Sunday, November 7, 2021

CFB TV Guesses for 2021 Week 12 Saturday Selections (11/20/21)

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.

* The following games have been preselected by network groups but without a start time or TV network finalized:
  • Harvard at Yale (ESPN Networks)
  • Nebraska at Wisconsin (ABC, ESPN or ESPN2)
  • New Mexico at Boise State (FOX, FS1 or FS2)
* ESPN2 has a Top Rank Boxing window from 7pm-9pm ET for PPV prelims.
* I'm not going to bother with the MAC midweek games.  Those will likely be set based on the results of this week's midweek games.
* There's an ESPNEWS window at 6pm ET

Number of six day holds used
ACC: 2 (11/6, 11/13)
American: 0
Big 12: 4 (10/16, 10/23, 11/6, 11/13)
Big Ten: 2 (11/6, 11/13)
Mountain West: 1 (10/16)
Pac-12: 2 (10/30 by FOX, 11/6 by ESPN)
SEC: 3 (10/9 and 11/6 by CBS, 10/16 by ESPN)

Selections used by contract

Big 12
  • ESPN has chosen 27 of 32 games 
    • Assumed first picks: 9/11, 9/25, 10/9, 10/16, 10/30, 11/27
  • Assumed first picks for FOX: 9/4, 9/18. 10/2, 10/23, 11/6, 11/13
Big Ten
  • ESPN: 25 of 27
    • Assumed first picks: 9/18, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/13
  • FOX Sports: 24 of a range between 24 and 27
    • Assumed first picks: 9/4, 9/11, 9/25, 10/2, 10/9, 11/6, 11/27
  • BTN needs to air a game involving Michigan and Penn State
Pac-12
  • ESPN: 18 of 22
    • Assumed first picks: 9/25, 10/2, 10/9, 10/23, 11/6, 11/13
  • FOX Sports: 19 of 22
    • Assumed first picks: 9/4, 9/11, 9/18, 10/16, 10/30
    • FOX must air one more game in primetime
All times Eastern

12pm ABC: SMU at Cincinnati
12pm FOX: Iowa State at Oklahoma
12pm ESPN:  Nebraska at Wisconsin
12pm ESPN2: Harvard at Yale
12pm FS1: Baylor at Kansas State
12pm ESPNU: BYU at Georgia Southern
12pm SECN: NM State at Kentucky
12pm BTN: Minnesota at Indiana
12pm BTN: Michigan at Maryland
12pm ACCN: Florida State at Boston College
12pm ACC RSNs: Virginia Tech at Miami (FL)
3pm Pac-12: Washington at Colorado
3:30pm ABC: Michigan State at Ohio State
3:30pm CBS: Arkansas at Alabama
3:30pm ESPN: Wake Forest at Clemson
3:30pm ESPN2: Arizona State at Oregon State
3:30pm FS1: Illinois at Iowa
3:30pm ESPNU: Louisiana at Liberty
3:30pm BTN: Rutgers at Penn State
3:30pm BTN: Purdue at Northwestern
4pm FOX: Oregon at Utah
4pm SECN: South Alabama at Tennessee
4pm ACCN: Virginia at Pitt
6pm ESPNEWS: UAB at UTSA
7pm ESPN: Auburn at South Carolina
7pm FS1: New Mexico at Boise State
7pm ESPNU: ULM at LSU
7:30pm ABC: Oklahoma State at Texas Tech
7:30pm SECN: Florida at Missouri
7:30pm ACCN: Syracuse at NC State
8pm FOX: Texas at West Virginia
9pm ESPN2: Vanderbilt at Ole Miss
10:30pm ESPN: UCLA at USC
10:30pm FS1: California at Stanford

Streaming
Wofford at North Carolina
USF at Tulane
Temple at Tulsa
Kansas at TCU
Kent State at Akron
Arkansas State at Georgia State
Texas State at Coastal Carolina

Notes
* Liberty needs a game on linear TV per its new TV deal and the Louisiana game makes sense.
* I gave top Big Ten choice to ESPN, top Big 12 choice to FOX Sports and top Pac-12 choice to ESPN.
* With UTSA still undefeated and UAB at 6-3 at this time, I think the ESPNEWS window could be for that game.

1 comment:

Bobby said...

Minor thing but Nebraska is at Wisconsin. Appreciate the posts as usual!