ABC/ESPN has released their coverage maps for this weekend's college football action.

ESPN on ABC
12 noon ET (Full National)
Michigan at Ohio State (HD)
This game will air on ESPN or other local stations in some markets due to scheduling conflicts with syndicated college football games or children programming. The ESPN feed will be SD only.

3:30 ET (Regional Coverage)
Boston College at Wake Forest (HD)
Michigan State at Penn State (HD)
Stanford at California

Boston College at Wake Forest and Michigan State at Penn State are the reverse mirror games. Michigan State at Penn State will be seen on ESPN in areas where the ABC station is showing one of the other two games, ESPN will be SD only. Boston College at Wake Forest will be seen on ESPN SD and HD in the areas where ABC is showing Boston College at Wake Forest.

8 PM ET (Full National)
Texas Tech at Oklahoma (HD)

Stanford at California may be one of the smallest regional coverage areas I have seen in recent memory.

It is clear looking at this coverage map that the U.S. is still a Big-10 leaning football country :).

Boomer

I hate being in ACC territory

I hate being in ACC territory
Why?
If you're looking for the Big 10 game on ABC and it's not in your area, it will be on ESPN anyway.

CFC

Why?
If you're looking for the Big 10 game on ABC and it's not in your area, it will be on ESPN anyway.

CFC

But not in HD

I understand this week's 12:30/3:30 game not being in HD (Stanford @ Cal) because it is only being sent to 4% of the country but the Bay Area has received less than half of this year's games in HD in this time slot. Actually closer to 1 out of every 3. Does anyone have any insight into why this happens?

I hate being in ACC territory

I'm glad to be in ACC country. It's better than being in PAC-10 country b/c you wouldn't get much HD love during this season if you were.

I understand this week's 12:30/3:30 game not being in HD (Stanford @ Cal) because it is only being sent to 4% of the country but the Bay Area has received less than half of this year's games in HD in this time slot. Actually closer to 1 out of every 3. Does anyone have any insight into why this happens?

ABC can only do 2 HD feeds at once. The bay area would typically get PAC-10 games and PAC-10 has not had the best year this year.

As a footnote, it would appear the Big Ten Network was a great idea. What with ESPN, ABC and BTN, I can't recall missing an Ohio State football game for the past two years.

As a footnote, it would appear the Big Ten Network was a great idea. What with ESPN, ABC and BTN, I can't recall missing an Ohio State football game for the past two years.

That is what they were going for. Almost every Big Ten game is a national broadcast, something no other conference can claim.

the big 10 network is great for out of state fans. as a michigan fan living in utah, i have seen all but 1 game this season. of all the games i saw, only one was not in hd. (comcast in my area only has one btn channel and it's not in hd)