Monday, May 2, 2022

CFB TV Guesses: 2022 Week 3 (Final Revision)

One last guess at Week 3 as we head in to May. Games in bold are confirmed for time and TV. Games in italics are confirmed for the TV outlet but not the time. Games in purple are confirmed for a particular network family (ie. an ESPN game = could be ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, etc.).

Under the list of games there's some notes about any changes I made. Also, if your game isn't listed, assume it is being delivered digitally via ESPN+, MW Network or some other means.

Thursday
7:30pm ESPN: Rutgers at Temple

Now that we know that Chargers at Chiefs is the opening Thursday night game on Amazon's schedule, I think that ESPN can be comfortable in finalizing this game with the Thursday date, if that's their plan.

Friday
7:30pm ESPN: Florida State at Louisville
10:30pm Pac-12: Eastern Michigan at Arizona State

Saturday
11:30am CBSSN: Villanova at Army West Point
12pm ABC: Purdue at Syracuse
12pm FOX: Toledo at Ohio State
12pm ESPN: Miami (FL) at Texas A&M
12pm ESPN2: Colorado at Minnesota
12pm FS1: NM State at Wisconsin
12pm ESPNU: Kansas at Houston
12pm SECN: Akron at Tennessee
12pm BTN: UConn at Michigan
12pm ACCN: Liberty at Wake Forest
12:30pm ACC RSNs: Wofford at Virginia Tech
2pm Pac-12: Montana State vs. Oregon State
2:30pm NBC: California at Notre Dame
3pm CBSSN: Pitt at Western Michigan
3:30pm ABC: Fresno State at USC
3:30pm CBS: Penn State at Auburn
3:30pm ESPN: Texas Tech at NC State
3:30pm ESPN2: Ole Miss at Georgia Tech
3:30pm FS1: Air Force at Wyoming
3:30pm BTN: Southern Illinois at Northwestern
3:30pm NESN+: Stony Brook at UMass
4pm FOX: Michigan State at Washington
4pm ESPNU: WKU at Indiana
4pm SECN: USF at Florida
4pm ACCN: Old Dominion at Virginia
5pm Pac-12: South Alabama at UCLA
6:30pm CBSSN: UCF at Florida Atlantic
7pm ESPN: Georgia at South Carolina
7pm ESPN2: Mississippi State at LSU
7pm FS1: Nevada at Iowa
7pm Stadium: North Texas at UNLV
7:30pm ABC: Oklahoma at Nebraska
7:30pm ESPNU: Vanderbilt at Northern Illinois
7:30pm SECN: ULM at Alabama
7:30pm BTN: SMU at Maryland
7:30pm ACCN: Louisiana Tech at Clemson
8pm FOX: BYU at Oregon
8pm LHN: UTSA at Texas
8pm FS2: UT Martin at Boise State
8pm Pac-12: Colorado State at Washington State
10pm ESPN: San Diego State at Utah
10pm CBSSN: UTEP at New Mexico
11pm Pac-12: North Dakota State at Arizona
11:59pm PPV: Duquesne at Hawai'i

I heard a lot of you on my original choice of Toledo at Ohio State as the night game, and I think you're correct - its not the night game, regardless of how well Ohio State can carry a TV rating. As several of you pointed out, Texas Tech at NC State might end up being a sneaky good game early in the season with NC State returning a lot, so I did move that one up to ESPN. My thought was to be simple about this: Toledo at Ohio State is the type of game FOX doesn't mind taking for a noon start, even if its a blowout, and Oklahoma at Nebraska makes sense for a primetime game on ABC. So I swapped those two.

The CBSSN games are at slightly odd times for the network because of the choice of Mountain West game to end the evening. CBSSN and the MW have an agreement to not start the conference's games later than 8pm local time, so I had to work backwards from there.

1 comment:

GC said...

Matt,
It is North Dakota State vs Arizona
Fyi