CFB 2023 TV Week 3 Guesses - Revised

This is a revision to the original early season guesses for Week 3 .  Revisions are in red and include strikethroughs for my changes.  Will attempt articulate a few things.  There are less revisions to this particular week.

Here's where you can find the full schedules on my site for 2023.  If a game isn't listed in these guesses, assume its being streamed.

Thursday

7pm ACCN: Bethune-Cookman at Miami (FL)

7:30pm ESPN: Navy at Memphis

Friday

8pm ESPN: Army West Point at UTSA

Saturday

* Like the first two weeks, I've brought back the ACC RSN package.  If the package isn't going to happen, assume this game gets streamed via ACC Network Extra/ESPN+

* I flipped the San Jose State at Toledo and Vanderbilt at UNLV games on CBSSN.  UNLV gets to play at Allegiant Stadium, but they often need to clear their dates with the Raiders.  I can see them asking for the game to air early in the day.  I don't think the game would get moved to Friday as I suspect Vanderbilt would have to approve it.

* Similar to that, I think the Indiana vs. Louisville game being played at Lucas Oil Stadium might end up being an early game in the event the Colts play the following day.  I originally had it as a noon game.  I think Alabama at South Florida is fine in mid afternoon.

12pm ABC: Oklahoma at Tulsa

12pm FOX: Washington at Michigan State

12pm ESPN: Georgia Tech at Ole Miss

12pm ESPN2: Kansas State at Missouri

12pm FS1: Syracuse at Purdue

12pm BTN: Virginia at Maryland

12pm BTN: Georgia Southern at Wisconsin

12pm ESPNU: Iowa State at Ohio

12pm SECN: Akron at Kentucky

12pm ACCN: Indiana vs. Louisville

12pm CBSSN: FIU at UConn

12:30pm ACC RSN: VMI at NC State

2pm Pac-12: Sacramento State at Stanford

2pm Pac-12 Los Angeles: North Carolina Central at UCLA

2:30pm Peacock: Central Michigan at Notre Dame

3:30pm ABC: Alabama at South Florida

3:30pm CBS: Tennessee at Florida

3:30pm ESPN2: TCU at Houston

3:30pm FS1: WKU at Ohio State

3:30pm BTN: Bowling Green at Michigan

3:30pm BTN: Northern Illinois at Nebraska

3:30pm ESPNU: Louisiana at UAB

3:30pm ACCN: Northwestern at Duke

3:30pm CBSSN: San Jose State at Toledo

3:30pm CBSSN: Vanderbilt at UNLV

4pm FOX: Pitt at West Virginia

4pm SECN: ULM at Texas A&M

4pm FS2: North Dakota at Boise State 

5pm Pac-12: Weber State at Utah

5pm Pac-12 WA: Northern Colorado at Washington State

6pm ESPN: South Carolina at Georgia

6pm Peacock: Western Michigan at Iowa

7pm ESPN2: Minnesota at North Carolina

7pm FS1: Utah State at Air Force

7pm ESPNU: Tulane at Southern Miss

7pm CBSSN: Vanderbilt at UNLV

7pm CBSSN: San Jose State at Toledo

7:30pm ABC: Florida State at Boston College

7:30pm NBC: Penn State at Illinois

7:30pm BTN: Virginia Tech at Rutgers

7:30pm SECN: BYU at Arkansas

8pm FOX: Colorado State at Colorado

8pm ACCN: Florida Atlantic at Clemson

8pm Longhorn: Wyoming at Texas

8pm Pac-12: San Diego State at Oregon State

8pm Pac-12 Bay Area: Idaho at California

8pm FS2: NM State at New Mexico

9pm ESPN: LSU at Mississippi State

10:30pm ESPN2: Hawai'i at Oregon

10:30pm FS1: Fresno State at Arizona State

10:30pm CBSSN: Kansas at Nevada

11pm Pac-12: UTEP at Arizona

CFB 2023 TV Week 2 Guesses - Revised

This is a revision to the original early season guesses for Week 2 .  Revisions are in red and include strikethroughs for my changes.  Will attempt articulate a few things.

Here's where you can find the full schedules on my site for 2023.  If a game isn't listed in these guesses, assume its being streamed.

