Sunday, September 10, 2023

CFB TV Guesses for 2023 Week 4 (9/23/23)

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.

Instead of cluttering up these posts even more, I'll try to keep track of the unique conference TV arrangements in a separate post.  

A few notes and considerations:

* One Big Ten game has been set for a start time with no TV yet: Rutgers at Michigan (12pm)
* Because of Ohio State at Notre Dame being in primetime on NBC, their Big Ten controlled game will be at 3:30pm. On Saturday evening, NBC confirmed their choice of Maryland at Michigan State.
* FOX originally had three games listed on their schedule for this week, but added a fourth game.  I considered two possibilities and went with the latter.
  • Rutgers at Michigan - As mentioned above, this one is already scheduled for a noon start. Weighed placing it on FOX vs. BTN.  Looked over Michigan's schedule and this seemed to be their BTN game instead of Indiana, but it wouldn't surprise me.
  • USC at Arizona State - This one would have to be at 10:30pm as Arizona requires late evening games in September, though exceptions can be made.
I also think that Wisconsin at Purdue being on FS1 at night is part of the thought process to not add a second Big Ten game into the FOX Sports schedule

* For those tracking order of picks, CBS likely used the top Big Ten selection on 9/23 for Penn State-Iowa (selected back in the spring), FOX the top Big 12 selection on Oklahoma-Cincinnati and ESPN the top Pac-12 choice on Colorado-Oregon.

12pm ABC: Florida State at Clemson
12pm FOX: Oklahoma at Cincinnati
12pm ESPN: UAB at Georgia
12pm ESPN2: Mississippi State at South Carolina
12pm FS1: Louisiana Tech at Nebraska
12pm ESPNU: Rice at South Florida
12pm SEC: Memphis vs. Missouri
12pm BTN: Rutgers at Michigan
12pm ACC: North Carolina at Pitt
2pm Pac-12: Oregon State at Washington State
3:30pm ABC: Texas at Baylor
3:30pm CBS: Ole Miss at Alabama
3:30pm FOX: UCLA at Utah
3:30pm ESPN: UCF at Kansas State
3:30pm ESPNU: Virginia Tech at Marshall
3:30pm BTN: Minnesota at Northwestern
3:30pm ACC: Georgia Tech at Wake Forest
4pm ESPN2: Miami (FL) at Temple
4pm FS1: Oklahoma State at Iowa State
4pm SEC: Kentucky at Vanderbilt
6:30pm CW: Army West Point at Syracuse
7pm FOX: BYU at Kansas
7pm ESPN: Auburn at Texas A&M
7:30pm ABC: Colorado at Oregon
7:30pm ESPN2: UTSA at Tennessee
7:30pm ESPNU: SMU at TCU
7:30pm SEC: Arkansas at LSU
7:30pm BTN: Florida Atlantic at Illinois
7:30pm BTN: Akron at Indiana
8pm FS1: Texas Tech at West Virginia
8pm ACC: Boston College at Louisville
9:30pm Pac-12: Arizona at Stanford
10:30pm FOX: USC at Arizona State
10:30pm ESPN: California at Washington

ESPN+ Streaming
Ohio at Bowling Green
Nicholls at Tulane
Eastern Michigan at Jacksonville State
Liberty at FIU
Colorado State at Middle Tennessee
UNLV at UTEP
Tulsa at Northern Illinois
Georgia Southern at Ball State
Western Michigan at Toledo
Delaware State at Miami (OH)
Buffalo at Louisiana
A&M-Commerce at Old Dominion
Central Michigan at South Alabama
WKU at Troy
Southern Miss at Arkansas State
Nevada at Texas State

2 comments:

Schmolik said...

Would ABC/ESPN consider moving Colorado/Oregon to 3:30pm to avoid going head to head with Ohio State/Notre Dame?

Matt Sarzyniak said...

Fair question. Possibly.