How do you balance the need of fans when they’re traveling while trying to expose our programs to the biggest audiences, especially our national power programs that carry the load of most of that,” Commissioner Tony Petitti said during preseason media days last month. “It gets back to the old balance between in person and TV, right? We hear that all the time. The addition of Southern California, UCLA, Oregon and Washington next year could also prevent fears from some teams of playing a November night game in less-than-ideal conditions. And to me, the games look and feel bigger under the lights,” he said. I like taking in the whole day of college football. “My favorite game is in that prime time window. He led Penn State to its first national championship in 1982.
Blackledge, who comes to NBC after 17 years at ESPN, gets to go back to Happy Valley for the opener.
