The United States Football League (USFL), a new professional football league launching this spring, will play its inaugural game on Saturday, April 16, in prime time (7:30 PM ET) at Protective Stadium in Birmingham, Alabama.
ESPN viewers feasted on college football throughout Thanksgiving, with six of the top seven games and eight of the top 10 matchups airing on ESPN networks over the holiday weekend.
The first game of ESPN’s signature NFL Week 1 Monday Night Football doubleheader — Pittsburgh Steelers at the New York Giants (7 p.m. ET) — delivered cable’s third-highest audience for a sporting event in 2020 and cable’s best in the category since January, as the game averaged 10,760,000 viewers.
Bleacher Report’s B/R Gridiron will launch a full slate of on-demand programming and fresh football content for young audiences that will build upon the content vertical’s debut last year.
Seven-time Grammy Award-winner Carrie Underwood will star in the debut of the 2020 show open for NBC's Sunday Night Football, which has been prime-time television's top program for an unprecedented nine consecutive years.
The GEICO ESPN High School Football Kickoff returns for its 11th year this weekend with a seven–game slate featuring teams from nine different states, including four defending state champions.
The fifth annual ESPN Fantasy Football Marathon Presented by EA Sports NFL Madden 21 launches season-long, multi-platform programming dedicated to the immensely popular game across ESPN’s networks.
