, the former commissioner of the Big Eight Conference. Together with the growth of
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, this ruling resulted in the explosion of broadcast options currently available. However, in the immediate wake of the ruling, most schools still decided to jointly negotiate their television contracts through the now-defunct College Football Association. The
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and
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were not members of the CFA, opting to negotiate their own TV deals.


Effects of television exposure

Television exposure has been used as a selling point in recruiting high school athletes. "We’re recruiting all over the country, and it's nice to be able to go in someone's home and say, ‘You can turn on the TV and watch the Buckeyes six to eight times a year", said former Ohio State head coach John Cooper. Television money and generous donors have allowed universities to provide modern facilities and luxurious amenities to college football teams. The
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at the University of Texas offers fans the opportunity to lease suites for $88,000 a year. The suites include theater-style seats, televisions, kitchenettes, and bars. The athletes ride to practice in chartered buses and dress beneath a three-dimensional 20-foot lighted longhorn in a locker room that includes a nutrition center, players’ lounge, and "state-of-the-art" ventilation system. Nationally televised games also brought new notoriety, revenue, and growth for leagues that had rarely appeared on television. As the cable networks grew and expanded, they sought more games to fill time. Former
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(MAC) Commissioner
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attributes his league's expansion to a deal that put several MAC games per year on ESPN. In the 1950s, conventional wisdom suggested that television allowed football fans to watch their favorite teams for free from the comfort of their own homes, and this was to blame for falling attendance. A 1948 study conducted by the Crossley Corporation at the NCAA's request found that fans thought watching televised games was equal or superior to watching from the stands. In 1950, a study by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago said that attendance at college football games would have been 40 percent higher if no games had been televised. In the long term, the publicity provided by college football telecasts helped to give the sport exposure to potential ticket buyers, increasing ticket sales. The popularity of televised college football has been accompanied by a growth in game attendance. In 1949, when the U.S. population was around 150 million, 17.5 million spectators attended a college football game. By 2012, after the population had doubled, attendance had grown proportionally higher, at nearly 50 million people.


The modern era

When Notre Dame left the CFA to sign an exclusive deal with NBC in
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, it shocked the college football world and marked the true beginning of the modern era. Then, in 1996, CBS, which had been shut out of the CFA broadcasts in the mid-1990s when ABC held the contract (and coincidentally was in desperate need of live sports after losing its major professional sports rights in 1994), successfully convinced the Southeastern Conference to break from the CFA, signing its own conference deal. The CFA disbanded in 1997. One of the most significant side-effects of the changes in television policy since 1991 has been the sharp decrease in independent schools and realignment of
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, as schools sought to pool and increase their bargaining power; few schools had the clout or national following that could garner an exclusive contract the way Notre Dame did. Prominent independents Pitt and
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joined the old Big East in 1991 and the
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in 1993, respectively. Television has also driven the trend of universities (generally mid-majors) playing football on weekdays rather than the traditional Saturdays, in order to have their games broadcast. The pursuit of television money has provided financial independence to many big-time university athletic programs, since they can independently auction their "product" to the highest bidder. Some universities have limited authority over the athletic directors and coaches. In 2009, Florida President
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said that due to the presence of ESPN money, the university no longer had control of its athletics department. Studies have also shown that success of big-time sports programs alters students’ academic behavior, reducing the amount of activity at the library and lowering men's grade point averages with each victory. Television and cable networks control the schedule of football games. ESPN broadcasts nationally televised college football games on Thursday nights each week, making it the college equivalent of the NFL's Monday Night Football. The energy and excitement of such an atmosphere generally benefits the home teams, which have a winning record on Thursday nights. The midweek games are scheduled with no consideration of academics, rest, and recovery for athletes and university logistical issues such as competition for parking between faculty, students, and fans. For example, the logistical issues are such a problem for the University of Georgia that midweek home games are forbidden. However, most coaches are happy to tackle the logistical issues for the sake of TV scheduling and money. In the 2010s, networks began experimenting with new technologies to expand beyond the standard two-dimensional television system. ESPN 3D carried a number of games in
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during its lifetime, beginning in 2011 and ending with the channel's shutdown in 2013; a lack of 3D television adoption was blamed for the program's failure.
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began a series of
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broadcasts in 2016, which were made available to dedicated VR headsets and smartphones with stereoscopes; these were discontinued by 2018.


Broadcast rights


U.S. Networks


ABC

ABC has been airing college football since acquiring the NCAA contract in 1966.
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and
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were the number one broadcast team through 1973.
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, its best-known college football play-by-play man, announced games from 1966 through 2005 on ABC (and for 14 years before that for various outlets), and was considered by many to be "the voice of college football." Jackson was ABC's lead play-by play man for 25 years, from 1974 through 1998. He originally was to retire after the 1999 Fiesta Bowl, but agreed to remain on a more restricted schedule (primarily broadcasting West Coast games) and remained with ABC through the 2006 Rose Bowl. In 1954, 1960 and 1961, and then from 1966 through 1981, ABC was the exclusive network home for regular season NCAA football telecasts. In 1982 and 1983, ABC and CBS split the package. In 1984, after the NCAA television contract was invalidated by the
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, ABC began a three-year deal televising CFA games, featuring most major college teams except members of the Big Ten and Pacific-10, the Atlantic Coast Conference and the University of Miami, the games of which were televised by CBS. From 1987 to 1990, ABC televised Big Ten and Pacific-10 games. Since 1991, ABC has had contracts with most of the major BCS conferences, which leads it to broadcast many of its games regionally. ABC began airing a weekly Saturday night primetime football game in the fall of 2006, when the network's sports division converted to ESPN on ABC. Nearly all regional ABC games that air on a given Saturday (and a very large number of other, exclusive games) are also available as part of a pay-per-view package called ''
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'', and online via
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.


NBC

NBC broadcast the Rose Bowl beginning in 1952 until the
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when ABC took over. It had the
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from 1965 through 1995. (The 1971 contest was the very last sporting event on US television to carry cigarette ads.) NBC also aired the Fiesta Bowl from 1978 through 1995, and the Cotton Bowl from 1993 to 1995. NBC also contracted with the NCAA to broadcast regular season games in 1952–1953, 1955–1959 and 1964–1965. NBC has an exclusive contract with Notre Dame, which began in 1991. Since that time, NBC has carried nationally all of Notre Dame's home games, paying at least $9 million per season for broadcast rights. Recently, Notre Dame's ratings have been down significantly due to relatively poor play and because NBC does not telecast a game every week as CBS and ABC do (when Notre Dame plays away, NBC has no college football, and thus the network has no set regular schedule); Notre Dame games on NBC drew less than half the ratings that CBS and ABC averaged for their college football games in 2008. NBC was long the home of the annual "
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" between Grambling State University and
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at the
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, but NBC has since moved the game to its
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cable network. The game is well known for its ''Battle of the Bands'' between the schools at halftime.