Thursday

7pm ACCN: Murray State at Louisville

Friday

8pm ESPN2: Houston at Rice

Saturday

* CBS came out with its NWSL schedule and has a telecast window at 12:30pm ET, so changed needed to happen to show one less Big Ten game on CBS.

* FS1 also has a 4pm ET MLB window, which triggered moving the Utah at Baylor game over to ESPN2 at 12pm ET.  From there, I figured the SMU at Oklahoma game could end up with ESPN+.  Oklahoma can have multiple ESPN+ games as they had their game vs. Baylor last year also on the streaming service in addition to their game vs. Kent State.

* Since I dropped Washington State at Colorado State from the Week 1 CBS 12pm window, the UCLA-San Diego State game seems like a reasonable make good.  It does bump CBS into a nighttime Big Ten game.  Is it a good Big Ten game? Not really.

* There's been some conjecture that the ACC RSN package may live on.  I've added the package back for now.  Assume that the game I've chosen ends up with ACC Network Extra/ESPN+ if the package is truly gone.

11am ACCN: App State at North Carolina

12pm FOX: UNLV at Michigan

12pm ABC: Southern Miss at Florida State

12pm CBS: Charlotte at Maryland

12pm ESPN: Texas A&M at Miami (FL)

12pm ESPN2: SMU at Oklahoma

12pm ESPN2: Utah at Baylor

12pm FS1: Iowa at Iowa State

12pm ESPNU: James Madison at Virginia

12pm BTN: Delaware at Penn State

12pm BTN: Richmond at Michigan State

12pm SECN: Arizona at Mississippi State

12pm CBSSN: Delaware State at Army West Point

12:30pm ACC RSNs: Charleston Southern at Clemson

2pm ACCN: Western Michigan at Syracuse

3pm Peacock: Eastern Michigan at Minnesota

3:30pm ABC: Auburn at California

3:30pm CBS: Temple at Rutgers

3:30pm CBS: UCLA at San Diego State

3:30pm FOX: Oregon at Texas Tech

3:30pm ESPN2: Ball State at Georgia

3:30pm FS1: Utah at Baylor

3:30pm ESPNU: Illinois at Kansas

3:30pm BTN: Youngstown State at Ohio State

3:30pm CBSSN: Wagner at Navy

4pm SECN: Middle Tennessee at Missouri

4pm Pac-12: UC Davis at Oregon State

5pm ACCN: Cincinnati at Pitt

7pm FOX: Nebraska at Colorado

7pm ESPN: Texas at Alabama

7pm ESPN2: Ole Miss at Tulane

7pm FS1: UCF at Boise State

7pm ESPNU: Vanderbilt at Wake Forest

7pm CBSSN: Air Force vs. Sam Houston

7:30pm ABC: Notre Dame at NC State

7:30pm NBC: UTEP at Northwestern

7:30pm SECN: Kent State at Arkansas

7:30pm BTN: Indiana State at Indiana

7:30pm BTN: Charlotte at Maryland

8pm CBS: Temple at Rutgers

8pm ACCN: Purdue at Virginia Tech

8pm Pac-12: Tulsa at Washington

10:30pm FOX: Oklahoma State at Arizona State

10:30pm ESPN: Stanford at USC

10:30pm FS1: Wisconsin at Washington State

10:30pm CBSSN: UCLA at San Diego State

CFB 2023 TV Weeks 0 and 1 Guesses - Revised

This is a revision to the original early season guesses for Weeks 0 and 1.  I usually take one opportunity to make changes as schedules in other sports start to take space on the weekend, plus news sometimes trickles out.  Revisions are in red and include strikethroughs for my changes.  Will attempt articulate a few things.

Here's where you can find the full schedules on my site for 2023.  If a game isn't listed in these guesses, assume its being streamed.

Week 0

12pm NBC: Navy vs. Notre Dame

3:30pm ESPN: Mercer vs. North Alabama

3:30pm CBSSN: FIU at Louisiana Tech

7pm ESPN: South Carolina State vs. Jackson State

7:30pm SECN: Hawai'i at Vanderbilt

7pm CBSSN: UTEP at Jacksonville State

9pm Pac-12: San Jose State at USC

10:30pm CBSSN: Ohio at San Diego State

Week 1

Thursday

* Florida at Utah is now confirmed for the Thursday date.

