To cap its first season of broadcasting college football games for all six conferences in the Bowl Championship Series, XM will air 30 bowl games, starting tonight with the Poinsettia Bowl and ending with the BCS National Championship Game on January 7th.
For the first time, XM sportscasters will provide the play-by-play coverage for four of the biggest games: XM’s T.J. Rives and Don McPherson will call the Sugar Bowl. The Fiesta Bowl will be announced by Gino Torretta and Bill Rosinski, and Dave Sims and Gary Danielson will cover the Orange Bowl and the national championship.
For the Rose Bowl, XM will carry the ESPN Radio feed with "Monday Night Football” host Mike Tirico and former coach Bob Davie.
Plus, ESPN is producing a special on the BCS which will air only on XM on ESPN Radio (ch 140). The show, hosted by ESPN’s Colin Cowherd, will air on December 29th at 8am ET and replay at 2pm ET, with encores on Dec. 30th at 6am and 5pm ET, Dec. 31st at 7pm ET and Jan. 1st at 8am ET.
The full schedule of bowl games with dates, times and channels can be found here.
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I love the regular season games on XM, as a fan of the Pac-10 it's great to listen to all the game, but the Poinsetta Bowl? Don't expect me to tune in. I could imagine this can be nice for those on long drives, or working late.
I'm actually semi-interested in tonight's Poinsettia Bowl, just to hear how Utah does against an underrated Navy team. Utah is heavily favored to win, but I'm predicting a Navy upset.
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