NCAA announces 2016 D2 College Football Game of the Week schedule

22 D2 games will be featured as "National Games of the Week" in 2016. 11 of the games will air on ESPN3 and 11 games will air on American Sports Network. 

Of the 22 games announced, 4 games are Wildcards. 18 of the games are set though, including UT Permian Basin's first home conference game. Below is the full ESPN3 and ASN 2016 D2 NCAA Game of the Week schedule. 

ESPN3

Thursday, September 1: 9 PM- CSU-Pueblo at Colorado Mines

Saturday, September 10: 7 PM- Southwest Minnesota State at Northern State

Saturday, September 17: 8 PM- West Texas A&M at UT Permian Basin 

Saturday, September 24: 3 PM- Central State vs. Kentucky State 

Saturday, October 1: 6 PM- Catawba at Newberry

Saturday, October 8: 8 PM- Midwestern State at Texas A&M-Commerce

Saturday, October 15: 6 PM- New Haven at Stonehill

Saturday, October 22: 1 PM- Bowie State at Virginia Union 

Saturday, October 29: 6 PM- William Jewell at UIndy

Saturday, November 5: Wild Card

Saturday, November 12: Wild Card

American Sports Network 

Saturday, September 3: 7 PM- Tuskegee at Clark Atlanta

Saturday, September 10: 7 PM- Henderson State at East Central

Saturday, September 17: 7 PM- Valdosta State at North Alabama

Saturday, September 24: 3:30 PM- Ashland at Ferris State

Saturday, October 1: 7 PM- Florida Tech at West Florida

Saturday, October 8: Noon- Glenville State at Shepherd

Saturday, October 15: 7 PM- Kutztown at East Stroudsburg

Saturday, October 22: 3:30 PM- Humboldt State at Western Oregon

Saturday, October 29: 3:30 PM- Pittsburg State at Northwest Missouri State

Saturday, November 5: Wild Card

Saturday, November 12: Wild Card

Your 2015 MILB National Broadcast Schedule

Yes, this post may be a bit late, but I don't care. Most people probably don't care about Minor League Baseball. I merely want to provide people the opportunity to know which MILB games can be seen nationally this season.

For the second consecutive season MILB will air games on CBS Sports Network on Thursday nights. 

They will add a second Game of the Week on Sunday nights on American Sports Network affiliates. Here's the full broadcast schedule.

The Triple A All-Star Games will also air on MLB Network. We'll post those once dates are finalized.

May 28- 8 PM- El Paso Chihuahuas at Round Rock Express (CBSSN) 

May 31- 7 PM- Iowa Cubs at El Paso Chihuahuas (ASN) 

 June 4- 8 PM- Salt Lake Bees at Nashville Sounds (CBSSN) 

June 7- 6 PM- Carolina Mudcats at Myrtle Beach Pelicans (ASN) 

June 11- 8 PM- Northwest Arkansas Naturals at Tulsa Drillers (CBSSN) 

June 14- 6 PM- Greensboro Grasshoppers at Lexington Legends (ASN) 

June 18- 7 PM- Mississippi Braves at Tennessee Smokies (CBSSN) 

June 21- 6 PM- Harrisburg Senators at Altoona Curve (ASN) 

June 23- 7 PM- Mid-West League All-Star Game (ASN) 

June 25- 7 PM- Toledo Mud Hens at Durham Bulls (CBSSN) 

June 28- 7 PM- Springfield Cardinals at Arkansas Travelers (ASN) 

July 5- 6 PM- Akron RubberDucks at Richmond Flying Squirrels (ASN) 

July 9- 8 PM- Frisco RoughRiders at Northwest Arkansas Naturals (CBSSN) 

July 12- 3 PM- All-Star Futures Game (MLB)
7 PM- Spokane Indians at Hillsboro Tops (ASN)

July 15- 8 PM- AAA All-Star Game (MLB) 

July 16- 8 PM- Memphis Redbirds at Iowa Cubs (CBSSN) 

July 19- 6 PM- Aberdeen IronBirds at Tri-City ValleyCats (ASN) 

July 23- 7 PM- Altoona Curve at Akron RubberDucks (CBSSN) 

July 26- 6 PM- Durham Bulls at Norfolk Tide (ASN) 

July 30- 7 PM- Lexington Legends at Greenville Drive (CBSSN) 

August 2- 6 PM- Nashville Sounds at Omaha Storm Chasers (ASN) 

August 6- 9 PM- El Paso Chihuahuas at Albuquerque Isotopes (CBSSN) 

August 9- 6 PM- Birmingham Barons at Pensacola Blue Wahoos (ASN) 

August 16- 6 PM- Gwinnett Braves at Columbus Clippers (ASN) 

August 23- 6 PM- Hickory Crawdads at Greensboro Grasshoppers (ASN) 

September 22- TBA- AAA National Championship (NBCSN) 

2014 American Sports Network CFB TV Schedule

 

Last week I mentioned that ESPN Plus had a new competitor in Regional College athletics in the American Sports Network. To date ASN will be airing games from 5 conferences, with Conference USA being the largest of the 5. It looks like ASN will broadcast 2 to 3 games every Saturday for Sinclair affiliates to pick up. All 5 conferences have announced their ASN schedules. All times listed are EDT.

