2012 College Football TV Schedule Week 5: TV Listings for the Upcoming Week

Week 5 of the college football season starts on Thursday and ends late Saturday night with two huge Pac-12 games that will shape how the conference plays out for the rest of the year. 

Welcome back to another full week of college football television watching. Once again, I will be your guide as to when and where you can find some of the biggest—and smallest—schools are playing on television or the Internet.

However, before we can reflect on last week’s action, I have to make an announcement on this week’s guide. Some games are still listed at TBD—aka "to be determined"—so they are not listed on the guide. 

Please check your local listings as we get closer to Saturday to see when and on what channel these TBD games will be shown. 

So, with that being said, let’s get into some winners and losers from last week. 

Winner: Notre Dame’s Manti Te’o and Tommy Rees

Te’o came into the game against Michigan on a mission to not let Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson rip his defense apart for a third straight year. 

He had a huge game of eight tackles and two interceptions and played a key role in the Irish defense, holding the Wolverines offense to no touchdowns and six points. 

And then, former Notre Dame starter Tommy Rees came off the bench to save the day for the Irish. 

He didn’t go off for 300 yards or two touchdowns, but he didn’t turn the ball over. That right there may have been as good for Rees as accumulating stats. 

Loser: Michigan’s Denard Robinson

I’m going to stick to this game and give the Loser of the Week award to Robinson.

He came into this game with a history of destroying Notre Dame’s defense. In his previous two games against it, he combined for almost 1,000 yards, had seven combined touchdowns and limited his turnovers. 

However, all that got thrown out of the window on Saturday with four interceptions and one fumble. 

So, gone are Michigan’s national title aspirations and Robinson’s Heisman Trophy hopes. 

Loser: Arkansas Head Coach John L. Smith

You can be cooky and out there as a head coach, player or television personality if you are being successful. However, if you are struggling at your job, like Smith is, then you are looked at like a crazy person and someone that should be replaced. 

Smith was handed a great Razorbacks team when Bobby Petrino was relieved of his duties in the offseason. 

However, after three straight losses—two of them coming against a team from the Sun Belt and the Big East—Smith has destroyed all the great work Petrino did during his tenure with the school.

One loss in overtime to Louisiana-Monroe is a fluke, a second to Alabama can be forgiven, but a third to Rutgers cannot be allowed. 

Winner: California University of Pa. winning the Coal Bowl

The biggest winner of the week was my alma matter winning the fifth Coal Bowl against their rival, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 

Cal U pulled off a thrilling victory in the waning seconds over IUP with a 30-yard field goal from Cody Nuzzo. However, the kick wouldn’t have happened if wide receiver Nadir Brown didn’t score on an 80-yard touchdown. 

The win improved the Vulcans to 4-0 on the season and kept them in the top 10 of the Division II poll. 

Sign Off

Okay, that’s it for this week. Take a look at the table below to see when and where your favorite team is playing either on television or the Internet this week. 

Date	Time (ET)	Game	Channel
Thursday, Sept. 27	9:00 PM	No. 8 Stanford at Washington	ESPN
Friday, Sept. 28	8:00 PM	Hawaii at BYU	ESPN
Saturday, Sept. 29	12:00 PM	Stony Brook at Army	CBS Sports Network
		Buffalo at UConn	Big East Network
		Ball State at Kent State	ESPN-3
		Indiana at Northwestern	Big Ten Network
		Missouri at UCF	Fox Sports Network
		No. 25 Baylor at No. 9 West Virginia	FX
	12:21 PM	Arkansas at Texas A&M	SEC Network
	12:30 PM	Duke at Wake Forest	ACC Network
	2:00 PM	Colorado State at Air Force	ALTN
		Miami (Ohio) at Akron	ESPN-3
		Nevada at Texas State	Longhorn Network
	3:30 PM	Rhode Island at Bowling Green	ESPN-3
		Tennessee Volunteers at No. 5 Georgia	CBS
		Ohio at UMASS	ESPN-3
		No. 14 Ohio State at No. 20 Michigan State	ABC
		San Jose State at Navy	CBS Sports Network
		Idaho at North Carolina	ESPN-3
		Marshall at Purdue	Big Ten Network
		Houston at Rice	Fox Sports Network
		Louisiana-Monroe at Tulane	COXT
		Troy at South Alabama	ESPN-3
	4:00 PM	Arizona State at California	FX
	5:00 PM	North Texas at Florida Atlantic	ESPN-3
	6:00 PM	UCLA at Colorado	Pac-12 Network
	7:00 PM	Western Kentucky at Arkansas State	ESPN-3
		Towson at No. 3 LSU	ESPN-U
		FIU at Louisiana-Lafayette	ESPN-3
		No. 15 TCU at SMU	Fox Sports Network
		Toledo at Western Michigan	ESPN-3
	7:50 PM	No. 12 Texas at Oklahoma State	FOX
	8:00 PM	Texas Tech at Iowa State	FCS
		Wisconsin at No. 22 Nebraska	ABC
		No. 19 Louisville at Southern Mississippi	CBS Sports Network
		UNLV at Utah State	ESPN-3
	10:00 PM	No.18 Oregon State at Arizona	Pac-12 Network

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