Television: Penn State at Purdue

by Rocky Mountain Nittany Lion on Oct 1, 2008 4:36 PM EDT Comment 7 comments

It looks like the entire country will have access to the game on Saturday on ESPN regardless of where you live. No need to spend another Saturday afternoon calling "insert cable company name here" to find out why your screen just went blank right before kickoff. This is good news all around!

In case you want to know how the coverage map looks this weekend for non-PSU games, here is a map:

http://www.hdsportsguide.com/news/2008/saturday-oct4-college-coverage-maps/

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The BTN

Anyone care to guess which one of our remaining games gets shoved to the BTN? I’m guessing the Iowa game. With PSU on the road they will try to grab all the ratings from the PSU fans looking for the game.

Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

by BSD on Oct 1, 2008 5:34 PM EDT reply actions

Suppose to be

min of 1 Big 10 game for each team on the BTN but ESPN/ABC have first pick each week of the games they want, so maybe they can “sweeten” the pot and get the BTN to let us be on ESPN the rest of the year?

JoePa in '09

by JGuiher on Oct 1, 2008 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Iowa

I’ll second your Iowa pick. Iowa looks bad this year.

JGuiher brings up a good point though: which rule overrules the other? Say we are never on the BTN again coming into the final weekend against MSU. Does ESPN have the ability to still snag that game for their own, or does the BTN automatically claim the game?

"Boy that student section now is up and really making a gigantic amount of noise. You see the sea of white, the white out. Well they are 2 minutes and 28 seconds away from the whiteout of the Buckeyes here tonight." - Ron Franklin

by rmcmillen50 on Oct 1, 2008 6:40 PM EDT up reply actions

From what I understand

The BTN can choose two games that are slotted for ESPN or ESPN2 and take them for themselves. The BTN agreement says EVERY team must play on the BTN at least twice, and EVERY team must play at least one conference game on the BTN. We’ve played twice, but we haven’t played a conference game yet. I think every game left on the schedule is claimed by ABC or ESPN except for the Iowa and Indiana games. So I’m thinking it will be one of those two. With Iowa being the away game there will be a lot more Nittany Lion fans watching the game on TV that day, so I’m thinking they pick Iowa.

Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

by BSD on Oct 1, 2008 7:17 PM EDT up reply actions

JGuiher brings up a good point though: which rule overrules the other? Say we are never on the BTN again coming into the final weekend against MSU. Does ESPN have the ability to still snag that game for their own, or does the BTN automatically claim the game?

The Big Tens agreements with the BTN and Disney ensure that every team wil get at least one conference game (and at least 2 games overall) on the BTN. Last year, it happened where tOSU hadn’t had a BTN appearance until late in the season, resulting in the game against ranked Wisconsin being placed on the BTN (even though it would have been an obvious ABC game otherwise).

To answer the original question, I’m almost certain that our game versus Indiana will end up on the BTN, not necessarily the game versus Iowa.

by Laaaaazzz on Oct 2, 2008 9:49 AM EDT up reply actions