August 30

3:30 PM- Hampton at Old Dominion (C-USA)

7 PM- Bethune Cookman at FIU (C-USA)

September 6

Noon- JC Smith at Charlotte (C-USA)
3:30 PM- Fordham at Villanova (Patriot/CAA)- Patriot League broadcast

 7 PM- Rhode Island at Marshall (C-USA)

September 13

3:30 PM- Lehigh at New Hampshire (CAA/Patriot)- CAA broadcast

3:30 PM- Alabama A&M at UAB (C-USA)

7 PM- New Mexico State at UTEP (C-USA)

September 20

3:30 PM- Nicholls State at North Texas (C-USA)

7 PM- Appalachian State at Southern Miss (C-USA)

7 PM- Charlotte at Elon (CAA/C-USA)

September 27

Noon- Georgetown at Colgate (Patriot)
3:30 PM- FIU at UAB (C-USA)

3:30 PM- Western Carolina at Furman (SoCon)

7 PM- Samford at Chattanooga (SoCon)
7 PM- Elon at Coastal Carolina (Big South/SoCon)- Big South broadcast

October 4

Noon- Southern Miss at Middle Tennessee (C-USA)

3:30 PM- New Mexico at UT San Antonio (C-USA)

7 PM- Hawai'i at Rice (C-USA)

October 11

3:30 PM- North Texas at UAB (C-USA)

7 PM- Maine at Stony Brook (CAA)

8 PM- Old Dominion at UTEP (C-USA)

October 18

Noon- Western Kentucky at Florida Atlantic (C-USA)

1 PM- Chattanooga at The Citadel (SoCon)

3:30 PM- Rhode Island at Richmond (CAA)

7 PM- Southern Miss at North Texas (C-USA)

October 25

Noon- Maine at Rhode Island (CAA)

Noon- Mercer at Chattanooga (SoCon)

3:30 PM- Louisiana Tech at Southern Miss (C-USA)
3:30 PM- Charleston Southern at Coastal Carolina (Big South)

7 PM- UTEP at UT San Antonio (C-USA)

November 1

Noon- Rice at FIU (C-USA)

3:30 PM- William & Mary at James Madison (CAA)
3:30 PM- Coastal Carolina at Gardner-Webb (Big South)

7 PM- UAB at Florida Atlantic (C-USA)

November 8

Noon- Louisiana Tech at UAB (C-USA)

3 PM- Western Carolina at Samford (SoCon)

3:30 PM-  FIU at Old Dominion (C-USA)
3:30 PM- Monmouth at Liberty (Big South)

7 PM- Marshall at Southern Miss (C-USA)

7 PM- Towson at Villanova (CAA)

November 15

Noon- Wesley at Charlotte (C-USA)
Noon- Presbyterian at Gardner-Webb (Big South)

3:30 PM- Middle Tennessee at FIU (C-USA)

7 PM- Albany at Villanova (CAA)

November 22

Noon- Elon at James Madison (CAA)
Noon- Gardner-Webb at Monmouth (Big South)

3:30 PM- FIU at North Texas (C-USA)

3:30 PM- Chattanooga at Furman (SoCon)

7 PM- Florida Atlantic at Middle Tennessee (C-USA)

November 29

Noon- Old Dominion at Florida Atlantic (C-USA)

3:30 PM- UAB at Southern Miss (C-USA)

7 PM- Middle Tennessee at UTEP (C-USA)

Look out ESPN, here comes the American Sports Network

 Ok, so I just wanted to make the title sound interesting. Starting this fall fans will be able to watch college athletics on a new home, the American Sports Network. The American Sports Network, or ASN as it will be most commonly called, is a new network owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Basically Sinclair Broadcast Group is entering into live sports broadcast. They will produce more than 200 live events each season that Sinclair stations can pick up for broadcast. Most of the games will air on CW and My Network TV owned stations, but bigger named groups can pick up games that don't conflict with their regular schedules.Currently only Sinclair stations have the rights to the games, but they are in talks with other interested stations about making it a regional package outside of Sinclair.

To date ASN has five conferences that have signed up with them: Conference USA, the Big South, the CAA, the SoCon, and the Patriot League. So far Sinclair's schedule for CUSA and the SoCon has been announced. Events on American Sports Network include college football, men's and women's college basketball, women's college soccer, and college baseball to start with.

Most ASN games will not be streamed on ESPN3, though some may end up due to the conferences affiliations with ESPN (SoCon). However individual stations airing the games will have the rights to stream them on their websites. Conference USA has already announced that the games for them ill be streamed on the C-USA Digital Network, and the CAA has confirmed that CAA.Tv will carry their games. The new network acts as a supplement to games that have already been picked up by each conferences main broadcast partners and does not replace any current existing contracts.

And that is it for now. Look forward to seeing what games get selected by ASN when I publish the weekly schedules later this year. Or you can head over to mattsarzsports.com to take a look at the football broadcast schedules and see which ones ASN has already picked up for CUSA and the SoCon.