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Outdors21

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Question:

I am moving out west soon and am wondering if we have an idea of what games will be available nationally now. With the ESPN deal, wont all (except maybe Homecoming) games be available nationally on some station or another?

Thanks.
 
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Not sure yet, but do yourself a favor and order ESPN Gameplan from your cable company. It will be the best $100 you spend all year; especially if you're stuck out west watching Mtn West and Pac-10 games.
 
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GAVol said:
Not sure yet, but do yourself a favor and order ESPN Gameplan from your cable company. It will be the best $100 you spend all year; especially if you're stuck out west watching Mtn West and Pac-10 games.
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Is that really worth it? I was thinking about this just the other day. Will you be able to see every single game, or just the ones ESPN is carrying in some region or another?
 
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GAVol said:
Not sure yet, but do yourself a favor and order ESPN Gameplan from your cable company. It will be the best $100 you spend all year; especially if you're stuck out west watching Mtn West and Pac-10 games.
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+1

Also, you can watch college football from 9A until midnight if you live on Pacific time. You may have to set the alarm to watch College Gameday.

All but about 1 Vols game a year has been available for the past decade. If it's not on another channel, ESPN has it on gameplan.
 
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If your out west it will be great...if you order it and your in the south then all I can say is slow down on the gambling.
 
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When I lived in Florida gameplan was 79$ and by far the best cash I ever spent~~~
 
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Living in Houston, we were able to pick up just about all of Tennesse games on gameplan. It should be better this year since ESPN has the SEC contract.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Is that really worth it?
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Just order it. They usually sell it in the preseason for about $75-$80. Things may be slightly different with the new ESPN/SEC deal, but you have to figure that if your team has 2 "non-televised" games it pretty much is worth it even if you are in an SEC market . . . and if you live in either a non-SEC TV market or a different SEC market from the team you support, it's a no brainer.
 
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Outdors21 said:
Question:

I am moving out west soon and am wondering if we have an idea of what games will be available nationally now. With the ESPN deal, wont all (except maybe Homecoming) games be available nationally on some station or another?

Thanks.
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ESPN Regional TV Introduces ‘SEC Network,' Announces Affiliates - OleMissSports.com—Official Web Site of University of Mississippi Athletics

Here's my understanding. In past years I have gotten gameplan because I live in ACC country and would miss all the Jefferson Pilot (or Lincoln Financial or Raycom or whatever they were calling it) games if I didn't. This year I'm probably not going to buy gameplan because I am in a region with an SEC Network affiliate. The SEC network will air 1 SEC game each week with almost all the other SEC games airing on an ABC channel, or an ESPN affiliate. Since I am in an SEC network region 11 of the Vols 12 games will be on the SEC Network, an ESPN channel or ABC with the one exception being Memphis. So check the listing above and see if your new city will have an SEC network affiliate. If it doesn't then you'll miss one SEC game each week that airs on the SEC network unless you get Gameplan. This will include the Vol opener against Western Kentucky.

My only confusion is if the ABC game will be regional or national. If it's regional then that could cause you to miss some additional games if you live out west.

Hope this helps.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Is that really worth it? I was thinking about this just the other day. Will you be able to see every single game, or just the ones ESPN is carrying in some region or another?
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You also get out of market PPV games, generally... out some games on regional networks.
 
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While ordering Gameplan would be better in terms of clarity and everything, if money is an issue, I'd find out if your internet provider is one of the many which now offer ESPN360.com for free if you are one of their customers. AT&T, Verizon and soon Comcast all do. I was able to watch most UT games that weren't on TV in Ohio on there. College Football is really the best use of ESPN360, as seemingly nearly every game that is televised somewhere is carried by them online.
 
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I ordered gameplan when I lived in Murfreesboro to watch all the games we played and the UT games were always blacked out
 
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TennesseePride said:
I ordered gameplan when I lived in Murfreesboro to watch all the games we played and the UT games were always blacked out
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Yeah UT games are blacked out in the state of Tennessee on Gameplan. The local stations want you watching them on their channel and not on Gameplan.
 
