College Football on Versus
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The television channel Versus currently airs college football games from various college football conferences. At the time this program began, the channel was known as OLN but, in 2006, it was renamed Versus.
The network put college football on the network knowing the NFL contract was set to expire following the 2005 NFL season. They were hoping to get some games, but were shut out. The NFL decided to grant the remaining games to its own NFL Network. Versus instead added games from the Mountain West Conference (MWC) as part of a deal between Comcast (the owner of Versus), CBS College Sports Network and the MWC which also lead to the creation of the MountainWest Sports Network.
In 2006, Versus used Gary Bender or Bob Papa as the play-by-play announcer, Glenn Parker as the analyst and Argy Stathapulos as the sideline reporter for their coverage of Mountain West football.
On June 6, 2007, it was announced that Versus has agreed to a multi-year year deal with Fox Sports Net to sublicense up to 10 college games annually from the Pac-10 and Big 12 conferences.[1][2] Previously, those games had aired on TBS.
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[edit] 2008 schedule
| Date | Game | Kickoff Time (EST) | Host Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 8/30/08 | TCU at New Mexico | 6:00pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/6/08 | Texas A&M at New Mexico | 5:00pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/13/08 | UCLA at BYU | 3:30pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/20/08 | Utah at Air Force | 4:00pm | Mountain West |
| Thursday 10/2/08 | Oregon State at Utah | 9:00pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 10/4/08 | Navy at Air Force | 4:00pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 10/4/08 | TBD | 7:30pm | Pac-10 |
| Thursday 10/16/08 | BYU at TCU | 8:00pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 10/18/08 | Oregon St at Washington | 7:00pm | Pac-10 |
| Saturday 11/15/08 | Southern Cal at Stanford | 7:00pm | Pac-10 |
| Saturday 11/22/08 | Air Force at TCU | 3:30pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 11/22/08 | Oregon St at Arizona | 7:00pm | Pac-10 |
| Saturday 11/29/08 | Oregon at Oregon St | 7:00pm | Pac-10 |
[edit] 2007 schedule
| Date | Game | Kickoff Time (EST) | Host Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 9/1/07 | Virginia at Wyoming | 2:00pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/1/07 | Arizona at BYU | 5:30pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/8/07 | BYU at UCLA | 6:30pm | Pac-10 |
| Saturday 9/8/07 | Wisconsin at UNLV | 10:00pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/15/07 | Iowa at Iowa State | 1:30pm | Big 12 |
| Saturday 9/15/07 | UCLA at Utah | 5:00pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/22/07 | Arizona at California | 6:00pm | Pac-10 |
| Saturday 9/29/07 | Baylor at Texas A&M | 12:30pm | Big 12 |
| Saturday 9/29/07 | Cincinnati at San Diego St. | 10:00pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 10/6/07 | Southern Cal at Stanford | 7:00pm | Pac-10 |
| Saturday 10/13/07 | Oregon State at California | 7:00pm | Pac-10 |
| Thursday 10/18/07 | Utah at TCU | 8:00pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 10/20/07 | Texas @ Baylor | 12:30pm | Big 12 |
| Thursday 10/25/07 | Air Force at New Mexico | 9:00pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 11/3/07 | Kansas State @ Iowa State | 12:30pm | Big 12 |
| Thursday 11/8/07 | TCU at BYU | 9:00pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 11/10/07 | Kansas State @ Nebraska | 12:30pm | Big 12 |
| Saturday 11/24/07 | Utah at BYU | 2:00pm | Mountain West |
| Saturday 12/1/07 | California at Stanford | 7:00pm | Pac-10 |
[edit] Announcers
[edit] Play-By-Play
[edit] 2006
[edit] 2007
- Ted Robinson
- Ron Thulin
- Joe Beninati
[edit] Analysts
[edit] 2006
[edit] 2007
[edit] Sideline Reporters
[edit] 2006
- Argy Stathapolous
[edit] 2007
- Lewis Johnson
- Tim Neverett
- Krista Blunk
