ESPN adds Rose Bowl, to go along with the rest of the BCS games starting in 2011
by Richard Lawler 
posted Jun 12th 2009 at 7:03PM
Hope you like ESPN's bowl presentation, as it's going to be the home for all the BCS games beginning in 2011, now that its added the Rose Bowl in a new multiyear deal. That probably won't make the NAB happy, considering the group's protests when ESPN locked up the other bowls earlier this year, for the rest of us, it just makes it a little bit tougher to go all OTA if college football in January is a must watch.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Shawn Roberts @ Jun 12th 2009 7:38PM
Is ESPN actually going to show this on ESPN or put it on ABC?
C. T. @ Jun 12th 2009 8:23PM
According to the Press Release:
"The 2011 BCS schedule will mark the first time BCS bowls will be featured on cable television..." meaning on ESPN, and not ABC. If you had hit the "Read" link, you would have seen that.
Shawn Roberts @ Jun 12th 2009 8:58PM
@CT - thanks for the info and the blog reading help. You are very kind.
Dana @ Jun 13th 2009 1:07PM
Wow. I can't wait to watch this game along with all of the other bowl games, except one, that mean absolutely nothing.
Fred @ Jun 13th 2009 3:40AM
The worst part of this means that the BCS is here to stay for a couple more years.
ack154 @ Jun 13th 2009 9:02AM
Agreed... but at least now I can watch the games on a proper sports channel. I HATE watching the games on Fox.
sitruc @ Jun 13th 2009 11:40AM
FOX broadcasts of college football are a joke. They always use a low-level NFL production team and announcers that know nothing about college football. I hate these games being on cable, but at least ESPN has a better picture than ABC. I was hoping Disney would keep the bowls OTA with ESPN on ABC.