Boston College Vs. Northwestern Is A Nooner On ESPNU
by Brian Favat on May 11, 2011 12:42 PM EDT
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Boston College will host Northwestern in the 2011 football season opener on Saturday, September 3 at noon, ESPN and the ACC announced on Wednesday. The game will be shown nationally on ESPNU.
The time slot isn't the greatest, though I'm glad to see the BC-NU game televised nationally. After the Northwestern game, BC might be relegated to the internets (read: ESPN3.com) for several games before the Eagles hit the heart of the ACC schedule with games at Virginia Tech and/or Clemson ...
... with the notable exception of the BC-Duke game! Apparently there is enough demand to air BC-Duke on actual, live television. BC's September 17 home game against Duke will kickoff at 12:30 PM, and "the game will be televised live by the ACC Network." I love how the GoDuke.com release specifies that the game will be televised LIVE ... as opposed to tape-delayed?
Previously announced kickoff times and TV info:
- BC's primetime showdown against Florida State (Thursday, November 3, 8 PM on ESPN)
- The Holy War game at Notre Dame (Saturday, November 19, 4 PM on NBC)
- BC's Friday afternoon matchup down in Miami Gardens (Friday, November 25, 3:30 PM on ABC)
Kickoff times and television plans for BC's other games will be announced later in the year.
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Dont we also know the Notre Dame game?
Yes
Good catch, thanks.
Saturday, November 19 at 4 PM on NBC
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by Brian Favat on May 11, 2011 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Duke
The ACC also announced the Duke time/tv. It’s at 12:30 (weird time) on the ACC Network/Raycom/whatever it’s going by these days.
Cool, thanks.
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by Brian Favat on May 11, 2011 12:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Ehh
I would have loved 3:30 and maybe on ESPN 2, but can’t complain too much. We’re on national TV- I’ll take it.
Interesting
I feel like we already have more televised games for this upcoming season than we did for all of last season…
Too soon to tell
If BC loses to Northwestern and Central Florida to start the season, you can bet on a whole bunch of games being relegated to ESPN3.com.
Last year’s breakdown:
- 2 ESPN — Florida State and Syracuse
- 2 ESPNU — Kent State and Virginia
- 1 ABC (and ESPN Game Plan) — Notre Dame
- 3 ACC Network — Virginia Tech, N.C. State and Clemson
- 4 ESPN3.com — Weber State, Maryland, Wake Forest, Duke
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Bad Vibes
Markie Mark was the “heart” of an otherwise emotionless team. The heart is gone! They were flat against ND at home. Can’t anyone else “read the tea leaves”? NW and UCF have emotion. You are aleady looking at 0-2. Look at the calendar. There is plenty of time to fix the problem. If the “Titanic sinks”, then you set the captain adrift in a rowboat without oars.
Keek can be the heart
college football players graduate and no single one can account for the success of a team, especially one who is the “heart”. Mark’s story is an inspiration and perhaps one of the motivations to play that weighed on the minds of our team last year, but I think its a stretch to say that he provided enough emotion to win a single game by himself (with exception to the 2009 gameday against FSU)… what we need is an offensive game plan that does not blow to execute that game plan and for guys on D to rally around the talent leader of the past two seasons: Kuechly
Agreed
It sounds like he is pretty much stepping up into that role.
by polarbearbrother on May 11, 2011 7:56 PM EDT up reply actions
You’re either a very poor Observer College copy cat or you have the most unrealistic, most pessimistic outtake on BC sports I have ever seen. Or you are, as many others have pointed out, trolling.
by polarbearbrother on May 11, 2011 7:56 PM EDT up reply actions
ABC>ESPN3, but still...
I know that ABC is a “national” game, but I hate when we are on that station. It’s never really national as ABC tends to have 3 games that day and it breaks down geographically. Being in California, it’s a rare BC game that actually makes it out here on ABC. At least ESPN games are truely national broadcasts.
(of course this is just an excuse for me to go to the bars!)
by chicagofire1871 on May 12, 2011 1:39 AM EDT reply actions
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