ABC’s weekly Saturday Night Football broadcast will feature a showdown of two Top 20 college football teams this week.
No. 18 Louisville will host No. 17 Miami in this week’s broadcast. Coverage is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. ET. The broadcast team of Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Allison Williams will cover the game.
Each team will come in to Saturday night’s game on the heels of a Week 1 win. The Hurricanes defeated the University of Alabama at Birmingham 31-14 in Week 1 while the Cardinals won their game against the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers 35-21.
Saturday night’s showdown is just one of the games on tap for ESPN’s weekly CFB schedule. The Campbell Camels and Coastal Carolina Chanticleers open the weekend’s slate at 7:30 p.m. ET Friday on ESPN.
Saturday’s day-long schedule opens at noon with games across the ESPN family of networks. Tulane will host Navy on ABC; No. 11 Oklahoma State will host Tulsa on ESPN; No. 19 Louisiana will be on the road against Georgia State on ESPN2; The ACC Network will carry coverage of the Syracuse Orange taking on host No. 25 Pittsburgh.
Liberty and Western Kentucy will face off live on ESPNU at noon while No. 13 Cincinnati will take on the 0-2 Austin Peay at noon on ESPN+; Boston College and Duke will broadcast live at noon on ESPN3.
The ESPN networks’ full CFB broadcast schedule for this weekend is noted below.
Date | Time (ET) | Matchup/Talent | Network |
Fri, Sep 18 | 7:30 p.m. | Campbell at Coastal Carolina Tom Hart, Andre Ware, Cole Cubelic |
ESPN |
Sat, Sep 19 | Noon | Navy at Tulane Mark Jones, Dusty Dvoracek, Quint Kessenich |
ABC |
Tulsa at No. 11 Oklahoma State Sean McDonough, Todd Blackledge, Todd McShay, Kris Budden |
ESPN | ||
No. 19 Louisiana at Georgia State Wes Durham, Roddy Jones, Paul Carcaterra |
ESPN2 | ||
Liberty at Western Kentucky Clay Matvick, Rocky Boiman |
ESPNU | ||
Syracuse at No. 25 Pittsburgh Chris Cotter, Mark Herzlich, Kelsey Riggs |
ACC Network | ||
Austin Peay at No. 13 Cincinnati David Saltzman, Keith Moreland |
ESPN+ | ||
Boston College at Duke | ESPN3 | ||
3 p.m. | Stephen F. Austin at UTSA | ESPN3 | |
3:30 p.m. | No. 14 UCF at Georgia Tech Joe Tessitore, Greg McElroy, Marty Smith |
ABC | |
Florida Atlantic at Georgia Southern Dave Flemming, Rod Gilmore, Lericia Harris |
ESPN | ||
Charlotte at No. 12 North Carolina | ESPN3 | ||
4 p.m. | Troy at Middle Tennessee Dave Neal, Jay Walker, Dawn Davenport |
ESPN2 | |
The Citadel at No. 1 Clemson Anish Shroff, Tom Luginbill, Eric Wood |
ACC Network | ||
7:30 p.m. | No. 17 Miami at No. 18 Louisville Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Allison Williams |
ABC | |
Louisiana Tech at Southern Mississippi Dave Pasch, Mike Golic, Sr., Lauren Sisler |
ESPN2 | ||
Texas State at Louisiana-Monroe Roy Philpott, Kelly Stouffer |
ESPNU | ||
8 p.m. | Wake Forest at NC State Dave O’Brien, Tim Hasselbeck, Katie George |
ACC Network | |
9 p.m. | Abilene Christian at UTEP | ESPN3 |
More information on the ESPN networks’ college football coverage is available online now at:
Website: http://www.espn.com/college-football
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CFBonESPN
Twitter: http://twitter.com/espncfb
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