Sunday, October 25, 2020

CFB TV Guesses for 2020 Week 10 (11/07/20)

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.

Considerations (you might want to read these instead of skipping past them)
* SEC games have already been set for CBS and ESPN Networks, though there is a decision to be made between the evening SEC Network and ESPN games.
* Pac-12 joins the guesses. Please note that FOX has preselected Arizona State at USC for a 12pm ET start and it is not listed here because of that.
* FOX is scheduled to carry boxing at 8pm ET.
* ESPN2 is scheduled to carry a UFC Fight Night at 10-10:30pm ET.
* ESPN originally listed their primetime window as one of two SEC games at 7:30pm ET, but with the Pac-12 returning to play and a window being added at 10:30pm ET, I expect that the primetime ESPN window will move to 7pm ET.
* One ACC RSN game is being listed by most RSNs at 2pm ET leading into Stadium's scheduled C-USA game at 6pm ET.
* BTN's executives have confirmed that they'll carry 28 games this season with two appearances for each Big Ten school, so yes, there's going to be a need to get schools like Ohio State on the network.
* I gave FOX the top Big 12 choice and ESPN the top Big Ten choice.
* I think you'll see usage of ESPNU for the Pac-12 regularly with the Pac-12 Networks sidelined for now. Per the release that the Pac-12 provided, the ESPN outlets for the conference are ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU. Not any of ESPN's digital outlets.

12pm ABC: Maryland at Penn State 
12pm ESPN: Houston at Cincinnati
12pm ESPN2: Minnesota at Illinois
12pm FS1: Kansas at Oklahoma
12pm ESPNU: Texas Tech at TCU
12pm BTN: Rutgers at Ohio State
12pm ACC: Boston College at Syracuse
2pm ACC RSN: Louisville at Virginia
3:30pm ABC: Michigan at Indiana 
3:30pm ESPN: West Virginia at Texas
3:30pm ESPN2: Arizona at Utah
3:30pm FS1: Purdue at Wisconsin
3:30pm ESPNU: UCLA at Colorado
3:30pm BTN: Nebraska at Northwestern
4pm FOX: Oklahoma State at Kansas State
4pm ACC: Pitt at Florida State
7pm ESPN: Texas A&M at South Carolina
7pm ESPN2: North Carolina at Duke
7pm FS1: Baylor at Iowa State
7pm ESPNU: South Alabama at Coastal Carolina
7:30pm ABC: Stanford at Oregon
7:30pm SEC: Tennessee at Arkansas
7:30pm BTN: Michigan State at Iowa
8pm ACC: Liberty at Virginia Tech
10:30pm ESPN: Washington at California
10:30pm FS1: Washington State at Oregon State

ESPN3 or ESPN+
Tulane at ECU
USF at Memphis
North Alabama at Southern Miss
Charlotte at Middle Tennessee
UTSA at Rice
FIU at UTEP
UMass at Marshall
Troy at Georgia Southern
ULM at Georgia State
Arkansas State at Louisiana
Appalachian State at Texas State

10 comments:

  1. Where is the mountain west in these picks?

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    1. There's no Mountain West 12 day selections for Week 10. All games were set for TV in advance with games on Thursday, Friday & Saturday.

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  2. I will bad for those in conference usa & sun belt because they are soon going to pushed out of the tv side of espn's broadcasts & forced to go online :(

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  3. Ohio State would have to approve but if I were the Big Ten and FOX, ABC, and ESPN had no Big Ten teams playing at the same time I would want OSU playing the night game on BTN. They'd probably set a record for a Saturday BTN game not playing vs. Michigan, Penn State, or Wisconsin. Of course they'd be playing vs. Clemson/Notre Dame and 3:30pm would be vs. Georgia/Florida.

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    1. Don't think they have to approve until the 2nd weekend of November if those guidelines are being followed. Night games can happen on 12 days notice through 1st weekend of November.

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  4. My guess for the rest of the OSU season:
    Penn St-ABC(confirmed)
    Rutgers-BTN
    Maryland-BTN
    Indiana-Fox/FS1
    Illinois-ESPN
    Michigan St-ABC
    Michigan-Fox(confirmed)

    Just my two cents.

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  5. maybe a 6-day hold on the Big Ten given that either Rutgers or Indiana will be 2-0 going against OSU or Michigan?

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  6. I think Michigan-Indiana could be the ABC night game, which would prevent a six-day hold for this week.

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