June 28, 2007 issue
Four ASU Football Games To Be Televised in 2007
Story by David Coulson
The success of ASU’s football team continues to gain more and more exposure for the Mountaineer program, and one of the obvious signs of that exposure has been in the area of televised games.
The Mountaineers will have at least four of their regular-season contests televised this season, including their historic, season-opening trip to Michigan on September 1.
Other games to be televised include road trips to Southern Conference rivals Wofford on September 22 and Furman on October 27, and a November 17 home game against Tennessee-Chattanooga.
ASU coach Jerry Moore said the television schedule speaks to the competitiveness of the Southern Conference as much as it does about the Mountaineers’ recent success.
“I think it says a lot about our league,” said Moore. “Our league is good, you’ve got good matchups.”
The Michigan game will be one of the first live football games shown on the new Big Ten Network. The noon start will coincide with a noon start time for a game between Ohio State and Youngstown State, also being shown by the Big Ten Network.
Moore is excited about his team’s game at Michigan that will be played at the 110,000-seat Michigan Stadium—the largest sports facility in the country.
“Michigan is the only place in the Big Ten I haven’t coached a game at,” Moore said. “I guarantee you, they wouldn’t have scheduled us if we hadn’t won a couple of national championships.”
Moore said he is also looking forward to coaching against a longtime friend, Michigan Coach Lloyd Carr.
“I’ve known Lloyd Carr for a long time,” said Moore. “He’s a very personable guy.”
It will mark the fifth consecutive nationally televised game for ASU that had its four playoff games last fall televised by the ESPN family of networks on the way to the Mountaineers’ second straight national championship.
The three other televised games will appear on SportsSouth, formerly Turner South. SportsSouth is available in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi.
The games with Wofford and Furman are scheduled for 3:00 p.m. and will feature teams expected to challenge ASU for the Southern Conference title in 2007. The Mountaineers are two-time defending champions in the SoCon.
Chattanooga, an improving program in the SoCon, comes to Kidd Brewer Stadium for a 3:30 p.m. game on November 17. The game will feature a matchup of Moore and Rodney Allison, who received his first fulltime coaching job from Moore when Moore was the head coach at Texas Tech.
Additional contests on ASU’s 11-game regular-season schedule may also be televised. ASU meets Georgia Southern on October 20 in a showdown that has been televised every year since 1997.
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