This week’s games are really awful, but we would have taken even the worst game on this schedule back in July, so can we complain that much? I think not.
While you’re waiting until 7:00 p.m. for the USF-Northern Illinois game, there’s plenty of college football action to keep you entertained*. Here are all the games to choose from.
* entertainment not guaranteed.
Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016
Matchup
Time (ET)
TV / Online
Penn State at Pittsburgh
Noon
ESPN / WatchESPN
UCF at (5) Michigan
Noon
ABC / WatchESPN
Central Michigan at (22) Oklahoma State
Noon
FS1 / FS Go
Lamar at (6) Houston
Noon
ASN / WatchESPN
Nicholls State at (9) Georgia
Noon
SECN / WatchESPN
Prairie View A&M at (20) Texas A&M
Noon
SECN Alt. / WatchESPN
Wyoming at Nebraska
Noon
ESPN2 / WatchESPN
NC State at East Carolina
Noon
ESPNU / WatchESPN
Cincinnati at Purdue
Noon
BTN / BTN2Go
Boston College at UMass
Noon
ASN/SNY / WatchESPN
Rice at Army
Noon
CBSSN / CBSSports.com
Howard at Rutgers
Noon
BTN / BTN2Go
Indiana State at Minnesota
Noon
ESPNEWS / WatchESPN
Troy at (2) Clemson
12:30 pm
ACCN / WatchESPN
Charleston Southern at (3) Florida State
12:30 pm
FSN Affiliates / ACC-RSN / WatchESPN
Stony Brook at Temple
1:00 pm
WatchESPN
Utah State at USC
2:00 pm
Pac-12N / Pac-12.com
Youngstown State at West Virginia
2:00 pm
ROOT SPORTS
Georgia State at Air Force
2:00 pm
MWN
Ohio at Kansas
2:30 pm
FSN / FS Go
Mercer at Georgia Tech
3:00 pm
ACCNExtra / WatchESPN
Western Kentucky at (1) Alabama
3:30 pm
ESPN2 / WatchESPN
Tulsa at (4) Ohio State
3:30 pm
ABC / WatchESPN
Akron at (10) Wisconsin
3:30 pm
BTN / BTN2Go
Nevada at (18) Notre Dame
3:30 pm
NBC / NBCSports.com
SMU at (23) Baylor
3:30 pm
FS1 / FS Go
Kentucky at Florida
3:30 pm
CBS / CBSSports.com
Wake Forest at Duke
3:30 pm
ESPNU / WatchESPN
UConn at Navy
3:30 pm
CBSSN / CBSSports.com
Illinois State at Northwestern
3:30 pm
BTN / BTN2Go
North Dakota at Bowling Green
3:30 pm
ASN/ALT / WatchESPN
Eastern Illinois at Miami (OH)
3:30 pm
WatchESPN
Old Dominion at Appalachian State
3:30 pm
ASN / WatchESPN
Wofford at (19) Ole Miss
4:00 pm
SECN / WatchESPN
Ball State at Indiana
4:00 pm
ESPNEWS / WatchESPN
Middle Tennessee at Vanderbilt
4:00 pm
SECN Alt. / WatchESPN
UTSA at Colorado State
4:00 pm
MWN
Portland State at San Jose State
4:30 pm
Not Televised
Idaho at (8) Washington
5:00 pm
Pac-12N / Pac-12.com
Idaho State at Colorado
5:30 pm
Pac-12N / Pac-12.com
Elon at Charlotte
6:00 pm
C-USA.tv
Florida Atlantic at (25) Miami (FL)
6:00 pm
ACCNExtra / WatchESPN
Morgan State at Marshall
6:00 pm
beIN SPORTS / Stream
North Carolina A&T at Kent State
6:00 pm
WatchESPN
Arkansas at (15) TCU
7:00 pm
ESPN / WatchESPN
UTEP at (11) Texas
7:00 pm
LHN / WatchESPN
ULM at (14) Oklahoma
7:00 pm
PPV
South Carolina at Mississippi State
7:00 pm
ESPN2 / WatchESPN
Northern Illinois at USF
7:00 pm
CBSSN / CBSSports.com
Bethune Cookman at North Texas
7:00 pm
C-USA.tv
Maine at Toledo
7:00 pm
WatchESPN
Georgia Southern at South Alabama
7:00 pm
ASN / WatchESPN
McNeese State at UL Lafayette
7:00 pm
WatchESPN
NC Central at Western Michigan
7:00 pm
WatchESPN
Savannah State at Southern Miss
7:00 pm
TBA
SC State at Louisiana Tech
7:00 pm
C-USA.tv
Iowa State at (16) Iowa
7:30 pm
BTN / BTN2Go
Jacksonville State at (21) LSU
7:30 pm
ESPNU / WatchESPN
Arkansas State at Auburn
7:30 pm
SECN / WatchESPN
BYU at Utah
7:30 pm
FOX / FS Go
Eastern Michigan at Missouri
7:30 pm
SECN Alt. / WatchESPN
North Carolina at Illinois
7:30 pm
BTN / BTN2Go
New Mexico at New Mexico State
8:00 pm
AggieVision / WatchESPN
Southern at Tulane
8:00 pm
WatchESPN
(17) Tennessee vs. Virginia Tech (at Bristol Motor Speedway)
8:00 pm
ABC / WatchESPN
UNLV at UCLA
8:00 pm
Pac-12N / Pac-12.com
Sacramento State at Fresno State
10:00 pm
TBA
Texas Tech at Arizona State
10:00 pm
FS1 / FS Go
Washington State at Boise State
10:15 pm
ESPN2 / WatchESPN
Virginia at (24) Oregon
10:30 pm
ESPN / WatchESPN
California at San Diego State
10:30 pm
CBSSN / CBSSports.com
Grambling State at Arizona
10:45 pm
Pac-12N / Pac-12.com
UT Martin at Hawaii
12:00 a.m.
OceanicPPV
Personally, this is where my attention will be today:
Noon - mostly watching Pittsburgh and Penn State, because I’m old enough to remember what a huge game this used to be. Occasional looks at UCF-Michigan, and also at Cincinnati-Purdue, to see if my “Tommy Tuberville is going to start mailing it in this year” prediction begins coming true.
3:30 - Since I don’t have CBSSN, I’ll be flipping channels a lot. Lot of train wreck potential with games like Kentucky-Florida on the docket. I’d watch Western Kentucky-Alabama to see if the Toppers can even get buckets against Bama, but then I’d have to sit there and watch Bama. I find college football is more fun when I pretend Alabama isn’t a thing.
7:00 - I’ll have to find a place to watch the USF game, and hopefully I’ll be able to sneak some peeks at Arkansas-TCU and Iowa-Iowa State, better known around SB Nation as El Assico. I’ll confess, I’m not really that interested in Tennessee-Virginia Tech.
10:00 - Get home from the USF game as fast as you can for what should be some spectacular #Pac12AfterDark. Texas Tech-Arizona State could legitimately last five hours.