7pm ACCN: Elon at Wake Forest
8pm FS1: Nebraska at Minnesota

9pm ESPN: Florida at Utah

10pm Pac-12: Southern Utah at Arizona State 

Friday

* Due to some of the Saturday adjustments made, I moved the South Florida at WKU game to Friday night for CBSSN.  That is not confirmed at all.

7pm ACCN: Miami (OH) at Miami (FL)

7pm CBSSN: South Florida at WKU

7:30pm ESPN: Louisville vs. Georgia Tech

11:30pm CBSSN: Stanford at Hawai'i

Saturday

* After further consideration, I think CBS will take two Big Ten games this week instead of next weekend.  CBS has to use a spot I thought a Big Ten game could fill in Week 2 for other sports programming (you'll see in that post).

* Also, as I mentioned in the Week 3 guesses by the time they posted, it sounds like Notre Dame's Peacock exclusive will be the Central Michigan game and not the Tennessee State game, so I've updated that for NBC.

* I still haven't been able to track down whether the ACC RSN deal is ending or not.  For now, let's add the window back.  If the package is truly gone, assume the game I've listed ends up on ACC Network Extra/ESPN+ streaming.

12pm FOX: East Carolina at Michigan

12pm CBS: Northwestern at Rutgers 

12pm CBS: Washington State at Colorado State

12pm ESPN: California at North Texas

12pm FS1: UTSA at Houston

12pm BTN: Towson at Maryland

12pm BTN: Fresno State at Purdue

12pm ESPNU: Louisiana Tech at SMU

12pm SECN: Ball State at Kentucky

12pm ACCN: Wofford at Pitt

12pm CBSSN: NC State at UConn

12:30pm ACC RSN: Colgate at Syracuse

2:30pm Peacock: Tennessee State at Notre Dame

3:30pm ABC: South Carolina vs. North Carolina

3:30pm FOX: Nevada at USC

3:30pm CBS: West Virginia at Penn State

3:30pm NBC: Tennessee State at Notre Dame

3:30pm FS1: Sam Houston at BYU

3:30pm ESPN: Texas State at Baylor

3:30pm BTN: Buffalo at Wisconsin

3:30pm BTN: Central Michigan at Michigan State

3:30pm ESPNU: Army West Point at ULM

3:30pm ACCN: Northern Illinois at Boston College

3:30pm CBSSN: Texas Tech at Wyoming

4pm SECN: NM State at Texas A&M

4pm Pac-12: Coastal Carolina at UCLA

7pm ESPN: Virginia vs. Tennessee

7pm CBSSN: South Florida at WKU

7pm CBSSN: Washington State at Colorado State

7:30pm ABC: Colorado at TCU

7:30pm NBC: Ohio State at Indiana

7:30pm BTN: Utah State at Iowa

7:30pm BTN: Toledo at Illinois

7:30pm ESPNU: UMass at Auburm

7:30pm SECN: Middle Tennessee at Alabama

7:30pm Pac-12: Portland State at Oregon

8pm ACCN: Old Dominion at Virginia Tech

8pm Longhorn: Rice at Texas

10:30pm ESPN: Boise State at Washington

11pm Pac-12: Northern Arizona at Arizona

Sunday

* NBC need a new Sunday game after moving Northwestern at Rutgers to CBS on Saturday, so I moved Toledo at Illinois over to Sunday for NBC. 

4pm FOX: Oregon State at San Jose State

7:30pm ABC: LSU vs. Florida State

7:30pm NBC: Northwestern at Rutgers

7:30pm NBC: Toledo at Illinois

Monday

8pm ESPN: Clemson at Duke

2023 Early Season CFB TV Guesses: Week 3

Good morning.  2023 is live on my site, so feel free to poke around.

* I didn't specify every streaming game from ESPN+, ESPN3 or MW Network.  If the game isn't listed, assume its over there.  I did go ahead and specify a game airing on Peacock for this particular week.  With Notre Dame likely having at least one Peacock exclusive per season, plus eight Big Ten games on Peacock for the next several years, I felt it was important to spell those games out and will do so for future weeks.