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so is the sec network going to be shown just like raycom that used a affilation on cbs or fox?
 
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vol4life14 said:
so is the sec network going to be shown just like raycom that used a affilation on cbs or fox?
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Yes, there will be a preview show at Noon (just like Raycom), then a 12:21pm kickoff. The link in post #10 of this thread has the list of TV stations ESPN will be using.

:thumbsup:
 
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Depends on where you're moving to, but I'll echo what someone said about the internet access through ATT or Verizon. I'm in Los Angeles, and with AT&T DSL, ESPN360 is included for free (because ESPN charges ISPs an extortion fee trying to make the internet like tv networks, but that's neither here nor there).

ESPN360 is the online equivalent of GamePlan (to be watched on the computer), but it's free (since ATT or Verizon has to pay for it).

I do have to set my alarms to watch football, since the noon games come on at 9am and GameDay comes on at 6 or something crazy (haven't seen the whole thing since i've moved out here).

But the benefit is that all the Pac10 games are available leaving a 15-16 hour window of college football watching. Can't freakin' wait.
 
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fulmersbelly said:
Depends on where you're moving to, but I'll echo what someone said about the internet access through ATT or Verizon. I'm in Los Angeles, and with AT&T DSL, ESPN360 is included for free (because ESPN charges ISPs an extortion fee trying to make the internet like tv networks, but that's neither here nor there).

ESPN360 is the online equivalent of GamePlan (to be watched on the computer), but it's free (since ATT or Verizon has to pay for it).

I do have to set my alarms to watch football, since the noon games come on at 9am and GameDay comes on at 6 or something crazy (haven't seen the whole thing since i've moved out here).

But the benefit is that all the Pac10 games are available leaving a 15-16 hour window of college football watching. Can't freakin' wait.
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fulmersbelly! What a name...:eek:lol:
 
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Awesome, I just moved to the U.P. back in January and was wondering what I was going to do about games. Gameplan was my first thought, so I will probably go ahead and order it. Too bad my internet provider is charter and i dont think 360 is free. Oh well, It will be 80-100 dollars well spent. GO VOLS :rock:
 
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Yoopervol, and others thinking about ordering gameplan, I'd really really wait until the last possible minute to order, because of the new SEC Network deal with ESPN.

Whereas it's true that the SECN is only available as a syndicated package through local affiliates, the likelihood of living in one of those markets is greater than not.

More details should emerge along with an affiliate list of local networks as the season draws nearer, and the first game ever on SECN being the WKU vs. UT game, it'll be worth it to wait to see if you can get it locally. A lot of people over on the Satellite TV forums are dropping gameplan for this exact reason, plus the price of it is going up every season (I understand it's OVER $100 now).
 
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fulmersbelly said:
Whereas it's true that the SECN is only available as a syndicated package through local affiliates, the likelihood of living in one of those markets is greater than not.
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The problem with that is that if you live outside the Tennessee area, in the event of overlapping games you are at the mercy of whatever game SECN is showing in your area.
 
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fulmersbelly said:
Yoopervol, and others thinking about ordering gameplan, I'd really really wait until the last possible minute to order, because of the new SEC Network deal with ESPN.

Whereas it's true that the SECN is only available as a syndicated package through local affiliates, the likelihood of living in one of those markets is greater than not.

More details should emerge along with an affiliate list of local networks as the season draws nearer, and the first game ever on SECN being the WKU vs. UT game, it'll be worth it to wait to see if you can get it locally. A lot of people over on the Satellite TV forums are dropping gameplan for this exact reason, plus the price of it is going up every season (I understand it's OVER $100 now).
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What are your thoughts on how long it will be until we can find out whether Gameplan will be providing these games? I just dont want to be left out come Sept 5thanks :) thanks
 
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