How to watch 2016 college football, Week 2: TV schedule, streaming, and the "best" games

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Good morning! This is the Read Option, your daily college football newsletter. Sign up for this in your inbox! Below, you"ll find TV/streaming info for every FBS game of this weekend, in a chart showing you what to watch when.

College football"s opening weekend was great, wasn"t it? Five or seven days, depending on your calculations, with a handful of games we"ll all remember all the way through the end of the season. Four matchups between ranked teams, the highest Week 1 total in more than a decade! What could possibly go wrong?

Week 2 is what could go wrong. All the bad games were shoved into this weekend in order to make the opening to-do a real spectacle.  The NFL also starts up this weekend, meaning college football retreats into a corner for a few days.

There are good games, interesting games, and games that will go so sideways they"ll be watchable. There just aren"t very many of them. That"s OK, though, because if you follow the plan below, you"ll enjoy the whole thing just fine. And as always, something completely bonkers will happen.

In each time slot, I"ve forced myself to pick at least one WATCH THIS game. Otherwise, games are sorted based on a subjective assessment of stakes, competitiveness, and entertainment value ... and this week, everything"s graded on a curve.

Thursday

Mercifully, Week 2 will give you time to prepare yourself. There are no FBS games and no games on national TV, and the NFL is starting anyway.

Friday

UofL vs. Cuse should be pretty fun. Lamar Jackson vs. a Dino Babers offense, with the stronger team having to go on the road? That might be one of the best Friday games of the year, and might be the best chance all week for a ranked team to lose. Or the Orange might get rocked.

Elsewhere, Maryland"s on Extremely Weird Road Game Upset Alert.

Saturday

	WATCH THIS	Maybe watch this	This is a football game
8 p.m. ET	#13 Louisville at Syracuse ESPN2, WatchESPN	Maryland at FIU CBSSN

Lemme explain the MUST-WATCH picks:

• Penn State and Pitt are decent Power 5 teams that hate each other and don"t get to play all that often these days. That"s the only storyline of national interest in the entire early block.


• Western Kentucky-Alabama gets top billing over similar-sounding games in a desperate middle shift -- I have to pick something -- because Conference USA favorite WKU can ball, especially on offense. The Hilltoppers will have a better final margin against Alabama than USC did, and you tuned in for that game without complaining.


• Business picks up, relatively, later. Arkansas-TCU is one of the season"s best non-conference games, tempered quite a bit by both teams struggling against weak competition in Week 1. According to Vegas, this is the best ranked game of the week, as the Frogs are only favored by six points.


• Georgia Southern-South Alabama could be one of the Sun Belt"s biggest and best games of the year, considering USA beat Mississippi State last week. Or maybe MSU is just very bad.


• Here"s why you should watch ¡El Assico!, and it"s the same article as last year and next year.


• Here"s why you should watch BYU-Utah. This is an actual story that does not insult an entire state.


• Here"s why you should watch Tennessee-Virginia Tech:

• TTU-ASU should be one of the most combustible night games of the year, pairing the most stereotypically all-offense, no-defense Big 12 team with one of #Pac12AfterDark"s repeat offenders. They should"ve been rivals all along.


• Finally, Washington State at Boise State will be good, based on the precedent of Wazzu being extra dangerous against competent teams after it"s lost an FCS game.

Enjoy the many good moments sure to arise, and then we get a much, much better Week 3. We can do this.

