One fun thing about this race...
Because ESPN is building it up to be this huge soap opera of, "Who's #2!?!?!" each week, and we're being mentioned with Notre Dame and Oregon, the spotlight will be on every single week.
It's all ABC or Big Fox from here on out, and this is going to do nothing but help Klein...and national perception.
Also, because we'd have the only game on 12/1 with BCS bowl implications on a college campus, my guess is that Gameday would be in Manhattan for Texas, and it would be on ABC at 7 PM. The only other Conf. Champ game they own that day is the ACC, and that would most likely be played on ESPN at 6:45 PM CST because it doesn't have national title implications.
The 2012 Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship Game, which will be played on December 1 in Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C., will be nationally televised by either ABC, with an 8 p.m. kickoff, or ESPN at 7:45 p.m. It will be the fourth straight prime time exposure for the ACC title game which drew a sellout crowd of 73,675 fans last year and has averaged 73,027 fans in its two years in Charlotte.
Notre Dame ends their season on 11/24 against USC, the Pac-12 title game is Friday night on Fox, and the SEC title game will be on CBS at 3 PM and will end around when our game kicks off. We would go up against the Big Ten title game head-to-head on Fox that night, and no one is going to give a **** about it because no one cares about a meaningless Nebraska vs. Wisconsin game.
The last big game of the year would be us, in prime time, on ABC with Brent and Herbie calling it while Chris, Lee, Desmond, and Pollack roam BSFS.
You can't ask for much more when you're trying to win a Heisman and impress voters for the BCS selection the following day. Especially when the opponent is Texas.