C-USA Announces 2009 Football Television Schedule
July 29, 2009
Complete Release in PDF Format
Conference USA has announced its television schedule for the 2009 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 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 fifth year of C-USA's partnership with CBS College Sports Network. In 2005, Conference USA began a partnership with CBS C 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 systems across the country and via satellite on DIRECTV Channel 613 (Premier Package and Sports Pack) 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 fifth annual Conference USA Football Championship Game will be televised by ESPN or ESPN 2 on Saturday, December 5. "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 2009 season, including 10 conference match-ups. Live game coverage kicks off on Saturday, Sept. 5 as Buffalo visits UTEP. CBS College Sports Network's schedule also includes 12-day selections during the final three Saturdays of the season. The ESPN schedule kicks off on Friday, September 4, when Tulsa visits Tulane in the first Conference USA game of the 2009 season. Two days later, on Sunday, September 6, Memphis hosts Mississippi in an unopposed national window on ESPN. The entire schedule currently features 20 games on the ESPN family of networks, including eight unopposed windows. As part of the league's agreement with CBS College Sports Network, seven games have been sub-licensed for regional broadcast. Comcast Sports Southeast (CSS) has formally announced five of those seven contests, which include six different schools. Additional Conference USA football television exposures remain a possibility, and will be released as soon as they are finalized.
2009 CONFERENCE USA FOOTBALL TELEVISION SCHEDULE CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK NATIONAL Saturday, September 5 Buffalo at UTEP 9:00 p.m. EDT/8:00 p.m. CDT Saturday, September 12 Kansas at UTEP 7:30 p.m. EDT/6:30 p.m. CDT Saturday, September 19 Virginia at Southern Miss 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT Thursday, October 1 Southern Miss at UAB 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT Saturday, October 3 East Carolina at Marshall Noon EDT/11:00 a.m. CDT Saturday, October 3 Tulsa at Rice 7:30 p.m. EDT/6:30 p.m. CDT Saturday, October 3 Tulane at Army 11:30 p.m. EDT/10:30 p.m. CDT* Saturday, October 10 Navy at Rice 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT Saturday, October 17 Houston at Tulane 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT Saturday, October 17 Miami (Fla.) at UCF 7:30 p.m. EDT/6:30 p.m. CDT Saturday, October 24 SMU at Houston 7:30 p.m. EDT/6:30 p.m. CDT Saturday, November 7 Houston at Tulsa 7:30 p.m. EST/6:30 p.m. CST Saturday, November 14 TBA (12 day advance) Noon EST/11:00 a.m. CST Saturday, November 21 TBA (12 day advance) 7:30 p.m. EST/6:30 p.m. CST Friday, November 27 Memphis at Tulsa 3:30 p.m. EST/2:30 p.m. CST Saturday, November 28 TBA (12 day advance) 1:30 p.m. EST/12:30 p.m. CST *tape delayed
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