CBS

CBS contracted with the NCAA to broadcast regular season games in 1962 and 1963. CBS shared the NCAA package with ABC in 1982 and 1983 and was also required to locally broadcast four
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contests each year as part of that contract. (For the 1982 season, these four contests were instead aired nationwide and produced using the staff of the ''
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'', which had been idled due to a players' strike that year.) From 1984 to 1986, CBS televised games involving the Big Ten, Pacific-10, and Atlantic Coast Conferences, plus the University of Miami. From 1987 to 1990, CBS televised CFA, ACC and Miami games. CBS broadcast several important games in the 1980s, such as the classic
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game that ended with Doug Flutie's
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on November 23, 1984, and the "Catholics vs. Convicts" showdowns between Notre Dame and
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from 1987 to 1990. CBS did not televise any regular season college football games from 1991 to 1995. The network aired Big East games from 1996–2000, and since
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has broadcast SEC games. CBS currently holds the right for the first pick for any game where an SEC team is at home, along with the rights to televise the SEC Championship game. The network also broadcasts the annual
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, the Air Force Academy's games vs. Army and Navy, and the
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on New Year's Eve. CBS has broadcast the
Sun Bowl The Sun Bowl is a college football bowl game that has been played since 1935 in the southwestern United States at El Paso, Texas. Along with the Sugar Bowl and Orange Bowl, it is the second-oldest bowl game in the country, behind the Rose Bowl. ...
(currently one of the few bowls not on an ESPN network) every year since 1968. From 1958 to 1992 and again from 1996 to 1998, CBS broadcast the Cotton Bowl annually. CBS aired the
Fiesta Bowl The Fiesta Bowl is an American college football bowl game played annually in the Phoenix metropolitan area. From its beginning in 1971 until 2006, the game was hosted at the Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. Since 2007, the game has been playe ...
from 1975 to 1977 and again after the 1995, 1996 and 1997 seasons, and also broadcast the
Orange Bowl The Orange Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in the Miami metropolitan area. It has been played annually since January 1, 1935, making it, along with the Sugar Bowl and the Sun Bowl, the second-oldest bowl game in th ...
from 1996 to 1998.


Fox

Although its regional networks also aired games, until 2012,
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did not air any regular season college football games. It did, however, air the Bowl Championship Series from 2006 to 2009 (excluding any event held at the Rose Bowl, whose rights were held by ABC) and aired the
Cotton Bowl Classic The Cotton Bowl Classic (also known as the Cotton Bowl) is an American college football bowl game that has been held annually in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex since January 1, 1937. The game was originally played at its namesake stadium i ...
from 1999 to 2015. In 2011, it began airing the Big Ten Football Championship Game (in conjunction with its operations of
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), and the Pac-12 Championship Game (alternating with ESPN). In 2012, Fox began airing regular season college football games from the
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and Big 12 conferences. In 2016 and 2017, Fox acquired the
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and Holiday Bowl respectively. On July 24, 2017, the
Big Ten Conference The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representati ...
announced that Fox had acquired the conference's Tier 1 football rights under a six-year deal beginning in the 2017 season, giving Fox first choice of Big Ten games over co-rightsholder ESPN.


PBS

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briefly carried the
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in the 1980s, produced by
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, while many other state networks carried the games of their partner universities. Eventually, the airing of sports on public television became unworkable: most public television outlets operated under
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licenses, which prohibited them from selling advertising or collecting retransmission consent fees. As the cost of rights began to skyrocket, these stations lacked the necessary revenue streams to keep up with the commercial networks; independent public stations could not afford rights, and state-owned networks got shut out when the state universities opted to make more money by selling the rights (usually in conjunction with their athletic conferences) to commercial networks.


America One

The America One television network, which has historically focused primarily on lower-end sports, held the broadcast rights to the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and
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, both in Division II. It did not usually broadcast those games on its linear channel; instead, America One offers the events through
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. America One also holds Internet rights to the Big Sky Conference. In 2015, America One merged with Youtoo TV to form YTA, which carries no sports content (the sports were spun off to One World Sports, then sold to
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), and the PSAC and RMAC broadcasts are now handled by the ESPN networks.


