Fox Sports Nets

[BarryW]

Does anyone know how many college football games are on the FSN's. Also how many of those are usually blacked out.

[FTA Michael]

Last year, most of the Fox Sports Nets would carry the same game or two. They were blacked out once in a while, but since they were on my local FSN, it rarely mattered.

But you didn't ask about the non-Fox Regional Sports Nets. My memory is that Comcast SN, Empire, NESN and Sunshine were a richer source of OOM college football, and again, they were rarely blacked out.

[jrbdmb]

Using last year as an example:

There was usually one or two "national" games on the FSNs. This would include a Pac-10 game and sometimes a Big-12 game or a second Pac-10 game.

As for individual games, you might get Arizona or ASU games on FS-Arizona, Washington-WSU-OSU games on FS-Northwest, and UCLA-USC games on FS-West2. There are also small-conference games on Empire Sports (NY), MSG (NY), Sunshine (Florida), Comcast-DC, and other assorted RSNs. You could also see next-day replays of a few teams (Florida, Florida St., Washington) on the RSNs.

Note that Big Ten, Big East, ACC, and MWC football games on the RSNs will be *blacked out* out-of-market, since these conferences have deals with ESPN and their GamePlan package.

[sbturner]

That's right, you really need the sports pack if you want all the college football games, usually one or two national games and one or two regional games. A good rule of thumb on blackouts is if its on GAMEPLAN (which is a requirement for any true fan) it will be blacked out if its not it won't be. You will find some rare exceptions.

[Msguy]

I know all too well about Subscribing to ESPN Gameplan. I have missed many key S.E.C. games on Saturday afternoons on Jefferson Pilot because the game would be blacked out in my area because a Local Channel was carrying the game and untill last christmas my area didn't have local channels. We Finally got locals in my area and now this season i won't be shut out of the J.P. Game of the week. Yay!!!!!!