Sunday, November 26, 2017

TV Facts & Figures For The 2017 College Football Season

2017 was a bit of a mess, particularly early in the year where scheduled TV appearances were set aside or cancelled altogether as schedules were readjusted for weather issues, along with the annual weather delays that slotted games that were scheduled for a specific network and ended up elsewhere.  If you look over 2017 and feel that these numbers were slightly skewed, I won't argue the point.  I didn't see any conference's contractual numbers that were missed because of these problems.

ACC
* Florida St. ended up with two ACC controlled games on ABC, the lowest number of ACC appearances on the network since 2009 when the Seminoles had a single appearance on ABC.  Likewise, Louisville had only one ACC appearance on ABC.
* Miami led with five ACC appearances on ABC.  Clemson was second with four appearances.
* Raycom had its first nighttime window that I can recall for ACC football.  UL-Monroe at Florida St. was scheduled for evening but the window was cancelled due to the game's postponement.  They were granted a makeup with Duke at Virginia Tech on 10/28.  It was explained to me that Florida St. had requested the nighttime window to stay out of hot daytime weather the first few weeks of the season.

American
* A breakdown of regular season games by network:
  • ABC: 3
    • One was split national where others saw it on ESPN2
  • ESPN: 7
  • ESPN2: 6
  • ESPNU: 15
  • ESPNEWS: 7
  • CBS Sports Network: 15
    • An additional five aired on CBS Sports Network as part of Navy's expiring TV deal
  • ESPN3 or local/regional TV: 17
* East Carolina never appeared on ESPN or ESPN2.  Tulane appeared once on ESPN2.
* The Pirates appeared in seven of the fifteen CBSSN sublicenes.
* USF made the most appearances across the primary TV networks (ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU) with eight games.  Memphis & Temple each had seven and UCF had six.  Note that UCF's lost game vs. Georgia Tech was scheduled for ESPNEWS.
* The American had several alterations to their schedule, to their credit, to make sure the entire conference schedule could be played.  If you'd like to see how the schedule was originally set, take a look.

Big 12
* Just twelve games on broadcast television, the lowest number for the Big 12 since I started tracking in 2005.
* Three of the five games on ABC were part of reverse mirror / split national presentations.
* 39 games aired on ABC (full or split national with ESPN2), ESPN, ESPN2, FOX or FS1.
* Texas played twice on broadcast television and had only one game involving them announced as part of the in-season selection process (Red River Rivalry), and that game could have been selected by ESPN before the season started & not announced.
* Oklahoma led the way with five appearances on broadcast television as part of the Big 12 TV deals.  Oklahoma St. appeared four times and Iowa St., Texas Tech and TCU each appeared three times.
* Three games aired on FS2, the first time games were scheduled or intended for scheduling on FS2.

Big Ten
* Thirty regular season games aired on broadcast television between ABC & FOX with an even split of fifteen games.
* In terms of cable networks, the breakdown is as follows:
  • BTN: 41
    • Aired over 32 telecast windows
  • ESPN: 5
  • ESPN2: 6
  • ESPNU: 1
    • Per contractual rules, only non-conference games can air here.
  • FS1: 12
* Regular season primetime games per entity, including weeknight games.  Anything after a 6pm ET start:
  • ABC: 4
  • BTN: 9
  • ESPN: 1
  • ESPN2: 1
  • FOX: 3
  • FS1: 5
* Some fun facts re: the Big Ten appearances:
  • Courtesy Sean Kelly, Nebraska never appear on an ESPN platform in a Big Ten controlled game.  Rutgers also never appeared on an ESPN platform.
  • Michigan never appeared on the four primary packages' cable networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU or FS1).
  • Rutgers led with ten games on BTN.
  • All of Michigan St.'s appearances on FOX Sports platforms were on FOX broadcast network.
  • All of Penn St.'s appearances on ESPN platforms were on ABC.
* BYU didn't appear on ESPNU this season.  There was a requirement/guideline/suggestion that at least one game per season appear on ESPNU.  They did have four games on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 so maybe that washes away the need for a game on ESPNU.
* For the third consecutive season, BYUtv aired a pair of games.  Only one game per season is required to air here, but ESPN can defer picking up a game if they desire and other contractual obligations are met.

