NSU Football Opener at Rutgers to Air on ESPNews, ODU, Marshall Games to be Televised

NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY DICK PRICE STADIUM

NORFOLK, Virginia -- Norfolk State's 2015 football season-opener at Rutgers on Sept. 5 will kick off at noon and will be televised live on ESPNews, the Big Ten announced. The Spartans football team has picked up two additional televised games for the fall, as the American Sports Network announced that NSU's games at Conference USA foes Old Dominion (Sept. 12) and Marshall (Sept. 19) will be broadcast by the network.

Rutgers is the first of three non-conference road games for the Spartans this fall, all against Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams.

This year marks the fourth meeting all-time between NSU and Rutgers, with the Scarlet Knights winning previous meetings in 2007, 2010 and 2013. This year's game at High Point Solutions Stadium in Piscataway, N.J., will also mark the debut of new Spartans' head coach Latrell Scott.

The NSU-ODU game on Sept. 12 will kick off at 7 p.m. at ODU's Foreman Field at S.B. Ballard Stadium. In addition, the Spartans' game the following week at Marshall will begin at 3:30 p.m. at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington, W.Va.

The American Sports Network is a division of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. ASN features games from Conference USA and nine other Division I conferences. ASN and its affiliates reach nearly 40 percent of American TV homes with syndicates in major markets such as Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. Locally, ASN is available on WTVZ on broadcast, cable and satellite television.

This will be the third meeting all-time between the Spartans and their cross-town opponents from ODU. The teams met in the first round of the 2011 Division I FCS playoffs, with the Monarchs winning 35-18. In 2013 in the teams' only previous regular-season meeting, ODU topped NSU 27-24 at Dick Price Stadium on a last-second field goal. The 2015 meeting on the ODU campus marks the end of the schools' current home-and-home series.

This year marks the first-ever meeting between NSU and Marshall.

Game times for NSU's MEAC football games – beginning with the home opener with Hampton on Sept. 26 – have all been announced, pending the release of the conference television schedule. To view the Spartans' 2015 football schedule, click here.

With Monday's announcement, NSU's entire non-conference schedule this year will now be televised.

The MEAC television schedule will be announced at a later date.

2015 NSU Football Schedule

Matt Michalec, Asst. AD/Communications
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