Cable stations

TBS became the first cable station to nationally broadcast college football live when it began airing games during the 1982 season. The games were aired under a special "supplemental" television contract with the NCAA.
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followed later the same year, starting with a simulcast of the Independence Bowl match-up between Kansas State and the
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on December 11, 1982, which was the first college football game shown live on ESPN. (TBS subsequently left the field for several years, but again broadcast college football games from 2002–2006, showing Big 12 and Pac-10 matchups sublicensed from Fox Sports Net.) In the wake of the 1984 Supreme Court ruling that broke the NCAA monopoly, ESPN immediately began airing regular season games live, starting with a contest between
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and
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on September 1, 1984. The network aired a 48-game package that year. ESPN2 began broadcasting live games in 1994,
ESPNU ESPNU is an American multinational digital cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and the Hears ...
began in 2005. ABC gets first choice of games over the ESPN networks, especially from the American Athletic Conference, Big Ten, and ACC, because ABC and ESPN are owned by the same company. Many marquee games will still air on ESPN so they can air in prime-time, without being limited to regional viewers or GamePlan subscribers, but not giving non-cable owners a chance to see the games (unlike the NFL, games on ESPN are not required to be simulcast on over-the-air stations in local markets). This also occurs because CBS, not ABC, owns broadcast TV rights to the SEC, and thus only the ESPN networks can air the second and third-choice games (normally on Saturday nights); CBS having made the first pick. Likewise, FSN is the cable partner for Big 12 and Pac-12 games, and so only ABC can air games from those conference packages (it normally has the first pick), aside from a handful of games from each conference that ESPN purchases each year. FSN sublicensed games to TBS from 2002–2006 from the Big 12 and Pac-10 Conferences and to Versus from 2007–2010. In 2011, FSN moved those games to FX. Joining the Big 12 and Pac-12 Conferences on FX will be Conference USA. Those games moved to
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upon the channel's launch in 2013.
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carried college football games from
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under the ''Black College Football'' banner from 1981 through 2005 (in later years, the coverage was co-produced by CBS). This ended after the breakup of CBS and Viacom. Black college football games are now seen on the ESPN networks and on Aspire (Aspire also
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s select classic HBCU games from years past);
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had previously aired HBCU games in 2012 and 2013 before dropping them. In the early 2000s, entire networks devoted to college sports, including college football, began to appear. Fox College Sports began in 2002. College Sports Television (now
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) debuted in 2002, becoming a CBS subsidiary in 2005.
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began in March 2005. In the late 2000s, networks devoted to a single conference (e.g.
Big Ten Network Big Ten Network (BTN) is an American sports network based in Chicago, Illinois. The channel is dedicated to coverage of collegiate sports sanctioned by the Big Ten Conference, including live and recorded event telecasts, news, analysis programs, ...
, MountainWest Sports Network) or team (
Longhorn Network Longhorn Network (LHN) is an American regional sports network owned as a joint venture between The University of Texas at Austin, ESPN and Learfield (formerly IMG College), and is operated by ESPN (itself owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company a ...
) began to appear. Regional cable networks have long devoted coverage to one or two conferences. The Pac-12 and Big 12 have had deals with FSN since 1996, which airs games on its regional family of networks. As noted above, Fox Sports 1 and ESPN have also acquired the rights to certain games. The Mountain West Conference entered into an arrangement with
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and
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that developed the " MountainWest Sports Network" or "the mtn" that was devoted to broadcasting the league's games. The contract also placed eight MWC football games and five men's basketball games along with the MWC men's and women's basketball tournament championships on Versus (now NBC Sports Network). MountainWest Sports Network ceased operations on May 31, 2012. The Big Ten also has a similar regional network, with the
Big Ten Network Big Ten Network (BTN) is an American sports network based in Chicago, Illinois. The channel is dedicated to coverage of collegiate sports sanctioned by the Big Ten Conference, including live and recorded event telecasts, news, analysis programs, ...
having made its debut in August 2007. The Texas Longhorns debuted the
Longhorn Network Longhorn Network (LHN) is an American regional sports network owned as a joint venture between The University of Texas at Austin, ESPN and Learfield (formerly IMG College), and is operated by ESPN (itself owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company a ...
in the fall of 2011, and the Pac-12 debuted the
Pac-12 Network The Pac-12 Network (P12N; also sometimes referred to as Pac-12 Networks) is an American sports-oriented digital cable and satellite television network owned by the Pac-12 Conference. The network's studio and production facilities are headquart ...
and Pac-12 Digital Network in fall of 2012. While it is not a national network, the
Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington (state), Washington, and Texa ...
and Learfield Sports started the WAC Sports Network in 2010 to broadcast games to local affiliates. Some
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college football games are locally shown live or on tape on public-access television channels in the community in which the home team's campus is located.


Syndication

In addition,
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, ESPN Plus and SPORTSfever syndicate games to broadcast stations and regional sports networks on a market-by-market basis. Many conferences also run their own syndicated network. Included in these are the
Sun Belt Conference The Sun Belt Conference (SBC) is a collegiate athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAA's Division I since 1976. Originally a non-football conference, the Sun Belt began sponsoring football in 2001. Its football teams participa ...
and the
Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington (state), Washington, and Texa ...
who run the Sun Belt Network and the WAC Sports Network.
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, in 2014, launched the American Sports Network, which includes broadcasts of Division I FBS and FCS games across its properties.
Conference USA Conference USA (C-USA or CUSA) is an intercollegiate athletic conference whose current member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports. C-USA's offices are l ...
, the
Colonial Athletic Association The Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I whose full members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to South Carolina. Most of its members are public universi ...
, the
Big South Conference The Big South Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I. Originally a non-football conference, the Big South began sponsoring football in 2002 as part of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Th ...
, the Southern Conference,
Southland Conference The Southland Conference, abbreviated as SLC, is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it pa ...
and
Patriot League The Patriot League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising private institutions of higher education and two United States service academies based in the Northeastern United States. Outside the Ivy League, it is among the most selective gr ...
are part of ASN's package; the league also carries
Mid-American Conference The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I collegiate athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois. Nine of the twel ...
games through a sub-licensing deal with ESPN that allows Sinclair's local stations to carry their hometown college teams (for example,
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college football is on Sinclair's WNYO). ASN was integrated into the multiplatform network
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in the 2017 offseason.


Canada

Canadian university football has had some national coverage of regular season games by terrestrial networks over the last 30 years, but the vast majority of broadcasts are on community channels, community TV networks or sports specialty channels. This is in part due to the sport's structure in Canada, where it is divided strictly into regional conferences and inter-conference play is much rarer than in the United States, reducing the sport's national appeal. Coverage of U.S. college football is available to an extent in Canada; individual U.S. stations are available over-the-air and on television providers, Big Ten Network and CBS Sports Network can be carried by Canadian television providers, while the networks of
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often simulcast games aired by ESPN networks (ESPN owns a minority stake in TSN). Two of the country's four conferences (OUA and Canada West) distribute telecasts via
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, although the quality of these broadcasts is often significantly below that of a professional telecast (typically involving airing the team's radio broadcast over a single-camera feed of the game).


Ontario

In the early years of
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during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the network broadcast some regular season games along with the OUAA or OQIFC finals. Hamilton-based
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carried Ontario (OUA) university football games (typically involving the hometown
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) through the 1990s until 2001. From 2003 to 2013, The Score had offered a Saturday game of the week and the Yates Cup under the brand OUA University Rush. After The Score was acquired by
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and became Sportsnet 360, the company canceled its OUA coverage due to low ratings, and no other broadcaster picked up the rights. In 2015, OUA reached an agreement with CHCH to carry the OUA playoffs in a multi-year deal, one that survived the station's bankruptcy later that year.
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, which like Sportsnet is owned by Rogers Communications, ran a four-game trial run of OUA regular season games (three of which involved the OUA) in 2016. A series of community TV stations carry games throughout Ontario. Rogers outlets in Ottawa, Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo and London broadcast games.
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outlets in Windsor, Hamilton and Kingston also broadcast games. Kingston broadcasts of
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football are tape delayed for same day broadcast, while all other games are distributed live.


