Friday, March 24, 2023

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

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

As a B1G fan, really fun to read how you’re pondering this new TV world Matt!

I’d think Fresno State at Purdue could be a slightly better NBC Sunday night pick, just my only quibble.

Anyway - love these predicted TV posts!

Anonymous said...

Saw floating around Twitter a pic posted from a Penn State player of their locker room TV showing the WVU Penn State game as 7:30 PM on 9/2. They may have accidentally leaked that they will be the prime time NBC game.

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Matt Sarzyniak said...

Correct. See the original Week 0 & 1 guesses for a reason why. Might be in the comments.