Marshall University Athletics
C-USA ANNOUNCES 2010 FOOTBALL TELEVISION SCHEDULE
7/19/2010 12:00:00 AM | Football
July 19, 2010
IRVING, Texas - Conference USA has announced its television schedule for the 2010 football season. The current confirmed schedule features more than 50 games to air nationally or regionally. National games will be televised on CBS College Sports Network, ESPN, ESPN 2, NBC and Fox Sports Net. Included are a number of unopposed windows that provide tremendous exposure to C-USA, as well as several exciting league match-ups, and many challenging non-conference contests.
This season marks the sixth year of C-USA's partnership with CBS College Sports Network.
In 2005, Conference USA began a partnership with CBS College Sports Network that includes significant national and regional exposure for football, men's and women's basketball and other C-USA sports. CBS College Sports Network is widely available on cable and video providers across the country and via satellite on DIRECTV Channel 613 (Choice XTRA package) and Dish Network Channel 152 (America's Top 200 Package).
Conference USA will also be featured on ESPN and its family of networks with at least 10 regular season contests televised this fall as part of its contract with the network. Additional non-conference games have been selected by the network through agreements with other conferences. The sixth annual Conference USA Football Championship Game will be televised by ESPN or ESPN 2 on Saturday, December 4.
"We are very pleased to have so many of our football games on television and distributed to fans throughout the country on a number of networks," said Conference USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky. "We are looking forward to an exciting conference season this fall and we're glad that people around the country will be able to watch so many of our games."
CBS College Sports Network will broadcast nationally at least 15 C-USA football games during the 2010 season, including 10 conference match-ups. Live game coverage kicks off on Saturday, Sept. 11 as NC State visits UCF. CBS College Sports Network's schedule also includes four doubleheader days and one 12-day selections during the latter part of the season to create the best matchup.
The ESPN schedule kicks off on Saturday, September 4, when Rice hosts nationally-ranked Texas at Reliant Stadium. The next day, Sunday, September 5, features the first conference game of the season (Tulsa at East Carolina) as well as non-league showdown between SMU and Texas Tech. Three more games are scheduled for ESPN during the second weekend of the season. The entire schedule currently features 18 games on the ESPN family of networks, including eight unopposed windows.
As part of the league's agreement with CBS College Sports Network, 11 games have been sub-licensed for regional broadcast. Comcast Sports Southeast (CSS) has formally announced nine of those contests, which include eight different schools.
Additional Conference USA football television exposures remain a possibility, and will be released as soon as they are finalized.
2010 CONFERENCE USA FOOTBALL TELEVISION SCHEDULE (confirmed games as of July 19)
CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK NATIONAL
Saturday, September 11 NC State at UCF 7:30 p.m. EDT/6:30 p.m. CDT
Saturday, September 18 Washington State at SMU 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT
Saturday, September 25 Tulane at Houston 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT
Saturday, September 25 Baylor at Rice 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT
Saturday, October 2 Marshall at Southern Miss 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT
Saturday, October 9 Mississippi State at Houston 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT
Saturday, October 16 NC State at East Carolina Noon EDT/11:00 a.m. CDT
Saturday, October 16 SMU at Navy 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT
Saturday, October 23 Houston at SMU 3:30 p.m. EDT/3:30 p.m. CDT
Saturday, November 6 Tennessee at Memphis 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT
Thursday, November 11 East Carolina at UAB 8:00 p.m. EST/7:00 p.m. CST
Saturday, November 13 Southern Miss at UCF Noon EST/11:00 a.m. CST
Saturday, November 13 Tulsa at Houston 8:00 p.m. EST/7:00 p.m. CST
Saturday, November 20 TBA (12 day advance) 8:00 p.m. EST/7:00 p.m. CST
Friday, November 26 SMU at East Carolina 2:00 p.m. EST/1:00 p.m. CST
Friday, November 26 Southern Miss at Tulsa 6:30 p.m. EST/5:30 p.m. CST
Saturday, November 27 Tulane at Marshall Noon EST/11:00 a.m. CST
ESPN SCHEDULE
Thursday, September 2 Southern Miss at South Carolina 7:30 p.m. EDT/6:30 p.m. CDT
Saturday, September 4 Texas at Rice 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT
Sunday, September 5 SMU at Texas Tech 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT
Friday, September 17 Kansas at Southern Miss 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT
Friday, September 24 TCU at SMU 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT
Tuesday, October 13 UCF at Marshall 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT
Friday, November 5 UCF at Houston 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT
Saturday, December 18 Beef `O'Brady's St. Petersburg Bowl 8:00 p.m. EST/7:00 p.m. CST
Sunday, December 19 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl 8:15 p.m. EST/7:15 p.m. CST
Friday, December 24 Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl 8:00 p.m. EST/7:00 p.m. CST
Wednesday, December 29 EagleBank Bowl 2:30 p.m. EST/1:30 p.m. CST
Thursday, December 30 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl Noon EST/11:00 a.m. CST
Friday, December 31 AutoZone Liberty Bowl 3:30 p.m. EST/2:30 p.m. CST
ESPN 2 SCHEDULE
Sunday, September 5 Tulsa at East Carolina 2:00 p.m. EDT/1:00 p.m. CDT
Friday, September 10 West Virginia at Marshall 7:00 p.m. EDT/6:00 p.m. CDT
Friday, September 10 UTEP at Houston 10:15 p.m. EDT/9:15 p.m. CDT
Saturday, September 11 Mississippi at Tulane 9:00 p.m. EDT/8:00 p.m. CDT
Tuesday, October 6 UAB at UCF 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT
ESPN OR ESPN 2 SCHEDULE
Saturday, December 4 C-USA Championship Game TBA
ESPN3.COM SCHEDULE
Saturday, September 18 East Carolina at Virginia Tech 1:30 p.m. EDT/12:30 p.m. CDT
NBC SCHEDULE
Saturday, October 30 Tulsa at Notre Dame 2:30 p.m. EDT/1:30 p.m. CDT
FOX SPORTS NET SCHEDULE
Saturday, September 18 Houston at UCLA 9:30 p.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. CDT
BIG TEN NETWORK
Thursday, September 2 Marshall at Ohio State 7:30 p.m. EDT/6:30 p.m. CDT
THE MTN. NETWORK
Saturday, October 2 UTEP at New Mexico 6:00 p.m. EDT/5:00 p.m. CDT
COMCAST SPORTS SOUTHEAST (CSS) REGIONAL SCHEDULE
Saturday, September 11 Memphis at East Carolina Noon EDT/11:00 a.m. CDT
Saturday, October 9 East Carolina at Southern Miss 7:30 p.m. EDT/6:30 p.m. CDT
Saturday, October 16 Southern Miss at Memphis Noon EDT/11:00 a.m. CDT
Saturday, October 16 Houston at Rice 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT
Saturday, October 23 Marshall at East Carolina 4:15 p.m. EDT/3:15 p.m. CDT
Saturday, October 30 UAB at Southern Miss Noon EDT/11:00 a.m. CDT
Saturday, October 30 Houston at Memphis 7:00 p.m. EDT/6:00 p.m. CDT
Saturday, November 6 Marshall at UAB 4:15 p.m. EDT/3:15 p.m. CDT
Saturday, November 27 UCF at Memphis Noon EST/11:00 a.m. CST
MASN REGIONAL SCHEDULE
Saturday, November 6 Navy at East Carolina 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT
