Given the enormous expectations for both No. 6 Ohio State and No. 4 USC, ESPN’s broadcast of their Sept. 12 matchup already had blockbuster written all over it, but ESPN has moved the game into a new dimension. The network announced this week that ESPN will use that game to test out its 3D-production capabilities, creating a separate 3D telecast in addition to the 2D high- and standard-definition broadcasts. The 3D HD program will be shown in five locations, to invited audiences only.

For its seventh season of college-football coverage, CBS College Sports Network is making plenty of upgrades, but no excuses.

Louisiana State University fans already know that LSUSports.net is a go-to destination for original video on LSU’s sports teams, but when the athletic department’s NeuLion-hosted Website unveils its latest redesign this fall, that original video will be featured like never before.

ESPN is continually expanding its subscriber reach, especially for its syndicated programming and ESPNU, the 24-hour college-sports network. For the 2009 football season, however, ESPN is contracting its focus, turning its emphasis toward local coverage.

For college coaches, video analysis has evolved from a hobby to a requisite daily ritual. The more detail a coach can see, the better that coach can scout opponents and prepare the team. So, when Sportstec released the latest version of its SportsCode software with native-HD capabilities, college coaches across the country began taking their game to the next level.

The University of Georgia Athletic Association’s eight-year, $92.8 million rights deal with International Sports Properties (ISP) is one of the most lucrative ever in college sports. As part of that agreement, ISP created a dedicated production unit to work in close cooperation with the university. The ground-up operation will use Sony HD tapeless technologies, including the PDW-F355 optical-disc XDCAM HD camcorder and the XDCAM EX series PMW-EX3 solid-state compact camcorder.

Ben Godwin is switching sports, leaving his position as account manager for the affiliate-sales and marketing group at MLB Network to join XOS Technologies’ XOS Digital division as assistant general manager of SEC Digital Network.

Daktronics will design, manufacture, and install two new LED video displays at the Silvio O. Conte Forum, home of the Boston College Eagles men’s and women’s basketball and ice-hockey teams.

Daktronics will design, manufacture, and install a new four-sided, center-hung video display at Carnesecca Arena in Queens, NY, home of St. John’s University Red Storm basketball.

ESPN and its various platforms love the Southeastern Conference—102 times during the upcoming 2009-10 NCAA basketball season, to be exact. The sports programmer will air 91 regular-season SEC games and 11 SEC Tournament games, marking its highest total ever.

ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU are re-enrolling in high school. The three networks will team up to air 21 live high-school-football games this season: 17 as part of the 2009 ESPNU Old Spice High School Showcase, with presenting sponsors including Gatorade, Nike, and the U.S. Marine Corps; and four as part of the Kirk Herbstreit Varsity Football Series.

The Big South Conference announced a two-game expansion of the schedule for its Big South Television Network.

Millions of Americans will set aside Saturday afternoons this fall to watch college football - an increasing number of them tuning into cable sports channels that a few years ago didn't exist.

Helmet cams were once a gimmicky element of now-defunct pro football leagues such as the World League or XFL. Now the technology is being used in college football to help improve a quarterback's decision-making process.

Camera phones, hand-held video cameras and social networking sites like Twitter have turned sports fans with Web sites into instant reporters and broadcasters. But one of the nation’s leading college leagues is drawing a line in the turf.

At what point does the Meadowlands complex in East Rutherford, N.J., begin counting as a Notre Dame satellite campus?

According to breaking news from Mashable, social media will be banned from college stadiums. As, the social website reported that earlier this month, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) informed its schools of the new policy, which said that ticketed fans could not produce or disseminate any material or information about the event, including, but not limited to, "any account, description, picture, video, audio, reproduction or other information concerning the event.” The last bit extends the ban to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media. This will mean that fans will no longer be able to update their status about the results of the game they are watching or even tweet comments about the game.

Big Ten fans around the globe will be able to watch their favorite football and men's basketball teams beginning this fall with "Big Ten Ticket," the Big Ten Network's new international streaming package.

Dade City judge and University of Florida grad Pat Siracusa is such a big Gators football fan that he sometimes wears a replica Tim Tebow jersey under his black robe on Fridays in the fall.

