C-USA Announces 2009 Football Television Schedule

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July 29, 2009

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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
(confirmed games as of July 29)

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

ESPN SCHEDULE Friday, September 4 Tulsa at Tulane 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT Sunday, September 6 Mississippi at Memphis 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT Wednesday, October 14 Boise State at Tulsa 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT Wednesday, October 21 Tulsa at UTEP 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT Sunday, November 1 Marshall at UCF 8:15 p.m. EST/7:15 p.m. CST Thursday, November 5 Virginia Tech at East Carolina 7:30 p.m. EST/6:30 p.m. CST Sunday, November 15 East Carolina at Tulsa 8:15 p.m. EST/7:15 p.m. CST Saturday, December 19 St. Petersburg Bowl 8:00 p.m. EST/7:00 p.m. CST Sunday, December 20 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl 8:15 p.m. EST/7:15 p.m. CST Thursday, December 24 Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl 8:00 p.m. EST/7:00 p.m. CST Thursday, December 31 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl Noon EST/11:00 a.m. CST Friday, January 2 AutoZone Liberty Bowl 5:30 p.m. EST/4:30 p.m. CST

ESPN 2 SCHEDULE Saturday, September 12 BYU at Tulane 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT Saturday, September 26 Texas Tech at Houston 9:15 p.m. EDT/8:15 p.m. CDT Tuesday, October 27 East Carolina at Memphis 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT

ESPN OR ESPN 2 SCHEDULE Saturday, September 19 East Carolina at North Carolina Noon EDT/11:00 a.m. CDT Saturday, December 5 C-USA Championship Game TBA

ESPN 360 SCHEDULE Saturday, September 12 Marshall at Virginia Tech 1:30 p.m. EDT/12:30 p.m. CDT Saturday, September 12 East Carolina at West Virginia 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT

FOX SPORTS NET SCHEDULE Saturday, September 12 Houston at Oklahoma State 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT Saturday, September 19 Tulsa at Oklahoma 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT Saturday, September 26 Southern Miss at Kansas Noon EDT/11:00 a.m. CDT Saturday, September 26 UTEP at Texas 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT

THE MTN. Saturday, September 12 Tulsa at New Mexico 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT Saturday, October 3 SMU at TCU 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT

BIG EAST NETWORK REGIONAL SCHEDULE Saturday, October 17 Marshall at West Virginia 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT

COMCAST/CHARTER SPORTS SOUTHEAST (CSS) REGIONAL SCHEDULE Saturday, September 12 Memphis at Middle Tennessee 7:00 p.m. EDT/6:00 p.m. CDT Saturday, September 19 UAB at Troy 3:30 p.m. EDT/2:30 p.m. CDT Saturday, September 26 Marshall at Memphis 1:00 p.m. EDT/Noon CDT Saturday, September 26 Vanderbilt at Rice 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 p.m. CDT Saturday, October 24 UAB at Marshall Noon EDT/11:00 a.m. CDT Saturday, October 31 Southern Miss at Houston 1:00 p.m. EDT/Noon CDT Saturday, November 14 UAB at Memphis 1:00 p.m. EST/Noon CST Additional games TBA at later date

 

 

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