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	WATCH THIS	Maybe watch this	This is a football game
Noon ET	Penn State at Pitt ESPN, WatchESPN	Rice at Army CBSSN	UCF at #5 Michigan ABC, WatchESPN
						NC State at East Carolina ESPNU, WatchESPN	Lamar at #6 Houston WatchESPN
		Wyoming at Nebraska ESPN2, WatchESPN	Nicholls at #9 Georgia SEC Network, WatchESPN
						Cincinnati at Purdue ESPN, WatchESPN (Yeah, it"s that rough)	Prairie View A&M at #20 Texas A&M SEC Network, WatchESPN
			CMU at #22 Oklahoma State FS1, FOX Sports GO
							Indiana State at Minnesota ESPNews, WatchESPN
			Howard at Rutgers BTN, BTN2GO
							Boston College at UMass WatchESPN
12:30 p.m. ET			Troy at #2 Clemson ACC Network, WatchESPN
							Charleston SU at #3 Florida State ACC Network, WatchESPN
1 p.m. ET			Stony Brook at Temple WatchESPN
				2 p.m. ET		Georgia State at Air Force CampusInsiders.com (Because of these clothes)	Youngstown State at West Virginia ROOT Sports Pittsburgh
		Utah State at USC Pac-12 Networks, P12N Live
				2:30 p.m. ET		Ohio at Kansas FSN, FOX Sports Go (What? KU is favored!)
3 p.m.			Mercer at Georgia Tech ACC Network, WatchESPN
				3:30 p.m.	WKU at #1 Alabama ESPN2, WatchESPN	Tulsa at #4 Ohio State ABC, WatchESPN	Akron at #10 Wisconsin BTN, BTN2GO
		SMU at #23 Baylor FS1, FOX Sports Go	Nevada at #18 Notre Dame NBC, NBCSports.com
						Kentucky at Florida CBS, CBSSports.com (Very high Debacle Factor)	ODU at Appalachian State WatchESPN
		UConn at Navy CBSSN	North Dakota at Bowling Green WatchESPN
							Wake Forest at Duke ESPNU, WatchESPN
			Eastern Illinois at Miami (Ohio) WatchESPN
							Illinois State at Northwestern BTN, BTN2GO
4 p.m. ET		Ball State at Indiana ESPNews, WatchESPN	Wofford at #19 Ole Miss SEC Network, Watch ESPN
							UTSA at Colorado State CampusInsiders.com
			MTSU at Vanderbilt SEC Network, WatchESPN
				5 p.m. ET			Idaho at #8 Washington Pac-12 Network, P12N Live
5:30 p.m. ET			Idaho State at Colorado Pac-12 Network, P12N Live
				6 p.m. ET		FAU at #25 Miami ACC Network, WatchESPN	Elon at Charlotte ConferenceUSA.com
			NC A&T at Kent State WatchESPN
							Morgan State at Marshall beIN Sports
7 p.m. ET	Arkansas at #15 TCU ESPN, WatchESPN	South Carolina at Mississippi State ESPN2, WatchESPN	UTEP at #11 Texas Longhorn Network, WatchESPN
					Georgia Southern-South Alabama WatchESPN	NIU at USF CBSSN	ULM at #14 Oklahoma SoonerSports.com
			McNeese State at UL Lafayette WatchESPN
							SCSU at Louisiana Tech ConferenceUSA.com
			Bethune-Cookman at North Texas ConferenceUSA.com
							Savannah State at Southern Miss TBA
			Maine at Toledo WatchESPN
							NC Central at Western Michigan WatchESPN
7:30 p.m. ET	¡El Assico! (ISU at #16 Iowa) BTN, BTN2GO	Arkansas State at Auburn SEC Network, WatchESPN	EMU at Missouri SEC Network, WatchESPN
					BYU at Utah FOX, FOX Sports Go	North Carolina at Illinois BTN, BTN2GO	Jacksonville State at #21 LSU ESPNU, WatchESPN
8 p.m. ET	#17 Tennessee vs. Virginia Tech ABC, WatchESPN	New Mexico at New Mexico State WatchESPN (Yes, I will overrate any rivalry)	Southern at Tulane WatchESPN
							UNLV at UCLA Pac-12 Network, P12N Live
10 p.m. ET	Texas Tech at Arizona State FS1, FOX Sports Go		Sac State at Fresno State TBA
				10:15 p.m. ET	Washington State at Boise State ESPN2, WatchESPN
10:30 p.m. ET		Cal at San Diego State CBSSN	Virginia at #24 Oregon ESPN, WatchESPN
				10:45 p.m. ET			Grambling State at Arizona Pac-12 Network, P12N Live
Midnight ET			UT Martin at Hawaii Oceanic PPV