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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012

NO. 9 NOTRE DAME HOSTS MIAMI AT SOLDIER FIELD ON SATURDAY AT 7:30 P.M. ET ON NBC

Liam McHugh Hosts NBC Sports College Football Studio Show, Featuring Analysts Hines Ward, Doug Flutie, Peter King and Mike Florio Pre-Game Show Airs at 7 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Network NBC Sports Live Extra to Live Stream Notre Dame – Michigan Online, and on Mobile & Tablet Apps Towson at James Madison on NBC Sports Network at 1 p.m. ET

NEW YORK – October 3, 2012 – NBC Sports Group continues its 2012 college football coverage with No. 9 Notre Dame (4-0) hosting Miami (Fla.) (3-1) in an off-site home game from Soldier Field this Saturday in primetime at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC.

Veteran NBC announcer Tom Hammond will manage the play-by-play duties and will be joined in the booth by Mike Mayock. Alex Flanagan will report from the sideline in Chicago, Ill.

A Notre Dame-Miami pre-game show will air at 7 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Network featuring NBC Sports’ college football studio team of Liam McHugh, 1984 Heisman Trophy Winner Doug Flutie, and two-time Super Bowl champion Hines Ward. Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk, and Peter King of Sports Illustrated will join the studio crew at halftime of the Notre Dame game on NBC.

At 1 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Network, the James Madison Dukes host the Towson Tigers at Bridgeforth Stadium and Showker Field in Harrisonburg, Va. Randy Moss will handle play-by-play alongside analyst Anthony Herron and sideline reporter Carolyn Manno.

NBC SPORTS LIVE EXTRA DIGITAL COVERAGE

NBC Sports Live Extra Online: For the third consecutive season, all of NBC’s Notre Dame games will be streamed live on NBCSports.com. NBC Sports Live Extra will feature a simulcast of the broadcast feed in full HD quality plus one additional online-only bonus camera. The video player will include picture-in-picture capability and full DVR functionality, allowing the user to pause the live video and even review plays in “slo-mo.”

Sideline reporter Alex Flanagan will provide live in-game tweets. Additionally, fans can watch live coverage of the Notre Dame and visiting teams’ bands at halftime, in-game highlights, as well as a live postgame footage that will include head coach Brian Kelly’s press conference.

NBC Sports Live Extra App: All Notre Dame games will be live streamed on the new NBC Sports Live Extra app. In the coming months, the new app will live stream an abundance of live sporting events that air on NBC, NBC Sports Network or Golf Channel, including MLS, NHL, PGA TOUR, LPGA, European PGA TOUR, Ryder Cupand more, with the vast majority of content only available to TV Everywhere customers.

NBC SPORTS GROUP COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE (all times ET)

1:00 p.m. Sat., Oct. 6 Towson at James Madison NBC Sports Network
7:30 p.m. Sat., Oct. 6 Miami at Notre Dame (Soldier Field) NBC
12:00 p.m. Sat., Oct. 13 Brown at Princeton NBC Sports Network
3:30 p.m. Sat., Oct. 13 Stanford at Notre Dame NBC
3:30 p.m. Sat., Oct. 13 Fresno State at Boise State NBC Sports Network
12:00 p.m. Sat., Oct. 20 Penn at Yale NBC Sports Network
3:30 p.m. Sat., Oct. 20 BYU at Notre Dame NBC
3:30 p.m. Sat., Oct. 20 UNLV at Boise State NBC Sports Network
12:00 p.m. Sat., Oct. 27 Delaware at Old Dominion NBC Sports Network
12:00 p.m. Sat., Nov. 3 Towson at Delaware NBC Sports Network
3:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 3 Pittsburgh at Notre Dame NBC
12:00 p.m. Sat., Nov. 10 Harvard at Penn NBC Sports Network
3:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 10 Air Force at San Diego State NBC Sports Network
7:00 p.m. Sat., Nov. 10 Boise State at Hawaii NBC Sports Network
10:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 10 Fresno State at Nevada NBC Sports Network
12:00 p.m. Sat., Nov. 17 Yale at Harvard NBC Sports Network
3:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 17 Wake Forest at Notre Dame NBC