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College football TV schedule: Bowl season, FCS playoffs and championships

Only two college football games this weekend? Not so fast. D2, D3 and NAIA football will see their champions crowned and the FCS title game participants will be determined, in addition to two bowl games.

Scott Cunningham

If championship football is your thing (championship football is everybody’s thing), this is the weekend for you. Three levels of college football will crown their national champions, and another will figure out which two teams will play for the country’s highest college football playoff title. Oh, and bowl season starts.

The complete weekend TV schedule (head here for the complete FBS bowl season schedule, with picks and watchability rankings):

FBS Bowls

New Mexico Bowl: 7-5 Nevada vs. 7-5 Arizona

  • Saturday, December 15
  • 1 p.m. ET, ESPN

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: 9-3 Toledo vs. 10-2 Utah State

  • Saturday, December 15
  • 4:30 p.m. ET, ESPN

FCS Semifinals

North Dakota State 23, Georgia Southern 20

10-3 Sam Houston State at 11-2 Eastern Washington

  • Saturday, December 15
  • 4 p.m. ET, ESPNU

Division II Championship

11-2 Valdosta State vs. 14-0 Winston-Salem in Florence, Alabama

  • Saturday, December 15
  • 1 p.m. ET, ESPN2

Division III Championship

Mount Union 28, St. Thomas 10

NAIA Championship

Marian (Indiana) 30, Morningside (Iowa) 27

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