The Mountain West Conference and TNT Sports have announced a multi-year agreement for a full slate of football games that will air on truTV and Max beginning in 2024.
Coverage of Mountain West football on truTV and Max will begin this season on Thursday, Aug. 29 when the San Jose State Spartans host the Sacramento State Hornets. The game will kickoff at 10:00pm ET / 7:00pm PT.
“TNT Sports provides the Mountain West with a third national television partner to showcase the outstanding student-athletes across the league,” said MW Commissioner Gloria Nevarez. “TNT Sports has always been a leader in sports broadcasting, and adding one of the top conferences in the FBS to its lineup will certainly be a benefit to MW and college football fans across the country.”
Saturday doubleheaders on truTV and Max are slated for Sept. 7, Sept. 14, Sept. 21, and Oct. 12.
“We are excited to partner with the Mountain West and bring these compelling college football games to truTV and Max,” said Raphael Poplock, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions, Business Development and Partnerships, TNT Sports. “With this agreement, we will further expand our live sports programming on truTV while creating additional exposure for the Mountain West and its student-athletes across our TNT Sports platforms.”
Below are the 14 Mountain West football games that will air on truTV and Max this season. Additional broadcasts by Spectrum Sports (Hawai‘i) and regional/local/school broadcasts will be announced at a later date.
2024 Mountain West football schedule on truTV and Max
*All times Eastern.
Thursday, Aug. 29
Sacramento St. at San José St. – 10pm
Saturday, Aug. 31
Texas A&M Commerce at San Diego St. – 8pm
Saturday, Sept. 7
Idaho at Wyoming – 3:30pm
Georgia Southern at Nevada – 7pm
Saturday, Sept. 14
Kennesaw St. at San José St. – 7pm
New Mexico St. at Fresno St. – 10:30pm
Saturday, Sept. 21
UTEP at Colorado St. – 5pm
Fresno St. at New Mexico – 8:30pm
Saturday, Oct. 5
Nevada at San José St. – 7:30pm
Saturday, Oct. 12
San José St. at Colorado St. – 3:30pm
Air Force at New Mexico – 7pm
Saturday, Oct. 19
New Mexico at Utah St. – 4pm
Saturday, Oct. 26
San José St. at Fresno St. – 8pm
Saturday, Nov. 2
Wyoming at New Mexico – 4pm
Mountain West Football Schedule
Will the conference via theMW Network (Stadium?) produce the games or TNT sports?
IDK,
How good or bad R the TNT productions of NBA basketball? or is it TBS?
I don’t have cable & don’t know who Max is.
Max is a streaming service/app, also referred to by some as HBO Max.
@HTK Personally have not complaints but the reason for the question is TNT is not producing the CFP games and this press release makes no reference to production. Curious to see if this season is a test of TNT’s college football coverage using the MW schedule as a development opportunity to either expand their coverage with more broadcasts next year and/or also produce the CFP games.
I wonder if Pac 12 Enterprises, the successor to the Pac 12 network which is producing the Pac 12 (Pac 2) games for the CW, could be involved on the production side. Most of the games are in the same region as their bay area headquarters. I actually though the CW might pick up some of these MW games since they don’t have Pac 12 (Pac 2) games every week.
Doubt it will happen. Money is better.
Georgia Southern at Nevada is a pretty good game
Very cool. It appears that every game will be broadcast across both platforms with nothing being exclusive to Max, correct? Always happy when I can stay on the cable box and not have to switch between multiple platforms just to check in on something.
You know what they say, a TV contract is worth it’s weight in gold, as long as the gold’s value is worth it’s equivalent value in dollars, and the dollars can be obtained in exchange from others who want the gold.
Happy to see Turner televising Mountain West Football.
Seems like mostly a New Mexico lineup.
Doesn’t move my needle any.
SJSU has the most games covered with 5, UNM with 3. But as noted in my other comment, this appears more exploratory for TNT to test its coverage (and possibly its production) for future CFB opportunities. That could be extended to whether TNT Sports gets further involved negotiating with the MW or new PAC next year as part of the new media rights deals, sublicensing other conferences games next year, and/or expanding its CFP coverage to produce their contracted games after 2024’s season.