Quebec (and national Francophone)

RSEQ games are broadcast nationally in French on Radio Canada on a weekly basis, including the playoffs and the Dunsmore Cup in the 2011 and 2012 seasons. The contract is up for renewal in 2013. Previously, RDS broadcast a game of the week package during the regular season. The rights for the Uteck Bowl,
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and
Vanier Cup The Vanier Cup (french: Coupe Vanier) is the championship of Canadian university football. It is organized by U Sports football and is currently played between the winners of the Uteck Bowl and the Mitchell Bowl. It is named after Georges Vanier, ...
belonged to RDS in 2011 and 2012. For 2013 onward, Radio Canada carried the national playoffs nationwide.


Atlantic Canada

In the AUS, Eastlink had a long-standing agreement to carry a game of the week up to and including the
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which expired in 2014. The games have since been carried on Bell Alliant TV1.


Western Canada

In 2017, Canada West will broadcast a game of the week on SaskTel throughout Saskatchewan. Games produced by SaskTel will be shared by Telus in BC and Alberta and Bell-MTS in Manitoba to 1.5 million customers. In the early years of
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during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the network broadcast some regular season games along with the Canada West final. Games in Canada West games were carried throughout the
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system to 2.7 million subscribers through most regions of Western Canada and parts of Northern Ontario. In southern and central
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the broadcasts are shared with Access Communications customers. ''Krown Produce
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'' was available from 2006-2016. Since 2010, the games have been available to 790,000 Shaw Direct subscribers nationally on channels 299 and 499. In 2012, Shaw simulcast the games in
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for free access on HD 303 on their systems. Shaw lost the rights to the Canada West Championship when the conference reached an agreement with MRX and Associates to broadcast the final on
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in 2011 and 2012. Shaw regained the Hardy Trophy no later than the 2014 season, after TSN abandoned Canadian university football broadcasts. Canada West renewed a three-year agreement with Shaw TV before the 2012 season. In 2015, Canada West expanded its coverage nationwide with an agreement with
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, a sister company to Shaw. There were also local broadcasts produced for
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home games by Shaw TV Winnipeg, and
Regina Rams The Regina Rams represent the University of Regina, located in Regina, Saskatchewan in the sport of Canadian football in U Sports. The Rams joined U Sports in 1999 and have competed in the Canada West Conference since then. The program has won ...
games by Access. Shaw also produced a weekly, 30-minute CIS highlight and features show called the Krown Canadian University Countdown.


National (anglophone)

The
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has had a wide and varied history on Canadian TV. In the early 1970s,
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broadcast the game, eventually returning decades later to carry the
55th Vanier Cup The 2019 Vanier Cup, the 55th edition of the Canadian university football championship, was played on November 23, 2019 at Telus Stadium in Quebec City, Quebec.
in 2019.
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also simulcast American college football broadcasts on a sporadic basis from 1966 to 2005. From the mid-1970s through to the mid-1980s the CTV Network broadcast the national final.
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gained broadcast rights to the final in the late 1980s. On occasion, the network would broadcast a conference game nationally, but would mainly stick with conference finals, national semifinals (a.k.a. bowl games) and the national final. TSN lost the rights to The Score in 2006 and 2007 for national bowl games and the Vanier Cup, but regained them between the 2008 and 2012 seasons. In the latter five seasons, TSN used its exclusive rights deal with the Canadian Football League to cross-promote the Vanier Cup as part of a broader championship weekend with the
Grey Cup The Grey Cup (french: Coupe Grey) is both the championship game of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the trophy awarded to the victorious team playing in the namesake championship of professional Canadian football. The game is contested be ...
, the CFL championship; the cross-promotion was a success, with over 500,000 viewers watching the 2011 and 2012 Vanier Cups. In May 2013, CIS, since renamed U Sports, signed a six-year agreement with Rogers Sportsnet to carry the Uteck Bowl,
Mitchell Bowl The Mitchell Bowl is one of the two semifinal bowls of U Sports football, Canada's national competition for university teams that play Canadian football. It is held in the more westerly location of the two semifinal venues. The winner of this game ...
and
Vanier Cup The Vanier Cup (french: Coupe Vanier) is the championship of Canadian university football. It is organized by U Sports football and is currently played between the winners of the Uteck Bowl and the Mitchell Bowl. It is named after Georges Vanier, ...
. As a standalone event and the only substantial football on Sportsnet (rival TSN owns exclusive NFL and CFL rights in addition to its extensive U.S. college football slate), the Vanier Cup has fared far more poorly; the 2017 Vanier Cup only drew 168,000, down almost three-fourths from 2011, when 665,000 viewers saw the game. Non-Vanier Cup games fared even more poorly; the 2014 playoff games drew 80,000 and 120,000 viewers (compared to 200,000 for the Vanier Cup that year), while that year's regular season slate drew only 28,000 per game, a number so low that Sportsnet could not justify the cost (about $84,000 per game at the time) to produce the regular season contests. By 2018, the playoff numbers had fallen to 39,000 viewers for the Uteck Bowl and 66,000 for the
Mitchell Bowl The Mitchell Bowl is one of the two semifinal bowls of U Sports football, Canada's national competition for university teams that play Canadian football. It is held in the more westerly location of the two semifinal venues. The winner of this game ...
; the Uteck Bowl has been harmed by non-competitiveness, as Quebec has defeated Atlantic in 11 consecutive Uteck Bowls.


Conference affiliations by home team

:''All conferences, games and teams are Bowl Subdivision teams unless otherwise noted.''


