Sunday, October 8, 2023

CFB TV Guesses for 2023 Week 8 (10/21/23) and AAC Week 13 Date Changes

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 had either their start time or TV network family set in advance: 
  • Rutgers at Indiana (12pm)
  • Wisconsin at Illinois (12pm, 3:30pm or 4pm)
  • Nevada at San Diego State (FOX Sports)
* NBC has one of their two Big Ten doubleheaders.
* FS1 has NASCAR Trucks in the early afternoon instead of a CFB game.
* NFL Network is back in the picture with an ESPN G5 sublicense at 7pm.
* CBSSN once again has a 12pm MAC selection.
* An FS2 window has been listed for 8:30pm ET
* A bonus set of selections exists for the Thursday night games on ESPN & ESPN2, plus the two AAC games moving to Friday 11/24 for TV. 
* I'm very aware that strong hints have been provided by both NBC and FOX to their selections on 10/21.
* Ended up dropping an ACC Network window at 12pm to fill the main ESPN linear slots.
* I moved up the late FS1 window to 10:15pm for BYU to host.
* For those curious, I gave FOX the top choice across all three conferences they share rights with ESPN (Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12)

Week 13 AAC Date Moves
Memphis at Temple
UTSA at Tulane

Week 8
Thursday
7:30pm ESPN: James Madison at Marshall
7:30pm ESPN2: Rice at Tulsa

Saturday
12pm ABC: Duke at Florida State
12pm FOX: Penn State at Ohio State
12pm ESPN: TCU at Kansas State
12pm ESPN2: Baylor at Cincinnati
12pm BTN: Rutgers at Indiana
12pm ESPNU: ULM at Georgia Southern
12pm SECN: South Carolina at Missouri
12pm CBSSN: Western Michigan at Ohio
3:30pm ABC: Texas at Houston
3:30pm CBS: Tennessee at Alabama
3:30pm NBC: Minnesota at Iowa
3:30pm ESPN: Washington State at Oregon
3:30pm ESPN2: North Texas at Tulane
3:30pm FS1: Wisconsin at Illinois
3:30pm BTN: Northwestern at Nebraska
3:30pm ACCN: Boston College at Georgia Tech
4pm FOX: UCF at Oklahoma
4pm ESPNU: Toledo at Miami (OH)
4pm SECN: Mississippi State at Arkansas
4pm Pac-12: UCLA at Stanford
6:30pm CW: Pitt at Wake Forest
7pm ESPN: Ole Miss at Auburn
7pm ESPN2: Georgia State at Louisiana
7pm FS1: Oklahoma State at West Virginia
7pm NFLN: UTSA at Florida Atlantic
7:30pm ABC: Clemson at Miami (FL)
7:30pm NBC: Michigan at Michigan State
7:30pm ESPNU: Memphis at UAB
7:30pm SECN: Army West Point at LSU
8pm FOX: Utah at USC
8pm ACCN: Virginia at North Carolina
8:30pm FS2: Nevada at San Diego State
10:15pm FS1: Texas Tech at BYU
10:30pm ESPN: Arizona State at Washington

Streaming Exclusives
Charlotte at East Carolina
Eastern Michigan at Northern Illinois
Akron at Bowling Green
Central Michigan at Ball State
Buffalo at Kent State
Coastal Carolina at Arkansas State
App State at Old Dominion

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hate big noon kickoff for huge games. No way Penn State vs Ohio State should be a nooner but it will

Anonymous said...

It completely sucks ass. One of the downsides of the new media deal/contract.

Matt, any chance PSU-OSU is the 4:00 Fox slot? Or are you certain it'll be noon?

Matt Sarzyniak said...

These are guesses, but there's no reason for FOX to put a different game at noon. No other game that FOX may want is constrained to noon to move this one elsewhere. It's not called Big 4pm Kickoff.