UFL Schedule to be Released Feb 5th

[johnnyangryfuzzball]

The league has to tease its fans for a whole weekend to build up hype? Why not just release the schedule today and get it done. 

I think the main reason is that it's better to get the general public's attention before you dump a bunch of information on them like that.

The teases for the merger announcement were quite effective.

[johnnyangryfuzzball]

The weekly matchups just dropped:



Still waiting on dates/ times

[4th&long]

https://www.espn.com/united-football-le ... 30-kickoff

>> UFL announces inaugural season schedule with March 30 kickoffThe league, formed last year via a merger between the XFL and USFL, will open with a March 30 game between the USFL champion Birmingham Stallions and the XFL champion Arlington Renegades at Choctaw Stadium in Arlington, Texas (1 p.m. ET/FOX).

The rest of the opening weekend's schedule includes:
• St. Louis Battlehawks at Michigan Panthers (March 30, 4 p.m. ET/FOX)
• D.C. Defenders at San Antonio Brahmas (March 31, noon ET/ESPN)
• Memphis Showboats at Houston Roughnecks (March 31, 3 p.m. ET/ESPN)

The UFL will host two conference championship games the weekend of June 8-9 to determine the participants in its league championship game the following weekend.Every UFL game will be televised on either ABC, Fox, ESPN, ESPN2 or FS1. ABC/ESPN games will be streamed on ESPN+, and Fox games will stream on the Fox Sports app. Nearly three-quarters of the games will air on either ABC or Fox.  <<

[johnnyangryfuzzball]

And we have the dates (thread)

[4th&long]

https://www.espn.com/united-football-le ... 30-kickoff

>> UFL announces inaugural season schedule with March 30 kickoffThe league, formed last year via a merger between the XFL and USFL, will open with a March 30 game between the USFL champion Birmingham Stallions and the XFL champion Arlington Renegades at Choctaw Stadium in Arlington, Texas (1 p.m. ET/FOX).

The rest of the opening weekend's schedule includes:
• St. Louis Battlehawks at Michigan Panthers (March 30, 4 p.m. ET/FOX)
• D.C. Defenders at San Antonio Brahmas (March 31, noon ET/ESPN)
• Memphis Showboats at Houston Roughnecks (March 31, 3 p.m. ET/ESPN)

The UFL will host two conference championship games the weekend of June 8-9 to determine the participants in its league championship game the following weekend.Every UFL game will be televised on either ABC, Fox, ESPN, ESPN2 or FS1. ABC/ESPN games will be streamed on ESPN+, and Fox games will stream on the Fox Sports app. Nearly three-quarters of the games will air on either ABC or Fox.  <<

 

No ABC opening w/e.

 

 

[XFL4ever]

Individual tickets will go on sale in a couple of weeks. Was hoping to get them today, but hey, we've waiting this long..... 

[4th&long]

Individual tickets will go on sale in a couple of weeks. Was hoping to get them today, but hey, we've waiting this long..... 

They really want to push season tix sales - but its getting late.

One interesting note on the schedule, there is one instance where the league is going with NFL style regionalization:

Saturday, April 20	7:00 PM	D.C. Defenders at Birmingham Stallions	FOX*
Saturday, April 20	7:00 PM	Michigan Panthers at San Antonio Brahmas	FOX*

*Check local listings for market regionalization

This is likely due to Network scheduling conflicts BUT its a good test to see how well it works as league expansion may require more of these types of broadcasts.

ALSO - the network breakdown is slightly better than I expected only 1 FS1 and 1 ESPN2 games.  Broadcast 31 (including the Fox April 20 regionalized games).  Not bad out of 43 games.
>>

• UFL games will be broadcast on ABC, FOX, ESPN, FS1 and ESPN2.  Games on ESPN and ABC will be streamed on ESPN+ and FOX games will stream on the FOX Sports App. All games will be streamed via TV Everywhere
• 72% of all UFL games will air on broadcast television (ABC or FOX)
  • ABC                10
  • FOX                 21
  • ESPN              10
  • ESPN2            1
  • FS1                 1 <<

[XFL4ever]

DC at San Antonio on Easter morning. That might be a tough one to attend, I wanted to see that matchup but I always celebrate Easter with Church and family. Guess I'll be watching on TV and may attend the DC at Arlington game on April 13th instead. Still plenty of games to choose from. 

[laxtreme56]

Looks like there's actually 3 weeks where Fox games may be regionalized.Week 4 (April 20 at 7 PM) DC at Birmingham Michigan at San AntonioWeek 5 (April 27 at 7 PM) San Antonio at Arlington Birmingham at HoustonWeek 9 (May 26 at 2:30 PM) DC at Memphis Michigan at Houston

On the plus side, ratings will probably be a bit higher with 2 games in these windows. On the negative side, that's one less game to watch. Remember, XFL 1.0 had an "A" and "B" game for its Saturday night games on NBC.

[4th&long]

DC at San Antonio on Easter morning. That might be a tough one to attend, I wanted to see that matchup but I always celebrate Easter with Church and family. Guess I'll be watching on TV and may attend the DC at Arlington game on April 13th instead. Still plenty of games to choose from. 

Yes - but looking back to 2022 the most watched single broadcast game was the NBC Easter Sunday game at 12pm delayed till 12:50 start due to rain.  That was 2.2 million - would have preferred Fox for the noon Easter game this yr, but ESPN should do well.