Florida’s first three games on ESPN

By
mikecapshaw
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Florida finally knows what time to show up for its first three games and fans know where to find those games on the tube.

The Florida Gators football team learned Monday its first three games of 2012 will be broadcasted on ESPN.

The Southeastern Conference also released game times for those games.

The Gators open the season at 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 1 by hosting Bowling Green in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. That’s followed by the SEC opener at 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 8 against Texas A&M, which joined the league along with Missouri this season as part of a two-team expansion.

Florida then heads to Tennessee for a 6 p.m. game on Sept. 15. The longtime rivalry will not air on CBS for the first time since 1995.

CBS will air the Gators’ game against their other SEC East rival, Georgia, at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 27.

The rest of the game times will be announced at a later date.

mikecapshaw
mikecapshaw
Mike Capshaw brings a wealth of experience to the Gator Country team. He’s been overseeing all editorial aspects of GatorCountry.com and Gator Country magazine by managing our team of staffers, interns and freelancers. He is now moving into a bigger role as a reporter by covering the football and basketball beats as well as providing coverage of all sports on campus. Mike’s 15 years in the business has included more than six years of covering SEC sports and recruiting at a daily newspaper in Arkansas. He has also helped launch a newspaper, magazines, websites and even a sports talk radio show. Because Mike puts family ahead of his career, he left the place where he was established when his wife received an opportunity to further her career at UF. He took a leap of faith that he could find a job in the Gainesville area and worked for a year at a newspaper group before joining the Gator Country family in November, 2011. Mike has won Florida Press Association awards for Best Sports Game Story and Best Sports Feature Story in the past two years as well as a company-wide award at his former newspaper group that includes some 60 publications, for Excellence in Sports Reporting. You can follow Mike on Twitter at @MikeCapshawGC.