Broadcast network

*
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:
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,
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, Big 12,
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,
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,
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s (
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in odd-numbered years),
Citrus Bowl The Citrus Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. The bowl is operated by Florida Citrus Sports, a non-profit group that also organizes the Cheez-It Bowl and Florida Classic. The gam ...
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SEC Championship Game The SEC Championship Game is an annual American football game that has determined the Southeastern Conference's season champion since 1992. The championship game pits the SEC East Division regular season champion against the West Division regula ...
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Commander-in-Chief's Trophy The Commander-in-Chief's Trophy is awarded to each season's winner of the American college football series among the teams of the U.S. Military Academy ( Army Black Knights), the U.S. Naval Academy ( Navy Midshipmen), and the U.S. Air Force ...
games (include Army-Navy) and
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in even-numbered years) and Holiday Bowl * NBC: Notre Dame *
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Cable/regional/online

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: Big 12 and
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, C-USA, MAC,
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, UConn and Conference USA Football Championship Game, C-USA Championship Game *ESPN College Football, ESPN networks (
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, ESPN2, ESPNU College Football, ESPNU, ESPNews,
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and ESPN+):
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, C-USA, Liberty Flames football, Liberty, MAC,
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, SEC, Sun Belt Conference, Sun Belt, UMass Minutemen football, UMass,
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s (MAC Football Championship Game, MAC and Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, Sun Belt) and most
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s including the entirety of the
College Football Playoff The College Football Playoff (CFP) is an annual postseason knockout invitational tournament to determine a national champion for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest level ...
*FloSports: New Mexico State Aggies football, New Mexico State *
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: Texas Longhorns football, Texas *NFL Network:
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, MAC and Sun Belt Conference, Sun Belt *
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*SEC Network: SEC *Spectrum Sports:
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FCS and others

*ABC: Celebration Bowl (FCS) and NCAA Division I Football Championship, FCS Championship Game * Aspire: Select games from the Southwestern Athletic Conference, SWAC (FCS) and Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, CIAA (D-II, including league championship) *Cox Sports Television: Southland Conference, Southland (FCS) *ESPN networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN3 and ESPN+): ASUN Conference, ASUN (FCS), Big Sky Conference, Big Sky (FCS), Big South Conference, Big South (FCS),
Ivy League The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. The term ''Ivy League'' is typically used beyond the sports context to refer to the eight schools ...
(FCS, ESPN+ exclusive), Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, MEAC (FCS), Missouri Valley Football Conference, MVFC (FCS), Northeast Conference, NEC (FCS), Ohio Valley Conference, OVC (FCS), Southwestern Athletic Conference, SWAC (FCS), Southern Conference, SoCon (FCS), Southland Conference, Southland (FCS), Western Athletic Conference, WAC (FCS), Turkey Day Classic (FCS/D-II), SWAC Championship Game, NCAA Division I Football Championship, FCS tournament, Gulf South Conference, Gulf South (D-II), NCAA Division II Football Championship, D-II Championship Game, Secretaries Cup (D-III), NCAA Division III Football Championship, D-III Championship Game, Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference, KCAC (NAIA), NAIA Football National Championship, NAIA Championship. *FloSports: Colonial Athletic Association, CAA (FCS) and Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, SIAC (D-II) *HBCU Go: Southwestern Athletic Conference, SWAC (FCS) *WIVM-LD, Image Video: Mount Union Purple Raiders football, Mount Union (D-III) *College Football on NBC Sports, NBC:
Bayou Classic The Bayou Classic is an annual college football classic rivalry game between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars, first held under that name in 1974 at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, although the series it ...
(FCS) *NEC Front Row: Northeast Conference, NEC (FCS) *SPORTSfever Television Network: Morgan State Bears football, Morgan State (FCS), Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, PSAC (D-II), Penn Quakers, Penn–Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, Mansfield Sprint football, sprint game (''sui generis'') In contrast to the National Football League, which uses the ''visiting'' team's conference affiliation to determine who broadcasts afternoon games, college football telecasts are assigned based on the ''home'' team's conference affiliation.


Canada

There are four conferences in Canada, plus a national playoff. Regional and national coverage in 2019: *SaskTel and Telus TV/Bell-MTS: Canada West (both regular season and Hardy Trophy) *TVA Sports: French: RSEQ, French-language coverage of the Vanier Cup *Bell Alliant TV1: AUS *CHCH TV: Ontario University Athletics, OUA (select regular season games and Yates Cup) *ESPN College Football, TSN: American college football broadcast simulcasts from the ESPN networks CBS Sports Network is also available in Canada (the only cable sports service from the U.S. to be carried in the country), as are most U.S. broadcast networks. National semifinals and final managed by U Sports *CBC Sports, CBC:
Vanier Cup The Vanier Cup (french: Coupe Vanier) is the championship of Canadian university football. It is organized by U Sports football and is currently played between the winners of the Uteck Bowl and the Mitchell Bowl. It is named after Georges Vanier, ...


