Colorado State University Athletics
Rams to play on ESPNU Sept. 11
6/2/2010 12:00:00 AM | Football
June 2, 2010
By Zak Gilbert
Athletic Media Relations
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – Colorado State will make an early-season appearance on ESPNU when it travels to Nevada Sept. 11. The Western Athletic Conference made the announcement late Tuesday.
The network has established a corresponding 8:30 p.m. MDT/7:30 p.m. PDT kickoff for the non-conference tilt.
Colorado State now will play on national television at least 10 times this fall. In 11 seasons from 2000-10, including 2000 when the Rams finished 10-2 and ranked No. 14 in the final polls, networks have scheduled 80 percent of Colorado State’s games for television, making the Rams one of the nation’s most visible teams.
Over a five-year span from 2006-10, at the end of this season, the Rams will have been on television 48 times, and all 48 will have been available to a national-television audience, thanks mostly to the Mountain West Conference’s television partners, VERSUS, CBS College Sports Network and The Mtn., the nation’s first network devoted exclusively to one conference.
The Rams could add an 11th television game to their 2010 schedule. The Mid-American Conference has yet to announce TV or kickoff time for CSU’s Sept. 18 trip to Oxford, Ohio, where the Rams will meet the Miami Redhawks in a non-conference battle. Due to territorial restrictions, the only 2010 CSU contest that definitely won’t be televised is the Sept. 25 Fort Collins opener against Idaho, the annual Ag Day celebration at which the Rams will break out orange uniforms and play in their original Colorado A&M colors.
ESPNU is available in 70 million homes, to DirecTV subscribers (Ch. 614), DISH customers (Ch. 141) and fans with most cable carriers. However, ESPNU is not presently available to most Comcast subscribers along the Front Range, including those in Fort Collins and Denver, although there is a possibility the cable company will add the network to those markets before Sept. 11. For more information, fans should check local listings or consult their cable carrier directly.
Last season, the Rams played perhaps their most impressive 2009 game when they beat Nevada, 35-20, to improve to 3-0 and pick up votes in the national polls. After the loss at CSU, the Wolf Pack went 8-2, their only setbacks to Missouri and Boise State, to earn a berth in the Hawaii Bowl.
CSU is 9-1-0 all-time against Nevada, but the Rams’ only loss to the Wolf Pack was their last trip to Reno, where Nevada registered a 28-10 triumph on Sept. 16, 2006.
