Week 12 isn’t the most loaded college football schedule ever, but that’s what we said about Week 11, and see where that got us? A good place.
College football schedule: Your Week 12 Watchability Grid guide to the best games
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Below, we present the Week 12 FBS TV and streaming schedule with games categorized by quality. That’s determined by a subjective combo of stakes, competitiveness, what else is on at the time, and so forth.
Three games feature ranked teams on both sides, with definite postseason stakes in the Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC. We’ve even got a big weeknight game this time around. Otherwise, we’re finding fun where it arrives and waiting on big upsets because there’s gonna be another one before this regular season ends.
The regular season ends really soon, by the way, so the time is now to absorb as much college football as possible before it’s too late.
(Thursday and Friday removed, for your Saturday convenience.)
| Watch THIS | Maybe watch this | This is a football game | |
| Noon ET | #11 Oklahoma State at TCU FS1, Fox Sports Go | #2 Ohio State at Michigan State ESPN, WatchESPN | #7 Wisconsin at Purdue ABC, WatchESPN |
| Kansas State at Baylor ESPN2, WatchESPN | Maryland at #18 Nebraska ESPNews, WatchESPN | ||
| UTSA at #25 Texas A&M ESPNU, WatchESPN | |||
| Morgan State at Army CBSSN | |||
| UL Lafayette at Georgia SEC Network, WatchESPN | |||
| Iowa at Illinois BTN, BTN2Go | |||
| UTEP at Rice WatchESPN | |||
| 12:30 | Miami at NC State ACC Network, WatchESPN | Virginia at Georgia Tech ACC Network, WatchESPN | |
| 1 | #23 Florida at #16 LSU SEC Network, WatchESPN | UConn at Boston College ACC Network, WatchESPN | |
| 2 | Oregon at #12 Utah Pac-12 Networks | ||
| UMass at BYU WatchESPN | |||
| MTSU at Charlotte WatchESPN | |||
| Ga. Southern at Ga. State WatchESPN | |||
| 2:30 | ULM at App State WatchESPN | ||
| 3 | Duke at Pitt ACC Network, WatchESPN | ||
| 3:30 | #22 Wash. State at #10 Colorado Fox, Fox Sports Go | Indiana at #3 Michigan ESPN, WatchESPN | Missouri at #19 Tennessee CBS, CBSSports.com |
| #17 FSU at Syracuse ABC/ESPN2, WatchESPN | Buffalo at #21 WMU ESPNU, WatchESPN | ||
| Virginia Tech at Notre Dame NBC, NBCSports.com | Texas Tech at Iowa State FS1, Fox Sports Go | ||
| SDSU at Wyoming CBSSN | Texas at Kansas ABC/ESPN2, WatchESPN | ||
| Northwestern at Minnesota BTN, BTN2Go | |||
| The Citadel at North Carolina ACC Network, WatchESPN | |||
| Temple at Tulane WatchESPN | |||
| 4 | Navy at ECU ESPNews, WatchESPN | ||
| Utah State at Nevada WatchESPN | |||
| Texas State at NMSU WatchESPN | |||
| WCU at South Carolina SEC Network, WatchESPN | |||
| 4:30 | Austin Peay at Kentucky SEC Network, WatchESPN | ||
| 5:30 | #24 Stanford at Cal Pac-12 Networks | Southern Miss at North Texas beIN Sports | |
| 6 | ODU at FAU CampusInsiders.com | ||
| 7 | #4 Clemson at Wake Forest ESPN, WatchESPN | UTC at #1 Alabama ESPN2, WatchESPN | |
| Arkansas at Miss. State ESPNU, WatchESPN | Marshall at FIU ASN | ||
| USF at SMU CBSSN | Hawaii at Fresno State Oceanic PPV | ||
| Presbyterian at South Alabama WatchESPN | |||
| 7:30 | Arizona State at #6 Washington Fox, Fox Sports Go | Alabama A&M at #15 Auburn SEC Network, WatchESPN | |
| 8 | #9 Oklahoma at #14 WVU ABC, WatchESPN | Ole Miss at Vanderbilt SEC Network, WatchESPN | #8 Penn State at Rutgers BTN, BTN2Go |
| Tulsa at UCF ESPNews, WatchESPN | |||
| 10:15 | New Mexico at Colorado State ESPN2, WatchESPN | ||
| 10:30 | #13 USC at UCLA ESPN, WatchESPN | Arizona at Oregon State Pac-12 Networks | |
| Air Force at SJSU CBSSN | |||
Notes on the WATCH THIS games:
The weekly Big 12 nooner almost guaranteed to go off the rails includes an Oklahoma State team with a decent shot at the New Year’s Six and a TCU team that’s three scores away from being 8-1 right now. The other nooners are so lacking, Purdue’s on ABC and I’m advising you to consider watching 2016 Michigan State.
Oh right, they’re gonna play Florida-LSU! After that big scheduling fuss, this game looks completely different than it did a month ago, and it’s only gotten bigger. It’s now on a Saturday with less going on elsewhere, and it has clear Sugar Bowl implications, with the winner likely in good shape. The Gators can clinch the SEC East with a W, though I don’t know why anybody would want to do that.
Washington State-Colorado could decide much of the Pac-12. The two combined to have zero winning seasons from 2006-14. Nothing is real.
Why is WVU five spots behind Oklahoma? I dunno! Guess we’ll find out if the committee’s onto something!
The Battle for Los Angeles is your closeout game, featuring one of the country’s hottest teams and one of the country’s coldest teams. Why would you watch this? Why am I requesting that you watch this? What are we doing here?
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