Televised games


Annual televised games

Some games are traditionally played on a specific date (often a holiday), and are nationally televised every single year. These include: *Auburn Tigers football, Auburn and Alabama Crimson Tide football, Alabama – Known as "The Iron Bowl", has generally been the last game of the regular season. Since 2007, the game has been scheduled for either the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving. * Notre Dame and Michigan Wolverines football, Michigan – Played in September in all but six seasons since 1978. Every one of these games has been on national network television, except the 1980 game (won by Notre Dame, 29-27, on a game-ending 51-yard field goal by Harry Oliver). The 1982 showdown was the first night game in the history of Notre Dame Stadium, with the use of portable lights from Musco Lighting, and was televised in prime time on ABC. The 1988 and 1990 games at Notre Dame were prime time telecasts on CBS, with both won by Notre Dame. The 2011 game, the first night game ever at Michigan Stadium and won by Michigan, was televised nationally by ESPN. The 2014 game was the last of the annual series due to Notre Dame's current commitment to schedule five
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schools each season, plus the Big Ten's move to a nine-game conference schedule starting in 2016. The teams played a one-off renewal, again in September, in 2018. As this game was at Notre Dame, it was televised nationally by NBC, which has had the contract to televise Notre Dame home games since 1991. *Ohio State Buckeyes football, Ohio State and Michigan Wolverines football, Michigan – Also referred to as "The Game" is traditionally played the third Saturday of every November and broadcast on ABC through the 2016 season. With the
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adding a bye week, the game was moved to the Saturday after Thanksgiving (United States), Thanksgiving in 2010. Beginning with the 2017 season, Fox will broadcast the game on an (expected) annual basis. *West Virginia Mountaineers football, West Virginia and
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(Backyard Brawl) – Usually played towards the end of the football season and always on national television. In the past, the Backyard Brawl games were on ABC, CBS, ESPN and ESPN2. The rivalry ended for the time being with 2010–13 Big 12 Conference realignment, West Virginia's move to the Big 12 before the 2012 college football season. * Tennessee Volunteers football, Tennessee vs. Alabama Crimson Tide football, Alabama –Known as the "Third Saturday in October". This game has been played between the two schools on or around the same day of every year since 1901. Recently it has been either the third or fourth Saturday of October, depending on the calendar. *Texas Longhorns football, Texas and Oklahoma Sooners football, Oklahoma (Red River Shootout) – Played during the State Fair of Texas in Dallas on the second Saturday of October and broadcast on ABC. The 2009 game was moved back a week to the third Saturday in October, and the 2010 game was moved up to the first Saturday in October. *USC Trojans football, USC and Notre Dame – Notre Dame – USC rivalry, USC–ND has had a national television audience every year since 1986, with the exception of 2002 when the game was a split-national telecast with Florida Gators football, Florida–Florida State Seminoles football, Florida State. Notre Dame hosts the game in odd years in mid-October, and USC hosts the game in even years on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. In the former case, NBC airs the game, while in the latter case, it is carried on the ESPN family of networks (ABC was the longtime carrier of games from Los Angeles, but in 2008 it aired on ESPN while ABC aired Oklahoma-Oklahoma State). *Florida Gators football, Florida and Florida State Seminoles football, Florida State – Usually played on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend except 2020, during odd years the game is played in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Gainesville, and aired on CBS. In even years, the game is played in Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium, Tallahassee on and aired or ABC, ESPN, or ESPN2. In 2022, the game will air on Black Friday for the first time, in primetime. *Texas A&M Aggies football, Texas A&M–Texas Longhorns football, Texas – Played on the day after Thanksgiving and televised annually on ABC through 2007. In 2008, Texas A&M vs. Texas was played on Thanksgiving night in Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin, and in 2009 was played on Thanksgiving night in Kyle Field, College Station, with ESPN telecasting both games. The 2010 game in Austin was again played on Thanksgiving night. This annual game is no longer played following 2010–12 Southeastern Conference realignment, A&M's 2012 move to the Southeastern Conference. *LSU Tigers football, LSU and Arkansas Razorbacks football, Arkansas – Known as "The Battle for the Golden Boot." Played on the day after Thanksgiving and broadcast on CBS from 1996–2008. The game was moved back a day to Saturday due to the Iron Bowl moving to the Friday slot for 2009 and 2010, but was broadcast by ESPN and CBS, respectively. CBS once again aired the game on the day after Thanksgiving in 2011, 2012 and 2013. LSU and Arkansas began playing earlier in November in 2014. *LSU-Texas A&M - Now played on Thanksgiving weekend and televised by ESPN or ESPN2. The games in College Station in 2014 and 2016 were played on Thanksgiving night, owing to the Aggies' former tradition of playing Texas on Thanksgiving. LSU has refused to move the games in Baton Rouge to Thanksgiving (no game at Tiger Stadium (LSU), Tiger Stadium has been played on a Thursday since 1973), keeping them on Saturday. *Arkansas-Missouri Tigers football, Missouri - Known as the "Battle Line Rivalry", it has been played on the Friday after Thanksgiving since 2014 and televised by CBS. *
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 – generally played on the last weekend of the regular season and broadcast on CBS since 1996. Since 2009, the game has been played on the second Saturday in December, and is the only scheduled NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, FBS game that weekend except 2020. *Kentucky Wildcats football, Kentucky–Louisville Cardinals football, Louisville - Known as the "Governor's Cup (Kentucky), Governor's Cup", this game is played at the end of the season. The in-state-rivals formerly opened the season against each other, but since Louisville joined the
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in 2014, the game has been held on the last week before the ACC and SEC championship games. This specific weekend features three other ACC–SEC in-state rivalries in Clemson–South Carolina rivalry, Clemson–South Carolina, Florida–Florida State football rivalry, Florida–Florida State, and Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate, Georgia–Georgia Tech. *USC Trojans football, USC and UCLA Bruins football, UCLA – played during the last week of the regular season (2004–2008), when the game was broadcast on ABC between the ACC Championship Game and the Big 12 Football Championship Game, Big 12 Championship Game. (NOTE: For the 2009 season USC played their final game against Arizona Wildcats football, Arizona, but USC-UCLA was again each team's final game in 2010.) The ESPN family of networks still airs the game on odd-numbered years, while the Fox family of networks airs the game when played in Pasadena, California, Pasadena during even-numbered years. *
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and Utah Utes football, Utah – Known as "Holy War (BYU–Utah), The Holy War" and as the "BYU-Utah rivalry, Deseret First Duel." The game was typically played the week before Thanksgiving until the 2011 season, when Utah 2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment#Pac-10, moved to the Pac-12 and BYU 2010–13 Mountain West Conference realignment#BYU, became a football independent. The game was broadcast by
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, ESPN2, or ESPN Plus before 2007 and was simulcast on MountainWest Sports Network, Mtn. and
CBS Sports Network CBS Sports Network (a.k.a. CBSSN) is an American pay television network owned by the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global. When it launched in 2002 as the National College Sports Network (later College Sports Television also known as ...
from 2007–2010. The game returned to the ESPN family of networks beginning in 2011, and could be seen on one of the Fox family of networks in even-numbered years. For the 2011 and 2012 seasons the game took place during the third week of the season. From 2013 forward, the game takes place between September 29 and October 5, depending on what day the first Sunday in October falls on. *Grambling State Tigers football, Grambling and Southern Jaguars football, Southern – Known as the
Bayou Classic The Bayou Classic is an annual college football classic rivalry game between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars, first held under that name in 1974 at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, although the series it ...
, the Grambling-Southern rivalry airs annually on NBCSN on the last Saturday afternoon in November (i.e., the Saturday following Thanksgiving (United States), Thanksgiving). It is the only black college football classic, and until the game moved from NBC in 2015, was the only non-FBS college football game to air regularly on a nationwide broadcast television network.


