That's just effing great. The Stanford-VT Orange Bowl game was NOT on Broadcast OTA TV last night here in the Bay Area.

If I'm correct, only 4-5 bowl games are on network TV this year.

dsdfafdsa wrote:

If I'm correct, only 4-5 bowl games are on network TV this year.

Yes, you must pay the cable fee and also watch the commercials that they show. It is great!!!!

I'm not complaining. We had satellite TV and canceled it last year.

Far more cable households than Pay Per View ones, but by removing almost all of the games from Over-The-Air TV the system risks going the way of boxing.

The BCS has failed college football. Viewership is down and the bowls are sold to cable as a last resort to squeeze something out of it. The PAC12 Superconference has started the migration to an NCAA bracket system. Stay tuned.

Yep. I just noticed that the championship game will also be on cable, which I do not have. Oh well. I have kind of been on the fence on the whole BCS thing, but I think it is now officially in my "don't care" pile with the NHL.

Put soccer in that pile as well (assuming you didn't already do it).

If they can't sell enough ads to make the networks it's a failure. At least we know that the end of the BCS is near.

Well the BROJOS are certainly selling out with their ads falsely labeled as threads at the bottom of this page!!!

I watched the game and I don't have cable. It was available through the espn website. I do have AT&T internet, and the broadcast included an AT&T logo. Maybe that's why I could watch it.

Anyway, give it a try.

http://espn.go.com/espn3/

Q: How do I get access to ESPN3?

A: ESPN3 is available nationwide, but you must subscribe to a participating high speed internet service provider.

Click here for a list of participating providers.

http://espn.go.com/espn3/faq#4

Q: I heard that ESPN3 is free on college campuses and military bases. Is this true?

A: ESPN3 is available free to fans accessing the site from a college campus network in the United States or from a military base in the United States.

College football is dying a Cable TV death.

Just go to bar and watch the game while you get drunk like a real man would.

So, are you telling the OP that getting drunk in his mom's basement is not manly?

Depends on how hot his mom is.

Simple solution. Get cable. Or stop complaining. There's no such thing as a free lunch, son.

[quote]espn on tv wrote:

Q: How do I get access to ESPN3?

A: ESPN3 is available nationwide, but you must subscribe to a participating high speed internet service provider.

ESPN 3 is being used to draw games away from broadcst channels. They will then use those games to hold the cable networks hostage to pay them more money forcing the cable to charge customers more. I cannot get espn 3 because I have Dish.

When Time Warner jacked my cable up $40 in one month, I switched to Dish. I have a basic plan that costs about $40 a month. I have season tickets to the Cavs and I have the NBA League pass yet unless I pay more money to get the "sports" package which includes Fox sports, I am locked out from watching any Cavs game on my tv. That seems just a little overboard in the greed dept. to me. (Not that I have any interest in watching the Cavs after Lebron left)

ESPN and ABC are jointly owned. They could put the games on either channel. They put the mid-week games(including Monday Night Football) on ESPN because most households that watch football have ESPN. This leaves ABC free for non-football programming.

Every digital station has substations and ABC could have broadcast the football games it on a substation.