University of Southern Mississippi Athletics
C-USA Announces 2007 Football Television Schedule
7/26/2007 12:00:00 AM | Football
July 26, 2007
HATTIESBURG, Miss. - Conference USA has announced its updated television schedule for the 2007 football season, featuring more than 50 games to be nationally or regionally broadcast, with Southern Miss landing eight spots.
National games will be televised on CSTV, ESPN, ESPN 2, Fox Sports Net and the NFL Network. Included are a number of unopposed windows that provide tremendous exposure to C-USA, as well as several exciting league matchups and many challenging non-conference contest.
This season marks the third year of C-USA's partnership with CSTV (College Sports Television). CSTV and Conference USA signed a six-year initial term in 2005 that includes significant national and regional exposure for football, men's and women's basketball and other C-USA sports. CSTV, the fastest growing independent cable network, has agreements with distributors that serve more than 65 million households nationwide. It deals with the top six distributors - Comcast, DirecTV, Time Warner, Charter, Cox and Adelphia, among others.
Conference USA also will be featured on ESPN and its family of networks, having at least 19 regular-season contests televised this fall, including 10 games as part of its contract with the network and additional non-conference games that have been selected by the network through agreements with other conferences. The third annual Conference USA Championship Game will be televised by ESPN or ESPN 2 on Saturday, December 1.
"We are very pleased to have so many of our football games on television and distributed to our fans throughout the nation," said Conference USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky. "We are looking forward to a great conference race this fall, and we're glad that people around the country will be able to watch so many of our games."
CSTV will air at least 14 national telecasts of C-USA football during the 2007 season, including 13 as part of the conference's package with the network. New Mexico visits UTEP on Saturday, September 1 to kick off the network's schedule. Eight of the 14 CSTV games will be conference match-ups, including all but one game after September 22. The majority of the CSTV package will air on Saturday evenings, with five of the 14 games slated for afternoon kickoffs.
The ESPN schedule kicks off with the very first college football game of the 2007 season on Thursday, August 30, when Tulsa visits Louisiana-Monroe on ESPN 2. Two days later, three C-USA games appear on three different ESPN networks, as East Carolina visits Virginia Tech (ESPN), UAB plays at Michigan State (ESPN 2) and Marshall goes to Miami of Florida (ESPN U). In addition, College GameDay will air its season-opening show from Blacksburg, Va., just prior to the ECU-Virginia Tech contest. The Labor Day weekend of action concludes on Monday, September 3, when SMU hosts Texas Tech on ESPN in C-USA's fifth opening weekend game on the ESPN family of networks.
The ESPN schedule also features seven unopposed windows, with three Sunday night contests and one game each on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Five of those games feature a pair of Conference USA teams in head-to-head match-ups.
Fox Sports Net will air the Rice at Texas game on Saturday, September 22.
As part of the league's agreement with CSTV, at least 10 games have been sub-licensed for regional broadcast. Comcast Sports Southeast (CSS) will debut a seven-game regional package throughout the southeastern U.S. on September 1, when Memphis hosts Ole Miss. A three-game live regional package on the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) begins on October 13 when East Carolina visits UTEP. Additional games will air on MASN on a tape-delay basis.
Additional Conference USA football television exposures remain a possibility, and will be released as soon as they are finalized.
