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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Local programming will air on the West Coast, following FOX's MLB coverage.]
**FOX SPORTS SPECIAL** - COLLEGE FOOTBALL - (7:00 PM-CC ET live/4:00 PM-CC PT live) CC-Stereo
FOX SPORTS SATURDAY PRESENTS
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, ON FOX
Heisman Trophy winner and College Football Hall of Famer Eddie George and former Oregon quarterback Joey Harrington partner with host Erin Andrews on FOX COLLEGE SATURDAY, FOX Sports' new 30-minute college football pregame show originating live from the FOX Network Center in Los Angeles. Then, FOX Sports kicks off coverage of its 2012 regular season college football schedule live from Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, CA, with the USC Trojans hosting the Hawai'i Warriors. Gus Johnson provides the play-by-play and Charles Davis offers analysis. FOX SPORTS SATURDAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL '12 airs LIVE Saturday, Sept. 1 (7:00 PM-CC ET live/4:00 PM-CC PT live) on FOX. (FSS-201) (n/a)
DESCRIPTION: (from FOX's press release, April 2012) The schedule is led by 12 college football contests (to be announced) plus the Big Ten Football Championship Game, and eight regular-season Major League Baseball games plus Game 4 of the World Series. Those 22 events form the backbone of FOX Sports' Saturday prime time experiment, rounded out by three NASCAR Sprint Cup races and three UFC events. Altogether, the 28 upcoming dates combine for approximately 100 hours of live sports programming, and the number swells to over 100 when the UFC on FOX event on Jan. 28 and Budweiser Shootout on Feb. 18 are included.