Penn State fans in central and northern Pennsylvania will get access to the Big Ten Network following an agreement between the cable channel and Atlantic Broadband, which will offer the network in the Altoona-Johnstown areas of central Pennsylvania and the Bradford-Warren areas of northern Pennsylvania, Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News reports.

Live Sports Radio is expanding to 25 major football schools this season as the company’s tiny and sturdy play-by-play radios become standard equipment for fans in college stadiums around the country. The single-ear devices provide high-fidelity feeds of local broadcasts to fans both home and away and display each school’s colors and logos.

When is a home game not a home game? When Penn State hosts Indiana and Virginia Tech hosts Boise State at FedEx Field in Landover, MD; Oklahoma hosts BYU at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX; and Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City hosts Missouri, Kansas, Iowa State, and Kansas State.

The Fort Myers Miracle planned to pay homage to that miracle-maker Tim Tebow, but what happened instead? Try an approaching tornado, an aborted circumcision, and a cease-and-desist letter from UF. God does not take kindly to your mockery.

Fall is just weeks away, and for many sports fans that means one thing: football. And while we may be thinking first of the NFL, there's also a huge national following of college football, and with it comes a desirable audience for marketers.

The defending America East champion University men's and women's soccer teams will appear in three of 20 College Game of the Week telecasts on the Fox Soccer Channel this season, the network and NSCAA announced Thursday. Nickerson Field will be on full display for the nation to see during the weekend of Sept. 18-20, when the men host Boston College that Friday and the women face Harvard on Sunday.

Two Big 12 soccer matches will be televised on national television during the 2009 season, the Big 12 Conference announced. ESPNU will broadcast the Missouri at Texas A&M soccer contest scheduled for 4 p.m. CT on October 4. The Big 12 Soccer Championship game on Nov. 8 at 1 p.m. CT will continue to be televised on FSN.

Mike Gundy never imagined he could be coaching in a facility that looks as nice as Boone Pickens Stadium now does. It even has the smell of a new house -- from entering the coaches' offices to the player locker rooms and the new luxury suites.

The Boston College and Boston University men's hockey teams will play outdoors in a doubleheader at Fenway Park on Jan. 8, 2010, a week after the ballpark hosts the NHL's New Year's Day Winter Classic between the Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers.

The Division I Softball Committee at its recent meeting decided to make the outfield fences at the Women’s College World Series higher and farther away beginning in 2010.

Two members of the New Jersey Athletic Conference are adding men’s golf as a varsity sport during 2010-11. The programs will become New Jersey City’s 16th varsity sport and William Paterson’s 13th sport. Both programs are sponsoring club teams during the coming academic year.

College Fanz Sports Network, the world’s largest online college sports community launched by ESPN founder Bill Rasmussen, today announced a strategic partnership with Livestream, a New York-based company which offers a platform that enables the production and distribution of live television on the Internet.

Syracuse Director of Athletics Dr. Daryl Gross and CEO of New Meadowlands Stadium Company Mark Lamping announced today that the New Meadowlands Stadium will host select Syracuse University football games in 2012, 2014 and 2016.

Stan Parrish thought back to the 1997 Ohio State-Michigan football game. Then Michigan’s quarterbacks coach, he remembered trying to talk with quarterbacks Brian Griese and Tom Brady while on the sidelines. It didn’t work too well.

The Auburn ISP Sports Network, in association with Authentic Films, is producing a brand new football television show entitled Auburn Football: Every Day.... The weekly 30-minute show is a reality-based, documentary-style production that will give Tiger fans a never-before look at the inner workings of the Auburn football program. Auburn Football: Every Day ... will chronicle the Tigers journey from the first day of practice in August through the entire 2009 season. The show will debut on Sept. 4.

Dozens of colleges are up in arms over a new Anheuser-Busch marketing campaign that features Bud Light beer cans emblazoned with local schools' team colors.

From Maine to California, tens of thousands of college athletes are suiting up for the seasons ahead. Only this year, there are fewer athletes and fewer teams.

There will always be sports fans ready to relive and reargue the merits of celebrated professional sports teams like the 1995 Dallas Cowboys. But how about the Long Beach State women’s water polo team?