34 MAC games on ESPN/ESPN2.

[NWLB]

Impressive, most impressive. I wonder what CUSA-lite's tally is.

Thanks to Ciccar on MACsports:
ESPN - MAC Men’s Football Schedule Date Game Network Time (ET)

Sep. 2 Indiana at Central Michigan ESPNU 7:30 pm
Sep. 3 Bowling Green at Wisconsin ESPN Noon
Sep. 3 Ball State at Iowa ESPN Plus Noon
Sep. 3 Kent State at Michigan State ESPN Plus Noon
Sep. 3 Ohio at Northwestern ESPNU Noon
Sep. 10 Temple at Wisconsin ESPNU/ESPN Plus Noon
Sep. 10 Northern Illinois at Northwestern ESPN Classic 4:00 pm
Sep. 17 Eastern Michigan at Michigan ESPNU/ESPN Plus Noon
Sep. 17 Ohio at Virginia Tech ESPNU 3:30 pm
Sep. 21 Bowling Green at Boise State ESPN2 8:00 pm
Sep. 27 Toledo at Fresno State ESPN2 9:00 pm
Sep. 28 Cincinnati at Miami ESPN2 7:00 pm
Oct. 5 Miami at Northern Illinois ESPN2 7:30 pm
Nov. 4 Toledo at Ohio ESPN2 8:00 pm
Nov. 15 Bowling Green at Miami ESPN2 7:00 pm
Nov. 15 Ohio at Akron ESPNU 7:30 pm
Nov. 16 Northern Illinois at Toledo ESPN2 7:30 pm
Nov. 21 Miami at Ohio ESPNU 7:30 pm
Nov. 22 Toledo at Bowling Green ESPN2 7:00 pm
Nov. 23 Western Michigan at Northern Illinois ESPN2 1:30 pm
Nov. 24 Kent State at Akron ESPN2 or ESPNU 10:00 am
Dec. 1 MAC Championship Game ESPN 7:30 pm
Dec. 21 GMAC Bowl ESPN 8:00 pm
Dec. 26 Motor City Bowl ESPN 4:00 pm

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FOOTBALL TELEVISION RELEASE - June. 16,
ESPN National Telecast Schedule Has 34 MAC Appearances
Slate includes 9 key conference match ups
CLEVELAND – The Mid-American Conference will expand the national exposure for its 13 member football
programs this year as ESPN today announced its inaugural lineup for the 2005 season.
A total of 24 games involving a MAC institution will be televised by either ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Plus
or ESPN Classic according to the release from ESPN Headquarters in Bristol, Conn. The 24 games add up to 34
appearances by MAC institutions on the ESPN branded networks.
Additional MAC contests on ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU are expected to be announced at a later date, as is the schedule
for the MAC Game of the Week. (italics mine)
Of the 24 contests, 21 are regular season meetings and three are post season – the MAC Championship game
(Dec. 1), the GMAC Bowl (Dec. 21) and the Motor City Bowl (Dec. 26). Nine of the 21 regular season telecasts
involve conference games, including long standing MAC rivalries such as Miami at Ohio (82nd meeting), Toledo
at Bowling Green (70th meeting) and Kent State at Akron (48th meeting).
The non-conference match ups feature eight games between MAC and Big Ten opponents. The top fi ve teams in
the 2004 Big Ten standings all host MAC schools the fi rst three weeks in the season.
Four games have MAC schools battling defending league champions with Ball State at co-Big Ten Champion
Iowa (Sep. 3, ESPN Plus), Ohio at defending ACC Champion Virginia Tech (Sept. 17, ESPNU), Eastern Michigan
at co-Big Ten title holder Michigan (Sep. 17, ESPNU/ESPN Plus) and Bowling Green at WAC Champion
Boise State (Sep. 21, ESPN2).
The opening weekend features four games in addition to the previously announced ESPN telecast of the Bowling
Green at Wisconsin contest.
The season will kickoff on Friday, Sept. 2, when Central Michigan will host Indiana in the Hoosiers’ debut under
former Miami head coach Terry Hoeppner. It will be the fi rst-ever nationally televised game at Kelly/Shorts Stadium
in Mount Pleasant, Mich.
MAC schools will face two Big Ten foes on back-to-back weekends as Bowling Green (Sept. 3, ESPN) and
Temple (Sept. 10, ESPNU) are at Wisconsin; and Ohio (Sept. 3, ESPNU) and Northern Illinois (Sept. 10, ESPN
Classic) are at Northwestern. The opening weekend also features two ESPN Plus games with Ball State at Iowa
and Kent State at Michigan State on Sept. 3.

[BGSU33]

Awesome news.....thanks for sharing the info.

[FormerFreddie]

Ohio has five games televised? And the entire month of October looks blank..

Will ESPN see how the first weeks shape up before announcing those October dates?

[BGSUVA]

Yes, ESPN, ABC, etc. won't announce which game they show until 12 days prior the game so they know which teams are playing and well and what will be the most intruiging (sp?) games. Sometimes they will pick up a 6 day option, so you won't know what time you are playing until the monday before the game.

[FalconKing]

It is interesting that they are already including Temple as a member of the MAC. I was trying to figure out how they were saying we had 13 members until I saw Temple vs UW matchup.

[Falconboy]

Looks like every big game for BG is on tv! Excellent!

[NY-BG-FAN]

Is BG not good enough for ESPNU or something? We don't have any games on that network...it seems to me our games against Akron or Kent State would be fitting ones. It's great for the MAC sure, but we didn't get any additional games from the ones already on ESPN/2. If Wisconsin's beating of Temple can be on ESPNU, why can't we play Akron on it?

[NWLB]

Why would we want to be on that network at this point? Nearly nobody has it, and it carries the same stigma that being on ESPN2 used to have.

ESPNU will have its day, but that isn't now.

[NY-BG-FAN]

True, but even if we can't see it, somewhere somebody can, and it's just more exposure.