The Game, MSU game to both be on FOX in 2018
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Also prepare for a Trash Tornado Night Game
CFB TV news: Texas-OU, Michigan-Ohio State and Michigan-Michigan State are set for FOX broadcasts this year, per @ChrisLezotte
— Zach Barnett (@zach_barnett) May 14, 2018
Given that our game against them last season was at night when they were still thought to be garbage, I fully expect a ranked matchup on the road there in primetime.
Unsurprising. Fox got the better half of the deal. It's not my favorite but it's fine, because the games are on tv.
And FWIW Fox does a good job making a big deal of the games, and good for them.
I was planning to attend the game in EL... not sure if I wanna be in that concrete parking structure if it's a night game...
The games could be on QVC for all I care, as long as we take home W's
Brandstatter is hot garbage. Easily the worst play by play guy broadcasting above the high school level.
the fox sports app for roku seems to be pretty stable too. much better than the espn app for those of us streaming from the west coast.
FOX supposedly has the #1 and #3 picks - ABC/ESPN #2 and #4.
Michigan/OSU going #1 makes sense. But it seems that FOX must have taken Michigan/MSU over at least two of the OSU/PSU, Wisconsin/Michigan and PSU/Michigan games (those games also figuring to be highly appealing to TV)?
Notre Dame @ Northwestern might be the best OOC game that's a part of the B1G package. Which doesn't say much about the OOC games B1G teams are hosting in 2018. But that could also be part of the formula above.
then 12 minutes of commercials
Like when ABC zooms in so far that you can't even see the secondary? Yeah, that's awesome.
I could see it being a day game. That game would fall on FOX or FS1 airing NLCS Game 6. Game 6 can have a flexible time if there's a ALCS Game 7. https://t.co/cQu781WXvX
— Matt Sarzyniak (@mattsarz) May 15, 2018
Fox put the ALCS (Yankees/Astros Game 6) on FS1 at night --- then put a rather bad college football game (Kansas @ TCU, the one where Kansas had about 15 yards total offense) on Fox OTA Prime Time.
Fox OTA had their better games at 12 PM (Maryland @ Wisconsin) and 4 PM (Oklahoma @ K-State) that weekend.
That Kansas @ TCU game would be the worst ever TV rating for a prime-time college football game on an OTA network.
So, I could definitely see Fox doing the same thing this year. They like having baseball on FS1 because it drives ratings for that network. If they want to avoid cannibalizing their FS1 baseball viewership, that would mean Michigan @ MSU during the day.
This truly MUST mean we are winning both games this year!
It's about time.
our first memory of Michigan/Ohio State is on CBS with Brent Musberger doing the play-by-play. Mid-1980s.
The Keith Jackson ABC era was nice, but nothing stays constant over time ........
I usually mute the tv and sync up the radio with live play. Nothing better than watching it on tv and still getting to hear Brandstatter and Dierdorf call the game.
Go Blue!!
the game's are televised makes no difference to me. I watch the action with the mute on. I know enough about the game not to be bothered by someone's banter. It works for me.
With our recent run of luck, we will get Tim Brando on the call. His broadcast of the Minnesota game last year was atrocious.