2012 Blue Cross Bowl Bracket Release Show

2012 BlueCross Bowl Bracket Release Show

TSSAA Network to Broadcast Bracket Announcements Live

October 23, 2012 (Hermitage, TN) – The TSSAA Network (www.tssaanetwork.com) will broadcast the 2012 Blue Cross Bowl Bracket Release Show live this Saturday, October 27, beginning at 10:00 a.m. CT from the TSSAA office building. High school football teams selected for each of the eight brackets will be revealed on the program hosted by Chad Withrow and Chris Eakes of Nashville’s 104.5 The Zone.

 

The 32 teams for each of the Division I 3A, 4A, 5A and 6A brackets as well as the 24 teams in each of the Division I 1A, 2A and Division II A and AA brackets will be outlined in the live show produced by the TSSAA Network. Viewers can watch the program at TSSAANetwork.com.  Each bracket will also be posted on the TSSAA website (www.tssaa.org) in conjunction with being revealed on the show. Withrow and Eakes, who host a weekly high school football radio show on 104.5 The Zone, will also break down the match-ups and talk with some of the coaches involved.

The BlueCross Bowl football championships will be held from November 29 through December 1 at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tennessee.  The eight Championship games will be broadcast LIVE across the seven Tennessee Public Television Council stations, including Chattanooga, Cookeville, Martin/Jackson, Tri-Cities, Knoxville, Memphis, and Nashville, and streamed LIVE on ESPN3.com.  The stations and over-the-air broadcast channel numbers are provided below, but check local listings for the channel number on your cable or satellite provider.

WTCI–TV Chattanooga  |  Channel 45

WCTE–TV Cookeville  |  Channel 22

WLJT–TV Martin/Jackson  | Channel 11

WETP–TV Tri-Cities  |  Channel 2

WKOP–TV Knoxville  |  Channel 15

WKNO–TV Memphis  |  Channel 10

WNPT–TV Nashville  |  Channel 8

The broadcast times for the 2012 BlueCross Bowl are:

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
Division II, Class 1A   -  3:00pm CT | 4:00pm ET

Division II, Class 2A   -  7:00pm CT | 8:00pm ET

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Division I, Class 1A   -  11:00AM CT | 12:00pm ET

Division I, Class 3A   -  3:00pm CT | 4:00pm ET

Division I, Class 5A   -  7:00pm CT | 8:00pm ET

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2012

Division I, Class 2A   - 11:00AM CT | 12:00pm ET

Division I, Class 4A   - 3:00pm CT | 4:00pm ET

Division I, Class 6A   -  7:00pm CT | 8:00pm ET

The 2012 BlueCross Bowl championship games are presented by the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA), BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, the Tennessee Governor’s Highway Safety Office, the Cookeville-Putnam County Chamber of Commerce, Tennessee Tech University and the TSSAA Network. 

The TSSAA Network is a partnership between the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA) and PlayOn! Sports that features live and on-demand coverage of high school sports in Tennessee across television and the Internet.  The TSSAAnetwork.com video portal is one component of the partnership that gives fans access, at no charge, to a wide variety of events.