ESPN has announced its broadcast schedule for the fifth week of the 2017 – ’18 college football season.
The ESPN networks’ schedule for the fifth week of the 2017 – ‘18 college football season opens Thursday night with a double-header slate. Florida A&M plays host to North Carolina Central to open the night beginning at 7:30 p.m. Texas and Iowa State follow at 8 p.m. on ESPN.
Week 5’s action continues Friday night with yet another double-header schedule beginning at 7 p.m. No. 14 Miami will be on the road against Duke live on ESPN in that game. No. 16 Washington State will play host to No. 5 USC in the night’s second game with coverage set to begin at 10:30 p.m. on ESPN.
No. Clemson and No. 12 Virginia Tech headline Saturday’s extensive schedule that includes games on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNU and the SEC Network. The Tigers and Hokies will be live under the lights on ABC’s Saturday Night Football presented by Wells Fargo, with coverage scheduled to start at 8 p.m. ET.
While the Hokies and Tigers headline the weekend’s college football action across the ESPN networks, the matchup of the ranked teams is not the last of the weekend. San Jose State and UNLV finish off the weekend’s action Saturday night at 10:30 p.m. ET on ESPNU.
The ESPN networks’ full college football Week 5 broadcast schedule is noted below.
The fourth week of the 2017 college football season is here and the ESPN networks have another full schedule on tap for this weekend.
The networks’ week 4 schedule opened Thursday as No. 21 South Florida hosted Temple on ESPN and North Carolina Central hosted South Carolina State on ESPNU. The Bulls soundly defeated Temple 43 – 7 in their game while the Eagles (2 – 1) defeated the Bulldogs (1 – 2) 33 – 28 in that matchup.
The action continues tonight at 8 p.m. as Boise State hosts Virginia live on ESPN2. Saturday’s action starts at noon as North Carolina State University faces No. 12 Florida State on the road. That game will be either on ABC or ESPN2 according to the network’s schedule.
No. 4 Penn State and Iowa will headline Saturday’s coverage beginning at 7:30 p.m. on ABC’s Saturday Night Football presented by Wells Fargo, but won’t be the last of the day’s games. The day’s action winds down at 10:30 p.m. ET as Stanford hosts UCLA on ESPN and ESPN Radio.
East Carolina and Connecticut round out the weekend’s action Sunday at noon on ESPNU. All of the games noted here are just some of the games scheduled for the fourth week of the 2017 college football season. The networks’ full broadcast schedule for this weekend is noted below.
All games on Saturday, Sept. 23 unless specified.
ESPN and its networks have announced their broadcast schedules for the second week of the 2017 – 18 college football season.
The networks have a full slate of games for Week 2 that will be capped off Sept. 9 on ABC by a matchup of No. 5 Oklahoma and No. 2 Ohio State at 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday Night Football presented by Wells Fargo. No. 3 Clemson will host No. 13 Auburn at 7 p.m. on ESPN the same night.
Saturday night’s schedule is only part of the ESPN networks’ Week 2 college football schedule. Sam Houston State was on the road Thursday against Prairie View A&M on ESPN.
Memphis and UCF are scheduled to face off Friday at 6:30 p.m. on ESPNU as a result of Hurricane Irma. Over on ESPN2, No. 11 Oklahoma will be on the road against South Alabama beginning at 8 p.m.
Saturday’s schedule starts at 10:30 a.m. ET as South Florida faces UConn on ESPNNEWS due to the impacts of Hurricane Irma. The Cincinnati Bearcats are scheduled to face No. 8 Michigan live on ABC beginning at noon. Also scheduled for high noon are matchups between North Carolina and No. 17 Louisville on ESPN; Iowa at Iowa State on ESPN2; Northwestern at Duke on ESPNU and a number of other games.
The networks’ full schedule for the weekend is noted below.
Due to Irma’s projected path, this weekend’s game between No. 16 Miami and No. 10 Florida State has been canceled. Indiana and Virginia will face off in place of that game.
Louisiana-Monroe and No. 10 Florida State has also been impacted by Irma. It has been pushed up to a noon start time Saturday as a non-exclusive game on ACC Network Extra.
Northern Colorado and No. 22 Florida has also been impacted by Irma. It has been moved to noon Saturday and will be streamed exclusively on the SEC Network+. Along with that move, Chattanooga at No. 12 LSU has been moved from SEC Network Alternate to SEC Network.
The last of the games currently affected by Irma is Saturday’s game between New Hampshire at Georgia Southern. That game has been moved to a 4 p.m. start time and will be played at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. It will be broadcast live on ESPN3.