I don't want to leave Conference USA out.  Most of their television & internet schedule was set before the season started, so I don't really have anything to add.  Feel free to view their conference controlled TV schedule which still had a lot of local telecasts, plus the addition of Stadium-produced Facebook offerings.

* Ten games aired on ESPNU, the most on the network since they aired the same number in 2007.  To be fair, two of those games (Kansas at Ohio on 9/16 & Western Michigan at Buffalo on 10/7) were added to the schedule due to weather related schedule adjustments.
* Northern Illinois appeared six times across ESPN's linear television platforms and the CBS Sports Network sublicense package, the most of any MAC school.

Mountain West
* In terms of the breakdown of ESPN platform games, the games on each network is as follows:
  • ESPN: 1
  • ESPN2: 12
  • ESPNU: 6
  • ESPN3: 5
    • VMI at Air Force & Fresno St. at San Jose St. were selected by ESPN after their original 22 selections.
* ESPNU carried three Mountain West games outside of where ESPN platforms have typically carried them, which was either Saturday afternoon or early evening.

* USC lead all Pac-12 schools with six appearances on broadcast television.
* The fourteen regular season games on broadcast television beat the number that ABC & FOX aired each of the last two seasons, excluding the conference championship game.
* Nine of the 12 schools played at least once on broadcast television.  Arizona, Arizona St. and Oregon St. did not.
* The five ABC games is the most that network carried since 2014 when they showed six Pac-12 games.
* Utah appeared the most times on ESPN or FOX pay TV platforms with seven appearances.
* Arizona St. had the least number of appearances among the two primary TV partners with 3 games.  Consequently, their eight appearances on Pac-12 Networks lead all schools with Oregon St. second with seven appearances.
* Oregon's sole appearance as part of ESPN's portion of Pac-12 games was the Civil War vs. Oregon St., which was selected by ESPN before the season started.
* USC never appeared on FS1.

* Georgia was the only SEC schools to hit the maximum number of five CBS appearances.  All of Georgia's appearances were at 3:30pm ET.
* In the "no one wants to play at 12pm ET" department, Ole Miss had four 11am local starts on SEC Network.
* Alabama, Texas A&M & LSU each had six total appearances on ESPN or ESPN2.  One could make the argument that LSU's appearance vs. BYU was not part of the SEC's television contract.  
* Texas A&M made two additional SEC appearances on ESPNU.
* Kentucky never appeared on ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU.  They had ten appearances on SEC Network and one on CBS.
* Mississppi St. never appeared on ESPN2 or ESPNU.  All their games were on CBS, ESPN or SEC Network.  Their 11/18 game on CBS may have been from a sublicensed TV window from ESPN too.

Similar to Conference USA, the Sun Belt had only one linear national TV appearance set during the season (12/2, Troy at Arkansas St.).  Feel free to view their information.

Monday, November 13, 2017

CFB TV Confirmations for 2017 Week 13 (11/21/17 - 11/25/17)

This post will be updated as announcements come out for start times for 11/21 - 11/25 from the twelve day selection process that most TV networks adhere to (well, under twelve days for the MAC but you get the picture).  Please understand that games can be held until next Sunday if a broadcaster wants to wait on the results of the Week Twelve games.  Most conferences have the possibility of having all or part of their games held for a six day hold of the start time.


The list of available TV windows are based on media websites, TV listings and press releases.  There were a fair number of alterations to this particular week on the way in and they can change based on the needs of the broadcaster or the conference.

Here's what I guessed based on the available openings (they'll be wrong & most people don't give me grief over that) and here is the current schedule for the week as several FBS games do have their time & television/webcast assignments already accounted for.

This is the final 12 day post for the season.  If there's enough games held for six day holds, I'll probably do one for those too, but I hope that as many start times are set for the games as possible.  Its a bit of an inconvenience to have a bunch of games held for start times when some fans & students could be travelling, but TV pays the schools' bills.

