College Football Schedule – Week 1

This is a feature I started on my old blog last year – the complete FBS college football schedule for the coming week, complete with TV info from MattSarzSports.com. I originally intended to post this after at least the first part of my kickoff to the college football season, but that’s taking a while to write. College football is the second-most highly watched level of every-year sport in America, and quite possibly the majority of games, at least involving BCS teams, are available to a reasonably national audience, if not on TV then online.

I maintain my own college football rankings, which (this year) I’ll start putting out after Week 3. That means that starting Week 4, the rankings will start being ordered by the top teams in those rankings for teams in the Top 25 (and those slightly below), followed by the games available in HD, followed by non-HD games listed by conference. Until then I’ll list games by day and HD games for Saturday.

At the top of the list will be games for holders of the college football lineal titles. This is a fairly simple concept (and one not just proposed by me, either): each game the titleholder plays, the title goes to the winner. The Princeton-Yale title, which traces its history to the first football game between Rutgers and Princeton, is in the hands of Florida after what happened last season.

A split title is created whenever a team goes undefeated (or wins the BCS title game) without holding any lineal title – but only one such title has not been merged with Princeton-Yale, the 2007 Boise State title, in the hands of last year’s mid-major darlings, Utah. This section will list the Princeton-Yale holder first, followed by the 2007 Boise State holder. Titleholders will be marked by asterisks.

Also, I was going to list DirecTV channel numbers for all games this year, until I learned that ESPN GamePlan doesn’t release channel numbers for games until just one to two days before game time, which defeats most of the purpose I originally had for it. Instead I’ll list announcing teams from Awful Announcing.

All times Eastern.

LINEAL TITLES
Charleston Southern	@	*Florida	7 PM SA	FSS/SW/SUN	Bob Rathbun, Dave Archer, Jenn Hildreth
Utah State	@	*Utah	9 PM TH	mtn.	James Bates, Todd Christensen, Sammy Linebaugh
THURSDAY
Troy	@	Bowling Green	7 PM	CSD.com	Greg Franke, Tom Cole (BGSU)
South Carolina	@	NC State	7 PM	ESPN	Sean McDonough, Jesse Palmer, Craig James, Erin Andrews
Villanova	@	Temple	7 PM	CSD.com
Coastal Carolina	@	Kent State	7 PM	CSD.com
North Texas	@	Ball State	7:30	ESPNU	Charlie Neal, Jay Walker
North Dakota State	@	Iowa State	8 PM	CSD.com
Eastern Kentucky	@	Indiana	8 PM	BTN	Ari Wolfe, Charles Davis, Larra Overton
Oregon	@	Boise State	7 PT	ESPN	Mark Jones, Bob Davie
FRIDAY
Tulsa	@	Tulane	8 PM	ESPN	Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore
SATURDAY’S HD GAMES
Central Arkansas	@	Hawaii	1 AM	PPV	Jim Leahey, Russell Yamahoa
Navy	@	Ohio State	Noon	ESPN	Dave Pasch, Bob Griese, Chris Spielman
Minnesota	@	Syracuse	Noon	ESPN2	Pam Ward, Ray Bentley
Kentucky	v.	Miami (OH)	Noon	ESPNU	Clay Matvick, David Diaz-Infante
Akron	@	Penn State	Noon	BTN	Matt Devlin, Glen Mason, Kenny Jackson
Toledo	@	Purdue	Noon	BTN	Craig Coshun, Rod Woodson, Larra Overton
Montana State	@	Michigan State	Noon	BTN	Dan Gutowsky, Ron Johnson, Lisa Byington
Towson	@	Northwestern	Noon	BTN	Matt Rosen, Mark Campbell, Tony McGee
Northern Iowa	@	Iowa	Noon	BTN	Tom Werme, Anthony Herron, Elizabeth Moreau
Western Kentucky	@	Tennessee	Noon	SEC Network	Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano
Georgia	@	Oklahoma State	3:30	ABC/ESPN2	Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Holly Rowe
Western Michigan	@	Michigan	3:30	ABC/ESPN2	Mike Patrick, Craig James, Quint Kessenich
Baylor	@	Wake Forest	3:30	ABC	Dave Lamont, Shaun King
Nevada	@	Notre Dame	3:30	NBC	Tom Hammond, Pat Haden, Alex Flanagan
San Jose State	@	USC	3:30	FSN	Barry Tompkins, Petros Papadakis, Michael Eaves
Jackson State	@	Mississippi State	3:30	ESPNU	Todd Harris, Charles Arbuckle
Missouri	v.	Illinois	3:30	ESPN	Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham
Stanford	@	Washington State	6 PM	FSN NW/FCS
BYU	v.	Oklahoma	7 PM	ESPN	Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Heather Cox
Louisiana Tech	@	Auburn	7 PM	ESPNU	Eric Collins, Brock Huard
Northern Illinois	@	Wisconsin	7 PM	BTN	Wayne Larrivee, Chris Martin, Charissa Thompson
San Diego State	@	UCLA	7:30	FS W/FCS	Bill MacDonald, James Washington, Brooke Olzendam
Alabama	v.	Virginia Tech	8 PM	ABC	Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Lisa Salters
Buffalo	@	UTEP	9 PM	CBS CS	Dave Ryan, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila
Maryland	@	California	7 PT	ESPN2	Terry Gannon, David Norrie
Idaho State	@	Arizona State	7 PT	FS AZ/FCS	Tom Leander, Juan Roque
LSU	@	Washington	10:30	ESPN	Mark Jones, Bob Davie
SATURDAY’S OTHER GAMES
Appalachian State	@	East Carolina	Noon	MASN/WITN	Patrick Kinas, Billy Weaver, Brian Meador (MASN)
Liberty	@	West Virginia	Noon	B.E. Network	John Sanders, Rene Nadeau
Jacksonville State	@	Georgia Tech	1 PM	ESPN360
Youngstown State	@	Pittsburgh	1 PM
Northeastern State	@	Boston College	2 PM	ESPN360
Nicholls State	@	Air Force	2 PM
Portland State	@	Oregon State	2:30	FSN NW/FCS	Rich Burk, Steve Preece, Jen Mueller
Weber State	@	Wyoming	3 PM
Rice	@	UAB	4 PM	CSS	Matt Stewart, Chuck Oliver, Melissa Lee
Southern Illinois	@	Marshall	4:30
Middle Tenn. St.	@	Clemson	6 PM	ESPN360
The Citadel	@	North Carolina	6 PM	ESPN360
William and Mary	@	Virginia	6 PM