Until last weekend, producing a 3D telecast required broadcasters to contract 2D production trucks and supplement them with 3D-capable equipment. Last Saturday, however, NEP changed that model. Supershooter 3D, a mobile-production unit jointly designed by NEP Broadcasting and PACE Productions, hit the road Saturday night to broadcast ESPN’s first live 3D production. The blockbuster college-football matchup between Ohio State and USC proved to be a ratings success for ESPN and a huge vote of confidence for SS3D.

CBS College Sports Network may not have the rights to broadcast any SEC football games live, but CBS Sports’ cable partner is using the host site of CBS’s weekly game for a new type of pre-game show. This week, CBS College debuts SEC Tailgate, a one-hour broadcast that originates from the site of CBS Sports’ SEC Game of the Week. While many pre-game shows focus on sights and sounds, SEC Tailgate will incorporate the smells of college football Saturday as well.

When the University of Minnesota Gophers kick off against Air Force on Saturday night, it will be the first football game to be played on campus in nearly 30 years. The new TCF Bank Stadium at the University of Minnesota will host more than 50,000 fans in the first Big Ten stadium to be built since 1960.

Last weekend’s eagerly anticipated matchup between powerhouses USC and Ohio State certainly lived up to its billing: more than 10.5 million viewers tuned in, making it ESPN’s most-viewed college-football game ever. But just as important, the much smaller number of viewers who were invited to watch ESPN’s first experiment in live 3D — a 3DHD broadcast of the game — were impressed, and the production went off without a fumble.

This is the second in a series of weekly articles by David Lind, Executive Producer, WIUP-TV. Each week, Lind goes behind the scenes at Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s TV production of the school’s 11-game football season, offering insight into what it takes to produce college-football coverage in a cost-effective manner. This week, Lind’s team solves a technical glitch the day before its first home game of the season, but the production takes a step back.

The Oklahoma State Cowboys begin the college-football season ranked No. 9 in the AP Preseason poll. But the school’s opening contest with Georgia on Saturday will mark the first time a college stadium boasts four large video screens at the corners of the field.

Everything is coming up roses for Collegiate Images, as the XOS Digital-owned company teamed up with the Pasadena Tournament of Roses to represent the video and photography rights of the Rose Bowl Game and Rose Parade.

The Alerus Center in Grand Forks, ND, home of the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team, installed double-sided digital billboards from Daktronics along two major Red River Valley roadways, Interstate 29 in western Grand Forks and 42nd Street.

Wallace Wade Stadium on the campus of Duke University in Durham, NC, now boasts a new fully integrated display system that was designed, manufactured, and installed by Daktronics.

Saturday night’s marquee college football match-up, in which the USC Trojans defeated the host Ohio State Buckeyes 18-15, was ESPN’s most-viewed NCAA gridiron contest ever, including bowl games, averaging 7.243 million households, 10.586 million total viewers, and a 7.3 rating.

ESPN will air its second annual College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon Tuesday, Nov. 17, during which 12 live NCAA games will air on the network over 24 consecutive hours.

The sanctioning body for high school sports in Ohio says a video replay system will be used at state boys and girls basketball tournaments.

Social networking, blogging and micro-blogging skills are the three most important social media communications skills for job candidates to have, according to public relations and marketing hiring decision makers. Most organizations are considering hiring social media specialists.

The Pacific-10 Conference and the Emerald Bowl renewed their agreement through at least 2013, and the Bowl announced three new affiliations that will provide the Pac-10 with a unique set of future opponents in San Francisco.

Beer has long been a social lubricant at tailgate parties in college-campus parking lots during football season. Increasingly, that party is moving inside the stadium.

Sherman Eagles and his wife were enjoying an 80-degree Saturday evening walking to Jay's Cafe near their home in St. Paul's St. Anthony Park neighborhood, 2 miles from the Minnesota Gophers' new TCF Bank Stadium.

For Fayetteville, the first Razorback football game is just around the corner. And this season, fans might want to take a closer look around Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium, this Saturday.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is keeping MSOs on their toes with U-verse upgrades that serve up mosaic video navigation applications and PC-to-TV music- and photo-sharing capabilities.

Grand Valley State Director of Athletics Tim Selgo announced that women's lacrosse will be added as a varsity sport. The Lakers are slated to begin intercollegiate competition during the spring of 2012.

The Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center launched a new Web site that aims to be the most definitive source of news, information and commentary about sports media in America.

Details can sometimes symbolize sweeping trends. Like this one: ESPN formally announces today that on Nov. 17, its live men's NCAA basketball will include a Monmouth-St. Peter's game in New Jersey at 6 a.m. ET, followed by Drexel at Niagara at 8 a.m. ET.

Monmouth at St. Peter’s at 6 a.m.? Drexel at Niagara at 8 a.m.? Those two unusual starting times are indeed part of ESPN’s college basketball lineup for Nov. 17, Michael Hiestand of USA Today reports.

Adelphi University and Pack Network have partnered to offer an industry-leading streaming video solution as announced by Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, Robert E. Hartwell. The subscription-based live web streaming of home athletic events began Saturday, September 12 as the women's soccer team hosted Saint Michael's College, at 12:00 p.m.

The Northeast-10 has announced that the conference has teamed with Pack Network to stream live broadband ‘PackCasts’ of six Northeast-10 Football games this season.

A newly adopted strategic-positioning platform describes Division III as a place to “follow your passions and develop your potential,” within an approach to intercollegiate athletics that combines rigorous academics, competitive sports and an opportunity to pursue other interests.

Bobby Knight was elected to Indiana's Hall of Fame last month. The Hall had the order wrong -- you don't put Knight in ahead of the man who put him in his place.

While shopping recently at RadioShack, Florida quarterback Tim Tebow was approached by a woman with a seemingly innocuous request to take a picture with him. But an instant before her mother snapped the photo with a cellphone camera, the woman tried to take off her shirt.

IMG College’s plan to launch a statewide network to air select University of Arizona football and basketball games ground to a screeching halt, as the Pacific 10 Conference said its contracts with ESPN and Fox Sports Net forbid individual schools from broadcasting their own games across multiple channels in the same window as other Pac-10 games on those networks, John Ourand and Michael Smith of SportsBusiness Journal reported.

The next big thing in sports? 3D, writes Toni Fitzgerald of Media Life, as ESPN presented Saturday’s college football clash between USC and Ohio State in 3D, following in the footsteps of the National Basketball Association and the National Football League, which have dabbled in the technology.

Kevin Allocca of TVNewser polled the White House correspondents to get to the bottom of an important matter of national scope: Who will win the Bowl Championship Series title in college football?

Tennis Channel took a poke at MSG Varsity, the Cablevision Systems-owned high school channel that is launching on the cable operator’s systems Sept. 24, in its latest volley against Cablevision in the carriage dispute between the two parties, reports Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News.

CBS College Sports Network and MaxPreps.com will team up to air seven Friday-night high school football games this season, Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News reported.

Talks are heating up for the third- or fourth-place football team from the Big East Conference and the seventh-place squad from the Big 12 Conference to meet at the new Yankee Stadium in Bronx, NY, in January 2010 for the Yankee Bowl, Pete Thamel of The New York Times reports.