All times Eastern

Tuesday 11/21
7pm ESPNU:

Friday 11/24
11:30am ESPNU: 
12pm ABC: Miami (FL) at Pittsburgh
12pm ESPN: Navy at Houston
12pm CBSSN: 
3:30pm ABC: USF at UCF
4pm ESPN3: Texas St. at Troy
8pm ESPN: Virginia Tech at Virginia

Saturday 11/25
Six day holds:
ACC - Georgia at Georgia Tech (12pm or 8pm on ABC)
Big 12 - West Virginia at Oklahoma (ABC at 12pm, 3:30pm or 8pm or ESPN at 3:45pm), Kansas at Oklahoma St. (12pm FS1 or 3:30pm ESPN2/ESPNU), Iowa St. at Kansas St. (12pm FS1 or 3:30pm ESPN2/ESPNU)
Big Ten - Wisconsin at Minnesota & Penn St. at Maryland (3:30pm ABC, 3:30pm BTN or 3:45pm ESPN)
Pac-12 - Notre Dame at Stanford & Washington St. at Washington (3:30pm ABC, 3:45pm ESPN, 8pm FOX or ABC)

12pm ESPN: Florida St. at Florida
12pm ESPN2: Indiana at Purdue
12pm ESPNU: East Carolina at Memphis
12pm ESPNEWS: Connecticut at Cincinnati
12pm SEC: Louisville at Kentucky
12pm CBSSN: Tulane at SMU
12:20pm ACC Network: Boston College at Syracuse
12:30pm ACC RSN: Duke at Wake Forest
2pm ESPN3: Appalachian St. at Georgia St.
3pm ESPN3: Arkansas St. at UL-Monroe
3:30pm CBS: Alabama at Auburn
3:30pm ESPN2/ESPNU: North Carolina at NC State
4pm FOX: Michigan St. at Rutgers
4pm FS1: Northwestern at Illinois
4pm ESPNEWS: Temple at Tulsa
4pm SEC: Vanderbilt at Tennessee
4pm ESPN3: Idaho at New Mexico St.
4:30pm Pac-12: Arizona at Arizona St.
5pm ESPN3: Wyoming at San Jose St.
5pm ESPN3: Georgia Southern at UL-Lafayette
7pm ESPN2: Oregon St. at Oregon
7:30pm ESPN: Clemson at South Carolina
7:30pmpm ESPNU: UTSA at Louisiana Tech
7:30pm SEC: Texas A&M at LSU
10pm FS1: Colorado at Utah
10:15pm ESPN2: Utah St. at Air Force

Sunday, November 12, 2017

CFB TV Guesses for 2017 Weeks 13 & 14

Threw in Championship Saturday as a freebie at the bottom.  No sense in wasting a post on it.  Here are the games already set for television and/or webcast for weeks 13 & 14.  Here are the known available telecast windows.

* Per Jon Wilner of Bay Area News Group, the Pac-12 order is as follows: ESPN/ABC (3:30pm or 8pm), FOX (8pm), Pac-12 Nets (4:30pm ET), FS1 (10pm).  Wilner also says that Oregon St. at Oregon, selected in the spring by ESPN when it was moved from Friday to Saturday due to the PK80 men's basketball event, will be at 3:30pm or 7pm on ESPN2.  I'd personally rather place the Civil War on ESPNU, but Jon's been pretty solid with the TV information.
* Based on 11/18 six day selections and contractual maximums, the following conferences should have this number of 12 day selections by rightsholder:
  • Big Ten (maximum of 27 for both FOX & ESPN)
    • ESPN: 2
    • FOX Sports: 2
    • BTN: 1
  • Big 12 (maximum of 23 for ESPN)
    • ESPN: 2
* BTN does not list a 12pm window at this time.  3:30pm is listed.  There will not be a nighttime window on the network.
* The ACC, American, Big 12, Big Ten and Pac-12 all have six day holds to use.  I don't think the SEC does, but I didn't think the SEC had a 3rd six day hold possible either, so maybe I'm wrong about that too.
* If Ohio beats Akron on 11/14, the Bobcats would wrap up the MAC East and make their Black Friday game meaningless.  Look for all the MAC times & TV to be finalized after 11/15.
* Since the Apple Cup could decide the Pac-12 North and ESPN has the Pac-12 Championship on Friday 12/1, I felt they'd be better served taking the Apple Cup instead of Notre Dame at Stanford.
* ESPNEWS has a second window added at 4pm in addition to the 12pm window that has been out there for a while.
* ESPN2 instead of ESPN now has the late evening window and a late evening window on ESPNU has been removed.  I went with Wyoming at San Jose St. instead of Utah St. at Air Force since Wyoming has a remote shot at the Mountain Division title if Boise St. were to drop its final two games vs. Air Force & Fresno St.

