This is a feature I started on my old blog last year – the complete FBS college football schedule for the coming week, complete with TV info from MattSarzSports.com. I originally intended to post this after at least the first part of my kickoff to the college football season, but that’s taking a while to write. College football is the second-most highly watched level of every-year sport in America, and quite possibly the majority of games, at least involving BCS teams, are available to a reasonably national audience, if not on TV then online. I maintain my own college football rankings, which (this year) I’ll start putting out after Week 3. That means that starting Week 4, the rankings will start being ordered by the top teams in those rankings for teams in the Top 25 (and those slightly below), followed by the games available in HD, followed by non-HD games listed by conference. Until then I’ll list games by day and HD games for Saturday.
At the top of the list will be games for holders of the college football lineal titles. This is a fairly simple concept (and one not just proposed by me, either): each game the titleholder plays, the title goes to the winner. The Princeton-Yale title, which traces its history to the first football game between Rutgers and Princeton, is in the hands of Florida after what happened last season. A split title is created whenever a team goes undefeated (or wins the BCS title game) without holding any lineal title – but only one such title has not been merged with Princeton-Yale, the 2007 Boise State title, in the hands of last year’s mid-major darlings, Utah. This section will list the Princeton-Yale holder first, followed by the 2007 Boise State holder. Titleholders will be marked by asterisks.
Also, I was going to list DirecTV channel numbers for all games this year, until I learned that ESPN GamePlan doesn’t release channel numbers for games until just 1 to 2 days before game time, which defeats most of the purpose I originally had for it. Instead I’ll list announcing teams from Awful Announcing.
All times Eastern.
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LINEAL TITLES |
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Charleston Southern |
@ |
*Florida |
7 PM SA |
FSS/SW/SUN |
Bob Rathbun, Dave Archer, Jenn Hildreth |
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Utah State |
@ |
*Utah |
9 PM TH |
mtn. |
James Bates, Todd Christensen, Sammy Linebaugh |
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THURSDAY |
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Troy |
@ |
Bowling Green |
7 PM |
CSD.com |
Greg Franke, Tom Cole (BGSU) |
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South Carolina |
@ |
NC State |
7 PM |
ESPN |
Sean McDonough, Jesse Palmer, Craig James, Erin Andrews |
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Villanova |
@ |
Temple |
7 PM |
CSD.com |
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Coastal Carolina |
@ |
Kent State |
7 PM |
CSD.com |
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North Texas |
@ |
Ball State |
7:30 |
ESPNU |
Charlie Neal, Jay Walker |
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North Dakota State |
@ |
Iowa State |
8 PM |
CSD.com |
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Eastern Kentucky |
@ |
Indiana |
8 PM |
BTN |
Ari Wolfe, Charles Davis, Larra Overton |
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Oregon |
@ |
Boise State |
7 PT |
ESPN |
Mark Jones, Bob Davie |
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FRIDAY |
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Tulsa |
@ |
Tulane |
8 PM |
ESPN |
Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore |
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SATURDAY’S HD GAMES |
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Central Arkansas |
@ |
Hawaii |
1 AM |
PPV |
Jim Leahey, Russell Yamahoa |
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Navy |
@ |
Ohio State |
Noon |
ESPN |
Dave Pasch, Bob Griese, Chris Spielman |
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Minnesota |
@ |
Syracuse |
Noon |
ESPN2 |
Pam Ward, Ray Bentley |
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Kentucky |
v. |
Miami (OH) |
Noon |
ESPNU |
Clay Matvick, David Diaz-Infante |
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Akron |
@ |
Penn State |
Noon |
BTN |
Matt Devlin, Glen Mason, Kenny Jackson |
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Toledo |
@ |
Purdue |
Noon |
BTN |
Craig Coshun, Rod Woodson, Larra Overton |
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Montana State |
@ |
Michigan State |
Noon |
BTN |
Dan Gutowsky, Ron Johnson, Lisa Byington |
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Towson |
@ |
Northwestern |
Noon |
BTN |
Matt Rosen, Mark Campbell, Tony McGee |
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Northern Iowa |
@ |
Iowa |
Noon |
BTN |
Tom Werme, Anthony Herron, Elizabeth Moreau |
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Western Kentucky |
@ |
Tennessee |
Noon |
SEC Network |
Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano |
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Georgia |
@ |
Oklahoma State |
3:30 |
ABC/ESPN2 |
Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Holly Rowe |
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Western Michigan |
@ |
Michigan |
3:30 |
ABC/ESPN2 |
Mike Patrick, Craig James, Quint Kessenich |
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Baylor |
@ |
Wake Forest |
3:30 |
ABC |
Dave Lamont, Shaun King |
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Nevada |
@ |
Notre Dame |
3:30 |
NBC |
Tom Hammond, Pat Haden, Alex Flanagan |
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San Jose State |
@ |
USC |
3:30 |
FSN |
Barry Tompkins, Petros Papadakis, Michael Eaves |
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Jackson State |
@ |
Mississippi State |
3:30 |
ESPNU |
Todd Harris, Charles Arbuckle |
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Missouri |
v. |
Illinois |
3:30 |
ESPN |
Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham |
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Stanford |
@ |
Washington State |
6 PM |
FSN NW/FCS |
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BYU |
v. |
Oklahoma |
7 PM |
ESPN |
Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Heather Cox |
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Louisiana Tech |
@ |
Auburn |
7 PM |
ESPNU |
Eric Collins, Brock Huard |
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Northern Illinois |
@ |
Wisconsin |
7 PM |
BTN |
Wayne Larrivee, Chris Martin, Charissa Thompson |
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San Diego State |
@ |
UCLA |
7:30 |
FS W/FCS |
Bill MacDonald, James Washington, Brooke Olzendam |
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Alabama |
v. |
Virginia Tech |
8 PM |
ABC |
Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Lisa Salters |
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Buffalo |
@ |
UTEP |
9 PM |
CBS CS |
Dave Ryan, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila |
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Maryland |
@ |
California |
7 PT |
ESPN2 |
Terry Gannon, David Norrie |
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Idaho State |
@ |
Arizona State |
7 PT |
FS AZ/FCS |
Tom Leander, Juan Roque |
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LSU |
@ |
Washington |
10:30 |
ESPN |
Mark Jones, Bob Davie |
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SATURDAY’S OTHER GAMES |
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Appalachian State |
@ |
East Carolina |
Noon |
MASN/WITN |
Patrick Kinas, Billy Weaver, Brian Meador (MASN) |
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Liberty |
@ |
West Virginia |
Noon |
B.E. Network |
John Sanders, Rene Nadeau |
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Jacksonville State |
@ |
Georgia Tech |
1 PM |
ESPN360 |
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Youngstown State |
@ |
Pittsburgh |
1 PM |
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Northeastern State |
@ |
Boston College |
2 PM |
ESPN360 |
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Nicholls State |
@ |
Air Force |
2 PM |
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Portland State |
@ |
Oregon State |
2:30 |
FSN NW/FCS |
Rich Burk, Steve Preece, Jen Mueller |
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Weber State |
@ |
Wyoming |
3 PM |
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Rice |
@ |
UAB |
4 PM |
CSS |
Matt Stewart, Chuck Oliver, Melissa Lee |
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Southern Illinois |
@ |
Marshall |
4:30 |
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Middle Tenn. St. |
@ |
Clemson |
6 PM |
ESPN360 |
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The Citadel |
@ |
North Carolina |
6 PM |
ESPN360 |
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William and Mary |
@ |
Virginia |
6 PM |
ESPN360 |
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Northwestern State |
@ |
Houston |
7 PM |
CBSCS XXL |
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Florida Atlantic |
@ |
Nebraska |
7 PM |
PPV |
Ron Thulin, Kelly Stouffer, Kent Pavelka |
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Louisiana-Monroe |
@ |
Texas |
7 PM |
PPV |
Bill Land, Gary Reasons, Emily Jones |
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Connecticut |
@ |
Ohio |
7 PM |
ESPN360 |
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New Mexico |
@ |
Texas A&M |
7 PM |
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Army |
@ |
Eastern Michigan |
7 PM |
CSD.com |
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Northern Colorado |
@ |
Kansas |
7 PM |
FCS |
Dan McLaughlin, Yogi Roth, Samantha Steele |
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Wofford |
@ |
South Florida |
7 PM |
Gameplan |
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Southern |
@ |
Louisiana-Lafayette |
7 PM |
CSD.com |
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Missouri State |
@ |
Arkansas |
7 PM |
Gameplan |
Scott Inman, Jimmy Dykes, Clint Stoerner |
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Richmond |
@ |
Duke |
7 PM |
theACC.com |
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Alcorn State |
@ |
Southern Miss |
7 PM |
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North Dakota |
@ |
Texas Tech |
7 PM |
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Mississippi Valley St. |
@ |
Arkansas State |
7 PM |
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Massachusetts |
@ |
Kansas State |
7 PM |
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Indiana State |
@ |
Louisville |
7:30 |
Gameplan |
Drew Deener, Doug James |
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Samford |
@ |
UCF |
7:30 |
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Western Carolina |
@ |
Vanderbilt |
7:30 |
CSN/CSS |
Doug Bell, Chris Doering |
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Idaho |
@ |
New Mexico State |
8 PM |
Gameplan |
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Stephen F. Austin |
@ |
SMU |
8 PM |
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Central Michigan |
@ |
Arizona |
7 PT |
Dave Sitton, John Fina, Glenn Howell (Wildcats SN) |
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UC Davis |
@ |
Fresno State |
7 PT |
CBSCS XXL |
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Sacramento State |
@ |
UNLV |
7 PT |
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SUNDAY |
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Mississippi |
@ |
Memphis |
3:30 |
ESPN |
Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore |
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Colorado State |
@ |
Colorado |
7 PT |
FSN |
Joel Meyers, Dave Lapham, Jim Knox |
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LABOR DAY |
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Cincinnati |
@ |
Rutgers |
4 PM |
ESPN |
Bob Wischusen, Bob Griese |
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Miami (FL) |
@ |
Florida State |
8 PM |
ESPN |
Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge |