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ESPN College Sports Update

Sept. 27, 2011 Weekly Studio Shows

 
  • Saturday from 9-10 a.m. (ESPNU) & 10 a.m.-noon (ESPN) – College GameDay Built by The Home Depot will travel to Madison, Wis. GameDay will visit the site of No. 8 Nebraska at No. 7 Wisconsin matchup, which airs that evening at 8 p.m. (ABC). This week’s segments include: Tom Rinaldi with Wisconsin’s Russell Wilson; a feature on Baylor’s Robert Griffin III; Urban’s Spotlight: Clemson’s Offense; sound from Alabama, Florida, Wisconsin and Nebraska.

Full Studio Programming Schedule & Details

Spotlight Games 

Multiple conference showdowns highlight this week’s schedule, including:  Saturday, Oct. 1, at 8 p.m. (ABC) – No. 8 Nebraska at No. 7 Wisconsin
Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Erin Andrews

  • Nebraska’s Big Ten debut, while Wisconsin has been an original conference member since it was called the Western Conference in 1896
  • First meeting between the programs since 1974
  • Fourth top-10 showdown of the season on Saturday Night Football with the true road team winning the previous two – Oklahoma State over Texas A&M, Oklahoma over Florida State – and LSU beating Oregon in a neutral site game

Saturday, Oct. 1, at 3:30 p.m. (ABC & ESPN3) – No. 15 Baylor at Kansas State
Bob Wischusen & Bob Davie

  • Showdown of unbeaten Big 12 foes is a rematch of last year’s 47-42 Baylor win
  • Baylor has started the season 3-0 for the first time since 2005

Spotlight:  ESPN College Sports Media Kit

ESPN’s MediaZone is the home for everything college sports on the ESPN platforms. The newly developed college sports media kit is a one-stop shop for photos, bios, releases, studio programming information, ESPNU, ESPN Regional Television (ERT) and much, much more.

 https://es.pn/CSMediaKit

Saturday, Oct. 1, at 6 p.m. (ESPN2 & ESPN3) – No. 13 Clemson at No. 11 Virginia Tech
Mark Jones, Ed Cunningham & Quint Kessenich

  • Clemson’s third consecutive game against a ranked team (defeated then-No. 21 Auburn and then-No. 11 Florida State)
  • Showdown of undefeated teams features Clemson’s first road game of the season and Virginia Tech’s first matchup against a program from an automatic qualifying BCS conference

On the

Today at 6:30 & 10:30 p.m. – College Football Featured looks back at Saturday’s most compelling features: Dabo Swinney – the Clemson coach’s postgame interviews quickly created buzz; a conversation between Urban Meyer and Stanford QB Andrew Luck; and the special bond between Oklahoma State wide-receiver Justin Blackmon and a young girl afflicted with leukemia.

Wednesday at 7 p.m. – college football head coaches often wear many hats and on ESPNU All-Access: Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley shows off his hard hat at the team’s training facility redesign. Also featured, two players talk Volunteer tradition while giving a guided tour through Neyland Stadium. 

ESPNU Road Trip takes a much needed pit stop this week before heading to Blacksburg, Va., to see No. 11 Virginia Tech take on No. 13 Clemson on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 6 p.m. (ESPN2).

ESPNU Media Kit

College GameDay Notebook 

 Saturday at 9-10 a.m. (ESPNU) & 10 a.m.-noon (ESPN) – College GameDay Built by The Home Depot will travel to Madison, Wis., for the second straight year and for the fifth time overall. GameDay will be at the site of No. 8 Nebraska at No. 7 Wisconsin, which airs later that night at 8 p.m. (ABC). The first trip to Madison was in 1999 (Sept. 25 vs. Michigan).

For the first time, the GameDay set will be located at Bascom Hill near the Abe Lincoln statue – the main quadrangle that forms the symbolic core of the Wisconsin campus.

 As College GameDay enters its fifth week of the season, fans might wonder how the crew stays in shape amidst the constant cross-country travel. They need wonder no more as this 2007 GameDay spot from our vault sheds light on their workout methods. 

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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