On Saturday September 29, 2012, South Alabama will take to
the field for the first time to face their new instate football conference
rival Troy. This game will be televised through the Sun Belt Network which has
a joint partnership with Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast (CSS) and Cox Sports
Television (CST). Each of the seven games on the Sun Belt Network line up will
air in 13 states across the Southeast and is often available on ESPN3.com and
ESPN Gameplan outside of the CSS and CST markets.
South Alabama and Troy game is set to kickoff at 2:30 p.m. at
Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, a stadium that is believed to be the
largest in the Sun Belt Conference and will hold approx 40,000 fans.
Ladd Pebbles Stadium - Mobile, Alabama Home of the South Alabama Jaguars |
The Sun Belt
Network has selected seven games to air and more to be announced
22
games are currently scheduled to air during the 2012 football season because of
the Sun Belt Conference and its member institution's willingness to broadcast
games. Additionally, the Sun Belt will announce on tomorrow (August 2) that six
more games will be added to the broadcast schedule. Here is a look at the scheduled
games.
Sept.
29: Troy at South Alabama, 2:30 p.m.
Oct.
6: Louisiana-Monroe at Middle Tennessee, 2:30 p.m.
Oct.
13: Florida Atlantic at Louisiana-Monroe, 7 p.m.
Oct.
20: FIU at Troy, noon.
Nov.
3: Louisiana-Lafayette at Louisiana-Monroe, 3 p.m.
Nov.
10: FAU at Western Kentucky, noon
Nov.
24: North Texas at Western Kentucky, noon.