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Starting a blanket thread since there has been so much change in college football especially on television. 

 

The major changes are CBS losing the SEC package to ABC and ESPN as well as the Big Ten's new deal, not to mention all the realignment and NIL, transfer portal stuff.....

 

So (try to) enjoy the games and share your thoughts here!

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Looks like CBS has brought the packaged they debuted last February for the Super Bowl for all CBS broadcast games while CBS Sports Network so far has maintains the old package. 

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ESPN is serious enough about the SEC on ABC that even the BottomLine has an SEC on ABC logo instead of an ABC one. Something else I noticed was that the separate ESPN on ABC bug is gone on college football now, with that logo replacing the usual ESPN CFB insignia on replays instead.

 

Also CBS's mistake of a scoreboard refresh: you thought that team name font looked bad enough with abbreviations?

 

Meanwhile the temporary ESPN graphics for college football on The CW are gone. Replaced with what is now basically the old CBS one with a different font. For some reason I was expecting them to take the Pac-12 Network graphics and shove a CW logo into them (given that its staff is producing the Pac-2 games) or use some version of the third variant of the ACC basketball graphics. I wonder if they gave them to Raycom for the ACC games too.

 

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Also of note, TNT Sports now has its own dedicated CFB graphics for its Mountain West package (don't know if they'll show up on the CFP games it has sub-licensed too because reportedly ESPN will be producing them). Scoreboard looks like a cross between the March Madness one and the Monday Night Football graphics

 

 

Something else I noticed that's a bit odd about the new CBS graphics. For some reason, certain games have been using a scoreboard where the game clock area is white instead of black, and this has happened on games with both the new and old scoreboard.

 

 

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Umm... it looks like the PAC-12 could be coming back from the dead. For those wondering about the logos, that's Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, and San Diego State.

 

(via a report shared by Yahoo Sports on FB)

May be an image of football and text

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You know Broadcast TV is circling the drain when the networks (Fox & CW) are airing college football on Friday nights. 

 

I get it maybe the first couple weeks, but this is a bit much.  Friday nights are for high school football and I'm sure the affiliate stations that have newscasts (with extensive high school coverage) are not too happy about it.

 

And with the Sinclair CW stations that do high school football on Friday nights... Do they send the NASCAR race that airs right before packing (in the eastern markets) in favor of their Friday Night Rivals game?

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For the late night games you figure that the West and Mountain time stations are good with it, and most of the Nexstar and Sinclair CW base is pre-empting filler like True Crime News and The National Desk, and had enough time to bump their local coverage to their MyNet sister or to the DT2 subchannel.

 

As for the Fox stations it can only really help their coverage since they don't have to rush footage and pack editing suites to get their entire segment done, so it gives everything more time to breathe, and worse comes to worse, any pre-emptions have a full two days in overnights to be covered. And for Fox's O&Os they've begun to push their late newscasts to Fox Local on-time and a replay after the game, so at least for them there's no extra pain or having to wait until midnight to get on-air. For other groups with sister stations, things like "First on Fox" and "Most Wanted" aren't aired and the Big Three newscast is repeated late, or centralcasters like Coastal had the show well done outside weather before the game even started.

 

The thing I don't get though is why Fox hasn't killed the Saturday late night hour. No SNL rival is oncoming and you can't keep justifying a reality show repeat these days in that slot. And they might as well put Weekend Marketplace out of its misery already because the little money it makes when it does air can't even be a lot these days.

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WXMI Fox17 puts the High Football Biltz on Sat Mornings since Fox has put Friday Night College Football on. I agree time for Fox to give the Market place out of its misery as MrsChimpF said Fox17 has always put that in the graveyard at 2AM to 4AM.  

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