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.