June 14, 2012

Complete 2012 Football Television Schedule & Release

Conference USA has announced its preliminary television schedule for the 2012 football season. The current confirmed schedule features nearly 80 games to air nationally or regionally, putting it on pace for the highest number in league history. National games will be televised on Fox Sports Net (FSN), FX, CBS Sports Network, ABC and ESPN. Included are several unopposed windows that provide tremendous exposure to C-USA, as well as numerous exciting league match-ups, and many challenging non-conference contests.

The 2012 football season marks the second year of an agreement between Conference USA and Fox Sports Media Group for national television rights to a variety of marquee Conference USA events, including a minimum of 20 regular-season football games. Through two dozen owned and affiliated networks, FOX Sports Networks (FSN) programming reaches more than 85 million homes across the country.

This season marks the eighth year of C-USA's partnership with CBS Sports Network that includes significant national and regional exposure for football, men's and women's basketball and other C-USA sports. CBS Sports Network (CBSSN) is the 24-hour cable destination of CBS Sports. Available to more than 99 million homes nationwide, CBS Sports Network covers more than 340 live games annually, showcasing 30 men's and women's sports, in addition to a variety of studio shows and original programming.

"We are very pleased to once again have a significant number of our football games on television and distributed to fans throughout the country," said Conference USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky. "We are looking forward to an exciting conference season this fall and we're glad that people around the country will be able to watch C-USA Football games."

The FSN schedule kicks off on Saturday, Sept. 1 with a doubleheader of action involving C-USA teams (Appalachian State at East Carolina in the afternoon and Oklahoma at UTEP in the evening). The entire schedule currently features 20 games on FSN.

CBS Sports Network will nationally carry a minimum of 15 C-USA football games during the 2012 season, including 10 conference match-ups. Live game coverage kicks off on Thursday, Aug. 30 with UCLA visiting Rice, followed by Rutgers at Tulane two days later on Saturday, Sept. 1.

As part of the league's agreement with CBS Sports Network, 14 games have been sub-licensed for regional broadcast on Comcast Sports Southeast (CSS). Eleven of those 14 games will be league matchups.

The 2012 C-USA Championship game on Saturday, Dec. 1 is scheduled to air on either ESPN or ESPN 2. It marks the eighth straight year that the C-USA Championship will air on the ESPN Family of Networks.

Additional Conference USA football television exposures remain a possibility (including nine games that are guaranteed to be televised as part of another conference's television package), and games will be released as soon as they are finalized.

2012 CONFERENCE USA FOOTBALL TELEVISION SCHEDULE (confirmed games as of June 14; Subject to change)

CBS SPORTS NETWORK NATIONAL

FOX SPORTS NET SCHEDULE

ABC SCHEDULE

ESPN SCHEDULE

ESPN 2 SCHEDULE

ESPN or ESPN 2 SCHEDULE

ESPN U SCHEDULE

ESPN3.COM SCHEDULE

COMCAST SPORTS SOUTHEAST (CSS) REGIONAL SCHEDULE

CST REGIONAL SCHEDULE (LOUISIANA)

TIME-WARNER TEXAS REGIONAL SCHEDULE (TEXAS)

PAC-12 NETWORKS SCHEDULE

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