Thursday night football is in its third week. ESPN provided its schedule for Thursday night college football games in July and this . schedule has almost become as important as its Saturday prime time lineups on ABC and ESPN. This is the first year of ESPN's SEC TV contract, which is great exposure for college football and plenty of great match-ups.
This is the first year of the Southeastern Conference’s historic 15-year agreement with ESPN. As part of the new SEC agreement, ESPN and ESPN2 will combine to annually present a minimum of 20 SEC football games.
In the third game in this series, tonight the Miami Hurricanes will hunt for some revenge against visiting Georgia Tech, which last season defeated Miami, ranked No. 23 at the time, 41-23 in Atlanta. These games go up against highly rated television premieres such as "The Office" and "Fringe" but Thursday night football is sure to not lack viewers. In fact, the trends show that Thursday night football is fast becoming the Monday night football of college football.
“This is one of the most exciting Thursday night lineups we’ve had,” said Dave Brown, vice president, programming & acquisitions, ESPN. “We have a great doubleheader to kick things off, and finish off strong with the Civil War Game. We’ve worked hard to make it the Monday Night Football of college football and it’s a great way to kick off each weekend.”
Here's the Thursday night football schedule. Watch it on ESPN.
Sept. 3: South Carolina at N.C. State (7 p.m.); Oregon at Boise State (10:15 p.m.)
Sept. 10: Clemson at Georgia Tech (7:30 p.m.)
Sept. 17: Georgia Tech at Miami (7:30 p.m.)
Sept. 24: Mississippi at South Carolina (7:30 p.m.)
Oct 1: Colorado at West Virginia (7:30 p.m.)
Oct 8: Nebraska at Missouri (9 p.m.)
Oct. 15: Cincinnati at South Florida (7:30 p.m.)
Oct. 22: Florida State at North Carolina (8 p.m.)
Oct. 29: North Carolina at Virginia Tech (7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 5: Virginia Tech at East Carolina (7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 12: South Florida at Rutgers (7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 19: Colorado at Oklahoma State (7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 26: Texas at Texas A&M (8 p.m.)
Dec. 3: Oregon State at Oregon (9 p.m.)
Written by Cheryl Phillips
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