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ESPN College Sports Update

Weekly Studio Shows

  • Daily at 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) and reaired at 4 p.m. (ESPNU) – College Football Live
  • Saturday from 9-10 a.m. (ESPNU) & 10 a.m.-noon (ESPN) – College GameDay Built by The Home Depot will travel to Morgantown, W.Va., visiting the school for the first time in GameDay’s 25-year history. Segments include: Tom Rinaldi with Oklahoma State’s Justin Blackmon; Erin Andrews with Clemson’s Dabo Swinney; Urban’s Spotlight: WVU offense/LSU defense; The “Fail” Room (Alabama’s visitor’s locker room)
  • Saturday from Noon-8 p.m. (ESPNEWS) –  College Football Live

Complete Studio Programming Schedule

Spotlight Games
This week’s schedule will include three games pitting ranked teams against each other and several matchups between undefeated programs, including:

Saturday, Sept. 24, at 8 p.m. (ABC) –No. 2 LSU and No. 16 West Virginia
Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Erin Andrews

  • LSU defeated WVU in Baton Rouge 20-14 last year
  • This is the third ranked opponent LSU will play in the first four weeks of the season (The Tigers have defeated Oregon and Mississippi State on the road)

Saturday, Sept. 24, at 3:30 p.m. (ABC, ESPN2 & ESPN3) – No. 7 Oklahoma State at No. 8 Texas A&M
Sean McDonough, Matt Millen & Jeannine Edwards

  • The only top 10 matchup of the week
  • Oklahoma State has won the past three matchups

Saturday, Sept. 24, at 3:30 p.m. (ESPN, ESPN 3D & ESPN3 – No. 11 Florida State at No. 21 Clemson
ESPN: Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe
ESPN 3D: Dave Lamont, Tim Brown & Alyssa Roegnik

  • Clemson’s second of three consecutive games against ranked teams (defeated then-No. 21 Auburn last week and faces current No. 13 Virginia Tech on Oct. 1 at 6 p.m. on ESPN2 & ESPN3)
  • Florida State’s second straight game against a ranked team (lost to No. 1 Oklahoma 23-13 last Saturday)

Saturday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m. (ESPN2 & ESPN3) – Vanderbilt at No. 12 South Carolina
Mark Neely & Ray Bentley

  • James Franklin is the only Vanderbilt football coach to start the season 3-0 since 1943 in his first year
  • South Carolina has won nine of the past 11 matchups with Vanderbilt winning in 2007 and 2008
Spotlight: Samantha Steele Sideline reporter Samantha Steele took a timeout to let us know how her first few weeks pulling double duty for both LHN and ESPN are going. Steele joined the company in July 2011 and can be found most weeks on the sidelines at Texas’ athletics events, and on weekends, chasing down stories at some of the season’s biggest football games. This Saturday night, she’ll be reporting from the Florida at Kentucky game (7 p.m. on ESPN).

Read a Q&A with Samantha

College GameDay Notebook

Saturday at 9-10 a.m. (ESPNU) & 10 a.m.-noon (ESPN) – College GameDay Built by The Home Depot heads to Morgantown, W.Va., for its first time in the 25-year history of the show.

On Saturday, the GameDay set will be located at Mountainlair Plaza on the Downtown Campus at the corner of North High Street and Prospect.

As College GameDay’s Lee Corso picks his way toward No. 200, this gem from the GameDay treasure trove in 2007 reveals that he’s not nearly as discriminate with his snack selections:

On ESPNU

Whoever thinks college football is only on Saturdays hasn’t found ESPNU yet.

Today at 6:30 and 10:30 p.m. – College Football Featured relives the weekend’s best stories and features. ESPNU looks back at the story of a father and his four coaching sons in the Stoops family; a 1993 clip from GameDay’s first road show; Stanford head coach David Shaw is wired; plus Urban Meyer and Tood McShay break down Tennessee QB Tyler Bray, just to name a few…

Wednesday at 7 p.m. – ESPNU All-Access: Virginia Tech is wired at practice with head coach Frank Beamer, who is in his 25th year at Virginia Tech, along with his son Shane, a first year assistant coach.

Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. – ESPNU Road Trip learns to ‘Fear the Spear’ when visiting Tallahassee, Fla., while hitting the pavement on two-wheels with a couple of ‘Noles players. The show also discovers the only thing on Landry Jones’ mind minutes after the Sooners win is funnel cakes

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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