* I realize that I guessed Tennessee State at Notre Dame for Week 1 for Peacock, but I've seen enough evidence to the contrary and that the Central Michigan game will end up on Peacock for Week 3.  I'll go back in a few weeks and probably re-think Weeks 0 & 1 and Week 2 to adjust things.

* This would be the first week that CBS gets a SEC game.

* Also, this is where I can see ESPN using a 6pm/9pm SEC doubleheader, as when you look at the available Pac-12 games, the quality of available games isn't there like it is for Week 2.

* I'd like to see one of the Pac-12 games that are destined for Pac-12 Networks move over to Friday night. Particularly if both Arizona schools end up on Pac-12 Networks.

* Compared to Week 2, the Big Ten provides a lot more quality for networks, even with a few clunkers in there.  BTN is a recipient of some of this good fortune.

* With both Oklahoma and Alabama playing at AAC schools, I figure these are two games that are likely to be geared toward ABC games, helping to fulfill a requirement to have games on ABC.

* I went with Washington at Michigan State over to FOX ahead of Penn State at Illinois to NBC.

Thursday

7pm ACCN: Bethune-Cookman at Miami (FL)

7:30pm ESPN: Navy at Memphis

Friday

8pm ESPN: Army West Point at UTSA

Saturday

12pm ABC: Oklahoma at Tulsa

12pm FOX: Washington at Michigan State

12pm ESPN: Georgia Tech at Ole Miss

12pm ESPN2: Kansas State at Missouri

12pm FS1: Syracuse at Purdue

12pm BTN: Virginia at Maryland

12pm BTN: Georgia Southern at Wisconsin

12pm ESPNU: Iowa State at Ohio

12pm SECN: Akron at Kentucky

12pm ACCN: Indiana vs. Louisville

12pm CBSSN: FIU at UConn

2pm Pac-12: Sacramento State at Stanford

2pm Pac-12 Los Angeles: North Carolina Central at UCLA

2:30pm Peacock: Central Michigan at Notre Dame

3:30pm ABC: Alabama at South Florida

3:30pm CBS: Tennessee at Florida

3:30pm ESPN2: TCU at Houston

3:30pm FS1: WKU at Ohio State

3:30pm BTN: Bowling Green at Michigan

3:30pm BTN: Northern Illinois at Nebraska

3:30pm ESPNU: Louisiana at UAB

3:30pm ACCN: Northwestern at Duke

3:30pm CBSSN: San Jose State at Toledo

4pm FOX: Pitt at West Virginia

4pm SECN: ULM at Texas A&M

4pm FS2: North Dakota at Boise State 

5pm Pac-12: Weber State at Utah

5pm Pac-12 WA: Northern Colorado at Washington State

6pm ESPN: South Carolina at Georgia

6pm Peacock: Western Michigan at Iowa

7pm ESPN2: Minnesota at North Carolina

7pm FS1: Utah State at Air Force

7pm ESPNU: Tulane at Southern Miss

7pm CBSSN: Vanderbilt at UNLV

7:30pm ABC: Florida State at Boston College

7:30pm NBC: Penn State at Illinois

7:30pm BTN: Virginia Tech at Rutgers

7:30pm SECN: BYU at Arkansas

8pm FOX: Colorado State at Colorado

8pm ACCN: Florida Atlantic at Clemson

8pm Longhorn: Wyoming at Texas

8pm Pac-12: San Diego State at Oregon State

8pm Pac-12 Bay Area: Idaho at California

8pm FS2: NM State at New Mexico

9pm ESPN: LSU at Mississippi State

10:30pm ESPN2: Hawai'i at Oregon

10:30pm FS1: Fresno State at Arizona State

10:30pm CBSSN: Kansas at Nevada

11pm Pac-12: UTEP at Arizona

2023 Early Season CFB TV Guesses: Week 2

Good morning.  2023 is live on my site, so feel free to poke around.  Weeks 0 and 1 were already guessed, so if you missed those, head to that one first.

* If your school's game isn't listed here, assume its being streamed though ESPN3, ESPN+ or MW Network.  I will list Peacock games since those are specially chosen and a limited number.