All times Eastern

Tuesday 11/21
7pm ESPNU: Kent St. at Akron
TBA ESPN3: Bowling Green at Eastern Michigan
TBA ESPN3: Miami (OH) at Ball St.

Friday 11/24
11:30am ESPNU: Western Michigan at Toledo
12pm ABC: USF at UCF
12pm ESPN: Navy at Houston
12pm CBSSN: Northern Illinois at Central Michigan
3:30pm ABC: Miami (FL) at Pittsburgh
8pm ESPN: Virginia Tech at Virginia
TBA ESPN3: Ohio at Buffalo
TBA ESPN3: Texas St. at Troy

Saturday 11/25
12pm ABC: West Virginia at Oklahoma
12pm ESPN: North Carolina at NC State
12pm ESPN2: Northwestern at Illinois
12pm FS1: Kansas at Oklahoma St.
12pm ESPNU: Tulane at SMU
12pm ESPNEWS: Connecticut at Cincinnati
12pm SEC: Louisville at Kentucky
12pm CBSSN: Temple at Tulsa
12:20pm ACC Network: Duke at Wake Forest
12:30pm ACC RSN: Boston College at Syracuse
3:30pm ABC: Washington St. at Washington
3:30pm CBS: Alabama at Auburn
3:30pm ESPN: Penn St. at Maryland
3:30pm ESPN2: Oregon St. at Oregon
3:30pm ESPNU: East Carolina at Memphis
3:30pm BTN: Indiana at Purdue
4pm FOX: Wisconsin at Minnesota
4pm FS1: Michigan St. at Rutgers
4pm ESPNEWS: UTSA at Louisiana Tech
4pm SEC: Vanderbilt at Tennessee
4:30pm Pac-12: Arizona St. at Arizona
7pm ESPN: Clemson at South Carolina
7pm ESPN2: Iowa St. at Kansas St.
7pm ESPNU: Florida St. at Florida
7:30pm SEC: Texas A&M at LSU
8pm ABC: Georgia at Georgia Tech
8pm FOX: Notre Dame at Stanford
10pm FS1: Colorado at Utah
10:15pm ESPN2: Wyoming at San Jose St.
TBA ESPN3: Appalachian St. at Georgia St.
TBA ESPN3: Georgia Southern at UL-Lafayette
TBA ESPN3: Arkansas St. at UL-Monroe
TBA ESPN3: Idaho at New Mexico St.
TBA ESPN3: Utah St. at Air Force

Saturday 12/2
12pm ABC: American Athletic Championship
12pm ESPN: MAC Championship
12pm ESPN2: Conference USA Championship
12pm ACC Network Extra: UL-Monroe at Florida St.
7:30pm ESPN2: Best available Sun Belt game (let's say Troy at Arkansas St.)
7:45pm ESPN: Mountain West Championship
8pm ABC: ACC Championship

Saturday, November 11, 2017

CFB Six Day Guesses For 11/18

Stanford beating Washington last night shakes up a few things. 
  1. It elevates the Big Game's relevance in the Pac-12 as it puts Stanford in reach of a Pac-12 North championship.
  2. It does NOT give them control of their own destiny though.  That currently belongs to Washington St. by virtue of beating Stanford.
  3. Washington needs a loss by Stanford in the Big Game to have any shot at using the Apple Cup to win the Pac-12 North.
Pac-12 selection order is known for their six day holds (ESPN, FOX Sports, ESPN, Pac-12 Networks).  On the Rich Eisen Show, Joel Klatt brought up that he will be at Michigan at Wisconsin, which seems to imply FOX has the top choice.  This makes sense as I originally had ESPN with this choice, but it would leave FOX with, in my mind, only six top choices after including Ohio St. at Michigan on 11/25.