(confirmed games as of July 26)
Note: Southern Miss games in bold
| CSTV NATIONAL | ||
| Sat., Sept. 1 | New Mexico at UTEP | 10 p.m. EDT/9 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Sept. 8 | North Carolina at East Carolina | 6 p.m. EDT/5 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Sept. 15 | BYU at Tulsa | 9 p.m. EDT/8 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Sept. 22 | Colorado State at Houston | 4:30 p.m. EDT/3:30 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Sept. 22 | SMU at TCU | 8:30 p.m. EDT/7:30 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Sept. 29 | UTEP at SMU | 4:30 p.m. EDT/3:30 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Oct. 6 | UCF at East Carolina | 7:30 p.m. EDT/6:30 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Oct. 13 | Rice at Houston | 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Oct. 13 | SMU at Southern Miss | 7:30 p.m. EDT/6:30 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Oct. 20 | North Carolina State at East Carolina | 4:30 p.m. EDT/4:30 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Oct. 27 | Rice at Marshall | 4:30 p.m. EDT/4:30 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Nov. 3 | Tulsa at Tulane | 7:30 p.m. EST/6:30 p.m. CST |
| Sat., Nov. 10 | UCF at UAB | 7:30 p.m. EST/6:30 p.m. CST |
| Sat., Nov. 17 | Southern Miss at UTEP | 7:30 p.m. EST/6:30 p.m. CST |
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| ESPN SCHEDULE | ||
| Sat., Sept. 1 | East Carolina at Virginia Tech | Noon EDT/11 a.m. CDT |
| Mon., Sept. 3 | Texas Tech at SMU | 4 p.m. EDT/3 p.m. CDT |
| Thur., Sept. 27 | Southern Miss at Boise State | 7:30 p.m. EDT/6:30 p.m. CDT |
| Sun., Oct. 21 | Southern Miss at Marshall | 8 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. CDT |
| Sun., Oct. 28 | UCF at Southern Miss | 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST |
| Sun., Nov. 4 | SMU at Houston | 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST |
| Sun., Dec. 23 | Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl | 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST |
| Sat., Dec. 29 | AutoZone Liberty Bowl | 4:30 p.m. EST/3:30 p.m. CST |
| Sun., Jan. 6 | GMAC Bowl | 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST |
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| ESPN 2 SCHEDULE | ||
| Thur., Aug. 30 | Tulsa at Louisiana-Monroe | 7 p.m. EST/6 p.m. CST |
| Sat., Sept. 1 | UAB at Michigan State | Noon EDT/11 a.m. CDT |
| Sat., Sept. 8 | West Virginia at Marshall | 11:10 a.m. EDT/10:10 a.m. CDT |
| Sat., Sept. 15 | Texas at UCF | 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT |
| Fri., Sept. 21 | Oklahoma at Tulsa | 8 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. CDT |
| Tues., Oct. 2 | Marshall at Memphis | 8 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. CDT |
| Wed., Oct. 3 | Rice at Southern Miss | 7:30 p.m. EDT/6:30 p.m. CDT |
| Fri., Dec. 21 | R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl | 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST |
| Sat., Dec. 22 | Papajohns.com Bowl | 1 p.m. EST/Noon CST |
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| ESPN OR ESPN 2 SCHEDULE | ||
| Sat., Sept. 29 | LSU at Tulane | LSU at Tulane |
| Sat., Dec. 1 | C-USA Championship Game | TBA |
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| ESPN U SCHEDULE | ||
| Sat., Sept. 1 | Marshall at Miami (Fla.) | Noon EDT/11 a.m. CDT |
| Sat., Sept. 8 | UAB at Florida State | 6 p.m. EDT/5 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Oct. 6 | Tulane at Army | TBA |
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| ESPN 360 SCHEDULE | ||
| Sat., Sept. 1 | UCF at North Carolina State | 6 p.m. EDT/5 p.m. CDT |
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| ESPN 2/ESPN U/ESPN CLASSIC SCHEDULE | ||
| Sat., Nov. 17 | Tulsa at Army | TBA |
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| FOX SPORTS NET SCHEDULE | ||
| Sat., Sept. 22 | Rice at Texas | 7 p.m. EDT/6 p.m. CDT |
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| NFL NETWORK SCHEDULE | ||
| Fri., Dec. 28 | Texas Bowl | 8 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. CDT |
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| COMCAST SPORTS SOUTHEAST (CSS) REGIONAL | ||
| Sat., Sept. 1 | Ole Miss at Memphis | 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Sept. 8 | Mississippi State at Tulane | 7 p.m. EDT/6 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Sept. 22 | Memphis at UCF | 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Nov. 3 | Marshall at UCF | 3:30 p.m. EST/2:30 p.m. CST |
| Sat., Nov. 3 | Southern Miss at UAB | 7 p.m. EST/6 p.m. CST |
| Sat., Nov. 10 | Memphis at Southern Miss | 4:30 p.m. EST/3:30 p.m. CST |
| Sat., Nov. 17 | UAB at Memphis | 3:30 p.m. EST/2:30 p.m. CST |
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| ESPN REGIONAL SCHEDULE | ||
| Sat., Sept. 22 | East Carolina at West Virginia | 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT |
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| COMCAST SPORTS SOUTHEAST (CSS) REGIONAL | ||
| *Sat., Sept. 15 | Southern Miss at East Carolina | 11 p.m. EDT/10 p.m. CDT |
| *Sat., Sept. 29 | East Carolina at Houston | 11 p.m. EDT/10 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Oct. 13 | East Carolina at UTEP | 9 p.m. EDT/8 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Oct. 27 | UAB at East Carolina | 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT |
| *Sat., Nov. 3 | East Carolina at Memphis | 7 p.m. EST/6 p.m. CST |
| *Sat., Nov. 10 | East Carolina at Marshall | 11 p.m. EDT/10 p.m. CDT |
| Sat., Nov. 24 | Tulane at East Carolina | 1 p.m. EST/Noon CST |
*game will air on a tape delay basis