* ESPN tends to skip this particular Thursday due to the NFL Opening Night game, plus both ESPN and ESPN2 tend to have US Open tennis.

* ESPN will also cede their midday Saturday window to the US Open women's final.

* Saw a remark from CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus that his broadcast network would have three Big Ten games over the first two weeks.  Assuming he doesn't take two for Week 1, and maybe that's the better week to take two, I have them taking two here.

* Houston at Rice was noted as potentially moving to Friday.  Let's take them up on that offer.

* So many ACC games to pick up, so I think we'll do the four short windows schedule here.  It will still put a couple FBS vs. FBS games on ACCNX/ESPN+, but with the RSN package appearing to be ending, these will move to ESPN to distribute.

* Because of the glut of Big 12 and Pac-12 games, particularly the number of higher quality Pac-12 games, I'm going to assume that FOX does a fourth broadcast network window.  They have the last two early season weeks (Week 2 in 2021, Week 3 in 2022).

Thursday

7pm ACCN: Murray State at Louisville

Friday

8pm ESPN2: Houston at Rice

Saturday

11am ACCN: App State at North Carolina

12pm FOX: UNLV at Michigan

12pm ABC: Southern Miss at Florida State

12pm CBS: Charlotte at Maryland

12pm ESPN: Texas A&M at Miami (FL)

12pm ESPN2: SMU at Oklahoma

12pm FS1: Iowa at Iowa State

12pm ESPNU: James Madison at Virginia

12pm BTN: Delaware at Penn State

12pm BTN: Richmond at Michigan State

12pm SECN: Arizona at Mississippi State

12pm CBSSN: Delaware State at Army West Point

2pm ACCN: Western Michigan at Syracuse

3pm Peacock: Eastern Michigan at Minnesota

3:30pm ABC: Auburn at California

3:30pm CBS: Temple at Rutgers

3:30pm FOX: Oregon at Texas Tech

3:30pm ESPN2: Ball State at Georgia

3:30pm FS1: Utah at Baylor

3:30pm ESPNU: Illinois at Kansas

3:30pm BTN: Youngstown State at Ohio State

3:30pm CBSSN: Wagner at Navy

4pm SECN: Middle Tennessee at Missouri

4pm Pac-12: UC Davis at Oregon State

5pm ACCN: Cincinnati at Pitt

7pm FOX: Nebraska at Colorado

7pm ESPN: Texas at Alabama

7pm ESPN2: Ole Miss at Tulane

7pm FS1: UCF at Boise State

7pm ESPNU: Vanderbilt at Wake Forest

7pm CBSSN: Air Force vs. Sam Houston

7:30pm ABC: Notre Dame at NC State

7:30pm NBC: UTEP at Northwestern

7:30pm SECN: Kent State at Arkansas

7:30pm BTN: Indiana State at Indiana

8pm ACCN: Purdue at Virginia Tech

8pm Pac-12: Tulsa at Washington

10:30pm FOX: Oklahoma State at Arizona State

10:30pm ESPN: Stanford at USC

10:30pm FS1: Wisconsin at Washington State

10:30pm CBSSN: UCLA at San Diego State

2023 Early Season CFB TV Guesses: Weeks 0 and 1

Good morning.  2023 is live on my site, so feel free to poke around.

I'll start with sketching out what I think the 2023 early season (Weeks 0-3) schedule will look like.  Starting with Week 4 (the Saturday date of 9/23/2023), most games will have their time and TV outlets set 12 days in advance of the game date, so take that date of the game that won't be picked here, look at the Monday date of the prior week, and that's the date you should look for time and TV to be set.  

Yes, there are six day holds that TV can use that will potentially affect that game's start time or TV outlet.  There are also a few games that do get TV set farther in advance than most, such as Notre Dame home games and the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry game.

For Weeks 0 and 1, there are some typical conflicts with other sports that affect the available TV windows.  I'm expecting these events to take up time and note them below.

