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ESPN on ABC’s Saturday Night College Football will be back for a second year and California Memorial Stadium will be the site for this year’s first Saturday night event.
When Tennessee travels to Cal for the first time ever on Sept. 1, it will be shown to a national television audience on college football’s opening weekend. The game is slated to kickoff at 5:00 p.m.
When the Bears traveled to Knoxville, Tenn., last year, the game was at a pseudo-primetime slot vanquished to languish on cable TV. Yeah, sure it had a national TV audience on ESPN, but how many people have cable? Not many. Not enough.
So, this year’s matchup gets all exposure it needs and it gets all the attention from the World Wide Leader in Sports, getting to be on the big network and quite possibly (we have our fingers crossed) getting the College Gameday crew out here for that game. We would love to see Cal-lover Lee Corso don the Oski head!
What we won’t see is Robert Meachum running rough-shot through the Cal secondary. Sure Erik Ainge is still the gunslinger for the Vols, but no Meachum to make Syd’Quan Thompson look like a fool.
Hopefully what we will see is a gold blur that is DeSean Jackson running back a punt for a touchdown. That’d be awesome, and we wouldn’t want our Bears to look like a bunch of Syd’Quan Thompsons in front of a national TV audience.
Also, the perennial USC versus Cal matchup (which will be for the Pac-10 title and a trip to the Rose Bowl/BCS Title game) will also be on Saturday Night College Football.
So TWO Nationally Televised games from Berkeley – better get your game faces on, Cal fans.
Schedule to feature top matchups, conference games [ESPN]
