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Fox showed all BCS championship games the first three years of the contract, while in 2010 the Rose Bowl stadium was the location of the BCS Championship game, and ABC televised it. In 2011, ESPN will televise all BCS championship games from January 2011 through January 2014.
Here's everything you need to watch the college football slate of bowl games on Thursday, Dec. 28, including time, TV/streaming info and scores:
Sun Bowl - Louisville vs. Washington. Time/TV/location: 2 p.m. ET, CBS, El Paso, Texas. Why watch: Oh what might have been for Louisville, which won at Clemson in dominant fashion and came within ...
Sugar Bowl: No. 2 Georgia vs. Notre Dame/Indiana winner, 8:45 p.m. (ESPN) When are College Football Playoff semifinals? The semifinal games will be played Jan. 9 and Jan. 10 at the site of two ...
ABC has been airing college football since acquiring the NCAA contract in 1966. Chris Schenkel and Bud Wilkinson were the number one broadcast team through 1973. Keith Jackson, its best-known college football play-by-play man, announced games from 1966 through 2005 on ABC (and for 14 years before that for various outlets), and was considered by many to be "the voice of college football."
In 1998, ABC was awarded the first exclusive Bowl Championship Series television contract beginning with the 1999 series. In 2005, the network lost rights to most of the BCS games, including the BCS National Championship Game , to Fox beginning with the 2006-07 series, in a deal worth close to $20 million per game. [ 5 ]
Cotton Bowl (College Football Playoff Semifinal Game), 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN Monday, Jan. 20 College Football Playoff National Championship - TBD vs. TBD, 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN
Fox lost the rights to the Cotton Bowl to ESPN for the 2015 edition, as ESPN holds the television contract to all six bowl games that encompass the College Football Playoff system under a twelve-year deal worth over $7.3 billion. The Cotton Bowl was the only game among the six that was not already broadcast by ESPN. [10] [11]