(Side note:  If Klatt knows where he'll be, it makes you wonder why they held off at least picking the game, but I can understand why they didn't set a time.)

I put the top Big 12 choice with ESPN too.  Dropped the open ESPNEWS window since it won't be used by any of the remaining conferences involved.  There's nothing saying that the Pac-12 can't have dueling night games on ABC & FOX with 9/26/15 being the most recent example either, but I left Cal-Stanford in the earlier afternoon slot.

Here we go:

12pm ABC: Virginia at Miami (FL)
12pm CBS: Texas A&M at Ole Miss
12pm FOX: Nebraska at Penn St.
12pm ESPN: Maryland at Michigan St.
12pm FS1: Kansas St. at Oklahoma St.
12pm FSN: Iowa St. at Baylor
12pm BTN: Purdue at Iowa
12pm BTN: Rutgers at Indiana
3:30pm ABC: Illinois at Ohio St.
3:30pm ESPN: Oklahoma at Kansas
3:30pm ESPN2: Texas at West Virginia
3:30pm ESPNU: Syracuse at Louisville
3:30pm BTN: Minnesota at Northwestern
4pm FOX: Michigan at Wisconsin
4pm FS1: California at Stanford
7pm ESPN: Mississippi St. at Arkansas
7pm ESPN2: LSU at Tennessee
7pm Pac-12: Utah at Washington
8pm ABC: UCLA at USC
8pm FOX: TCU at Texas Tech
10:45pm ESPN: Arizona at Oregon

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

MBK Schedule "Ground Rules"

To be honest, every time I felt I should write something regarding the MBK schedules as they were announced, I never felt there was any earth shattering items. Compared to prior seasons not much is different with respect to the college basketball schedule I list from prior years, but wanted to touch on a few items:

* For now, I'm still not listing paid streams from places like Ivy League Network, FloHoops, BTN Plus (which you can now get through FloHoops) and CUSA.TV, along with individual schools who charge to stream their games.  Please understand that I'm not excluding them because of this practice and I do reserve the right to add them into the schedule later this year as I'm still gathering data as to how many games fall into this bucket and whether its just easier to add them or add them with a distinction of a ($), which I'd need to code for.

* I don't list the streaming services of every network when there's a concurrent telecast.  I'm pretty sure you know which networks correspond to watching a game on WatchESPN, FOX Sports Go, CBSSN online or NBCSports.com.  Check often with the conference if its one that is televising locally & you don't see it listed.

* If you see the ESPN College Extra icon on a game, that means its on ESPN3 too.  For brevity, I try to cut down the images loading on the page with the number of games increasing.

* I try to go through the schedules again around 7-10 days in advance of a week starting because I flub on start times, RSN listings and schools don't announce everything they post or change on their website.  It happens. Bear with me and say something if it's wrong or missing.

* Hate scrolling through an entire week?  Use the daily schedule.  It flips to the next day at 5am ET every day.

* Like the text only pages?  Great.  I've heard over the past few years of intermittent printing issues that I've never been able to track down.  Because of that, please hit up the directions at the top about printing to PDF, then printing the PDF document.

* There are a couple loose ends to tie up with a few schools & conferences.  Awaiting for an official breakout of the games that Stadium will air on TV vs. what is expected to appear on Facebook or syndication.

Monday, November 6, 2017

CFB TV Confirmations for 2017 Week 12 (11/14/17 - 11/18/17)

This post will be updated as announcements come out for start times for 11/14 - 11/18 from the twelve day selection process that most TV networks adhere to (well, under twelve days for the MAC but you get the picture).  Please understand that games can be held until next Sunday if a broadcaster wants to wait on the results of the Week Eleven games.  Most conferences have the possibility of having all or part of their games held for a six day hold of the start time.

Six day picks used coming into Week Twelve's selections: ACC (3 of 4), American (1 of 2), Big 12 (2 of 4), Big Ten (1 of 4 ???), SEC (2 of 2), Pac-12 (2 of 4, ESPN and FOX each have one left to use).  I don't know how many six day holds the Big Ten has as part of their new TV deal.  Per LandOf10, night games must be picked on a 12 day basis, and at this point in the year both schools must agree to have a night game.

