Saturday, September 5, 2009

College Football TV Schedule Begins in Full Today

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The college football TV schedule is in full gear, with the college football TV schedule taking up all of Saturday today. The college football TV schedule for week 1 has ESPN, ABC, NBC, and countless cable networks starting another year of college football coverage. For the next dozen or so Saturdays, the college football TV schedule will be the most crowded in all of sports. And this week, college football returns with a slew of big opening kickoff games on TV, for today and tonight.

The college football TV schedule already got off to an infamous start on Thursday, as ESPN broadcast the Oregon-Boise State brawl at around 1 am EST. College football as a whole needs a thrilling opening Saturday to overshadow that brawl. Today, the best games on the college football TV schedule will hopefully do just that.

The biggest games on the schedule start at 3:30 pm EST, but there is no shortage of games before then. ESPN begins its latest season of college football coverage at Ohio State, as the Buckeyes host Navy at noon EST, to tune up for their showdown with USC next week. On ESPN 2, Syracuse hosts Minnesota in former basketball star Greg Paulus's first game as Syracuse quarterback.

For Big Ten fans, they will once again tune into the Big Ten Network to see their favorite teams. Five more Big Ten programs kick off at noon, with the Big Ten Network covering all of them - including Penn State's opener against Akron.

The college football TV schedule for week 1 really centers around two big games, however. Naturally, ABC has both of them covered. At 3:30 pm EST, Oklahoma State hosts Georgia in a matchup of two top 15 programs. At the same time, NBC begins yet another season of exclusive Notre Dame football, as the Irish face Nevada and start trying to save Charlie Weis's job.

But the biggest game on the docket is at night, as two top 10 teams face off in the second Chick-fil-A Kickoff Classic. Alabama won last year's kickoff game over the Clemson Tigers, to kickoff a season in which they almost played for a national title. This year, the Tide hope to have the same luck against another top ACC team in Virginia Tech. ABC will cover that game at 8 pm.

ESPN also has some prime time showdowns tonight, with Oklahoma against BYU at 7 pm EST, and LSU visiting Washington at 10:30. By the time that ends, the first Saturday of the college football TV schedule will be in the books.

CBS won't take part in this first weekend, as the other big college football network won't start coverage until the SEC returns in two weeks. With Tennessee and Florida clashing on September 19, CBS's college football schedule will begin with a bang.

ESPN, ABC, the Big Ten network and many others hope to say the same today.

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