ESPN Networks Announce Broadcast Schedule For Week 11 Of College Football’s 2018 Season

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ESPN has announced its broadcast schedule for Week 11 of the 2018 college football season.

This week’s schedule features a number of games that have major playoff implications.  One of the most notable of the week’s games is an ACC matchup between undefeated No. 2 Clemson and No. 22 Boston College.  The headlining Saturday Night Football game is scheduled to air live at 8 p.m. Saturday on ABC.

ESPN’s College GameDay Built by the Home Depot will set up the game Saturday morning starting at 9 a.m.  It will broadcast live from the campus of Boston College.  Saturday’s broadcast marks the first time since 2009 that College GameDay Built by the Home Depot has aired from Boston College.

The Eagles are 4-1 in ACC play and second to Clemson in the ACC’s Atlantic Division.  The matchup is critical in Clemson’s search for a division (and conference) title, and for the team’s hopes for a spot in this year’s College Football playoffs.

Other key matchups featured in this week’s schedule are No. 7 Oklahoma taking on Oklahoma State at 3:30 p.m. on ABC and No. 8 Washington State on the road against Colorado at the same time on ESPN.  Both games have their own importance to this year’s college football playoffs impacts.

Also, if the Sooners and Cougars each win their games, they will play in their respective conference title games.  A win for either team additionally puts each group in good position to be considered for the playoffs.

Georgia hosts Auburn at 7 p.m. on ESPN in yet another key matchup for Week 11. ESPN2 will feature yet another big game at noon as UCF and Navy (AAC) face off in Florida.  The Knights have the nation’s longest winning streak while the Midshipmen are coming off a loss to Cincinnati in Week 10, so they will be hungry to get back in the “W” column, and to stop the Knights’ streak.

The full schedule of this week’s games is noted below.

