The Big Ten will have seven football games televised in prime time this fall by either ABC, ESPN or ESPN2, and the Gophers will be part of three of them.
Ohio State also drew three prime time assignments on these networks, Michigan State drew two, and no other team in the conference had more than one. It's quite a leap for the Gophers, who had just one prime time game last year (on Big Ten Network) and played six consecutive games that started at 11 a.m.
With ESPN's official announcement Thursday of the Big Ten prime time schedule, coupled with last week's Big Ten Network prime time announcement, here the known details of the Gophers' four prime time games this fall:
Sept. 3 -- Gophers vs. TCU on ESPN, 8 p.m.
Oct. 31 -- Gophers vs. Michigan on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Nov. 7 -- Gophers at Ohio State on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2, 6 p.m. or 7 p.m.
Nov. 14 -- Gophers at Iowa on BTN, time TBA
The other Big Ten prime time games on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 are as follows:
