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''Saturday Night Football'' (branded for sponsorship purposes as ''Saturday Night Football on ABC presented by Wells Fargo'') is a weekly presentation of prime time broadcasts of NCAA Division I FBS college football games that are produced by ESPN, and televised on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). Games are presented each Saturday evening starting at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time during the college football regular season (however until ESPN/ABC lost the NASCAR television rights to NBC Sports Group in 2015, games were not broadcast during weeks when ABC was scheduled to carry a Saturday nighttime Sprint Cup Series race). , the primary broadcast team includes play-by-play announcer Chris Fowler and analyst Kirk Herbstreit, with Heather Cox as sideline reporter. John Saunders, Mack Brown and Mark May host the studio halftime show, as well as brief pre-game and post-game shows. Other ESPN broadcast teams may also occasionally appear for regional (and some national) telecasts. ==Overview== ''Saturday Night Football'' premiered on September 2, 2006, with a game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. While ABC and ESPN have aired college football games on Saturday nights for decades, this program marks the first time that a collegiate sports broadcast has officially been part of any major broadcast television network's primetime schedule. Twelve weeks of regular season games were televised during the three-month college football season in 2006, 2007 and from 2009 to 2011; the Dr. Pepper Big 12 Championship Game closing out each season until a conference realignment in which four university football programs left and two others joined the Big 12 Conference resulted in the Championship Game being discontinued after the 2010 event. With the college football season being extended by one week, ABC televised thirteen weeks of games in 2008, closing with the 2008 Big 12 Championship Game on December 6. The Cowboys Classic became the opening game for ''Saturday Night Football'' beginning in 2009; however in 2013, the Cowboys Classic matchup between the Georgia Bulldogs and Clemson Tigers served as the opening game. The Classic served as the opening game for ''Saturday Night Football'' again in 2014 (that year, involving the Florida State Seminoles and Oklahoma State Cowboys) and 2015 (Alabama Crimson Tide and Wisconsin Badgers) Games from the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big 12 Conference, the Big East Conference, the Big Ten Conference, the Pacific-12 Conference and the Western Athletic Conference have aired on ''Saturday Night Football'', as well as non-conference games in which teams from these conferences were either playing at home or a neutral-site game to which ABC holds the television rights. Only North Carolina State, Virginia, Louisville (from the ACC), Rutgers, Indiana (from the Big Ten) and Utah (from the Pac-12) have not appeared on ''Saturday Night Football''. All BCS conferences have appeared on ''Saturday Night Football'', as the Southeastern Conference has had its teams featured in eight non-conference games. Boise State is the only non-BCS school to be featured to date. In recent years, following the loss of broadcast rights of the Pac-12 Conference to Fox Sports in 2012, the Pac-12's Saturday Night Football appearances have been limited to non-conference games, especially home games against Notre Dame and games against the Southeastern Conference, as well as road games against conferences that still have broadcast rights with ABC. Besides Pac-12 and Big Ten games, ABC makes most of its game broadcast selections or options twelve days prior to the game (with some being made six days beforehand). This allows ABC to 'flex' the most compelling game it has the rights to broadcast into the ''Saturday Night Football'' slot. As a result, the Saturday night game is usually ABC's "game of the week". With the loss of the Sprint Cup Series to NBC and NBCSN, ''Saturday Night Football'' will expand its seasonal game schedule full-time to 13 weeks beginning in 2015, starting with the Cowboys Classic; a bye week will also be included in October to avoid competing with Fox Sports' coverage of the World Series. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saturday Night Football」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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