ESPN’s College Football Games & Announcing Assignments For Week 9

It’s already Week 9 in the college football season. Time is just flying by. The college football week begins on Tuesday for ESPN’s family of networks. Plus as we know, College Gameday will be heading to SoCal for the Oregon-USC game which will be played in primetime on ABC.

Once again, ESPN tortures the state of Michigan by assigning Matt Millen to the Michigan State-Iowa game. Why does ESPN do this?

We have your schedule in detail below.

College GameDay from No. 2 Oregon at USC; Five of Top Six Teams in BCS Standings in Action; Two Telecasts between Ranked Teams

College GameDay — beginning on ESPNU at 9 a.m. and continuing on ESPN at 10 a.m. every Saturday and simulcast on ESPN Radio — will originate from Los Angeles on Saturday, Oct. 30, the site of No. 2 Oregon at USC (televised on ABC at 8 p.m.). This year, all seven schools that have hosted College GameDay have won that day. The last three road teams were ranked No. 1 entering the game.  

Chris Fowler hosts the Emmy Award-winning program with analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard. Erin Andrews anchors several segments of the first hour on ESPNU and contributes reports, interviews and features during the ESPN portion.

This week’s schedule will feature five of the top six teams in the BCS standings in action, including two against ranked opponents Saturday at 3:30 p.m.: No. 5 Michigan State at No. 18 Iowa and No. 6 Missouri at No. 14 Nebraska. Additional highlights:

• No. 1 Auburn will take on Mississippi Saturday at 6 p.m. on ESPN2;
• The Saturday Night Football telecast on ABC will pit No. 2 Oregon at Pac-10 rival USC at 8 p.m.;
• ESPN2 will televise No. 3 Boise State against Louisiana Tech Tuesday at 8 p.m.

Also on Saturday, ESPN2 will televise No. 9 Oklahoma, coming off its only loss this season against Missouri, versus Colorado at 9:15 p.m. while ABC will offer one-loss No. 11 Ohio State at Minnesota at 8 p.m.

Date	Time (ET)	Matchup	Network(s)
Tue, Oct 26	8 p.m.	Louisiana Tech at No. 3 Boise State Beth Mowins, Robert Smith, David Norrie & Heather Cox	ESPN2/ESPN3.com
Thu, Oct 28	7:30 p.m.	No. 16 Florida State at NC State Rece Davis, Craig James, Jesse Palmer & Jenn Brown	ESPN/ESPN3.com
	7:30 p.m.	North Carolina A&T at Bethune-Cookman Anish Shroff, Jay Walker & Charlie Neal	ESPNU
Fri, Oct 29	8 p.m.	West Virginia at Connecticut Joe Tessitore & Rod Gilmore	ESPN2/ESPN3.com
Sat, Oct 30	Noon	No. 22 Miami at Virginia Bob Wischusen & Brian Griese	ESPN/ESPN3.com
	Noon	Purdue at Illinois Dave Pasch, Bob Griese & Chris Spielman	ESPN2/ESPN3.com
	Noon	Syracuse at Cincinnati Rob Stone & David Pollack	ESPNU
	3:30 p.m.	No. 5 Michigan State at No. 18 Iowa ** Sean McDonough, Matt Millen & Heather Cox	ABC and ESPN/ESPN3.com
		No. 6 Missouri at No. 14 Nebraska **| Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards	ABC and ESPN/ESPN3.com
	3:30 p.m.	Wake Forest at Maryland Pam Ward & Danny Kanell	ESPNU
	3:30 p.m.	Florida vs. Georgia (from Jacksonville) Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Joe Schad	ESPN Radio
	3:30 p.m.	William & Mary at North Carolina Dave Weekley, Drew Henson & Angela Mallen	ESPN3.com
	6 p.m.	No. 1 Auburn at Mississippi Mark Jones, Bob Davie & Quint Kessenich	ESPN2/ESPN3.com
	7 p.m.	Kentucky at No. 21 Mississippi State Clay Matvick, Herm Edwards & Jessica Mendoza	ESPNU
	8 p.m.	No. 2 Oregon at USC Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Erin Andrews	ABC/ESPN3.com
		No. 11 Ohio State at Minnesota Mike Patrick & Craig James	ABC/ESPN3.com
	8 p.m.	Michigan at Penn State Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe	ESPN/ESPN3.com
	9:15 p.m.	Colorado at No. 9 Oklahoma Carter Blackburn, Brock Huard & Mike Bellotti	ESPN2/ESPN3.com
	10:30 p.m.	Utah State at No. 24 Nevada Todd Harris & David Diaz-Infante	ESPNU

** Reverse mirror in which ESPN will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast

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