The Athletic Department announced the football television schedule today, with the Quakers appearing on Comcast Sports Network against Villanova (Sept. 19), Yale (Oct. 25) and Princeton (Nov. 7). In addition to those three home games, Penn's Sept. 26 game at Lafayette will air on RCN and, with a tape delay, on MASN.

What's interesting, though, is who will not carry these games: VERSUS. Before the 2008 season, the Ivy League began a partnership with the former Outdoor Life Network and current home of the NHL (insert joke here). Last year's Penn-Brown Homecoming game reached VERSUS's 73 million-home audience, even if none actually tuned in. And last year, all eight schools received a national TV showing. (Because of The Game, Harvard and Yale each got on twice.)

No love for Penn (or Columbia, or Dartmouth) so far this year. The only confirmed games on VERSUS are Cornell at Yale on Sept. 26, Princeton at Brown on Oct. 17, and The Game on Nov. 21.

A Penn Athletics press release earlier today announced that the football game this year at Princeton will be moved to Friday November 7th from Saturday the 8th. (Actually I just read the Princeton Athletics release and it's more detailed). The reason for the change? So it can be aired live on ESPNU. The meeting will be the 100th between the schools.

The Quakers' previous game is Saturday the 1st home against Brown, so the short week should not be that big of a deal. Princeton, meanwhile, will be disadvantaged more by the short week. They play at Cornell on the 1st.

But The Tigers are used to playing under the lights on a national TV audience on Friday night. They beat Brown 17-3 two years ago and Cornell 34-31 last year, both Friday ESPNU games.

This would be the first non-Saturday game the Quakers have played since Thursday October 10 at Villanova in 2002.

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