It’s been a long week. College football games are going to be played on Saturday, and they don’t look like amazing games, and sports aren’t merely supposed to be a distraction from more important things. But when it comes to providing fun Saturdays in November, college football is pretty much undefeated. Let’s have a fun Saturday.
11/12 college football schedule: TV times, live streams, and the best games to watch
Here’s the FBS schedule for Saturday. It lacks marquee games, but the odds are good it’ll still be fun.
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Saturday’s slate only offers two ranked-versus-ranked games, and both of those (LSU-Arkansas and USC-Washington) don’t happen until the evening on the East Coast. That means your daytime viewing schedule has more flexibility than usual, so treat this week’s Watchability Grid, as usual but especially, as merely a guide. It’s hard to say what’s going to be great and what won’t be, even though we’re able to make a few educated guesses.
We’ll start to see a couple of conference standings pictures clarify this week. Clemson and Virginia Tech can respectively clinch the ACC Atlantic and Coastal with two games left to play. The Pac-12 South could fall into utter chaos, depending on what USC and Colorado do. The SEC East could become a mess, too. Sounds like a good time to me.
Here’s your full Saturday schedule, in Eastern time and arranged by likely enjoyability:
| Watch THIS | Maybe watch this | This is a football game | |
| Noon | No. 10 Penn State - Indiana ABC/ESPN2, WatchESPN | Baylor - No. 11 Oklahoma ABC/ESPN2, WatchESPN | Mississippi State - No. 1 Alabama ESPN, WatchESPN |
| No. 16 WVU - Texas FS1, Fox Sports GO | South Carolina - Florida CBS, CBSSports.com | SMU - ECU ESPNews, WatchESPN | |
| Tulsa - Navy CBSSN | Iowa State - Kansas FSN, Fox Sports Go | ||
| Kentucky - Tennessee SEC Network, WatchESPN | Northwestern - Purdue BTN, BTN2Go | ||
| Rutgers - Michigan State BTN, BTN2Go | |||
| Cincinnati - UCF ESPNU, WatchESPN | |||
| 12:30 p.m. | NC State - Syracuse ACC Network, WatchESPN | ||
| 1 | Miami (OH) - Buffalo WatchESPN | ||
| 2 | Miami - Virginia ACC Network, WatchESPN | Rice - Charlotte CampusInsiders.com | |
| ULM - Georgia State WatchESPN | |||
| 3 | Wyoming - UNLV Root | New Mexico State - Arkansas State WatchESPN | |
| Southern Utah - BYU BYU TV, WatchESPN | |||
| 3:30 | No. 9 Auburn - Georgia CBS, CBSSports.com | Pitt - No. 2 Clemson ABC, WatchESPN | No. 5 Ohio State - Maryland ESPN, WatchESPN |
| Texas Tech - No. 13 Okla. State FS1, Fox Sports Go | GT - No. 14 Virginia Tech ESPNU, WatchESPN | Illinois - No. 7 Wisconsin ESPN2, WatchESPN | |
| App State - Troy WatchESPN | Tulane - Houston CBSSN | ||
| UTSA - LA Tech KMYS | |||
| Vanderbilt - Missouri SEC Network, WatchESPN | |||
| Army - Notre Dame NBC, NBCSports.com | |||
| Southern Miss - ODU ConferenceUSA.com | |||
| North Texas - WKU WatchESPN | |||
| 4 | Idaho - Texas State WatchESPN | ||
| Stanford - Oregon Pac-12 Networks | |||
| 6 | UTEP - FAU ConferenceUSA.com | ||
| 7 | No. 24 LSU - No. 25 Arkansas ESPN, WatchESPN | Wake Forest - No. 6 Louisville ESPN2, WatchESPN | No. 22 Boise State - Hawaii CBSSN |
| USF - Memphis ESPNU, WatchESPN | MTSU - Marshall ASN | ||
| 7:30 | No. 20 USC - No. 4 Washington FOX, Fox Sports Go | Ole Miss - No. 8 Texas A&M SEC Network, WatchESPN | |
| Minnesota - No. 19 Nebraska BTN, BTN2Go | |||
| 8 | No. 3 Michigan - Iowa ABC, WatchESPN | ||
| 9 | Oregon State - UCLA Pac-12 Networks | ||
| 10 | No. 12 Colorado - Arizona FS1, Fox Sports Go | ||
| 10:15 | Colorado State - Air Force ESPNU, WatchESPN | New Mexico - Utah State ESPN2, WatchESPN | |
| 10:30 | Cal - No. 23 Washington State ESPN, WatchESPN | SDSU - Nevada CBSSN |
Notes!
- Be flexible about the noon slate, especially. But West Virginia-Texas is particularly interesting. Charlie Strong could clinch bowl eligibility, which would be superb for his job security but would necessarily involve a second WVU loss of the year. That, in turn, would knock the Big 12 all the way out of the College Football Playoff. (There’s no way a two-loss Big 12 team, even if it’s a white-hot Oklahoma, gets into the top four this year.)
- Will Muschamp’s going back to Gainseville, and that’s what I like to call a “high-upside watch.” It’ll be completely hysterical if such a maligned former Florida coach beats Florida in Florida. Just keep an eye on it. (That a Gamecocks win could totally upend the SEC East race is merely a bonus.)
- Georgia hasn’t done anything all year, but it’d be a decent salve for the Bulldogs to figure out Auburn and more or less clinch the SEC West for Alabama. (If Alabama wins earlier in the day against Mississippi State, a Georgia upset would mark a formal clincher.) Speaking for people who like it when the Iron Bowl means something, it’d probably be best if Auburn can stay relevant for another couple of weeks.
- Stash Notre Dame-Army in your back pocket during the 3:30 ET shift. Notre Dame is 3-6.
- LSU-Arkansas might be alright. The Hogs show up sometimes against good teams, and nobody’s going to be that surprised if they take the Golden Boot for a third year in a row. But Arkansas’ run defense is verifiable trash, and LSU’s about to feed the Hogs a heavy dose of carries from Leonard Fournette and Derrius Guice. This has real potential to get ugly for the Razorbacks.
- USC-Washington will be cool. The Trojans started the year 1-3, so they’ve never been Playoff contenders. But they’ve turned things around under the guidance of a redshirt freshman QB, and now they’ll face a ferocious front and one of the best teams in the country. Washington’s probably going to win, but USC’s good enough that it won’t be a cataclysmic upset if it goes the other way.
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