Believe it or not, we’re in the home stretch of the college football season. Just a couple of more weeks before we have the conference championship games and then bowl season in December. It’s not long now.
We’re not quite at the traditional blood rivalry games yet, but we’re getting close.
This week, ESPN’s college football schedule begins on Wednesday with MACtion on both ESPN2 and ESPNU. Then the games will continue through late night Saturday so there will be a lot of games to watch on TV and online.
We have the complete schedule of games on the ESPN family of networks and platforms.
No. 1 Kansas State & No. 2 Oregon in Prime Time
ESPN’s college football schedule this week is highlighted by prime time telecasts of the top two teams in the BCS Standings, both undefeated, on Saturday, Nov. 17: No. 1 Kansas State at Baylor in a Big 12 showdown at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN and No. 1 Oregon against two-loss No. 13 Stanford at 8 p.m. on ABC.
Overall, ESPN networks will offer coverage of eight of the top 10 teams in the BCS Standings and 15 of the top 22. In addition to teams in the BCS Standings, ABC will televise unbeaten Ohio State against Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 17, at 3:30 p.m.
ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D and ESPN Radio Schedule
Date Time (ET) Game / Commentators Network Wed, Nov 14 8 p.m. Ohio at Ball State
Joe Davis & Jay WalkerESPNU 9 p.m. Toledo at Northern Illinois
Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman & Quint KessenichESPN2 Thu, Nov 15 7:30 p.m. North Carolina at Virginia
ESPN: Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Steele
Radio: Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Joe SchadESPN & ESPN Radio Fri, Nov 16 8 p.m. Florida International at Florida Atlantic
Adam Amin & Tom LuginbillESPNU 9:30 p.m. Hawaii at Air Force
Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore & Jemele HillESPN2 Sat, Nov 17 Noon Iowa at No. 21 Michigan
ESPN: Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Jenn Brown
Radio: Dave Lamont, Pete Najarian & Brett McMurphyESPN, ESPN 3D & ESPN Radio Noon Northwestern at Michigan State
Bob Wischusen, Danny Kanell & Maria TaylorESPN2 Noon No. 10 Florida State at Maryland
Tom Hart & John CongemiESPNU Noon Western Carolina at No. 4 Alabama
Mike Morgan, Chris Doering & Jill MontgomeryESPN3 & SEC Network Noon Arkansas at Mississippi State
Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara CapuanoESPN3 & SEC Network Noon No. 22 Rutgers at Cincinnati
Eamon McAnaney, David Diaz-Infante & Paul CarcaterraESPN3 * & BIG EAST Network Noon Kent State at Bowling Green
Greg Franke & Tom ColeESPN3 * 12:30 p.m. Virginia Tech at Boston College ESPN3 * & ACC Network 12:30 p.m. North Dakota State at Illinois State ESPN3 1 p.m. Jacksonville State at No. 6 Florida ESPN3 1 p.m. Wofford at No. 9 South Carolina ESPN3 1:30 p.m. Georgia Southern at No. 5 Georgia ESPN3 1:30 p.m. Lehigh at Lafayette ESPN3 1:30 p.m. Liberty at Virginia Military Institute ESPN3 1:30 p.m. The Citadel at Furman ESPN3 2 p.m. Alabama A&M at Auburn ESPN3 2 p.m. 2012 Florida Classic: Bethune-Cookman vs. Florida A&M (from Orlando)
Mike Corey & Jay WalkerESPN Classic 2 p.m. Indiana State at Youngstown State ESPN3 3 p.m. South Florida at Miami (Fla.) ESPN3 3 p.m. No. 18 USC at No. 17 UCLA
Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Joe SchadESPN Radio 3:30 p.m. Ohio State at Wisconsin
Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen & Quint KessenichABC & ESPN2 ** NC State at No. 11 Clemson
Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine EdwardsABC & ESPN2 ** 3:30 p.m. Duke at Georgia Tech
Anish Shroff & Dan HawkinsESPNU 3:30 p.m. Sam Houston State at No. 8 Texas A&M ESPN3 3:30 p.m. Charleston Southern at Coastal Carolina ESPN3 4 p.m. Utah State at No. 20 Louisiana Tech
Trey Bender & John BuntingESPN3 4 p.m. Northwestern State at Stephen F. Austin ESPN3 7 p.m. Tennessee at Vanderbilt
Mark Jones, Brock Huard & Jessica MendozaESPN2 7 p.m. Syracuse at Missouri
Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb & Allison WilliamsESPNU 7 p.m. Western Kentucky at Louisiana-Lafayette
Jonathon Yardley & Forrest ConolyESPN3 7:30 p.m. Samford at Kentucky
Matt Stewart, Cole Cubelic & Angela MallenESPN3 8 p.m. No. 13 Stanford at No. 2 Oregon
Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather CoxABC 8 p.m. No. 1 Kansas State at Baylor
Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly RoweESPN 10 p.m. Arizona at Utah
Joe Davis & Kelly StoufferESPNU 10:30 p.m. BYU at San Jose State
Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway & Kaylee HartungESPN2 Tue, Nov 20 7 p.m. Akron at Toledo
TBDESPN2 * Local blackout may apply
** Reverse mirror in which ESPN2 will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast
That will do it.