College football TV schedule Saturday: SEC play gets started
This weekend, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) sees its league schedule get underway, with teams from both the SEC East and West meeting one another. Three of those contests feature conference schools currently residing in this week's .
As for the , things get started at noon Eastern time with fourth-ranked hosting at Spartan Stadium. The Falcons are 2-0 and will with their running attack, which averages 411 yards per game. This game can be seen on ABC.
Also at noon Eastern, there's an in-state contest between No. 16 and on Fox Sports 1. The Golden Hurricane sports an unblemished record at 2-0, but since 1996.
On the ESPN SEC Network at noon, you can see 17th-ranked play host to . And No. 22 will take on , with that contest televised on ESPN.
, new to the AP Top 25 this week at No. 23, plays at 12:30 p.m. Eastern. That game will be online via live video stream at ESPN3.
No. 12 returns home, following its road loss at Michigan State, to take on at 2 p.m. Eastern time on the Pac-12 Network.
At 3:30 p.m., the No. 1 team in the land, , plays host to undefeated . This game will be on ABC.
Over on NBC at 3:30, eighth-ranked returns home to play 14th-ranked , the at 457 yards per game. This will be the first start for Irish back-up quarterback DeShone Kizer, who over Virginia last weekend.
Another Top 25 contest at 3:30 has No. 13 (LSU) hosting 18th-ranked in a key early-season Southeastern Conference match-up. Auburn was the biggest mover in this week's AP Top 25 poll, falling 12 spots after barely squeaking by Jacksonville State in overtime last Saturday. The LSU-Auburn game will be televised on CBS.
Staying in the mid-afternoon, 24th-ranked will be at home, playing at 3:30 p.m. on the Big Ten Network. And No. 25 , also new to the AP poll this week, meets at 3:30 p.m. on Fox Sports 1.
Saturday evening's action kicks off with No. 7 going up against at 6 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.
Then, at 8 p.m., No. 3 (TCU) meets (SMU) on Fox Sports Net. At that same hour, sixth-ranked (USC) plays host to in both teams' first Pac-12 game, which can be seen on ABC.
At approximately 9:15 p.m. Eastern on ESPN, No. 2 will play No. 15 in another big SEC contest.
Tenth-ranked plays No. 19 (BYU) in an intriguing West Coast encounter on Fox Sports 1 at 10:30 p.m. Eastern. Also at that same time, 21st-ranked travels to , which can be seen on the CBS Sports Network.
Wrapping up the evening will be No. 20 playing host to at 11 p.m. Eastern on the Pac-12 Network.
