- Miami at Boston College
- Southern Miss at Nebraska
- Bowling Green at Florida
There's a good schedule the rest of the day:
- 2pm - Navy at Notre Dame
- 5pm - Ohio at Penn State
- 1am - Alabama at Michigan
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Viewers Choice on ESPN America
Saturday evenings game on ESPN America (at 8.30pm) is a viewers choice between
There's a good schedule the rest of the day:
There's a good schedule the rest of the day:
Monday, 27 August 2012
Week 1 - Things I'm interested in
1. Navy at Notre Dame - For me, the interesting thing here is not what happens on the field but what happens off it. The game is being played in Dublin, Ireland. The NFL has been playing a game each year in London at Wembley Stadium. I went to last years Bears-Bucs game and the crowd was an interesting mix. There were plenty of people from all over Briton there (I was sat next to a guy who'd come down from Aberdeen in the north of Scotland) but there were also plenty of Americans and Europeans there. So who will be in the crowd for this? And if this is successful in attracting plenty of locals to the game, could this be repeated in future with more regular season games played outside the USA, or perhaps in the long term - a bowl game?
2. Alabama at Michigan - This for me is the game of the week. Can Alabama repeat? Are Michigan going to challenge for the national championship? And it's an early test of the relative strengths of the SEC and Big Ten.
3. Auburn at Clemson - Another big inter-conference game. This time SEC vs ACC. This could have repercussions for the future rankings of all ACC teams. If Clemson win, then they'll get a boost. If not, then the ACC could struggle to get attention in the national championship debate.
4. Boise State at Michigan State - Boise have been close for several years now but have lost several senior players such as Kellen Moore, who was underrated in the NFL draft in my opinion. Will they still be competitive with the big teams?
5. Ohio at Penn State - This is another game more interesting for what happens off the field. After all that's happened in the last year, how will Penn State move forward? They will need to do this soon, without forgetting what happened or the victims.
2. Alabama at Michigan - This for me is the game of the week. Can Alabama repeat? Are Michigan going to challenge for the national championship? And it's an early test of the relative strengths of the SEC and Big Ten.
3. Auburn at Clemson - Another big inter-conference game. This time SEC vs ACC. This could have repercussions for the future rankings of all ACC teams. If Clemson win, then they'll get a boost. If not, then the ACC could struggle to get attention in the national championship debate.
4. Boise State at Michigan State - Boise have been close for several years now but have lost several senior players such as Kellen Moore, who was underrated in the NFL draft in my opinion. Will they still be competitive with the big teams?
5. Ohio at Penn State - This is another game more interesting for what happens off the field. After all that's happened in the last year, how will Penn State move forward? They will need to do this soon, without forgetting what happened or the victims.
It's all Tim Tebow's Fault....(or how I became a College Football Fan)
I'm a College Football fan living in Birmingham. Nothing unusual in that except this is Birmingham in England, not Alabama. This is the story of how I became a fan.
One Saturday evening in September 2009 I was bored. I was waiting for a film to start on TV, and so stated channel hopping, looking for something to watch in the meantime. During this I stumbled across a college football game on ESPN America and gave it a few minutes. Those few minutes were enough to get my attention because of one player - Tim Tebow. It was clear that he wasn't a typical Quarterback that I remembered from watching the NFL over the years and it was this that initially interested me.
When I was growing up I'd watched Channel 4's coverage of the NFL during the 80's. As I grew up, then left home to go to University in the early 90's this continued. But then, partly due to changes in my own life and partly due to Channel 4 messing about with and then dropping it's coverage, I slowly stopped watching it regularly. By 2009 it had become something I watched occasionally.
So on this Saturday evening I knew enough about the game to recognise it was both different to the NFL and basically the same. Although to this day I'm not sure who was playing other than the Florida Gators, and I'm not sure I even knew what the result was that night as I stopped watching when the film started.
The following weekend though, I'd been interested enough by what I saw to see if there was another game on. There was (I was quickly to discover ESPN America shows at least 2 or 3 every Saturday, with re-runs of others on Sunday) and again it was a Florida Gators game. So I watched for a while. And found myself on the internet after the game trying to find out more about college football.
Over the next few weeks I found myself drawn into it more and more, to the point where I cancelled a night out to stay in and watch the SEC Championship game between Florida and Alabama at the end of the season. Since then I've been watching it regularly, usually 2 or 3 games each weekend. And all because in a moment of boredom I put it on while Tim Tebow was playing.
One Saturday evening in September 2009 I was bored. I was waiting for a film to start on TV, and so stated channel hopping, looking for something to watch in the meantime. During this I stumbled across a college football game on ESPN America and gave it a few minutes. Those few minutes were enough to get my attention because of one player - Tim Tebow. It was clear that he wasn't a typical Quarterback that I remembered from watching the NFL over the years and it was this that initially interested me.
When I was growing up I'd watched Channel 4's coverage of the NFL during the 80's. As I grew up, then left home to go to University in the early 90's this continued. But then, partly due to changes in my own life and partly due to Channel 4 messing about with and then dropping it's coverage, I slowly stopped watching it regularly. By 2009 it had become something I watched occasionally.
So on this Saturday evening I knew enough about the game to recognise it was both different to the NFL and basically the same. Although to this day I'm not sure who was playing other than the Florida Gators, and I'm not sure I even knew what the result was that night as I stopped watching when the film started.
The following weekend though, I'd been interested enough by what I saw to see if there was another game on. There was (I was quickly to discover ESPN America shows at least 2 or 3 every Saturday, with re-runs of others on Sunday) and again it was a Florida Gators game. So I watched for a while. And found myself on the internet after the game trying to find out more about college football.
Over the next few weeks I found myself drawn into it more and more, to the point where I cancelled a night out to stay in and watch the SEC Championship game between Florida and Alabama at the end of the season. Since then I've been watching it regularly, usually 2 or 3 games each weekend. And all because in a moment of boredom I put it on while Tim Tebow was playing.
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