Ferris State Hockey Season Opener Against Michigan To Be Televised Live By Comcast

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Big Rapids, Mich. - Ferris State University Athletics has announced this Saturday's (Oct. 4) season-opening showdown between the nationally ninth-ranked Bulldog men's ice hockey squad and the eighth-ranked Michigan Wolverines will be televised LIVE by Comcast.

The agreement between FSU and one of the country's leading digital cable broadcast networks comes on the heels of the previously-announced sellout for the top 10 matchup inside the Ewigleben Ice Arena. Opening faceoff is set for 7:37 p.m. (ET).

Fans without tickets to this season's first contest on the ice can watch the game live on Comcast Channel 900, which is available to more than 1.2 million subscribers in its regional footprint portions of Michigan, Northern Ohio and Indiana, including the metro locations of Detroit, Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids among others.

The broadcast will be produced and distributed in its entirety by Ferris Television and also carried live in the local market across Mecosta County on Charter Cable (channel 190) along with FSU's on-campus cable system (channel 22).

The voice of Bulldog Hockey, Dominic Hennig, will call the play-by-play action on the Bulldog Sports Network with coverage also available on local flagship radio station Sunny 97.3 FM along with live streaming across the world at FerrisStateBulldogs.com. Radio pregame coverage will begin at 6:30 p.m. (ET).

Additionally, fans can also watch the contest online on a pay-per-view basis in high definition thru WCHA.TV, which will carry all conference contests along with non-league home games this season thru an expanded conference agreement with the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and America One.

Comcast Channel 900 is owned and operated by the digital cable television service and carries live and produced local sports contest throughout the year, including collegiate and professional events along with other current programming. Among other productions, Comcast currently airs the Ferris Sports Update weekly coaches show produced by Ferris Television on a tape-delay basis several times each week.

Saturday's contest will represent the 17th sellout in the last two-plus seasons inside the 2,490-seat Ewigleben Ice Arena. In addition, it will mark the 51st-straight regular-season sellout for Ferris State's "Dawg Pound" student section. FSU sold a record number of student and adult season tickets this summer for the 2014-15 campaign.

The Bulldogs will embark on the program's 40th anniversary season this year along with the 37th season of NCAA Division I hockey competition.

Ferris State will open the 2014-15 campaign as a consensus top 10 team in the country as the Bulldogs are among the nation's best in two different collegiate hockey polls. Ferris State enters the season ranked ninth nationally in the United States College Hockey Online (USCHO) National poll along with tied for 10th in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Preseason rankings. The Bulldogs, who reached the NCAA Elite Eight last season and came within a game of the Frozen Four for the second time in three years, finished the 2013-14 season ranked sixth in the national polls.

Ferris State posted a 29-11-3 overall record a year ago while ranking among the nation's winningest teams throughout the year. FSU was 20-6-2 in its debut season in the WCHA while leading the league race from wire-to-wire to capture the MacNaughton Cup as regular-season champions. Last season, the Bulldogs' 16-1-1 overall record at home ranked as the best in school history.

Michigan posted a 18-13-4 mark a season ago and was 10-3-3 in the inaugural season of Big Ten play. Last season, FSU and Michigan squared off in a battle of top-five ranked squads in the regular-season with the memorable contest ending in a 2-2 overtime tie at Yost Ice Arena in Ann Arbor.

Saturday's contest will cap off a tripleader for Ferris State Athletics as part of its 2014 homecoming weekend. The nationally 15th-ranked Bulldog Volleyball team hosts Lake Erie to start the day at 10 a.m. (ET) with the 13th-ranked Bulldog Football team facing Findlay in the afternoon homecoming game beginning at 2 p.m. (ET).