Friday, March 24, 2023

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

11 comments:

unknown said...
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Matt Sarzyniak said...

Which game is a better option? For the Big Ten, they're all mediocre at best.

unknown said...
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Matt Sarzyniak said...

That's unknown at this time

Schmolik said...

If CBS had to air a Big Ten primetime game, it's better to air a week where NBC is airing a Notre Dame game and not go head to head with them. I can also see them airing a noon ET game and FOX airing a 3:30pm game one or two weeks in 2023. There's going to be some flexibility this season before the FOX noon, CBS 3:30pm, NBC prime time starts in 2024. CBS has to fit in seven games somehow, Temple/Rutgers as one of them seems a waste. The Big Ten is going to want some 3:30pm ET games in 2023 somehow. After Week 2, CBS can't air any. So let NBC and FOX air some.

gatorhead said...

Florida/McNeese St?

Matt Sarzyniak said...

That sentence at the top re of a game isn't listed, assume streaming like ESPN+.

unknown said...
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unknown said...
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Matt Sarzyniak said...

I'm not required and I don't know

unknown said...
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