Date	Time (ET)	Matchups/Commentators	Network
Tue, Nov 6	7:30 p.m.	Kent State at Buffalo Kevin Brown, Ray Bentley	ESPNU
Wed, Nov 7	7 p.m.	Ohio  at Miami (Ohio) Matt Barrie, Rocky Boiman	ESPN2
	8 p.m.	Toledo at Northern Illinois Chris Cotter, Desmond Howard	ESPNU
Thu, Nov 8	7 p.m.	North Carolina Central at Bethune-Cookman Tiffany Greene, Jay Walker	ESPNU
	7:30 p.m.	Wake Forest at No. 21 NC State Dave Flemming, Tim Hasselbeck/Matt Hasselbeck, Laura Rutledge Radio: Bill Rosinski, David Norrie, Ian Fitzsimmons	ESPN/ESPN Radio
Fri, Nov 9	7 p.m.	Louisville at No. 19 Syracuse Jason Benetti, Kelly Stouffer, Olivia Dekker	ESPN2
	10:15 p.m.	No. 23 Fresno State at Boise State Mike Couzens, Kirk Morrison, Alyssa Lang	ESPN2
Sat, Nov 10	Noon	Wisconsin at No. 14 Penn State Mark Jones, Dusty Dvoracek, Molly McGrath	ABC
		South Carolina at Florida Dave Pasch, Greg McElroy, Tom Luginbill	ESPN
		Navy at No. 12 UCF Anish Shroff, Ahmad Brooks, Roddy Jones	ESPN2
		Tulsa at Memphis Mike Corey, Rene Ingoglia	ESPNU
		Vanderbilt at Missouri Dave Neal, DJ Shockley, Dawn Davenport	SEC Network
		SMU at UConn Drew Fellios, Al Groh	ESPN3
		Akron at Eastern Michigan  Dan Gutowsky, Bob Carpenter	ESPN3
		Coast Guard Academy at Merchant Marine Academy Robert Lee, Matt Chatham	ESPN3
	12:20 p.m.	North Carolina at Duke	ACC Network Extra
	1 p.m.	Troy at Georgia Southern	ESPN+
	2 p.m.	North Texas at Old Dominion	ESPN3
	2:30 p.m.	Charlotte at Marshall	ESPN+
	3 p.m.	Liberty at No. 25 Virginia	ACC Network Extra
		Middle Tennessee at UTEP	ESPN+
		Jackson State at Alabama State	ESPN3
		Bowling Green at Central Michigan Chris Vosters, Marcus Ray	ESPN+
	3:30 p.m.	Oklahoma State at No. 7 Oklahoma Steve Levy, Brian Griese, Todd McShay	ABC
		No. 8 Washington State at Colorado Bob Wischusen, Brock Huard, Allison Williams	ESPN
		Purdue at Minnesota Beth Mowins, Anthony Becht, Rocky Boiman	ESPN2
		Virginia Tech at Pittsburgh Kevin Brown, Andre Ware	ESPNU
		Kentucky at Tennessee Taylor Zarzour, John Congemi, Kris Budden	SEC Network
	4 p.m.	East Carolina at Tulane Jay Alter, Dustin Fox	ESPNEWS
		Appalachian State at Texas State	ESPN3
	5 p.m.	Georgia State at Louisiana	ESPN+
		Louisiana-Monroe at South Alabama	ESPN+
		Arkansas State at Coastal Carolina	ESPN+
	7 p.m.	Auburn at No. 6 Georgia Sean McDonough, Todd Blackledge, Holly Rowe	ESPN
		Miami at Georgia Tech TV: Clay Matvick, Dan Orlovsky, Paul Carcaterra Radio: Bill Rosinski, Barrett Jones, Ian Fitzsimmons	ESPN2 and ESPN Radio
		South Florida at Cincinnati Bill Roth, Mike Golic Jr.	ESPNU
		Rice at Louisiana Tech	ESPN+
		Florida International at UTSA	ESPN+
	7:30 p.m.	No. 3 LSU at Arkansas Tom Hart, Jordan Rodgers, Cole Cubelic	SEC Network
	8 p.m.	No. 2 Clemson at No. 22 Boston College Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Maria Taylor	ABC
	10:30 p.m.	UNLV at San Diego State Mark Neely, Ray Bentley, Alex Corddry	ESPN2
	10:30 PM	California at USC Adam Amin, Rod Gilmore, Quint Kessenich	ESPN and ESPN Radio
		Colorado State at Nevada Roy Philpott, Tom Ramsey	ESPNU

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ESPN Events Announces Details Of Very Busy College Football Bowl Game Schedule

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The 2014 College football regular season is over and now it’s on to the “post season. With the “post season” comes the annual announcement of which teams will go bowling. And that announcement was made last night with ESPN Events announcing its schedule for this year’s bowl games in accordance.

ESPN Events owns and operates eleven of the bowl games that make up the annual college football bowl schedule. The first of those eleven games is the Gildan New Mexico Bowl. The Gildan New Mexico Bowl will be held Saturday, December 20^th. Kickoff is scheduled for 2:20pm ET/12:20 pm MT. Utah State (9 – 4 overall, 6 – 2 conference) will represent the Mountain West in the game. The Aggies will take on the Utep Miners from Conference USA. UTEP is 7 – 5 overall and 5 – 3 in conference play. The Gildan New Mexico Bowl will be played live at University Stadium in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It will be broadcast live on ESPN and ESPN Radio.

The second game on ESPN Events’ schedule of bowl games is the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl. The Utah Utes (8 – 4 overall, 5 – 4 conference) will represent the Pac -12 in the game while The Colorado State Rams (10 – 2 overall, 6 – 2 conference) will play for the Mountain West. The Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl is also set for Saturday, December 20th. Kickoff is scheduled for 3:30pm ET. The game will be played at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, NV and will be broadcast live on ABC.

