ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 3 Including Announcing Assignments

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Let’s take a look at the ESPN Family of Networks’ schedule of college football games for Week 3. Conference play will begin in some leagues. Florida at Tennessee on ESPN this Saturday is one highlight and Knoxville will be the site for this week’s College GameDay visit.

ABC has a tripleheader starting at noon highlighted by Notre Dame at Michigan State in primetime with Brent, Herbie and Heather.

We have the entire schedule including announcing assignments for you.

Matchup of Undefeated Teams in Five Telecasts, Two between Ranked Squads

ESPN’s college football schedule this week is highlighted by telecasts of five of the week’s six Football Bowl Subdivision matchups between undefeated teams. Two of the games will include a matchup of ranked teams, both on Saturday, Sept. 15: No. 18 Florida at No. 23 Tennessee (6 p.m. ET on ESPN and ESPN Radio) and No. 20 Notre Dame at No. 10 Michigan State (8 p.m. on ABC). Additional games between unbeaten squads:

• The Thursday ESPN College Football Primetime game on September 13 at 7:30 p.m. will kick off the action with Rutgers at South Florida in a BIG EAST Conference showdown.
• ESPN will televise Wake Forest at ACC rival No. 5 Florida State on Saturday, Sept. 15, at noon. Wake Forest has defeated Florida State in four of the series’ six previous games, including a 35-30 victory over then-No. 23 Florida State last season.
• ESPN will televise No. 14 Texas of the Big 12 at Ole Miss of the SEC in a non-conference matchup on Saturday, Sept. 15, at 9:15 p.m. It will mark the first game between the programs since 1966.

Overall, ESPN networks will cover 14 teams ranked in the AP Top 25, including four games on ESPN3 on Saturday, Sept. 15: No. 3 LSU against Idaho at 8 p.m., No. 7 Georgia against Florida Atlantic at 7:30 p.m., No. 8 South Carolina against UAB at 7 p.m. and No. 11 Clemson against Furman at 3 p.m.

ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D and ESPN Radio Schedule

Date	Time (ET)	Game / Commentators	Network
Thu, Sep 13	7:30 p.m.	Rutgers at South Florida Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Steele	ESPN
	7:30 p.m.	Mississippi Valley State at Southern Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU
Fri, Sep 14	9 p.m.	Washington State at UNLV Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore & Jemele Hill	ESPN
Sat, Sep 15	Noon	California at No. 12 Ohio State Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman & Quint Kessenich	ABC
	Noon	Wake Forest at No. 5 Florida State Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Jenn Brown	ESPN & ESPN 3D
	Noon	Arkansas State at Nebraska Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway & Lewis Johnson	ESPN2
	Noon	No. 13 Virginia Tech at Pittsburgh Tom Hart & John Congemi	ESPNU
	Noon	Bethune-Cookman at Miami Drew Fellios, Doug Garber & Tiffany Green	ESPN3
	Noon	Louisiana-Monroe at Auburn Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	12:30 p.m.	Connecticut at Maryland	ESPN3 * & ACC Network
	12:30 p.m.	Presbyterian at Vanderbilt Bob Neal & Cole Cubelic	ESPN3 & CSS
	3 p.m.	Furman at No. 11 Clemson	ESPN3 * & RSN
	3:30 p.m.	North Carolina at No. 19 Louisville Bob Wischusen, Danny Kanell & Maria Taylor	ABC & ESPN2 **
		Navy at Penn State Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards	ABC & ESPN2 **
	3:30 p.m.	Virginia at Georgia Tech Anish Shroff & Dan Hawkins	ESPNU
	3:30 p.m.	Morgan State at Akron Dan Gutowsky & Jerod Cherry	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Stony Brook at Syracuse	ESPN3 * & BIG EAST Network
	6 p.m.	No. 18 Florida at No. 23 Tennessee Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe Radio: Bill Rosinski, David Norrie, Joe Schad	ESPN & ESPN Radio
	6 p.m.	South Alabama at NC State Bob Picozzi, Forrest Conoly & Sarah Stankavage	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Arizona State at Missouri Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen & Shelley Smith	ESPN2
	7 p.m.	Western Kentucky at Kentucky Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb & Allison Williams	ESPNU
	7 p.m.	Rice at Louisiana Tech Rich Hollenberg & Ralph Friedgen	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Mississippi State at Troy Shawn Kenney & John Bunting	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Bowling Green at Toledo Frank Giardina & TBD	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Delaware State at Cincinnati Jim Barbar, John Gregory & Rontina McCann	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	North Carolina Central at Duke Dave Weekley, Stan Lewter & Beth McDade	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	UAB at No. 8 South Carolina	ESPN3 * & FSN
	7:30 p.m.	Florida Atlantic at No. 7 Georgia Matt Stewart & Chris Doering	ESPN3 & CSS
	8 p.m.	No. 20 Notre Dame at No. 10 Michigan State Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather Cox	ABC
	8 p.m.	Colorado State at San Jose State Trey Bender & John Fina	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	Idaho at No. 3 LSU	ESPN3
	9:15 p.m.	No. 14 Texas at Mississippi Mark Jones, Brock Huard & Jessica Mendoza	ESPN
	10 p.m.	No. 25 BYU at Utah Mark Neely, Ray Bentley & Paul Carcaterra	ESPN2
	10:30 p.m.	Howard at Norfolk State Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU ***

* Local blackout may apply
** Reverse mirror in which ESPN2 will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast
*** Live on ESPN3 at 4 p.m. ET & same day delay on ESPNU

I’ll have Fox’s college football schedule coming next.

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