Some additional thoughts on gophersfans post and mittens22's response...
@ Syracuse:
@ Syracuse: While there are few games that day between major conferences, I'd say the odds are against BTN. Syracuse is typically a cellar team which hurts the chances.
I think you mean Syracuse hurts our chances for ESPN2 b/c as gophersfan noted, this game can’t/won’t be broadcast on BTN. I’d agree with you if this was a home game…it has BTN written all over it. But if we’re not on the Deuce than that means this game is either ESPN or higher (highly unlikely) or is on ESPNU, Classic, or 360. I suppose ESPNU is a possibility, but I think gophersfan has nailed this one. Syracuse’s suckitude screams 11am (Central) kickoff.
Air Force
Air Force: BTN seems likely, especially since they can have multiple games on depending on the viewing area.
Agree on BTN, but I’m betting this one is a night game and gets the whole network to itself. The Big 10 is not going to schedule some another game to run on BTN at the same time…not for the TCF opener.
California
@ Cal: Don't foresee an ABC game for this one, this weekend has many big out of conference games in store that involve B10 teams.
Game is not at Cal.
Not sure what big games you are referring to. MSU plays Notre Dame but that is about the only game that I’d rate above this one. You could argue that Arizona/Iowa is as big of a matchup given that Zona just made a bowl game for the first time in forever and Iowa is a “sleeper team”, but I think we’d get higher billing in this case. NW/Syracuse is not a bigger game and everyone else is playing cupcakes/MAC. Since MSU is playing @ ND, that game is on NBC. I think its between us and Iowa for the 2:30 regional ABC broadcast and I think we take it.
@ NW – Book that 11am BTN timeslot.
Wisconsin – Agree that Gameday is probably wishful thinking. It’s the best bet we have for Gameday in the first season of TCF but I’m not seeing it unless both teams are undefeated (and even then I think it’s a stretch). I think the 2:30 ABC is possible, but there is also the Michigan/MSU game to contend with. I suspect that one of these 2 games gets the 2:30 ABC while the other gets pushed to primetime on ESPN or ESPN2.
Purdue – Either ESPN2 or BTN with an 11am kickoff.
@ Penn State – This one is a crapshoot. The 3 best B10 games this weekend are Gophers@PSU, Iowa@UW, and NW@MSU. If we’re undefeated or 5-1 and PSU is undefeated then we would probably get top billing otherwise I'd say Iowa/UW.
@ Ohio State
@ Ohio State: Probably the ESPN2 slot at 11 am because Michigan State and Iowa are at night while Penn State at Michigan will probably be ABC at 2:30. This leaves Minnesota with this time.
Agree with the 11am kick, but we’d probably be on ESPN instead of the Deuce in the scenario you describe.
Michigan State – ABC if we’re doing well. 11am ESPN/ESPN2 if we’re not.
Illinois
Illinois: This one will either be on BTN or ESPN2 at 11. Unfortunately the Penn State and Ohio State game cannot start later that 2:30 because of new B10 rules regarding night games in November. This adds another game to the BTN and it could be either Minnesota and Illinois or Iowa and NW.
Certainly no better than ESPN at 11am for this one. The only games I see as for sure BTN matchups are W. Mich@MSU and UW@IU. I’m betting Purdue@Mich also goes BTN while our game or NW@Iowa duke it out for ESPN.
SDSU - This is what BTN was made for. Meh.
@Iowa – Probably BTN. I’m interested to see what happens to OSU/Mich if the Penn State@MSU game has B10 title/BCS berth implications. One of these two games gets 2:30 ABC while the other goes to 11am ESPN. I could see us sneaking onto ESPN2 here, but its probably BTN and definitely an 11am game.
I used
this to help me figure things out. A little easier to go through than the one you linked to mittens (IMHO).
