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ESPN started covering college football in the 1984 season
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ESPN started covering college football in the 1984 season


Sep 23, 2020, 6:24 PM

I looked it up. I could not find a specific date on when they started telling us how to live. I suspect only a few games into the 1984 season though

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1984?


Sep 23, 2020, 6:43 PM

Guess I was wrong since we had just moved back to CLT from G’ville and thought ESPN got my attention in 1980.

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From Wikipedia, so it may all be BS:


Sep 23, 2020, 6:54 PM

History
ESPN began airing taped college football games during the 1979 regular season, starting with a game between Colorado and Oregon. The network was limited to airing tape-delayed games because the NCAA controlled television rights through exclusive contracts. However, because bowl games operate outside the control of the NCAA, ESPN was able to air the 1982 Independence Bowl between Kansas State and Wisconsin live (through a simulcast with the Mizlou Television Network) – the first live football game televised on ESPN.

After the 1984 Supreme Court decision in NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma allowed individual schools to negotiate television rights, ESPN began broadcasting live regular-season games during the 1984 season, beginning with a game between BYU and Pittsburgh on September 1, 1984. The first live broadcast of a regular-season night game followed that night, between the Florida Gators, who were ranked number 17, and the Miami Hurricanes, who were ranked number 10.

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In the 1983 and 1984 seasons three teams had every game


Sep 23, 2020, 7:46 PM

shown (taped, not live) on ESPN.

Clemson, Notre Dame, and UCLA.

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Re: In the 1983 and 1984 seasons three teams had every game


Sep 24, 2020, 5:57 AM

Clemson was still on probation during those years. I believe there was in-state only telecasts of games due to sanctions. My parents used to tape the games and mail them to me as I was in the Army and the games were not shown on regular TV.

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Re: ESPN started covering college football in the 1984 season


Sep 23, 2020, 8:22 PM

It was mainly ABC and CBS before that. Clemson and Georgia was a big game for CBS in early 80's. Turner (TBS)had a college game on Saturday night too before ESPN. Looked it up and TBS started in 82. Seemed like it was always southern schools like Ole Miss and Tulane on TBS.

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I remember putting aluminum foil on the antennas on the TV


Sep 23, 2020, 8:37 PM

And adjusting them so there would be no squiggly lines watching football on one of the four channels we got without squiggly lines. We got 1 more channel.... sometimes. And that was on the good color TV. The other TV was not even color. And it took a good 2 minutes for it to warm up.

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Re: I remember putting aluminum foil on the antennas on the TV


Sep 23, 2020, 9:45 PM

Due to probation, Clemson games were not allowed telecast the day of the game. So they were shown on local channels after midnight on Sunday morning. I do not know if this applied in 1984, but part of the probation kept us from going to a bowl game.

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Re: I remember putting aluminum foil on the antennas on the TV


Sep 24, 2020, 7:01 AM

In 1983 and 84 I worked at the Communications Center. Clemson partnered with Raycom productions and we would tape every game and then edit it down to a 2 hour broadcast. I would go in at midnight and press play to upload the game to ESPN and then on Sunday morning, I would drive the tape to Charlotte so they could rebroadcast the game on Sunday. Good times and helped pay for my college.

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Re: I remember putting aluminum foil on the antennas on the TV


Sep 23, 2020, 10:22 PM [ in reply to I remember putting aluminum foil on the antennas on the TV ]

I did not get cable TV until 1985. I was happy to get to watch the braves every night.

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Re: I remember putting aluminum foil on the antennas on the TV


Sep 24, 2020, 6:55 AM

I remember watching the Braves in the 80's as a kid on TBS. Good lord they were terrible but I loved Rick Mahler and Glenn Hubbard.

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Re: I remember putting aluminum foil on the antennas on the TV


Sep 24, 2020, 10:30 AM

Yes. WTBS Atlanta's SuperStation as it was known back in the day.

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Re: ESPN started covering college football in the 1984 season


Sep 24, 2020, 7:13 AM

And has now regressed to being eSECpn.
One thing I am glad of however ,is we don't have to listen to Berman as much. What an annoying A-#0!?

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ESPN did the live closed circuit broadcast of


Sep 24, 2020, 10:20 AM

the Clemson-coot game of 1981. I was in Frank McGuire arena watching that when Rod McSwain broke through and blocked the punt. Bam! Lots of Tigers in that place.

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Re: ESPN did the live closed circuit broadcast of


Sep 24, 2020, 10:36 AM

Yes I remember being at LJ watching Clemson-Carolina games as a kid on closed circuit TV when they were not on broadcast/cable TV. Unthinkable today that the rivalry game would not be on regular TV.

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