ESPN adds Rose Bowl, to go along with the rest of the BCS games starting in 2011
By Richard Lawler 
posted Jun 12th 2009 7:03PM
posted Jun 12th 2009 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.
Is ESPN actually going to show this on ESPN or put it on ABC?
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.
@CT - thanks for the info and the blog reading help. You are very kind.
Wow. I can't wait to watch this game along with all of the other bowl games, except one, that mean absolutely nothing.
The worst part of this means that the BCS is here to stay for a couple more years.
Agreed... but at least now I can watch the games on a proper sports channel. I HATE watching the games on Fox.
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.