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:
- Games set for time or TV, but not both
- Notre Dame vs. Navy (12pm, ABC/ESPN Nets)
- Cincinnati at Colorado (TBA, ABC/ESPN Nets)
- South Dakota at South Dakota State (TBA, ESPN Nets)
- Maryland at Minnesota (12pm or mid-afternoon, TBA)
- Illinois at Oregon (Mid-afternoon or 7:30pm, TBA)
- Alabama A&M vs. Alabama State (3:30pm, ESPN Nets or ESPN+)
- One of three MEAC games could be aired live on ESPNU
- SEC games locked to specific time slots
- Early: Oklahoma at Ole Miss & Arkansas at Mississippi State
- Afternoon: Texas at Vanderbilt
- Evening: Auburn at Kentucky
- All others are flexible to afternoon or evening
- I gave CBS the top choice for the Big Ten, followed by FOX and NBC in that order. For the Big 12, I assume FOX is picking first after Cincinnati at Colorado was chosen by ESPN.
- There was an ACC CW window initially at noon ET. It has disappeared from listings, but I don't think the network is going to go dark from the conference two consecutive Saturdays, so I'm keeping it around.
- FS1 has NASCAR Trucks at noon ET.
- FOX does not have a nighttime window due to the World Series.
- Almost all of the BTN game choices are based on whether it was more or less likely for a schools to be able to fill its conference game requirement.
All times Eastern
12pm FOX: Nebraska at Ohio State
12pm ESPN: Oklahoma at Ole Miss
12pm ESPN2: Texas Tech at TCU
12pm ESPN2: Texas Tech at TCU
12pm CW: North Carolina at Virginia
12pm BTN: Michigan State at Michigan
12pm ESPNU: South Dakota at South Dakota State
12pm ACCN: Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech
12pm CBSSN: Northern Illinois at Ball State
12:45pm SECN: Arkansas at Mississippi State
3:30pm ABC: LSU at Texas A&M
3:30pm CBS: Illinois at Oregon
3:30pm FOX: BYU at UCF
3:30pm ESPN: Cincinnati at Colorado3:30pm ESPN2: Kansas at Kansas State
3:30pm FS1: Maryland at Minnesota
7pm ESPN: Florida State at Miami (FL)
3:30pm BTN: Northwestern at Iowa
3:30pm ESPNU: Buffalo at Ohio3:30pm ACCN: Wake Forest at Stanford
4:15pm SECN: Texas at Vanderbilt7pm ESPN: Florida State at Miami (FL)
7pm ESPN2: Charlotte at Memphis
7pm FS1: Utah at Houston
7pm ESPNU: Tulane at North Texas
7pm FS1: Utah at Houston
7pm ESPNU: Tulane at North Texas
7:30pm ABC: Missouri at Alabama
7:30pm NBC: Penn State at Wisconsin
7:30pm BTN: Washington at Indiana
7:45pm SECN: Auburn at Kentucky8pm ACCN: SMU at Duke
10:15pm ESPN: Oregon State at California
ESPN+
Temple at East Carolina
UTSA at Tulsa
Oklahoma State at Baylor
West Virginia at Arizona
Eastern Michigan at Akron
Central Michigan at Miami (OH)
Bowling Green at Toledo
Kent State at Western Michigan
Howard at Norfolk State
Delaware State at South Carolina State
Morgan State at North Carolina Central
Georgia State at App State
Southern Miss at James Madison
ULM at South Alabama
Troy at Arkansas State
Alabama A&M vs. Alabama State
14 comments:
I feel like TX A&M / LSU has a better chance of being the ABC night game than Mizzou / Bama, especially after the recent results of those teams the past few weeks.
I think it would be hard for ABC to pass on Texas-Vanderbilt right now. At the very least, ESPN. SECN is an insult to them.
According to your windows, ESPN2 has a graveyard shift available for Oregon State-California so you could move Cincinnati-Colorado there and that would open up Texas-Vanderbilt for 3:30pm.
ESPN2 no longer has that late window. I forgot to drop it from the spreadsheet.
Alabama-Vandy was a SECN, IIRC.
I don't believe that either flexible SEC game (Missouri-Bama or LSU-A&M) warrants SECN either but that window wouldn't be left open. All four of them are ranked.
You have CBS picking 1st, and taking Illinois vs Oregon over Nebraska vs Ohio State? I think I disagree with that one.
I also think LSU vs Texas A&M gets the ABC 7:30 slot. And if Gameday goes to Vandy, very likely, I think that game gets the 3:30 ABC slot.
Alabama unfortunately doesn’t feel like a draw at the moment and I think get relegated to ESPN.
Well, who won last night? Not Ohio State.
That said, FOX can't take Oregon for home at noon. Sometimes it's more of an order based on game locations too.
Of course, but what I mean is that if CBS is going 1st, they don’t care what FOX can or cant take at Noon. And Nebraska at Ohio State is still a much more attractive TV draw than Illinois at Oregon.
What about Oklahoma State at Baylor? Relegated to ESPN+?
Yes. Apologies for missing it. Will add to list along with a few others.
A&M-LSU should get the 6:30 ABC slot with Herbie and Fowler on the call. Bama-Mizzou should get the B-team announcers at 2:30.
Hoping he’s wrong on this. A&M-LSU should be the 6:30 ABC with Fowler and Herbie.
Alabama can't get relegated to ESPN. If you put SEC games at both 3:30 and 7:30, then the third game gets pushed all the way to the mid-afternoon SEC Network slot.
I think this is a week that ESPN would do differently if they weren't constrained by the pre-season slotting of SEC games. With Vandy at 4-2 and FSU at 1-5, I think they would go with Texas-Vandy at 3:30 on ABC, LSU-A&M at 7:30 on ABC, and Alabama-Missouri at 7:00 on ESPN if they could, then drop the early SECN slot and put Arkansas at Mississippi St in the mid-afternoon SECN window. But they can't do that.
I think the Big Ten selections will be interesting. Oregon won last night, but Ohio State is still the bigger draw, and Nebraska is a bigger draw than Illinois, so I could see CBS going that direction. If CBS has the first pick and does take Ohio State-Nebraska, then does FOX take Michigan-Michigan State (still a big draw) or Penn State-Wisconsin, or do they take Oregon-Illinois and force CBS to switch time slots (assuming that have that option as speculated a couple weeks ago). And if CBS knows that would happen, do they just take Oregon-Illinois to ensure they stay in their 3:30 time slot.
And if Michigan-Michigan State falls to the fourth pick, does FOX put them on FS1 in prime time given they don't have a primetime game on the broadcast channel this week?
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