Third up on ESPN Events’ bowl schedule is the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. 2014 marks the 18^th year that the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl will be held as part of college football’s “post season.” It is the nation’s longest-running cold weather bowl game. As with the Gildan New Mexico Bowl and the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl, that game is also scheduled for Saturday, December 20^th. The Broncos of Western Michigan (Mid-American, 8 – 4 overall, 6 – 2 conference) will take on the Mountain West’s Air Force Academy Falcons (9 – 3 overall, 5 – 3 conference) in this game. The game will come live from Boise State University’s Bronco Stadium. It will broadcast live on ESPN and ESPN Radio.

The fourth game on the schedule for ESPN Events is one of two newly-created bowl games. That game, the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl, will be a prime-time game on Saturday, December 20th. Kickoff is scheduled for 9:15pm ET. The Jaguars of South Alabama (6 – 6 overall, 5 – 3 conference) will represent the Sun Belt as they take on the MAC representative Bowling Green Falcons (7 – 6 overall, 5 – 3 conference). The game will be played at the Cranton Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama.

Game Five on ESPN Events’ bowl schedule is another first-time bowl game. The Boca Raton Bowl will see C-USA Champion Marshall (12 – 1 overall, 7 – 1 conference) facing the Huskies of Northern Illinois from the MAC (11 – 2 overall, 7 – 1 conference) on Tuesday, December 23^rd at 6pm ET. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN and ESPN Radio from the FAU Stadium on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.

The sixth game on ESPN Events’ 2014 bowl schedule is the Hawai’i Bowl. 2014 marks the thirteenth anniversary of the annual bowl. In its thirteenth anniversary year, C-USA rep Rice (7 – 5 overall, 5 – 3 conference) will face Mountain West rep Fresno State (6 – 7 overall, 5 – 3 conference). 2014 marks the tenth year that the Hawai’i Bowl has been held on Christmas. The game will be played at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, HI. Kickoff is scheduled for 8pm ET. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN and ESPN Radio.

Game Seven on ESPN Events’ 2014 bowl schedule comes in the form of the Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl. The Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl will take place the day after Christmas. The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (8 – 5 overall, 7 – 1 conference) from the C-USA will take on Big Ten rep the Illinois Fighting Illini (6 – 6 overall, 3 – 5 conference). Kickoff is scheduled for 1pm ET. The game will be played at Texas’ historic Cotton Bowl on the grounds of Fair Park. The game will be televised live on ESPN.

Also on December 26^th, the ACC’s NC State (7 – 5 overall, 3 – 5 conference) will face the UCF Knights (9 – 3 overall, 7 – 1 conference) from the AAC in the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl. Kickoff is schedule for 8pm ET. The game will come live from Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.

After Friday night’s game, ESPN’s bowl coverage will continue on Monday, December 29^th with the Advocare V100 Texas Bowl live from NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. The Arkansas Razorbacks (6 – 6 overall, 2 – 6 conference) will represent the SEC against the Texas Longhorns (6 – 6 overall, 5 – 4 conference) in this game. ESPN and ESPN Radio will have coverage of the game right from its 9pm ET kickoff.

The tenth game on ESPN Events’ schedule is the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl on Friday, January 2^nd, 2015. The University of Houston fell to AAC foe Cincinnati over the weekend in the teams’ season ender, giving the Bearcats a piece of this year’s AAC Championship. Houston will take on the Pittsburgh Panthers (6 – 6 overall, 4 – 4 conference) from the ACC. Kickoff is set for 12pm ET. The game will be played live at Amon G. Carter Stadium on the campus of TCU in For Worth, Texas. This year marks the twelfth year that the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl has been a part of the college football “post season.”

Last on the list of ESPN Events’ bowl games is the Birmingham Bowl. The Pirates of East Carolina University (8 – 4 overall, 5 – 3 conference) will play for the AAC while Florida (6 – 5 overall, 4 – 4 conference) will represent the SEC. Florida is only one of two schools from the SEC to play in ESPN Events’ college bowl schedule this year. The only other SEC team to play in the schedule is Arkansas in the Advocare V100 Texas Bowl. The game will be played live at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama on Saturday, January 3^rd. Kickoff is set for 12pm ET. It will be carried live on ESPN and ESPN Radio.

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