The good news: College football will happen this weekend. The other kind of news: It’s not the greatest schedule ever. But! There is, as always, more than enough to get us through, and something will go horribly off the rails somewhere, ensuring memories for all. (Remember how everyone said Week 2 would be bad, and then it was good? Exactly!)
This Week 7 college football schedule Watchability Grid picks the games to watch
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Below, the full Week 7 FBS schedule, with TV times and streaming info, sorted by what to watch when. That’s based on a subjective combo of quality, stakes, competitiveness, and what else is on at the same time.
This weekend features three games between AP-ranked teams, which isn’t bad, and technically includes two games between top-10 teams, even though the road teams are huge favorites in both. These things are all OK.
(Weeknight games removed, for your Saturday convenience.)
| WATCH THIS | Maybe watch this | This is a football game | |
| Noon ET | #20 WVU at Texas Tech FS1, Fox Sports Go | NC State at #3 Clemson ABC, WatchESPN | Lafayette at Army CBSSN |
| Kansas State at #19 Oklahoma ESPN,WatchESPN | Vanderbilt at Georgia SEC Network, WatchESPN | ||
| Minnesota at Maryland ESPNU, WatchESPN | |||
| Iowa at Purdue ESPN2, WatchESPN | |||
| Illinois at Rutgers ESPNews, WatchESPN | |||
| 12:30 | GA Southern at GA Tech ACC Network, WatchESPN | Pitt at Virginia ACC Network, WatchESPN | |
| 2 | EMU at Ohio WatchESPN | ||
| 2:30 | WKU at MTSU WatchESPN | Kent State at Miami (Ohio) WatchESPN | |
| 3:30 | #1 Alabama at #9 Tennessee CBS, CBSSports.com | #10 Nebraska at Indiana ABC/ESPN2, WatchESPN | Kansas at #11 Baylor FS1, Fox Sports Go |
| UNC at #16 Miami ABC/ESPN2, WatchESPN | Wake Forest at #14 FSU ESPN, WatchESPN | ||
| #24 WMU at Akron CBSSN | Ball State at Buffalo WatchESPN | ||
| New Mexico at Air Force ESPNews, WatchESPN | Northwestern at Michigan State BTN, BTN2Go | ||
| USC at Arizona Fox, Fox Sports Go | Bowling Green at Toledo WatchESPN | ||
| CMU at NIU WatchESPN | Georgia State at Troy WatchESPN | ||
| LA Tech at UMass WatchESPN | |||
| 3:45 | #17 Virginia Tech at Syracuse ESPNU, WatchESPN | ||
| 4 | #21 Utah at Oregon State Pac-12 Networks | Missouri at Florida SEC Network, WatchESPN | |
| 5 | NMSU at Idaho WatchESPN | ||
| 6 | FIU at Charlotte CUSA.tv | ||
| 7 | #12 Ole Miss at #22 Arkansas ESPN, WatchESPN | Iowa State at Texas Longhorn Network, WatchESPN | Tulsa at #13 Houston ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| South Alabama at Ark. State WatchESPN | |||
| FAU at Marshall ASN | |||
| UTSA at Rice beIN | |||
| Texas State at ULM WatchESPN | |||
| UConn at USF CBSSN | |||
| 7:30 | Southern Miss at LSU SEC Network, WatchESPN | ||
| Stanford at Notre Dame NBC, NBCSports.com | |||
| Temple at UCF ESPNU, WatchESPN | |||
| 8 | #2 Ohio State at #8 Wisconsin ABC, WatchESPN | Arizona State at Colorado Pac-12 Networks | |
| 10:15 | CSU at #15 Boise State ESPN2, WatchESPN | ||
| 10:30 | UCLA at Washington State ESPN, WatchESPN | Nevada at San Jose State CBSSN | |
| Midnight | UNLV at Hawaii Oceanic PPV | ||
Notes, as always, on the WATCH THIS games:
- The noon ET spot is extremely noon. Let’s go with the game likeliest to produce incredible amounts of points and the best chance all weekend for an undefeated team to lose. (WVU is undefeated, yes, having played only four games. By the time this game kicks off, BYU, Duke, and Fresno State will have completed seven games each. No one is in charge of our sport, and that’s fine.)
- Bama-Tennessee lost some shine after the Vols finally got caught attempting to pull off a miracle comeback and due to UT’s injury issues. But it’s still a rivalry game that really matters for the first time in a while, and a home upset could swing the SEC.
- Ole Miss-Arkansas is a rematch of 2015’s best game, and this time, the underdog has home advantage.
- Ohio State-Wisconsin is also a rematch ... of a season-breaking 2014 beatdown that changed the Playoff at the last minute. What fun!
- Pretty easy call for your closeout game: Mike freaking Leach showing a former NFL head coach how to run the football.
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