Bowl games

*Rose Bowl Game, Rose Bowl – Annually broadcast since the 1952 Rose Bowl. Traditionally held on New Year's Day along with the Tournament of Roses Parade, Rose Parade; however, after joining the Bowl Championship Series, the 2002 game was played January 3 and the 2006 game was played January 4 due to the Rose Bowl being the national championship game. NBC was the longtime home of the Rose Bowl until the late 1980s, when ABC took over. ABC's final Rose Bowl was the 2010 game, and the network aired the BCS Championship Game from the Rose Bowl on January 7, 2010. ESPN began televising the game in 2011. *
Orange Bowl The Orange Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in the Miami metropolitan area. It has been played annually since January 1, 1935, making it, along with the Sugar Bowl and the Sun Bowl, the second-oldest bowl game in th ...
 – Traditionally held on New Year's Day. It was a New Year's night staple for many years on NBC, with NBC's last telecast being the 1995 game. CBS aired the game for three years, followed by ABC for eight years, and Fox for four years, with 2010 being the last Orange Bowl to air on Fox. ESPN began televising the game in 2011. *Sugar Bowl – Traditionally held on New Year's Day. Its traditional time slot was early afternoon and was first telecast by the DuMont Network in 1953 and then by ABC from 1954 to 1958. From 1959 until 1969 NBC broadcast the game as a part of its New Year's Day trio of the Sugar, Rose and then Orange. ABC returned in 1970 and for 1972 convinced the Sugar Bowl committee to move the game to primetime on New Year's Eve where it remained through 1975. ABC aired the game up until 2006 when Fox purchased the rights for the BCS Bowl games through 2010. ESPN began televising the game in 2011. *
Cotton Bowl Classic The Cotton Bowl Classic (also known as the Cotton Bowl) is an American college football bowl game that has been held annually in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex since January 1, 1937. The game was originally played at its namesake stadium i ...
 – Traditionally held on New Year's Day. CBS was the long-time home of the Cotton Bowl Classic, airing it up through 1992, and again from 1996–1998. NBC aired the game from 1993–1995, and Fox aired the game from 1999–2014. The game has been played on January 2 multiple times in recent years, as was the case in both 2009 and 2010. The 2011 game aired in primetime for the first time ever, on Friday, January 7. ESPN has aired the game since January 15 as part of the
College Football Playoff The College Football Playoff (CFP) is an annual postseason knockout invitational tournament to determine a national champion for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest level ...
package (the Cotton Bowl is a CFP semifinal once every three years and is an "access" bowl in the other two).


BCS games

The Bowl Championship Series, which operated from 1998 through the 2013 season, was driven from the start by television revenue. In 2007, the Fox Broadcasting Company started broadcasting all the BCS games with the exception of the Rose Bowl Game, Rose Bowl. ABC previously aired two full cycles of the BCS between 1998 and 2006. Before this, CBS aired the Bowl Coalition and the Bowl Alliance, with the exception of the Sugar Bowl from 1995–1997. The Rose Bowl aired on ABC from 1989 to 2010. All BCS games shifted to cable in 2010–11 as ESPN began a four-year deal.


College Football Playoff

The
College Football Playoff The College Football Playoff (CFP) is an annual postseason knockout invitational tournament to determine a national champion for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest level ...
replaced the BCS starting with the 2014 season. ESPN acquired rights to the entire CFP package, consisting of six bowl games and the College Football Playoff National Championship, through the 2025 season.


Announcers


By bowl


Rose Bowl

*List of Rose Bowl Game broadcasters


Sugar Bowl

*List of Sugar Bowl broadcasters


Orange Bowl

*List of Orange Bowl broadcasters


Fiesta Bowl

*List of Fiesta Bowl broadcasters


Cotton Bowl Classic

*List of Cotton Bowl Classic broadcasters


Holiday Bowl

*List of Holiday Bowl broadcasters


By broadcaster

Note: All ABC crews may appear on ESPN.


ESPN College Football on ABC & ESPN College Football (For 2022)

#Chris Fowler or Rece Davis/Kirk Herbstreit/Holly Rowe ''(ESPN Saturday Night Football on ABC, Saturday Night Football)'' #Sean McDonough/Todd Blackledge/Molly McGrath ''(ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime)'' #Joe Tessitore/Greg McElroy/Katie George (sportscaster), Katie George ''(ESPN College Football on ABC)'' #Mark Jones (sportscaster), Mark Jones/Robert Griffin III/Quint Kessenich ''(ESPN College Football on ABC)'' #Dave Pasch/Dusty Dvoracek/Tom Luginbill ''(ESPN College Football on ABC)'' #Bob Wischusen/Dan Orlovsky/Kris Budden ''(ESPN College Football on ABC)'' #Dave Flemming/Rod Gilmore/Tiffany Blackmon ''(ESPN/ESPN2)'' #Beth Mowins/Kirk Morrison/Stormy Buonantony ''(ESPN/ESPN2)'' #Anish Shroff/Brock Osweiler/Taylor McGregor (ESPN/ESPN2) #Brian Custer/Dustin Fox/Lauren Sisler (ESPN/ESPN2) #Clay Matvick/Rocky Boiman/Dawn Davenport (ESPN2/ESPNU) #Kevin Brown/Hutson Mason (ESPN2/ESPNU) #John Schriffen/Rene Ingoglia (ESPN2/ESPNU) #Drew Carter/Rotating Analyst/Rotating Sideline Reporters (ESPN2/ESPNU) #Connor Onion/Craig Haubert (ESPN2/ESPNU) #Tom Hart (sportscaster), Tom Hart/Jordan Rodgers/Cole Cubelic (SEC Network) #Dave Neal/Deuce McAllister/Andraya Carter (SEC Network) #Taylor Zarzour/Matt Stinchcomb/Alyssa Lang (SEC Network) #Dave O'Brien (sportscaster), Dave O'Brien or Mike Monaco/Tim Hasselbeck/Kelsey Riggs (ACC Network) #Chris Cotter/Mark Herzlich/Jalyn Johnson (ACC Network) #Wes Durham/Roddy Jones/Taylor Davis (ACC Network) #Matt Barrie (sportscaster), Matt Barrie/Louis Riddick/Harry Lyles Jr. (ESPN College Football Thursday Primetime) #Roy Philpott/Andre Ware/Paul Carcaterra (ESPN College Football Friday Primetime) *NOTE: Former college referees Bill LeMonnier and Matt Austin, as well as former NFL referee and Monday Night Football’s John Parry (American football official), John Parry, provide rules analysis for many ESPN games.


Fox College Football (For 2022)

#Gus Johnson (sportscaster), Gus Johnson/Joel Klatt/Jenny Taft ''(Fox Big Noon Saturday)'' #Jason Benetti/Brock Huard/Allison Williams (reporter), Allison Williams'' (Fox/FS1)'' #Tim Brando/Spencer Tillman ''(Fox/FS1)'' #Noah Eagle/Mark Helfrich (American football), Mark Helfrich ''(Fox/FS1)'' #Alex Faust or Jeff Levering or Dan Hellie/Petros Papadakis ''(FS1)'' #Eric Collins or Adam Alexander (sportscaster), Adam Alexander/Devin Gardner ''(FS1)'' #Guy Haberman/Charles Arbuckle or Will Blackmon ''(FS1)'' *Mike Pereira or Dean Blandino provides Rules Analysis for Fox/FS1 games from Fox Sports (United States), Fox Sports Studio in Los Angeles, California.


