NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM will
offer a schedule of 34 live bowl games this college football
postseason, including the College Football Playoff Semifinals and
National Championship, giving subscribers nationwide access to live
play-by-play on their satellite radios and on the SiriusXM app.
The schedule begins this Saturday,
December 17, with a lineup of five games that kicks off with
Grambling State vs. North Carolina Central in the Air Force Reserve
Celebration Bowl at 12:00 pm
ET. A complete schedule of games and their SiriusXM
channel assignments can be found at
www.SiriusXM.com/bowlschedule.
On New Year's Eve, subscribers can
tune in for both College Football Playoff Semifinal games – the
Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl featuring #1 Alabama vs. #4 Washington (3:00 pm
ET), followed by #2 Clemson vs. #3 Ohio
State in the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl. Nine days later
listeners will get live play-by-play as the winners of those two
games face off for the College Football Playoff National
Championship at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL (Jan.
9 at 8:00 pm ET). All three
CFP games air on ESPN Radio, SiriusXM channel 80.
In addition to the College Football Playoff games, listeners
will also get access to the six other bowl games that feature
matchups between Top 25-ranked teams. These include: #10
Colorado vs. #12 Oklahoma
St. in the Valero Alamo Bowl (Dec.
29); #11 Florida State
vs. #6 Michigan in the
Capital One Orange Bowl (Dec. 30);
#13 Louisville vs. #20
LSU in the Buffalo Wild Wings
Citrus Bowl (Dec. 31); #8
Wisconsin vs. #15
Western Michigan in the
Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic (Jan.
2); #5 Penn State vs.
#9 USC in the Rose Bowl Game
Presented by Northwestern Mutual (Jan.
2) and #7 Oklahoma
vs. #14 Auburn in the
Allstate Sugar Bowl (Jan. 2).
SiriusXM also offers fans the most in-depth radio coverage of
the college game with daily talk, up-to-the-moment news and expert
analysis on SiriusXM College Sports Nation, channel 84 on satellite
radios and the SiriusXM app.
SiriusXM College Sports Nation features an unparalleled team of
expert hosts that includes Heisman Trophy winners, National
Champions, and former players and coaches. Greg McElroy,
Rick Neuheisel, Matt Leinart, Robert
Smith, Lou Holtz,
Gino Torretta, Butch Davis, Phil
Savage, Tim Brown,
Eddie George, Kirk Morrison, Brad
Hopkins, Charles Arbuckle and
Eric LeGrand are among the analysts
joining hosts Taylor Zarzour,
Chris Childers, Mark Packer, Andy
Staples, Braden Gall,
Mark Morgan, Chris Spatola, and Rachel Baribeau throughout the season.
Twenty-seven of the bowl game broadcasts – including the College
Football Playoff Semifinals and College Football Playoff National
Championship – are produced and provided by ESPN Radio. Other
broadcast providers are Touchdown Radio and RedVoice LLC.
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