Another week, another great television experience.  According to gopsusports.com, "The contest will be televised by ESPN to a national audience with Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman and Rob Stone calling the action."  Sounds like a perfect day to break out my "Ann Arbor is a Whore" tee shirt and kick back at home.  Two weeks in a row with no television drama or coverage maps...it almost seems too good to be true.  Go State!

It looks like the entire country will have access to the game on Saturday on ESPN regardless of where you live.  No need to spend another Saturday afternoon calling "insert cable company name here" to find out why your screen just went blank right before kickoff.  This is good news all around!

In case you want to know how the coverage map looks this weekend for non-PSU games, here is a map:

http://www.hdsportsguide.com/news/2008/saturday-oct4-college-coverage-maps/

This past Saturday I woke up early, identified the ESPN channel that would carry the PSU game and didn't think much of it as I went about my day.  Right before gametime I tuned in the channel and clicked on the little purchase icon and found that it didn't work. 

I called DirecTV and they told me that I had already purchased my maximum number of programs via the on-screen purchase system.  WHAT?  I couldn't believe it.  Apparently you have to have a phone line attached to the box to order more than 1 or 2 weeks of pay-per-day gameplan.  The other option is to purchase the pay-per-day gameplan on the DirecTV website earlier in the week.  I haven't found the exact location on the website to make the purchase, but I assume this works. 

I thought I would pass this along to all of you before you get yourself into the same situation I found myself in on Saturday. 

PS: I did get the game...I just had to beg the customer service department.

Has anybody seen the coverage map for the game?  I know it usually comes out on Wednesdays, but I can't find it posted anywhere. 

I am nervous that Colorado folks are going to end up with the Va Tech / Nebraska game, which will make me puke.  ABC better not screw me this week. 

On that topic, what is the deal with ESPN 2 this year?  I hate the new system of putting auto racing on the deuce and moving games to the ESPN spillover channels.