#11 Missouri vs. #6 Oklahoma to be pre-empted by Georga/Vanderbilt

It's pure SEC garbage. Their alums cry like little kids in a toy store who can't get what they want. Their alums have destroyed the BCS rankings. It's pure manipulation of a weak U.S. media by SCE crybabies.

I'd rather watch UGA/Vandy, but I'm in the minority. I imagine the network is doing this because they expect more people to watch.

I think Missouri will be murdered though. Oklahoma needs to make a push so they can get into the title game since it appears everyone will have a loss this year (I think LSU will lose to UF if they have a rematch in Atlanta).

There's no reason to act like a fool and bash the SEC, the network is simply doing what they think will be best for them. It's like complaining about Notre Dame being on tv even though they haven't been a very good team in a decade.

I was an aweful AD but I created the BCS just so that you wouldn't be able to see some big-12 trash play instead of an average, rather, below average SEC game! Deal with it! The 'Dores are laughing all the way to the bank. But the ESPN U package if you want to watch Mizzou choke it up!

Roy

I go to Vandy and I don't even want to watch that crap.

Because there are more SEC fans in American than Big 12 (more Big Ten fans too).

That being said, take a look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_football_stadiums_by_capacity

Top Ten consists of 4 SEC teams, 3 Big Ten teams, 2 Pac 10....and the Reskins?....weird.

Alan

Actually, ESPN2 is showing Colorado and Kansas St... from your own conference!!!

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/schedules?week=7&season=2&year=2007&groupId=80

I'm sure some network will pick up the Missou-OK game though. Two ranked teams playing each other will most certainly be televised by someone, even if they have to adjust the time of the game.

And to the poster above who think the Georgia-Vandy game will get better ratings because SEC football is so popular... nobody in the SEC watches Vanderbilt... not even Vanderbilt fans. (Seriously, they don't even sell out their stadium except when they play Tennessee.)

the little 12 conference wrote:

(Seriously, they don't even sell out their stadium except when they play Tennessee.)

They sold out earlier this year when Alabama came to town (although they were mostly UA fans and it's only a 39k seat stadium).

i'm going to assume it's being shown since it's now the espn game day selection?

That'd be pretty funny if GameDay was in Norman and the game wasn't even broadcast on TV except on some pay-per-view ESPN-U type of package.

Actually, why is Vandy-Georgia being aired when Tennessee at Miss St would be a better game (both 4-2)? And why is Tennessee ranked below Georgia after the slaughter that took place in Knoxville on Saturday?

Because the polls are crap... even more so this year.

well, if you understood how the TV selection process works, it happened because ABC was not on top of their game (although the selection process for games might have been changes since I last checked) the game will be on FSN, which might now actually have the selection rights for big 12 over ESPN/ABC, I don\'t know. If not, last week when ABC/ESPN was selecting their games they didn\'t expect all this to happen.

Vandy actually upset UGA last year in Athens, so UGA will be looking to get revenge. And after seeing how they playing last weekend, this game might not be that bad. Vandy could possibly pull another upset.

very interesting, the seats available for games at different conferences. if you score it like a xc meet, through 5 and 7 teams (since 7 is a little closer to the depth of most football confernces) you get this result:

top 5 stadiums in capacity

1. SEC (32)

2. Big 10 (53)

3. NFL (106)

t4. Big 12 (110)

t4. Pac 10 (110)

6. ACC (202)

through 7

1. SEC (65)

2. Big 10 (136)

3. NFL (165)

4. Pac 10 (269)

5. Big 12 (276)

6. ACC (355)

it's interesting also that Arkansas uses a second home stadium that is larger than the primary home stadium for 6 Big 12 teams, 4 ACC teams, and 3 Big 10 and Pac 10 teams each.

I went to Mizzou in the late 80's; I was in the band. I sat through some really sorry football. When the Tigers were on offense, our band would chant "up the middle, up the middle, up the middle, punt." Once, fans were offered a deal: if you brought in a can of food for a local charity, you could buy one end zone ticket for $5.00 and get another ticket for free. The end zone was still half empty. It was ugly. That people are DISAPPOINTED that the OU v. MU game is NOT going to be on ESPN.... well, I never thought I would see the day. GO MU!

MU is going to smoke oklahoma just like they smashed nebraska. there is no way oklahoma's defense can keep up with missouri's offense. it's going to be a high scoring game because neither defense is all that great but missouri has the better offense.

The reason Vandy-Georgia will be televised this weekend is because of something (strange) that happened last year...

ESPN is throwing Vandy a bone-->Vandy played Michigan at Michigan in 2006 and Michigan would not schedule a game at Vandy, ever.

As incentive for Vandy to accept this lopsided arrangement the network stepped in and said that they would televise next years (2007) Vandy-Georgia game.

There you go.

I live in Athens, GA and love the Dawgs, but after watching Missouri destroy Nebraska I think the country deserves to see as much Tiger ball as possible. Go Tigers! Go Dawgs!

boring. next.

This is a bit complicated and I will admit that I do not know the details, but there is pretty much a draft for what networks carry what games.

CBS has a deal with the SEC. It gets first pick and can ask that some number of games move time slots to accommodate. Then ESPN to gets to pick.

ABC (which is partnered with ESPN and part of the same parent company) has contracts for Big 12 games.

There at one time was something in the contracts about getting to change a game, but a network only gets so many of those in a year.

I see that ABC is televising USC v Arizona and Texas A&M v Texas Tech. USC is logical--big fan base = better ratings. A&M and Tech might have been one of those games ABC picked early thinking it was going to be a good matchup.

As noted, my guess is FSN picks it up.

Something of note, ESPN got busted on a year or two ago for taking Game Day to USC-Nebraska rather that LSU-Florida (I think) because the latter game was not on the ESPN/ABC family (it was a CBS game). Well, since FSN has MU-OU, looks like they either do not consider FSN a threat or think this is a bigger game than say LSU-Kentucky.

http://mattsarz44017.tripod.com/2007/broadcasters.html

Those are only poll numbers. There's no NCAA national champion so polls don't matter. Polls are beauty pageants.