Football: ESPN Regional to Air Marshall Game
July 28, 2006 09:32 AM | General
July 28, 2006
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- ESPN Regional Television (ERT), a subsidiary of ESPN, Inc., will present the "Friends of Coal Bowl" college football game featuring state rivals Marshall at West Virginia Saturday, September 2 on several local affiliate television stations throughout West Virginia at 3:30 p.m. ET. The game will also be available on ESPN GAMEPLAN, the out-of-market pay-per-view package, offered nationally via satellite and cable.
The following West Virginia television affiliates will carry the telecast through a syndication agreement with ESPN Regional Television:
This will mark the sixth meeting between these two teams since 1911. West Virginia holds a 5-0 series advantage. The last meeting was played in Morgantown in 1997, with West Virginia taking a 41-32 victory. The 1997 matchup featured NFL quarterbacks Marc Bulger (West Virginia) and Chad Pennington (Marshall).
