SMU on TV in 2013

[SMUfrat]

Ok, so here is what I am seeing for our TV broadcasts this year:

Opener v. Tech - ESPN
Home v. Montana St. - ESPN 3 (wtf?)
Away v. TAMU - Not on TV (why not?)
Away v. TCU - Not on TV (why not?)
Home v. Rutgers - Not on TV (Family Weekend)
Away v. Memphis - Not on TV
Home v. Temple - Not on TV (Homecoming)
Away v. Cincinnati - Not on TV (why not?)
Home v. UConn - Not on TV
Away v. South Florida - Not on TV
Away v. Houston - ABC / ESPN
Home v. UCF - Not on TV

Can we expect to have more than just 2 games on ESPN? I am hardly counting the Montana St. as one... I really don't know why that would get the broadcast...

[PlanoPony]

Ok, so here is what I am seeing for our TV broadcasts this year:

Opener v. Tech - ESPN
Home v. Montana St. - ESPN 3 (wtf?)
Away v. TAMU - Not on TV (why not?)
Away v. TCU - Not on TV (why not?)
Home v. Rutgers - Not on TV (Family Weekend)
Away v. Memphis - Not on TV
Home v. Temple - Not on TV (Homecoming)
Away v. Cincinnati - Not on TV (why not?)
Home v. UConn - Not on TV
Away v. South Florida - Not on TV
Away v. Houston - ABC / ESPN
Home v. UCF - Not on TV

Can we expect to have more than just 2 games on ESPN? I am hardly counting the Montana St. as one... I really don't know why that would get the broadcast...

They usually announce the TV schedule week to week except for the first few games of the season and any games on weeknights (like Houston). I imagine our entire schedule will be on some form of television with the ESPN deal the new conference has, except for the Temple game perhaps.

[SMUfrat]

So it truly is a major upgrade in a television contract?

[Grant Carter]

So it truly is a major upgrade in a television contract?

New tv deal starts next season I think.

[PlanoPony]

So it truly is a major upgrade in a television contract?

I don't know the exact details but if it's anything like the deal the ACC has with ESPN I'd think all the games would at the very least be on ESPN3. There's no way our games against Rutgers, TCU, and A&M aren't televised at all. To be fair it doesn't take much to improve on the awful television coverage of C-USA games. That TWC channel the UTEP game was on last year was an absolute joke.

[ColoStang]

New TV deal kicks in next year for Football, this year for Hoops.

PlanoPony is correct about games, most TV games will be announced within 10 days of the actual game.

[PonyPlayer4]

2014 is when all the exposure is supposed to take place.

[Charleston Pony]

we are very fortunate to open the season with a national game...now if we can only avoid laying another egg!

if this team exceeds expectations, more of those mid and late season games will find their way onto the schedule

[SMU2007]

are we really going to have less televised games than last year? This seems like the fewest number in several years.

[dirtysouthpony]

Will any of our games be televised on that new Fox sports 1 channel? It looks pretty snazzy from the ads that they are showing in the all star game.

[Stallion]

I know for the Big 12 secondary contract (with regard to TCU) they don't announce starting times or networks until about 12 days before the game. Not sure about SEC for A&M. Home teams control TV

[max the wonder dog]

I know for the Big 12 secondary contract (with regard to TCU) they don't announce starting times or networks until about 12 days before the game. Not sure about SEC for A&M. Home teams control TV

Except for Ark-LSU and Ole Miss-Miss State, both on Thanksgiving Weekend, no SEC TV games have been announced after Sept. 14, SMU-aTm is listed as TBD.

[Ikus]

I thought I read somewhere that every game would be televised, but that kickoff times wouldn't be announced for most games until a couple of weeks out from game day.

[DFW2012]

Ok, so here is what I am seeing for our TV broadcasts this year:
Away v. TCU - Not on TV (why not?)

Can we expect to have more than just 2 games on ESPN? I am hardly counting the Montana St. as one... I really don't know why that would get the broadcast...

Big 12 media partners don't have to announce non-Thursday kickoffs for games in weeks 4-15 until either 12 or 6 days beforehand. So we probably won't know the kickoff time until Sunday, Sept. 22. And the quality of the network and time will be based on SMU and TCU's records, relative to the other games on ESPN and FOX networks. They also have to fill their necessary Big 12 allotments.

I think this game will get decent coverage for several reasons:

There are only 4 Big 12 games this week, with ISU on a Thursday, and OU playing at Notre Dame (thus under ND's NBC contract). So the Big 12 contract has only TCU v. SMU and OSU v. WVU on Saturday.
It's a light week in college football. This sums up the "major" games: Cal/Oregon (Pac !2 Net), Iowa/Minn (ABC), OU/Notre Dame (NBC), Wisconsin/tOSU (ABC), FSB/BC (TBD), Wake/Clemson (TBD), UVA/Pitt (TBD), Miami/USF (TBD), S. Car/UCF (TBD), OSU/WVU (TBD), Miss/Bama (TBD), A&M/Arky (TBD), UF/UK (TBD), UGA/LSU (TBD), USC/ASU (TBD), Zona/Wash (TBD), Stanford/Wash St (TBD)
ESPN will carry lots of games under the SEC contract, but they have ESPN, 2, U, and ABC, plus CBS gets first dibs
PAC has lots of decent games, but FOX has its broadcast network, FS1, and the PAC 12 Network to fill up

So, I think we wind up on an ESPN network or FOX Sports 1. Now, if we lose to Tech and A&M and TCU loses to LSU and Tech, we'll both be 1-2, and probably subjected to the Fox Sports Southwest Plus ether. But I see SMU at 1-2 or 2-1 and TCU at 2-1 or 3-0. If we knock off Tech and look halfway respectable against A&M and if TCU knocks off LSU and Tech, this could be a primetime game on ESPN, ESPN2, or FOX Sports 1.

FYI: this is a great site for game times---it shows everything scheduled and if you click "show non-televised games" it will show you what hasn't been slated yet and all the possible channels. I keep it bookmarked: http://mattsarzsports.com/Season/Conten ... otball2013

[dr rc]

I find this site to be better for keeping up with what all will be on TV.

http://www.lsufootball.net/tvschedule.htm

Plus, the times are listed in CST which is nice for us here in Texas.