[wvuauthor]

"Out of the Monday Night Football business, ABC is set to serve up a regular dose of college football on Saturday night."

I think this is going to be great for college football; what do you guys think?

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/ap/20060516/114781962000.html

[Lefty Noob]

Shrug. Not a huge deal. NCAA college football has been showing primetime games on Saturday nights for years now, on ABC, ESPN and CBS. This is just one network trying to grab some headlines by giving it a name. ABC has to do something now that they've lost the BCS rights, so why not a Monday Night Football clone? That's my two cents, anyway.

[wvuauthor]

I love having a game to watch at night; especially good match ups like they are advertising.

Why does it always seem that every time something happens its because of the BCS or somebody trying to make more money?

[Lefty Noob]

What other reason would there be? I mean, I'll love watching the Saturday night games too, but let's be realistic here. ABC Sports have been kings for the college football roost for as long as the BCS has been around. Now Fox has snatched that from them and, not wanting to just roll over and die, they've come up with this idea in an attempt to hang on to their share of the pie.

But as long as it gets ratings and sticks around, we fans are the real winners here...

[cjg11582]

I do appreciate how they left their options open on several of the dates, to try and secure the best possible match-up.
Last year Ohio State-Iowa was supposed to be College Gameday caliber, then OSU lost to Texas and Iowa lost too Iowa State, all of a sudden it wasn't nearly as interesting as it was expected to be. Hopefully ABC can avert any situations like this with their open scheduling.

[wvuauthor]

That's definitely a huge plus. If there is a good game on I want to see it regardless of who was supposed to be playing. Hopefully ABC will give the viewers what they want each Saturday...

[desertrat]

Originally Posted by Lefty Noob

What other reason would there be? I mean, I'll love watching the Saturday night games too, but let's be realistic here. ABC Sports have been kings for the college football roost for as long as the BCS has been around.

I remember the days when there was only 1 game on TV every saturday and it was the ABC College Football Game of the Week. It was rare to see a team more than once or twice a year back then. Keith Jackson was always the commentator for those games and for me he will always represent THE Voice of College Football.

[wvuauthor]

I couldnt deal with that. I need at least 5 or 6 games a day to keep me going during the season!!!

[Lefty Noob]

Hmm... desertrat raises one problem with this for me. Brent Mustberger. Why'd it have to be Brent Mustberger? Keith Jackson would've been ideal, but since he's retiring, why not Brad Nessler? And Herbstreit without Corso? Eh... just doesn't seem right. Not thrilled with the announce team. Should've been the "EA Sports" team -- Nessler, Corso, Herbstreit.

[Lefty Noob]

On the other hand, though, maybe those of us on the East Coast will get to see a little more of the Pac-10. Hmm, guess not... the schedule only has Nebraska at USC on Sept. 16 and Notre Dame at USC on Nov. 25 listed as non-regional broadcasts. So much for that, I guess.

[wvuauthor]

Lefty,

I would have liked to see some more of the PAC-10 as well. I always have a hard time assessing them when it comes to bowl time because we don't get a lot of them on the east coast....

[desertrat]

The same day of the Nebraska-USC game ABC will be showing nationally the Oklahoma-Oregon game. It essentially will be a Big12vsPac10 doubleheader with the Pac10 teams hosting. By the same token, living in Pac10 country, we don't get to see ACC games very often since the idiots at the networks automatically assume we want to see Big10 games every weekend. Same goes for most SEC games, we get the premeire game on CBS but don't see many more than that unless ESPN covers it.

[Lefty Noob]

Will they be national games, though? The primetime schedule I looked at said "split coverage" which I assume means different regions get different games, right? Which also most likely means no Pac-10 for us on the East Coast, doggonnit.

[wvuauthor]

I hate that! I know it is in the best interest of the regional fans, but we all like to see the teams from the opposing coast every once in a while...

[Lefty Noob]

Not to mention the fact that the best game is the best game, no matter if it features Pac-10 teams or Big Ten teams. I like Big Ten football, but give me USC - UCLA over Penn State - Indiana any day of the week!