Here are the games already set for television and/or webcast. Here are the known available telecast windows.
I have done my best to list what TV windows are out there. Every listing service has a little different schedule for these networks. It is also possible that a window could be eliminated or the time of a window could shift slightly to accommodate a network's needs.
Instead of cluttering up these posts even more, I'll try to keep track of the unique conference TV arrangements in a separate post.
A few notes and considerations:
* Peacock will carry a pair of Big Ten games. NBC will not have a Big Ten game due to airing a Notre Dame home game in primetime.
* Two ACC games were preselected for ESPN's late evening and The CW.
* BTN has two windows but at unique start times: 3pm & 6:30pm ET.
* Games set for time or TV but not both:
- Michigan State at Indiana (12pm, 3:30pm or 4pm, TBA)
- Oregon at Rutgers (6:30pm or 7pm, TBA)
- Alcorn State at Florida A&M (4pm, ESPN Nets)
- Nevada at New Mexico (TBA, FOX Sports)
- UNLV at Boise State (TBA, FOX Sports)
- SEC time slots:
- Mississippi State at Florida - afternoon only
- Texas at Kentucky - evening only
- Oklahoma at South Carolina & LSU at Vanderbilt - early only
- All other games not previously mentioned can be afternoon or evening
* I had CBS selecting first for the Big Ten, followed by FOX and NBC choosing both of its Peacock games.
* For the Big 12, I had FOX choosing ahead of ESPN. I have Utah at BYU in the noon slot (10am local) with the possibility that it could be the noon ABC game swapping with LSU at Vanderbilt. There's a chance you'll see a Big 12 six day hold used for some or all of the schedule, and maybe lumping UNLV at Boise State into the mix for the 8pm FOX slot.
* Another place where there might be a six day hold: 3:30pm and 7:30pm ABC with both Tennessee at Alabama and Ole Miss at Georgia.
12pm ABC: LSU at Vanderbilt
12pm FOX: Washington at Michigan
12pm ESPN: Utah at BYU
12pm ESPN2: Georgia Tech at Duke
12pm FS1: Purdue at Northwestern
12pm TNT: West Virginia at UCF
12pm ESPNU: Memphis at UAB
12pm CBSSN: Central Michigan at Bowling Green
12pm ACCN: UConn at Boston College
12:45pm SECN: Oklahoma at South Carolina
3pm BTN: Maryland at UCLA
3:30pm ABC: Tennessee at Alabama
3:30pm CBS: Ohio State at Wisconsin
3:30pm ESPN: Missouri at Auburn
3:30pm FS1: Nevada at New Mexico
3:30pm ESPNU: Old Dominion at James Madison
3:30pm ACCN: Pitt at Syracuse
3:30pm Peacock: Michigan State at Indiana
4pm FOX: Texas Tech at Arizona State
4pm ESPN2: Baylor at TCU4:15pm SECN: Mississippi State at Florida
6:30pm BTN: Oregon at Rutgers7pm ESPN: Texas A&M at Arkansas
7pm FS1: UNLV at Boise State
7pm ESPNU: UTSA at North Texas
7:15pm Peacock: Penn State at Iowa
7:30pm ABC: Ole Miss at Georgia
7:30pm ACCN: SMU at Clemson
7:45pm SECN: Texas at Kentucky
8pm FOX: Arizona at Houston
8pm ESPN2: Cincinnati at Oklahoma State
ESPN+
Army at Tulane
Temple at Charlotte
Florida Atlantic at South Florida
Buffalo at UMass
Eastern Michigan at Miami (OH)
Kent State at Toledo
Northern Illinois at Ohio
Akron at Ball State
Coastal Carolina at App State
Georgia State at Georgia Southern
Texas State at Marshall
Troy at ULM
Southern Miss at Louisiana
Alcorn State at Florida A&M
5 comments:
I agree with most of the game time and network predictions except for the Utah-BYU and Texas Tech-Arizona State start times. I think Fox would be interested in having both games as these may be some of the best Big 12 games of the year. My prediction would be to have Utah-BYU at the 4 pm slot and Texas Tech-Arizona State at 8 pm. ESPN can then place the Arizona-Houston game in the noon slot.
I don't know if FOX can air prime time Big Ten games when NBC is airing Notre Dame games instead of Big Ten games but they should be able to. NBC is airing Big Ten games at noon. Last season one aired against a Big Ten game on FOX (this season FOX aired a Big 12 instead). FOX aired two Big Ten games opposite CBS last season. I think it's totally fair for FOX to be able to air Big Ten games in prime time.
The contracts really should have been clearer but I think the only rule in the Big 10 contracts are there are no rules!
BYU/Utah feels like a lock for an ESPN Network considering that the ESPN Networks have carried every BYU/Utah game since 2011. They also did every broadcast from 1995-2006. 2007-2010 were the games done by mtn. But I'd swap the times between Texas A&M/Arkansas & BYU/Utah. 1) Arkansas isn't very good this year and 2) You could potentially have a Top 25 match-up in Primetime.
The only two games for the SEC that can be early in the day are Oklahoma-South Carolina & LSU-Vandy. That's what didn't help the slotting.
This was the best way to have Utah-BYU be on ESPN since the late evening spot is spoken for with Florida State-Stanford, and not putting Utah-BYU on ESPN2.
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