College Football on USA

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College Football on USA refers to the USA Network's cable television coverage of the college football regular season. USA's coverage ran from 1980 to 1986.

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History

During USA's first three seasons (1980-1982), they broadcast several games (they in essence, cherry picked games from regional and national syndicators like Raycom, Mizlou, and Katz) a week. These broadcasts were shown on a tape delayed basis as much as two days later. For USA's final four seasons (1983-1986), they narrowed their coverage to only one game a week. Initially, the games were selected from virtually every conference. However, in the later years, USA would frequently (but not exclusively) air games involving Pittsburgh, Penn State, Notre Dame, Boston College and Maryland. More to the point, by 1984, USA primarily aired games from the Big Eight Conference.

Schedules

1984

Date [1] Start time (EST)Teams
September 82:30Stanford-Oklahoma
September 1512:00 West Virginia-Virginia Tech
September 2212:00San Diego State-Oklahoma State
September 2912:00 Nebraska-Syracuse
October 612:30Colorado-Missouri
October 1312:30Missouri-Nebraska
October 2012:00 Pittsburgh-Miami Florida
October 2712:00Rutgers-Boston College
November 312:00Missouri-Oklahoma
November 1012:00Maryland-Miami
November 1712:00Syracuse-Boston College
November 2412:00Texas-Baylor

Notable games

Simulcasts

Notre Dame football

Since 2011, at least two games per-season are played in primetime often played at neutral venues for the purposes of recruiting and financial benefits for playing at those sites, a high-profile matchup involving a major opponent, or to schedule around conflicts with other NBC Sports or NBC News programming. On occasion, selected games may be shifted to an NBCUniversal-owned cable channel, such as NBCSN or USA Network.

Notre Dame's September 19, 2020, game against South Florida was shifted to USA Network due to conflicts with the 2020 U.S. Open on NBC, and co-produced with the school's in-house production arm Fighting Irish Media due to NBC's main production unit already being used for the tournament. [5]

Notre Dame's double-overtime win against Clemson on November 7, 2020, was NBC's most-watched Notre Dame game since 2005, despite game coverage moving temporarily to USA Network (due to coverage of Joe Biden's acceptance speech after being declared consensus winner of the 2020 presidential election). [6]

Commentators

Play-by-play

Color commentary

Sideline reporters

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