- Schedule: No. 9 Notre Dame at Undefeated No. 21 Temple on ABC Saturday Night Football
- 300th College GameDay Road Show – From Independence Hall in Philadelphia for Notre Dame vs. Temple
- Next Four SEC Nation Stops Revealed; Second Location Added for This Weekend
- ESPN Films’ 30 for 30 Volume III Continues with The Gospel According to Mac Premiering November 3
- ESPN College Football Week 8 Viewership: TV’s Most-Watched Prime-Time Game, Continues Season Trend
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Schedule: No. 9 Notre Dame at Undefeated No. 21 Temple on ABC Saturday Night Football
contact: michael.c.humes@espn.com
ESPN’s college football schedule this week is highlighted by the Saturday Night FootballHalloween matchup pitting one-loss No. 9 Notre Dame at undefeated No. 21 Temple at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. The week’s action will kick off Thursday, Oct. 29, with North Carolina at No. 23 Pitt in a showdown between one-loss ACC Coastal Division rivals.
Additional highlights for Saturday, Oct. 31:
- Three games at 3:30 p.m. involving an unbeaten team ranked in the top 12: No. 3 Clemson at NC State and No. 10 Iowa against Maryland in a split-national window on ABC (ESPN2 will show the game viewers do not receive on ABC) and No. 12 Oklahoma State at Texas Tech on ESPN.
- Three 7 p.m. telecasts with a ranked squad in each: No. 15 Michigan at Minnesota on ESPN, undefeated No. 18 Houston against Vanderbilt on ESPN2 and No. 22 Duke against Miami (Fla.) on ESPNU.
- A late-night Pac-12 matchup on ESPN pitting No. 8 Stanford at two-loss North Division rival Washington State at 10:30 p.m.
Full Schedule: https://es.pn/1Rg7fgc
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300th College GameDay Road Show –from Independence Hall in Philadelphia for No. 9 Notre Dame vs. No. 21 Temple
contact: Rachel.M.Siegal@espn.com
ESPN College GameDay Built by The Home Depot – college football’s longest running and most celebrated pregame show – will air from historic Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Saturday, Oct. 31, in anticipation for the Saturday Night Football on ABC presented by Wells Fargo tilt between No. 9 Notre Dame and undefeated and 21st-ranked Temple at 8 p.m. from Lincoln Financial Field. The Emmy Award-winning show – airing on Halloween for just the second time – will be based on Market Street between 5th and 6th Streets from 9 a.m.-noon on ESPN.
Host Rece Davis – in his first season at the College GameDay desk – is joined by analysts Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard and David Pollack, as well as contributors Samantha Ponder, Tom Rinaldi, George Whitfield and Gene Wojciechowski. Herbstreit will call the game with Chris Fowler and reporter Heather Cox.
College Football Live will originate from the College GameDay set Friday, Oct. 30, at 2 p.m. on ESPN with Ponder, Howard and Pollack at the desk.
Full Release: https://es.pn/1NaM0xe
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Next Four SEC Nation Stops Revealed; Second Location Added for this Weekend contact: Gracie.Blackburn@espn.com
SEC Network’s traveling pregame show, SEC Nation, has scheduled its next four campus stops, and announced a second set for this Saturday, Oct. 31.
On Saturday, SEC Nation host Joe Tessitore, analyst Tim Tebow, Marcus Spears and commentator Paul Finebaum take the set to Big Blue Nation in Lexington, Ky., to preview the Tennessee at Kentucky game. In addition to the Purple Lot set, SEC Nation’s Greg McElroy and SEC Network host Peter Burns join the show live from the tailgating scene in Jacksonville, Fla., prior the Georgia vs. No. 11 Florida* neutral-site matchup. This will mark the show’s first trip to a neutral site game and first time televising from two locations.
The following week, SEC Nation goes for its first 2-point conversion of the year, hitting two Southeastern Conference campuses in one week with a rare Thursday night pre-game show at 7:30 p.m. ET in Columbia, Mo., (Nov. 5) followed by a Saturday show (Nov. 7) at “The Grove” prior the Arkansas at No. 19 Ole Miss game.
SEC Nation makes the short drive to Starkville, Ms., the following week, Saturday, Nov.14, to hear the sweet chimes of the cowbells prior to the No. 7 Alabama at No. 25 Mississippi State game.
Full Release: https://es.pn/1KHUzcA
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ESPN Films’ 30 for 30 Volume III Continues with The Gospel According to Mac Premiering November 3
contact: Jennifer.J.Cingari@espn.com
The next documentary from ESPN Films’ Peabody and Emmy Award-winning 30 for 30 series will be “The Gospel According to Mac,” premiering Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN. Directed by Jim Podhoretz and produced by Jonathan Hock, the film is an exploration of Bill McCartney and his provocative approach running the University of Colorado football program on the way to a national championship. Podhoretz and Hock previously collaborated on the 30 for 30 film “Survive and Advance” featuring the extraordinary championship run of Jim Valvano and his NC State basketball team.
Full Release: https://es.pn/1WgB2GP
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ESPN College Football Week 8 Viewership: TV’s Most-Watched Prime-Time Game, Continues Season Trend
contact: Derek.Volner@ESPN.com
ESPN/ABC has televised the most-watched prime-time game each week of the 2015 college football season and the trend continued in week 8 when ABC’s Saturday Night Footballfeaturing No. 1 Ohio State at Rutgers (8 p.m. ET) averaged 5,290,000 viewers. Overall, ABC televised two of the three most-watched games of the week — Saturday Night Football and regional action at 3:30 p.m. (Texas Tech at No. 17 Oklahoma and Indiana at No. 7 Michigan State), which earned 4,869,000 viewers, up 28% from last year’s same window (UCLA at California and Rutgers at Ohio State).
Additional Week 8 Highlights:
- Western Kentucky at No. 5 LSU (7 p.m.) was ESPNU’s most-viewed game in more than three years (213 games), garnering 1,247,000 viewers.
- Washington at No. 10 Stanford (10 p.m. on ESPN) earned 2,098,000 viewers, up 56% from the comparable window in 2014 (Stanford at Arizona State).
- 9 Florida State at Georgia Tech (7 p.m.) averaged 1,943,000 viewers, ESPN2’s third-most-watched game of the year and up 67% over the similar window last year (Missouri at Florida). The dramatic ending had approximately 3,403,000 viewers (10 p.m. – 10:14 p.m.).
- On WatchESPN, No. 15 Texas A&M at No. 24 Ole Miss (7 p.m.) was the most-streamed game with 50,000 average minute impressions on top of the TV audience and a total of 319,000 unique viewers accounting for 11,674,000 minutes viewed.
- Throughout all of week 8, college football on WatchESPN was viewed on 1,700,000 unique devices that streamed 133,200,000 minutes, up 67% and 55%, respectively, over 2014’s week 8.
Full Release: https://es.pn/1LYGMjN
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