Week 0

12pm NBC: Navy vs. Notre Dame

3:30pm ESPN: Mercer vs. North Alabama

3:30pm CBSSN: FIU at Louisiana Tech

7pm ESPN: South Carolina State vs. Jackson State

7:30pm SECN: Hawai'i at Vanderbilt

7pm CBSSN: UTEP at Jacksonville State

9pm Pac-12: San Jose State at USC

10:30pm CBSSN: Ohio at San Diego State

Week 1

Thursday

* I'm going to assume that the option for Florida at Utah to move to Thursday is taken up by the two schools.

* As in previous years, I do not expect ESPN2 to be available all day Saturday due to US Open tennis. 

* FOX will have a primetime MLB window this week starting at 7pm.  I do not know if

* During the Wake Forest-Syracuse men's basketball game on 3/4/23, it appears that the ACC RSN package was announced as ending going forward, which would put that content back with ESPN's platforms going forward.

* Supposedly the Big Ten will have a primetime game on NBC on Sunday in addition to Saturday for Week 1.  As you can see, the schedule is a bit blah.  I moved Northwestern at Rutgers over, but I have no clue what game will move.  There's no guarantee for it to be a high profile game at this point.

* I didn't specify every streaming game from ESPN+, ESPN3 or MW Network.  If the game isn't listed, assume its over there.  I did go ahead and specify a game airing on Peacock for this particular week.  With Notre Dame likely having at least one Peacock exclusive per season, plus eight Big Ten games on Peacock for the next several years, I felt it was important to spell those games out and will do so for future weeks.

* With the Oregon State-San Jose State game moved to Sunday, I put it on FOX.  I don't think the game will be on FS1 as it has NHRA and MLS from about 4pm ET - 9:30pm, unless they want that late window, and if they did, I think they could do it Saturday.  As for CBS, I don't think the game was moved to Sunday just for CBSSN and CBS last year carried the Big3 basketball championship on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend last year.

* I think CBS will try to burn off one of its MW broadcast network games in an early window.  For this I chose Washington State at Colorado State.

7pm ACCN: Elon at Wake Forest
8pm FS1: Nebraska at Minnesota

9pm ESPN: Florida at Utah

10pm Pac-12: Southern Utah at Arizona State 

Friday

7pm ACCN: Miami (OH) at Miami (FL)

7:30pm ESPN: Louisville vs. Georgia Tech

11:30pm CBSSN: Stanford at Hawai'i

Saturday

12pm FOX: East Carolina at Michigan

12pm CBS: Washington State at Colorado State

12pm ESPN: California at North Texas

12pm FS1: UTSA at Houston

12pm BTN: Towson at Maryland

12pm BTN: Fresno State at Purdue

12pm ESPNU: Louisiana Tech at SMU

12pm SECN: Ball State at Kentucky

12pm ACCN: Wofford at Pitt

12pm CBSSN: NC State at UConn

2:30pm Peacock: Tennessee State at Notre Dame

3:30pm ABC: South Carolina vs. North Carolina

3:30pm FOX: Nevada at USC

3:30pm CBS: West Virginia at Penn State

3:30pm FS1: Sam Houston at BYU

3:30pm ESPN: Texas State at Baylor

3:30pm BTN: Buffalo at Wisconsin

3:30pm BTN: Central Michigan at Michigan State

3:30pm ESPNU: Army West Point at ULM

3:30pm ACCN: Northern Illinois at Boston College

3:30pm CBSSN: Texas Tech at Wyoming

4pm SECN: NM State at Texas A&M

4pm Pac-12: Coastal Carolina at UCLA

7pm ESPN: Virginia vs. Tennessee

7:30pm ABC: Colorado at TCU

7:30pm NBC: Ohio State at Indiana

7:30pm BTN: Utah State at Iowa

7:30pm BTN: Toledo at Illinois

7:30pm ESPNU: UMass at Auburm

7:30pm SECN: Middle Tennessee at Alabama

7:30pm Pac-12: Portland State at Oregon

7pm CBSSN: South Florida at WKU

8pm ACCN: Old Dominion at Virginia Tech

8pm Longhorn: Rice at Texas

10:30pm ESPN: Boise State at Washington

11pm Pac-12: Northern Arizona at Arizona

Sunday

4pm FOX: Oregon State at San Jose State

7:30pm ABC: LSU vs. Florida State

7:30pm NBC: Northwestern at Rutgers

Monday

8pm ESPN: Clemson at Duke