NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM will offer
subscribers its most extensive play-by-play schedule to date for
college football's opening week, showcasing more than 60 live games
from September 3-7.
The Week 1 schedule features every team from the Associated
Press Top 25 poll, and is highlighted by #20 Wisconsin at #3 Alabama, Texas at #11 Notre
Dame, #1 Ohio State at
Virginia Tech and many more. For
the full schedule of opening week games on SiriusXM, go to
www.siriusxm.com/collegefootballschedule.
Throughout the season, SiriusXM's extensive college sports
coverage will feature dozens of college football games each week
from the SEC, ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, American Athletic and
Mountain West conferences, plus Notre
Dame, Army, Navy, and more.
In addition to live play-by-play, SiriusXM College Sports Nation
(channel 84 on satellite radios, on the SiriusXM app and at
SiriusXM.com) offers the most extensive college football coverage
available on radio with daily news and analysis of teams and
conferences across the country.
SiriusXM College Sports Nation boasts a team of expert hosts
that features Heisman Trophy winners, National Championship
winners, and former star players and coaches. New to the
roster this year is legendary coach Lou
Holtz, who will host The Playbook every Friday
(1:00-4:00 pm ET) and the SiriusXM
College Football Tailgate Show every Saturday (9:00 am – 12:00 pm
ET); former head coach Brady
Hoke, who will be on College Sports Today every
Tuesday and Thursday (4:00–7:00 pm ET); Heisman Trophy-winner
Matt Leinart, who will host
College Sports Today every Monday (4:00–7:00 pm ET); and
former head coach Butch
Davis, who will host The Playbook every Monday
and Tuesday (1:00-4:00 pm ET).
They join returning analysts Tim
Brown, Eddie
George, Brad
Hopkins, Greg
McElroy, Kirk
Morrison, Rick
Neuheisel, Houston
Nutt, Gino
Torretta and Phil
Savage; as well as hosts Jack
Arute, Rachel
Baribeau, Chris
Childers, Braden
Gall, Mark Packer,
Chris Spatola,
Andy Staples and
Taylor Zarzour.
During the 2015 season, SiriusXM College Sports Nation will also
offer weekly one-on-one interviews with several head coaches
including: Gary Patterson of #2
TCU, Mark
Helfrich of #7 Oregon,
Jimbo Fisher of #10 Florida State, Dabo
Swinney of #12 Clemson and Les
Miles of #14 LSU.
For more info on SiriusXM's college sports programming, visit
www.siriusxm.com/collegesports. Follow the SiriusXM College
Sports Nation channel on Twitter @SiriusXMCollege.
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