The list of available TV windows are based on media websites, TV listings and press releases.  They can change based on the needs of the broadcaster or the conference.

Here's what I guessed based on the available openings (they'll prove to be incorrect) and here is the current schedule for the week as several FBS games do have their time & television/webcast assignments already accounted for.

Six Day Holds
Big 12: All five games
Big Ten: All seven games
Pac-12: Arizona at Oregon, Utah at Washington, UCLA at USC & California at Stanford
SEC: Mississippi St. at Arkansas & Texas A&M at Ole Miss.  Options are either ESPN/ESPN2 at 7pm or CBS at 12pm ET.

Tuesday 11/14
7pm ESPN2: 
7pm ESPNU: 

Wednesday 11/15
7pm ESPN2: 
7pm CBSSN: 
8pm ESPNU:

Thursday 11/16
7pm CST: Nicholls at Southeastern Louisiana
8pm Eleven Sports: Prairie View A&M at Incarnate Word
7pm ESPN3: Tennessee St. at Jacksonville St.

Saturday 11/18
12pm ABC or ESPN: Virginia at Miami (FL)
12pm ESPN2: UL-Monroe at Auburn
12pm ESPNU: UCF at Temple
12pm ESPNEWS: SMU at Memphis
12pm SEC: Mercer at Alabama
12pm ACC RSNs: Delaware St. at Florida St.
12pm CBSSN: Cincinnati at East Carolina
12:20pm ACC Network: Pittsburgh at Virginia Tech
12:20pm ACC Network: The Citadel at Clemson
2pm ESPN3: Houston Baptist at Sam Houston St.
3pm Pac-12: Arizona St. at Oregon St.
3pm ESPN3: Texas St. at Arkansas St.
3pm ESPN3: South Alabama at Georgia Southern
3pm ACC Network Extra: Western Carolina at North Carolina
3:30pm CBS: Kentucky at Georgia
3:30pm ESPN2/ESPNU: Syracuse at Louisville
3:30pm ACC RSNs: Georgia Tech at Duke
4pm ESPNEWS: Houston at Tulane
4pm SEC: UAB at Florida
4pm SEC Alternate: Wofford at South Carolina
4pm ESPN3: Abilene Christian at Central Arkansas
5pm SWX: Coastal Carolina at Idaho
5pm ESPN3: New Mexico St. at UL-Lafayette
7pm ESPN/ESPN2: LSU at Tennessee
7:30pm ESPNU: Wake Forest at NC State
7:30pm SEC: Missouri at Vanderbilt
8pm Eleven Sports: McNeese at Lamar
10:15pm ESPN2: Air Force at Boise St.

Sunday, November 5, 2017

CFB TV Guesses for 2017 Week Twelve (11/14/17 - 11/18/17)

Here are the games already set for television and/or webcast.  Here are the known available telecast windows.

* ESPNEWS has been brought in for a full day's worth of windows.
* ACC RSNs will have a doubleheader available to them at 12pm & 3:30pm.
* With a Big East basketball game at 12pm, the Big 12's FSN window has moved to 2:30pm ET.
* SEC Network has two windows scheduled on their alternate channel at 12pm & 7:30pm.
* Both MAC games on 11/14 were moved to 7pm.  This adjustment was made in October.  Only noticed it today.  Same with the 11/15 ESPN2 game which had a time of 8pm at one point.
* CBS has another 12pm & 3:30pm SEC doubleheader.  3:30pm is the first pick.  I am treating the 12pm game as if its being sublicensed from ESPN.  ESPN sublicensed TCU at Arkansas to CBS earlier in the year and had a 2nd game to sublicense.  I'm slotting CBS with the fourth pick this particular week.
* Jon Wilner of Bay Area News Group says that ESPN will have the top pick for 11/18 and will have two selections.  FOX Sports will have the 2nd selection and the Pac-12 Networks has the final two.
* For the purposes of this exercise, I believe ESPN will have top choice for the Big Ten and FOX has it for the Big 12.
* I could see ESPN asking for Michigan at Wisconsin to be played at night.  Might be the best game available to them. If moved to primetime, it would require both schools to sign off on the move.
* I can see six day holds being used on the ACC, Big 12 & Pac-12.  Plenty of ambiguity with respect to the best available game.
* If there was to be a split regional ACC Network window, look for Delaware St. at North Carolina to be added on.  I'm unsure that there will be though.

