NBC College Football Game of the Week

[3] Twelve years later, the first live regular season college football game to be broadcast coast-to-coast aired on NBC.

Pretty soon on June 6,[6] 1952, NBC Head of Sport Tom Gallery[7] led negotiations towards a one-year[8] football contract[9] (for $1,144,000[10]) with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

By 1953, the NCAA allowed NBC to add what it called "panorama" coverage of multiple regional broadcasts for certain weeks – shifting national viewers to the most interesting game during its telecast.

[15] All rankings are from that week's AP Poll Mel Allen and Bill Henry served as the primary broadcast crew.

On October 12 and 26 and November 9, 23 and 28, NBC showed regional games with Mel Allen/Bill Flemming (midwest), Jim Simpson/Charley Harville (southeast), and Chick Hearn/Lee Giroux (west).