Initial guesses for 2024 Week 3 CFB. If a game isn't listed, assume its a ESPN+, ACCNX/ESPN+, SEC+/ESPN+ or MW Network streaming exclusive. Peacock exclusives will be listed due to the limited number of them.
I've also made a couple assumptions regarding the movement of games off Saturday to either Thursday or Friday.
Games listed in italics are confirmed for that time and TV network.
Friday
* With the local start time of 8pm, I think this should be OK as an exception to the Mountain West latest FOX Sports start time of 7:45pm local with it airing on the broadcast network
8pm ESPN: Arizona at Kansas State
10pm FOX: Utah at Utah State
Saturday
* Ended up placing both Texas and Tennessee's games on ESPN+.
* The Big Ten selection order I used was FOX -> NBC -> CBS -> FOX.
* With Arizona at Kansas State on ESPN the prior evening, I gave FOX three Saturday Big 12 selections.
* Last year, FOX and NBC coexisted once (10/14, mid afternoon). For now, I'm using that as justification for coexisting FOX and CBS's Big Ten games.
* Gave Oregon at Oregon State to ABC. As I mentioned re: Washington State in Week 2, I have no clue where these two schools' home games will end up.
* Figured this week was a good week to get one of CBS's Mountain West broadcast network windows out of the way.
12pm FOX: Alabama at Wisconsin
12pm ESPN: Georgia at Kentucky
12pm ESPN2: Toledo at Mississippi State
12pm FS1: Air Force at Baylor
12pm BTN: Arkansas State at Michigan
12pm BTN: Troy at Iowa
12pm ESPNU: Arizona State at Texas State
12pm SECN: New Mexico at Auburn
12pm ACCN: Ball State at Miami (FL)
12pm CBSSN: Cincinnati at Miami (OH)
3pm CW: Memphis at Florida State
3:30pm ABC: Texas A&M at Florida
3:30pm CBS: Washington State vs. Washington
3:30pm FS1: UNLV vs. Kansas
4pm ESPNU: Virginia Tech at Old Dominion
4pm SECN: UAB at Arkansas
3:30pm BTN: Central Michigan at Illinois
3:30pm BTN: Prairie View A&M at Michigan State
3:30pm ACCN: Maryland at Virginia
3:30pm CBSSN: UTEP at Liberty
3:30pm Peacock: UNI at Nebraska
4pm FOX: Indiana at UCLA
4pm ESPN: Boston College at Missouri
4pm ESPN2: Oklahoma State at Tulsa4pm ESPNU: Virginia Tech at Old Dominion
4pm SECN: UAB at Arkansas
7pm FS1: Nevada at Minnesota
7pm CBSSN: BYU at Wyoming
7pm ACCN: Louisiana Tech at NC State
7:30pm ABC: Oregon at Oregon State
7:30pm NBC: Notre Dame at Purdue
7:30pm CBS: Colorado at Colorado State
7:30pm ESPN2: Ole Miss at Wake Forest
7:30pm BTN: Eastern Illinois at Northwestern
7:30pm ESPNU: Vanderbilt at Georgia State7:30pm SECN: LSU at South Carolina8pm FOX: UCF at TCU
8pm ESPN: Tulane at Oklahoma
10:30pm CBSSN: NM State at Fresno State
10:30pm ACCN: San Diego State at California
I realized you made your predictions a couple of weeks ago, but updating them to reflect that it is very likely that the Oregon State and Washington State home games will be on CW might be a good idea.
ReplyDelete@Patrick - I will once the deal is announced as official and do a redo of these in May (it has not been finalized, but I've seen the reports). I generally do the first pass of guesses, then a second set of them later in the spring.
ReplyDeleteMatt that makes sense especially the CW's recently announced deal to broadcast the NASCAR Xfinity Series on seven Saturdays in this coming fall might scupper the PAC 12's rumored deal with the CW.
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