Six day picks used: ACC (3 of 4), American (1 of 2), Big 12 (2 of 4), Big Ten (1 of 4 ???), SEC (2 of 2), Pac-12 (2 of 4, ESPN and FOX each have one left to use)

Who picked first so far (COMPLETE SPECULATION) and selection counts
Big 12: 
  • ESPN: 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 10/14, 10/28 
    • Had top choice of weeks to select first.
    • 18 games scheduled out of a maximum of 23.
  • FOX Sports: 9/2, 9/30, 10/7, 10/21, 11/4, 11/11
Big Ten: 
  • ESPN: 9/2, 9/9, 9/30, 10/7, 10/21, 11/4
    • 24 selections used out of 27.
  • FOX Sports: 9/16, 9/23, 10/14, 10/28, 11/11
    • FOX has overall first choice of weeks, which should be for Ohio St. at Michigan on 11/25.
    • 22 selections used out of 27. Count excludes conference championship game.
Pac-12:
  • ESPN: 9/23, 9/30, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/18
    • 19 selections used out of 22. Count excludes conference championship game.
  • FOX Sports: 9/2, 9/9, 9/16, 10/7, 11/11
    • FOX Sports had top choice of games to reserve in advance.  It is unknown what that game is.
    • 19 selections used out of 22.
Tuesday 11/14
7pm ESPN2: Ohio at Akron
7pm ESPNU: Central Michigan at Kent St.

Wednesday 11/15
7pm ESPN2: Toledo at Bowling Green
7pm CBSSN: Eastern Michigan at Miami (OH)
8pm ESPNU: Western Michigan at Northern Illinois

Saturday 11/18
12pm ABC: Kansas St. at Oklahoma St.
12pm FOX: Illinois at Ohio St.
12pm CBS: Texas A&M at Ole Miss
12pm ESPN: Pittsburgh at Virginia Tech
12pm ESPN2: Minnesota at Northwestern
12pm FS1: Oklahoma at Kansas
12pm ESPNU: Texas at West Virginia
12pm ESPNEWS: Delaware St. at Florida St.
12pm SEC: Wofford at South Carolina
12pm SEC: UAB at Florida
12pm ACC RSNs: Duke at Georgia Tech
12pm BTN: Maryland at Michigan St.
12pm CBSSN: Cincinnati at East Carolina
12:20pm ACC Network: Syracuse at Louisville
2:30pm FSN: Iowa St. at Baylor
3:30pm ABC: Michigan at Wisconsin
3:30pm CBS: Kentucky at Georgia
3:30pm ESPN: UCLA at USC
3:30pm ESPN2: TCU at Texas Tech
3:30pm ESPNU: NC State at Wake Forest
3:30pm ACC RSNs: The Citadel at Clemson
3:30pm BTN: Rutgers at Indiana
4pm FOX: Nebraska at Penn St.
4pm FS1: Purdue at Iowa
4pm ESPNEWS: SMU at Memphis
4pm SEC: Mercer at Alabama
4pm Pac-12: California at Stanford
7pm ESPN2: LSU at Tennessee
7pm ESPNU: UCF at Temple
7:15pm ESPN: Mississippi St. at Arkansas
7:30pm SEC: Missouri at Vanderbilt
7:30pm SEC: UL-Monroe at Auburn
8pm ABC: Virginia at Miami (FL)
8pm FOX: Utah at Washington
8pm ESPNEWS: Houston at Tulane
9pm Pac-12: Arizona St. at Oregon St.
10:15pm ESPN2: Air Force at Boise St.
10:45pm ESPN: Arizona at Oregon

ESPN3
Western Carolina at North Carolina
Texas St. at Arkansas St.
New Mexico St. at UL-Lafayette
South Alabama at Georgia Southern
Coastal Carolina at Idaho