Sunday, October 29, 2023

CFB TV Guesses for 2023 Week 11 (11/7/23-11/11/23)

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:

* The following games are set for a particular time or TV network family, but not both:
  • Washington State at California (ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU)
  • Pitt vs. Syracuse (3:30pm)
  • New Mexico at Boise State (FOX, FS1, FS2)
  • Yale at Princeton (ESPN Networks)
* NBC has a Big Ten doubleheader with games at 3:30pm and 7:30pm, plus a Peacock exclusive at 12pm.  Their primetime game has already been set though.
* Yes, I know the Georgia sixth game exception is out there.  I'm not electing to use it here because I do have a decent option in Florida at LSU.
* FOX has a quadruple header, but has already selected their noon game.
* The FS1 window set for 9:45pm ET seems to be telegraphing that the New Mexico at Boise State game will air there.  MW games on FOX Sports must be slotted to start at 7:45pm local time at the latest.
* Colorado needs one more Pac-12 game and this is the place to do it in my opinion.
* With Liberty at 8-0, I thought this was a good chance to showcase them on a Saturday even if its just on ESPNU.
* With both Duke and North Carolina losing on Saturday, I struggled a bit to find a 3rd ABC worth game.  Since we're in six day pick season, might see one more used on the ACC and Big 12.  Would be the last they can use on ACC as it would be number 4.

Tuesday 11/7
7pm CBSSN: Central Michigan at Western Michigan
7pm ESPNU: Ball State at Northern Illinois
7:30pm ESPN2: Ohio at Buffalo

Wednesday 11/8
7pm CBSSN: Bowling Green at Kent State
7:30pm ESPNU: Akron at Miami (OH)
7:30pm ESPN2: Eastern Michigan at Toledo

Saturday 11/11
12pm ABC: Texas Tech at Kansas
12pm ESPN: Alabama at Kentucky
12pm ESPN2: Duke at North Carolina
12pm FS1: Oklahoma State at UCF
12pm BTN: Minnesota at Purdue
12pm ESPNU: Yale at Princeton
12pm SECN: Auburn at Arkansas
12pm ACCN: NC State at Wake Forest
12pm Peacock: Indiana at Illinois
2pm The CW: Virginia Tech at Boston College
2pm Pac-12: Arizona at Colorado
3:30pm ABC: West Virginia at Oklahoma
3:30pm CBS: Florida at LSU
3:30pm NBC: Rutgers at Iowa
3:30pm FOX: Texas at TCU
3:30pm ESPN: Baylor at Kansas State
3:30pm ESPN2: Washington State at California
3:30pm FS1: Maryland at Nebraska
3:30pm BTN: Northwestern at Wisconsin
3:30pm ESPNU: Old Dominion at Liberty
3:30pm ACCN: Pitt vs. Syracuse
4pm SECN: Vanderbilt at South Carolina
5:30pm Pac-12: Stanford at Oregon State
7pm FOX: USC at Oregon
7pm ESPN: Ole Miss at Georgia
7pm ESPN2: Tennessee at Missouri
7pm FS1: Iowa State at BYU
7pm NFLN: Georgia Southern at Marshall
7:30pm ABC: Miami (FL) at Florida State
7:30pm ESPNU: Tulsa at Tulane
7:30pm SECN: Mississippi State at Texas A&M
8pm ACCN: Georgia Tech at Clemson
9:45pm FS1: New Mexico at Boise State
10:30pm FOX: Utah at Washington
10:30pm ESPN: Arizona State at UCLA

Streaming
Memphis at Charlotte
Temple at South Florida
Rice at UTSA
East Carolina at Florida Atlantic
Cincinnati at Houston
Sam Houston at Louisiana Tech
FIU at Middle Tennessee
NM State at WKU
UConn at James Madison
Texas State at Coastal Carolina
App State at Georgia State
Troy at ULM
Arkansas State at South Alabama

9 comments:

Schmolik said...

I was thinking Tennessee at Missouri would be the "alternative" CBS game with Mizzou having just one loss although LSU-Florida do have better names.

Also, CBS could just take Alabama-Kentucky and ask for a 6th Alabama game as well as a 6th Georgia game in the same year (it's their last year, might as well take every Georgia and Alabama game they can get).

Schmolik said...

Why not have the Pac 12 split their two best games over FOX and ABC so Utah-Washington isn't stuck during the graveyard shift?

ABC gets Utah-Washington at 3:30, moves West Virginia-Oklahoma to noon.

FOX gets Arizona State-UCLA at 10:30

ESPN gets Texas Tech-Kansas at 3:30, Washington State-California at 10:30

ESPN2 gets Baylor at Kansas State at noon, Duke at North Carolina at 3:30

Matt Sarzyniak said...

My understanding is only one 6th game exception per season.

Matt Sarzyniak said...

Because it appears that FOX will be taking two at the top

Matt Sarzyniak said...

To be more clear:

P12 has a priority picks system where ESPN & FOX can jump the line 2x a season. I think the top "line jumper" is the network family not carrying the P12 title game. I'm assuming that FOX jumps the line here and also has the top pick besides that for the week.

Statto00 said...

I still think CBS are gonna want to wait to see the outcomes of LSU-Bama and TAMU-Miss before making their call on 11/11, so imagine Florida-LSU and Miss-UGa will be on a 6-day hold. The prospect of a top ten matchup that might be an SECCG preview (if LSU and Ole Miss win next week) would be too mouth-watering for any network to freely give up.

Matt Sarzyniak said...

That's reasonable.

Anonymous said...

You said NBC has a 7:30 window but it’s not on your list?

Matt Sarzyniak said...

Correct, it's already been set. See the link on the first word of the post for both FOX noon and NBC 7:30pm.