Courtesy: ESPN
It’s only Monday. But ESPN is giving all the college football fans out there reason to look forward to this weekend with an announcement today for this weekend’s college football coverage.
Officials with ESPN announced today a very busy broadcast schedule for Saturday across its family of networks. That schedule includes a triple header on ABC beginning at noon eastern time between the Texans and Sooners live from the Cotton Bowl. The annual “Red River Rivalry” between the Longhorns and the #10 ranked Oklahoma Sooners will mark the 110th time that the Big 12 foes have faced off. It will be followed up Saturday afternoon on ABC either by the #6 Clemson Tigers taking on the Georgia Tech Yellowjackets or the Wisconsin Badgers taking on the Nebraska Cornhuskers. ESPN 2 will run the game not aired on ABC. Broadcast for both is scheduled for 3:30pm ET. Saturday’s schedule on ABC will be rounded out at 8pm ET with the undefeated #12 Florida State Seminoles taking on the Miami Hurricanes.
Over on The SEC Network the also undefeated #11 Florida Gators will cap off the network’s broadcast schedule as they face off against Missouri at 7:30pm ET. And on ESPNU, unbeaten #22 Iowa will take on Illinois at high noon. Later in the night, the #5 Utah Utes host #23 California in a Pac-12 showdown. As additional notes, #7 LSU will be on the road Saturday against the Gamecocks at noon and #8 Alabama will take on Arkansas at 7pm ET. Wyoming and Air Force finish off the night on ESPN2 at 10:15pm ET. The complete schedule for the ESPN networks’ Saturday College Football coverage is listed below.
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Date |
Time (ET) |
Game / Commentators |
Network |
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Thu, Oct 8 |
7:30 p.m. |
South Carolina State at Bethune-Cookman Mark Neely, Jay Walker |
ESPNU |
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8 p.m. |
SMU at Houston Eamon McAnaney, Rocky Boiman |
ESPN2 |
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9 p.m. |
Washington at No. 17 USC Joe Tessitore, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack, Kaylee Hartung |
ESPN |
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Fri, Oct 9 |
8 p.m. |
NC State at Virginia Tech Dave Flemming, Mack Brown, Allison Williams |
ESPN |
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Sat, Oct 10 |
Noon |
Texas vs. No. 10 Oklahoma (from Dallas) Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman, Todd McShay |
ABC |
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Noon |
No. 7 LSU at South Carolina Mark Jones, Rod Gilmore, Quint Kessenich |
ESPN |
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Noon |
Indiana at Penn State Beth Mowins, Anthony Becht, Paul Carcaterra |
ESPN2 |
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Noon |
Illinois at No. 22 Iowa Clay Matvick, John Congemi |
ESPNU |
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Noon |
Tulane at Temple Mike Corey, Rene Ingoglia |
ESPNEWS |
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Noon |
New Mexico State at No. 14 Ole Miss Tom Hart, Andre Ware, Laura Rutledge |
SEC Network |
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Noon |
Central Michigan at Western Michigan |
ESPN3 * |
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Noon |
Sacred Heart at Robert Morris |
ESPN3 |
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Noon |
Culver-Stockton at Benedictine |
ESPN3 * |
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12:30 p.m. |
Virginia at Pittsburgh |
ESPN3 * |
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1 p.m. |
Furman at Chattanooga |
ESPN3 |
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1:30 p.m. |
Samford at VMI |
ESPN3 |
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2 p.m. |
Massachusetts at Bowling Green Jim Barbar, John Gregory |
ESPN3 |
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2 p.m. |
Miami (Ohio) at Ohio |
ESPN3 * |
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2 p.m. |
Presbyterian at Coastal Carolina |
ESPN3 |
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2 p.m. |
Wofford at The Citadel |
ESPN3 |
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2 p.m. |
Valdosta State at West Georgia |
ESPN3 * |
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2 p.m. |
Clarion at Edinboro |
ESPN3 * |
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2 p.m. |
Northern Iowa at North Dakota State |
ESPN3 * |
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2 p.m. |
Southeast Missouri State at Eastern Illinois |
ESPN3 |
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3 p.m. |
Kent State at No. 24 Toledo Dave Weekley, Dustin Fox |
ESPN3 |
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3 p.m. |
Akron at Eastern Michigan Michael Reghi, Josh Cribbs |
ESPN3 |
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3 p.m. |
Wake Forest at Boston College |
ESPN3 * |
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3:30 p.m. |
Georgia Tech at No. 6 Clemson TV: Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham, Dr. Jerry Punch Radio: Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Joe Schad |
ABC & ESPN2, ESPN Radio |
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3:30 p.m. |
Wisconsin at Nebraska Adam Amin, Kelly Stouffer, Olivia Harlan |
ABC & ESPN2 |
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3:30 p.m. |
Minnesota at Purdue Dave Lamont, Ray Bentley |
ESPN |
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3:30 p.m. |
Ball State at Northern Illinois Shawn Kenney, Al Groh |
ESPN3 |
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3:30 p.m. |
Appalachian State at Georgia State Matt Stewart, Wayne Gandy |
ESPN3 |
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3:45 p.m. |
Connecticut at UCF Anish Shroff, Ahmad Brooks |
ESPNU |
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4 p.m. |
Troy at Mississippi State Dave Neal, Matt Stinchcomb, Kayce Smith |
SEC Network |
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4 p.m. |
South Dakota at Western Illinois |
ESPN3 |
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4 p.m. |
Nicholls State at Stephen F. Austin |
ESPN3 |
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6 p.m. |
Louisiana-Monroe at Tulsa Joel Meyers, Pete Najarian |
ESPN3 |
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6 p.m. |
Stetson at Jacksonville |
ESPN3 |
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7 p.m. |
Arkansas at No. 8 Alabama Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Holly Rowe |
ESPN |
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7 p.m. |
No. 21 Oklahoma State at West Virginia Bob Wischusen, Brock Huard, Shannon Spake |
ESPN2 |
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7 p.m. |
Texas State at Louisiana-Lafayette Brett Dolan, Forrest Conoly |
ESPN3 |
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7 p.m. |
Southeastern Louisiana at McNeese State |
ESPN3 |
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7 p.m. |
Illinois State at Youngstown State |
ESPN3 * |
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7 p.m. |
Indiana State at South Dakota State |
ESPN3 * |
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7:30 p.m. |
East Carolina at BYU Allen Bestwick, Dan Hawkins |
ESPNU |
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7:30 p.m. |
No. 11 Florida at Missouri Brent Musburger, Jesse Palmer, Maria Taylor |
SEC Network |
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8 p.m. |
Miami (Fla.) at No. 12 Florida State Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Heather Cox |
ABC |
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8 p.m. |
Angelo State at Texas A&M Commerce |
ESPN3 |
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8 p.m. |
Abilene Christian at Lamar |
ESPN3 |
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10 p.m. |
No. 23 Cal at No. 5 Utah Dave Pasch, Brian Griese, Tom Luginbill |
ESPN |
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10:15 p.m. |
Wyoming at Air Force Mike Couzens, David Diaz-Infante |
ESPN2 |
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