XM Satellite Radio, the nation's leading satellite radio service with more than 7 million subscribers, will kick off its coverage of the 2006 college football season on August 28. Among the college games to air nationwide on XM during the first week of regular season play are Notre Dame vs. Georgia Tech; Stanford vs. Oregon; Boston College vs. Central Michigan, and Indiana State vs. Purdue.
This marks the first year that XM will carry all the football teams in the Big East Conference. XM is also the official satellite network of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big East Conference, Big Ten Conference and Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) and XM will carry the BCS bowl series on ESPN Radio.
A complete schedule of the ACC, Big East, Big Ten and Pac-10 college football games for the 2006 season broadcast on XM is available at collegesports.xmradio.com.
Listeners can also tune into the XM original "College Football Coast-to-Coast," which will air live, weekdays at [1 p.m. ET and Saturdays from 12-6 p.m. ET] on XM's new 24-hour sports channel XM Sports Nation (XMSN) on XM Channel 143 beginning August 28. Hosted by T.J. Rives, the hour-long program covers news from college football conferences across the country, game analysis, interviews and listener call-ins.
