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