NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced today that it will offer listeners, for the first time, live play-by-play of every bowl game during the 2011-12 college football postseason.

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Sirius and XM listeners will get access to 35 games, more than any season before, including the BCS National Championship, the Rose Bowl, Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, Discover Orange Bowl, and Allstate Sugar Bowl.

The schedule will begin with the Gildan New Mexico Bowl on Saturday, December 17 (2:00 pm ET, on ESPN Radio, SiriusXM channel 84) and continue through Monday January 9, when #1 ranked LSU faces #2 Alabama in the Allstate BCS National Championship Game (8:30 pm ET on ESPN Radio, SiriusXM channel 84). A complete schedule of games and channels appears below.

Fans can stay up to date on everything happening throughout the bowl season with SiriusXM College Sports Nation, channel 91, SiriusXM's 24/7 college sports channel.  From the best games, to the latest news and biggest stories happening around the college football landscape, SiriusXM College Sports Nation covers it all with a daily programming lineup that features 24/7 Sports Radio's on Campus with Bill King (weekdays, 6:00 am ET); SiriusXM College Sports Today (weekdays, 9:00 am ET), hosted by Mark Packer and Heisman Trophy winner Eddie George; SiriusXM College Football Playbook (weekdays, 12:00 pm ET), hosted by veteran college football voice Jack Arute, the acclaimed Paul Finebaum Show (weekdays, 3:00 pm ET), College Football Coast-to-Coast with Chris Childers (weekdays, 7:00 pm ET), plus several college coaches shows.

SiriusXM College Sports Nation will broadcast live from New Orleans, the site of the Allstate BCS National Championship game from Thursday, January 5, through game day, January 9.  Hosts Jack Arute, Paul Finebaum, Eddie George, Mark Packer, Bill King and Chris Childers will be live on site where they will interview LSU and Alabama players and coaches, cover pre-game practices and preview the game.

SiriusXM's College Bowl game schedule: (All times ET)

Gildan New Mexico Bowl, Albuquerque, NM – Temple vs. Wyoming
December 17, 2:00pm, SiriusXM channel 84

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Boise, ID – Ohio vs. Utah State
December 17, 5:30pm, SiriusXM channel 84

R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, New Orleans, LA – San Diego State vs. Louisiana-Lafayette
December 17, 9:00pm, SiriusXM channel 84

Beef O'Brady St. Petersburg Bowl, St. Petersburg, FL – Florida International vs. Marshall
December 20, 8:00pm, SiriusXM channel 84

San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl, San Diego, CA – TCU vs. Louisiana Tech
December 21, 8:00pm, SiriusXM channel 84

MAACO Las Vegas Bowl, Las Vegas, NV – Arizona State vs. Boise State
December 22, 8:00pm, SiriusXM channel 91

Sheraton Hawaii Bowl, Honolulu, HI – Nevada vs. Southern Miss
December 24, 8:00pm, SiriusXM channel 84

AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl, Shreveport, LA – Missouri vs. North Carolina
December 26, 5:00pm, SiriusXM channel 91

Little Caesars Bowl, Detroit, MI – Western Michigan vs. Purdue
December 27, 4:30pm, SiriusXM channel 91

Belk Bowl, Charlotte, NC – Louisville vs. NC State
December 27, 8:00pm, SiriusXM channel 91

Military Bowl presented by Northrup Grumman, Washington, D.C. – Air Force vs. Toledo
December 28, 4:30pm, SiriusXM channel 91

Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl, San Diego, CA – California vs. Texas
December 28, 8:00pm, SiriusXM channel 84

Champs Sports Bowl, Orlando, FL – Florida State vs. Notre Dame
December 29, 5:30pm, SiriusXM channel 84

Valero Alamo Bowl, San Antonio, TX – Washington vs. Baylor
December 29, 9:00pm, SiriusXM channel 84

Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, Dallas, TX – BYU vs. Tulsa
December 30, 12:00pm, SiriusXM channel 84

New Era Pinstripe Bowl, Bronx, NY – Rutgers vs. Iowa State
December 30, 3:20pm, SiriusXM channel 84

Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl, Nashville, TN – Miss. St. vs. Wake Forest
December 30, 6:40pm, SiriusXM channel 91

Insight Bowl, Tempe, AZ – Iowa vs. Oklahoma
December 30, 10:00pm, SiriusXM channel 84

Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas, Houston, TX – Texas A&M vs. Northwestern
December 31, 12:00pm, SiriusXM channel 84

Hyundai Sun Bowl, El Paso, Texas – Georgia Tech vs. Utah
December 31, 2:00pm, SiriusXM channel 91

AutoZone Liberty Bowl, Memphis, TN – Cincinnati vs. Vanderbilt
December 31, 3:30pm, SiriusXM channel 84

Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, San Francisco, CA – Illinois vs. UCLA
December 31, 3:30pm, SiriusXM channel 91

Chick-Fil-A Bowl, Atlanta, GA – Virginia vs. Auburn
December 31, 7:30pm (approx.), SiriusXM channel 84

TicketCity Bowl, Dallas, TX – Houston vs. Penn State
January 2, 12:00pm, SiriusXM channel 85

Outback Bowl, Tampa, FL – Michigan State vs. Georgia
January 2, 1:00pm, SiriusXM channel 84

Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl, Jacksonville, FL – Ohio State vs. Florida
January 2, 1:00pm, SiriusXM channel 91

Capital One Bowl, Orlando, FL – Nebraska vs. South Carolina
January 2, 1:00pm, SiriusXM channel 84

Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA – Wisconsin vs. Oregon
January 2, 5:00pm, SiriusXM channel 84

Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, AZ – Stanford vs. Oklahoma State
January 2, 8:30pm, SiriusXM channel 84

Allstate Sugar Bowl, New Orleans, LA – Michigan vs. Virginia Tech
January 3, 8:30pm, SiriusXM channel 84

Discover Orange Bowl, Miami, FL – West Virginia vs. Clemson
January 4, 8:00pm, SiriusXM channel 84

AT&T Cotton Bowl, Arlington, TX – Kansas State vs. Arkansas
January 6, 8:00pm, SiriusXM channel 91

BBVA Compass Bowl, Birmingham, AL – SMU vs. Pittsburgh
January 7, 1:00pm, SiriusXM channel 91

GoDaddy.com Bowl, Mobile, AL – Arkansas State vs. Northern Illinois
January 8, 9:00pm, SiriusXM channel 91

Allstate BCS National Championship, New Orleans, LA – LSU vs. Alabama
January 9, 8:30pm, SiriusXM channel 84

All games airing on SiriusXM channel 84 are ESPN Radio broadcasts.

For more information, please visit www.siriusxm.com/collegesports.

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