SEC on CBS (For 2022)

#Brad Nessler/Gary Danielson/Jenny Dell #Tom McCarthy (sportscaster), Tom McCarthy/Rick Neuheisel/Sherree Burress *Note: Gene Steratore provides rules analysis for all SEC Football Games plus the Army-Navy Game from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York. Steratore joins Nessler and Danielson in the booth for the
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Notre Dame Football on NBC (For 2022)

#Jac Collinsworth/Jason Garrett/Zora Stephenson/Terry McAulay


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#Rich Waltz/Aaron Taylor (American football, born 1972), Aaron Taylor/Sherree Burress #John Sadak or Chick Hernandez/Randy Cross/Sheehan Stanwick-Burch - Navy games #Jason Knapp (sportscaster), Jason Knapp/Ross Tucker/Tina Cervasio - Army games *Note: Gene Steratore provides rules analysis for all College Football Games on CBS Sports Network from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York.


Big Ten Network, BTN (For 2022)

#Brandon Gaudin/Joshua Perry/Jake Butt/Rick Pizzo #Mark Followill or Cory Provus/Matt Millen/Elise Menaker #Lisa Byington/Anthony Herron/Meghan McKeown/Krystle Rich #Chris Vosters or Jason Ross Jr /J Leman or Matt McGloin/Brooke Fletcher or Shane Sparks #Joe Beninati or Matt Schumacker/Brock Vereen/Emily Ehman


Pac-12 Network The Pac-12 Network (P12N; also sometimes referred to as Pac-12 Networks) is an American sports-oriented digital cable and satellite television network owned by the Pac-12 Conference. The network's studio and production facilities are headquart ...
(For 2022)

#play-by-play - Ted Robinson (sportscaster), Ted Robinson, Roxy Bernstein, JB Long, Guy Haberman, Jordan Kent, Elise Woodward #analysts - Yogi Roth, Lincoln Kennedy, Max Browne, Shane Vereen, Nigel Burton, Ryan Leaf, Greg Camarillo, Gus Farwell, Michael Bumpus


SEC Network (For 2022)

#Tom Hart (sports announcer), Tom Hart/Jordan Rodgers/Cole Cubelic #Dave Neal/D. J. Shockley, Deuce McAllister/Andraya Carter #Taylor Zarzour/Matt Stinchcomb/Alyssa Lang *Former SEC referee Matt Austin provides rules analysis from the SEC Network studio in Charlotte, North Carolina.


BYUtv (For 2022)

#Dave McCann (sportscaster), Dave McCann/Blaine Fowler


ACC Network (TV channel), ACC Network (For 2022)

#Dave O'Brien (sportscaster), Dave O'Brien or Mike Monaco/Tim Hasselbeck/Kesley Riggs #Chris Cotter/Mark Herzlich/Lericia Harris #Wes Durham/Roddy Jones/Taylor Davis


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app (For 2021)

#Kevin Ingram/Bob Belvin ''(OVC)'' #Paul Dottino/Kevin Gilbride ''(NEC)'' #Pete Yanity/Jay Sonnhalter ''(SoCon)'' #Evan Lepler/Renaldo Wynn ''(Big South)''


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(For 2022)

#play-by-play- Ari Wolfe, Chris Hassel, Josh Appel #analysts-Sherdrick Bonner, Patrick Murray (American football), Patrick Murray, Bob Davie (American football), Bob Davie


AT&T SportsNet AT&T Sports Networks, LLC (ATTSN) is a group of regional sports networks in the United States that primarily own and operate AT&T Sports Networks (founded in 2009, as Liberty Sports Holdings, later DirecTV Sports Networks, LLC). It is owned by W ...

#Butch Alsandor/Nick Strong ''(Texas Southern)''


Root Sports Northwest

#Tom Glasgow/Jason Stiles (American football), Taylor Barton or Jason Stiles/Ty Gregorak or Jen Mueller ''(Big Sky)''


Next Level Sports

#(Big Sky) #(Ivy League) #Eric Frede/Andy Gresh (UMass)


Service Electric, TV2 Sports (Lehigh Mountain Hawks)

#Matt Kerr, Lance Haynes, Tom Fallon, and Matt Markus


NBC North Dakota

#Brian Shawn/Lee Timmerman/Beth Hoole


WEIU-TV, WEIU

#Mike Bradd/Jack Ashmore


Aspire (TV network), ASPiRE

#Stan Lewter


Midco Sports Network, Midco

#Alex Heinert/Ryan Kasowski/Kelly Howe ''(North Dakota)'' #Jay Elsen/Andre Fields ''(South Dakota)'' #Tom Niemann/Hank McCall ''(South Dakota State)''


Legacy Sports Network (Sam Houston State on ESPN3 & Houston Baptist on ROOT SW)

#Trevor Philips, Tom Franklin/Niko Bellic, Jeff Power/Rotating sideline reporters


Announcers, Canada


Krown Produce

Canada West Football on Shaw ''Krown Produce Canada West Football on Shaw'' was a presentation of Canada West football aired on Shaw TV, Shaw Direct and Access7. In 2012, broadcasts were streamed on CanadaWest.tv. Shaw TV added to their network-wide sports coverage which o ...

#Jim Mullin/Laurence Nixon or Jesse Lumsden or Daved Benefield


OUA University Rush on The Score Television Network, The Score

#Simon Bennett/Donnovan Bennett


RSEQ football sur SRC

#Jean St-Onge/Jacques Dussault


Subway AUS Football on Eastlink TV

#Dan Robertson (sportscaster), Dan Robertson


CIS on TSN

#Rod Black/Duane Forde #Rod Smith (sportscaster), Rod Smith/Mike Morreale


SIC sur RDS

#Pierre Vercheval


See also

* Men's college basketball on television


References

Specific citations: General references: *Bernstein, Mark F. (2001). ''Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession'' () *Watterson, John Sayle (2000). ''College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy'' ()
In The Arena'
from ncaa.org *

from kansascity.com

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