 The channel was rebuffed for a deal, with the league deciding instead to give a portion of the cable television game rights to its own NFL Network.Versus approached the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for a deal to broadcast college football games, and was awarded a contract to broadcast games from the Mountain West Conference (MW) in a joint deal between the channel's owner Comcast and College Sports Television, which also led to the creation of the MountainWest Sports Network.For its inaugural season of college football broadcasts in 2006, Gary Bender or Bob Papa served as the play-by-play announcer, with Glenn Parker as the analyst and Argy Stathapulos as the sideline reporter for Mountain West football game coverage.