Sunday, September 17, 2023

CFB TV Guesses for 2023 Week 5 (9/30/23)

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:

* A handful of games are intended for television windows at specific times and/or TV networks (all times Eastern):
  • Louisiana at Minnesota (12pm)
  • Illinois at Purdue (3:30pm, 4pm or 7:30pm)
  • Nevada at Fresno State (Time TBA, FOX/FS1/FS2)
* Peacock lists a 3:30pm Big Ten game for themselves exclusively in their app.
* FOX does not have a 7pm window due to MLB.  They previously intended to carry a 10pm game on the broadcast network, but deleted it.  I assume this was due to the added broadcast network window from last week.
* ESPN has listed their evening windows at 6pm & 9pm, which indicates a doubleheader of SEC games.
* FS1 has a NASCAR Truck Series race at 1pm ET, so FS1 will not have an early afternoon window.  
* FS2 appears to have a pair of windows at 12pm and 3:30pm ET.
* Starting with this week, expect BTN to only carry doubleheaders due to intended women's volleyball matches on Saturday evenings.
* FOX does have the top choice for the Pac-12, per Jon Wilner of Bay Area News Group.  I gave FOX the top Big Ten choice too and ABC the top Big 12 choice (actually the top two with the Big 12).
* I think its possible that you'll see at least one window from ACC Network or SEC Network be deleted to help fill ESPN2 or ESPNU. Clemson at Syracuse would be at the top of that list. 

12pm ABC: Iowa State at Oklahoma
12pm FOX: Michigan at Nebraska
12pm ESPN: Texas A&M vs. Arkansas
12pm ESPN2: Boise State at Memphis
12pm FS2: Baylor at UCF
12pm BTN: Louisiana at Minnesota
12pm BTN: Wagner at Rutgers
12pm ESPNU: Miami (OH) at Kent State
12pm SEC: Florida at Kentucky
12pm ACC: Bowling Green at Georgia Tech
2pm CW: Virginia at Boston College
3pm Pac-12: Arizona State at California
3:30pm ABC: Kansas at Texas
3:30pm CBS: Georgia at Auburn
3:30pm FOX: USC at Colorado
3:30pm ESPN2: Oregon at Stanford
3:30pm FS1: Illinois at Purdue
3:30pm FS2: Houston at Texas Tech
3:30pm BTN: Indiana at Maryland
3:30pm ESPNU: Northern Illinois at Toledo
3:30pm ACC: Clemson at Syracuse
3:30pm Peacock: Michigan State at Iowa
4pm SEC: Missouri at Vanderbilt
6pm ESPN: Alabama at Mississippi State
7pm FS1: West Virginia at TCU
7pm NFLN: Troy at Georgia State
7:30pm ABC: Notre Dame at Duke
7:30pm NBC: Penn State at Northwestern
7:30pm ESPN2: UAB at Tulane
7:30pm ESPNU: South Alabama at James Madison
7:30pm SEC: South Carolina at Tennessee
8pm ACC: Pitt at Virginia Tech
9pm ESPN: LSU at Ole Miss
10:30pm FS1: Fresno State at Nevada
10:30pm Pac-12: Washington at Arizona

Streaming
Abilene Christian at North Texas
East Carolina at Rice
Charlotte at SMU
Buffalo at Akron
Eastern Michigan at Central Michigan
Ball State at Western Michigan
Coastal Carolina at Georgia Southern
Old Dominion at Marshall
Texas State at Southern Miss
App State at ULM
Toledo at UMass

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

If this is the case that has to be the weakest Prime time slot in awhile, lol

Matt Sarzyniak said...

At least, at the moment, both on ABC are ranked.

Darrell McKown said...

Assuming Wilner is correct, they are effectively down to either the Big 12 or ACC for the ABC prime time game, so it's probably either Duke-Notre Dame or Texas-Kansas.

Disney will have back-to-back SEC games starting at 6PM on ESPN, though. Next year, we would probably see Alabama-Mississippi State or LSU-Ole Miss in the ABC prime time slot. They are just stuck for one season without the Big Ten or SEC on ABC.

Schmolik said...

Pac 12 is still an option and I'll bet they'll ride the Deion train once they get the chance to. Only reason Colorado-Oregon wasn't was because of Ohio State-Notre Dame.