ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 8

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The ESPN Family of Networks has games on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. That’s a lot of games. Check out the list of games plus where College GameDay is heading. After a foray into the West Coast last weekend, College GameDay returns to the Midwest visiting East Lansing, MI and the campus of Michigan State.

For the second straight week, the top announcing team of Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit and Erin Andrews will be cable exclusive as they’ll call Wisconsin-Michigan State for ESPN. ABC will have regional coverage at 3:30 p.m. ET and again at 8 p.m.

And ESPN lists games going into next week. Games on Sunday? Tuesday? Wednesday? Get ready.

Let’s check out the games.

Two Matchups Between Ranked Teams & Six of Top Nine Teams across ESPN Networks

ESPN’s college football schedule for Saturday, Oct. 22 will be highlighted by two showdowns between undefeated top 25 teams and six of the top nine teams in the BCS Standings.

• Unbeaten No. 6 Wisconsin at No. 16 Michigan State at 8 p.m. on ESPN and ESPN3
• Undefeated No. 8 Stanford against No. 25 Washington at 8 p.m. on ABC and ESPN3

In addition to Wisconsin and Stanford, the schedule includes three more undefeated teams on Saturday, Oct. 22: No. 2 Alabama against Tennessee (7:15 p.m. on ESPN and ESPN3), No. 3 Oklahoma against Texas Tech (8 p.m. on ABC and ESPN3) and No. 7 Clemson against North Carolina (noon on ESPN and ESPN3). ESPN3 and the SEC Network will also offer one-loss No. 9 Arkansas at Mississippi at noon.

Date	Time (ET)	Game	Network
Tue, Oct 18	8 p.m.	Florida International at Arkansas State Mark Neely & Ray Bentley	ESPN2/ESPN3
Thu, Oct 20	7:30 p.m.	Bethune-Cookman at Norfolk State Anish Shroff & Jay Walker	ESPNU
	9 p.m.	UCLA at Arizona Rece Davis, Craig James, Jesse Palmer & Jenn Brown	ESPN/ESPN3/ESPN 3D
Fri, Oct 21	8 p.m.	No. 15 West Virginia at Syracuse Joe Tessitore & Rod Gilmore	ESPN/ESPN3
		Rutgers at Louisville Dave Lamont & David Diaz-Infante	ESPN2/ESPN3
Sat, Oct 22	Noon	North Carolina at No. 7 Clemson Dave Pasch, Chris Spielman, Urban Meyer & Quint Kessenich	ESPN/ESPN3
		No. 23 Illinois at Purdue Beth Mowins & Mike Bellotti	ESPN2/ESPN3
		Jacksonville State at Kentucky Rob Stone & Danny Kanell	ESPNU
		Cincinnati at South Florida Mike Gleason, John Congemi & Eamon McAnaney	ESPN3/BIG EAST Network
		No. 9 Arkansas at Mississippi Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	ESPN3/SEC Network
		Northern Illinois at Buffalo Michael Reghi & Doug Graber	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Louisiana Tech at Utah State Trey Bender & Jay Taylor	ESPN3
		Boston College at No. 12 Virginia Tech	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	No. 13 Nebraska at Minnesota Carter Blackburn & Brock Huard	ABC/ESPN2/ESPN3
		Maryland at Florida State Mike Patrick & Craig James	ABC/ESPN2/ESPN3
		No. 17 Texas A&M at Iowa State Mark Neely & Ray Bentley	ABC/ESPN3
		No. 22 Georgia Tech at Miami Bob Wischusen, Bob Davie & Samantha Steele	ESPN/ESPN3
		NC State at Virginia Pam Ward & Dan Hawkins	ESPNU
		Temple at Bowling Green	ESPN3
		Ohio at Akron	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Fresno State at Nevada	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Army at Vanderbilt Clay Matvick, Brian Griese & Allison Williams	ESPNU
		Miami (Ohio) at Toledo	ESPN3
		Utah at California Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Joe Schad	ESPN Radio
	7:15 p.m.	Tennessee at No. 2 Alabama Mark Jones, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards	ESPN2/ESPN3
	8 p.m.	Texas Tech at No. 3 Oklahoma Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe	ABC and ESPN3*
		No. 25 Washington at No. 8 Stanford Sean McDonough, Matt Millen & Heather Cox	ABC and ESPN3*
		No. 6 Wisconsin at No. 16 Michigan State Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Erin Andrews	ESPN/ESPN3
		Middle Tennessee at Florida Atlantic	ESPN3
	10:30 p.m.	Florida A&M at South Carolina State Adam Amin & Jay Walker	ESPNU **
Sun, Oct 23	Midnight	New Mexico State at Hawaii	ESPN3
Tue, Oct 25	8 p.m.	Troy at Florida International Dari Nowkhah & Danny Kanell	ESPN2/ESPN3
Wed, Oct 26	8 p.m.	Connecticut at Pittsburgh Joe Tessitore, Mark May, Lou Holtz & Quint Kessenich	ESPN/ESPN3

* Alternate game of ABC’s split national telecast available on ESPN3 and WatchESPN
** Same day delay, available live on ESPN3 at 1:30 p.m.

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College GameDay Travels to East Lansing and Michigan State’s Campus

ESPN’s Emmy Award-winning College GameDay travels to East Lansing, Mich., on Saturday, Oct. 22, in advance of the Big Ten matchup of No. 6 Wisconsin at No. 16 Michigan State (8 p.m., ESPN/ESPN3). College GameDay will head to East Lansing for the fifth time overall, and for the first time since 2005. The weekly show airs at 9-10 a.m. on ESPNU and 10 a.m.-noon on ESPN.

That’s going to do it.

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