The college football schedule is flying by quickly. For almost the entire country, Week 10 is the first week of the last month of the regular season. That means stakes are high and games tend to be dramatic.
11/5 college football schedule: TV times, live streams, and the best games to watch
Here’s the Week 10 FBS college football schedule for Saturday, in full.
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Saturday’s slate includes a small group of must-watch games, plus a whole bunch of perfectly fine but not over-the-top huge contests. The day’s marquee matchup is at night, when No. 1 Alabama plays No. 13 LSU in a game that could turn out to decide the SEC West. (That Alabama has two fewer losses doesn’t change a ton, and this will be as big as ever).
We’ll get closer to definitive answers in a couple of leagues on Saturday, though nothing will be settled for at least a few more weeks. The Nebraska-Ohio State game that runs concurrently with ‘Bama-LSU will have huge consequences for both Big Ten divisions, and the top of the Big 12 will start – just maybe, anyway – to sort itself out.
This will be fun, just like college football Saturdays in November are always fun. If you’re up for parking yourself in front of a television from 11:30 a.m. ET until the wee hours of the next morning, you’ll be entertained the entire time.
Here’s the day’s TV schedule, in the form of the Watchability Grid:
| Watch THIS | Maybe watch this | This is a football game | |
| 11:30 a.m. ET | Navy vs. Notre Dame CBS, CBSSports.com | ||
| Noon ET | Texas - Texas Tech FS1, Fox Sports Go | #4 Texas A&M - Miss. State SEC Network, WatchESPN | Vanderbilt - #9 Auburn ESPN, WatchESPN |
| #7 Louisville - Boston College ESPN2, WatchESPN | Michigan State - Illinois ESPNews, WatchESPN | ||
| #8 Wisconsin - Northwestern ABC, WatchESPN | Indiana - Rutgers BTN, BTN2Go | ||
| Air Force - Army CBSSN | Georgia Southern - Ole Miss ESPNU, WatchESPN | ||
| 12:30 | Georgia Tech - #21 UNC ACC Network, WatchESPN | ||
| Pitt - Miami ACC Network, WatchESPN | |||
| 2:30 | UTSA - MTSU WatchESPN | ||
| 3 | Virginia - Wake Forest ACC Network, WatchESPN | ||
| Watch THIS | Maybe watch this | This is a football game | |
| 3:30 | #11 Florida - Arkansas CBS, CBSSports.com | Syracuse - #2 Clemson ABC/ESPN2, WatchESPN | Maryland - #3 Michigan ESPN, WatchESPN |
| TCU - #17 Baylor Fox, Fox Sports Go | Texas State - App. State WatchESPN | ||
| #18 Oklahoma State - KSU ABC/ESPN2, WatchESPN | BYU - Cincinnati CBSSN | ||
| #19 Virginia Tech - Duke ESPNU, WatchESPN | Fresno State - Colorado State Root | ||
| Purdue - Minnesota BTN, BTN2Go | |||
| FAU - Rice WatchESPN | |||
| Charlotte - Southern Miss ASN | |||
| Oregon State - Stanford FS1, Fox Sports Go | |||
| UMass - Troy WatchESPN | |||
| 4 | Arizona - #25 Washington State Pac-12 Networks | Missouri - South Carolina SEC Network, WatchESPN | |
| Memphis - SMU ESPNews, WatchESPN | |||
| Tenn. Tech - Tennessee SEC Network, WatchESPN | |||
| 5 | Idaho - UL Lafayette WatchESPN | ||
| Tulane - UCF WatchESPN | |||
| South Alabama - ULM WatchESPN | |||
| 5:30 | LA Tech - North Texas WatchESPN | ||
| FIU - WKU beIN Sports | |||
| Watch THIS | Maybe watch this | This is a football game | |
| 7 | #22 FSU - NC State ESPNU, WatchESPN | Kansas - #20 West Virginia ESPN2, WatchESPN | |
| Hawaii - San Diego State CBSSN | Marshall - ODU ASN | ||
| Oregon - USC ESPN, WatchESPN | |||
| 7:30 | Iowa - #12 Penn State BTN, BTN2Go | Georgia - Kentucky SEC Network, WatchESPN | |
| 8 | #1 Alabama - #13 LSU CBS, CBSSports.com | #10 Nebraska - #6 Ohio State ABC, WatchESPN | ECU - Tulsa ESPNews, WatchESPN |
| Houston Baptist - UTEP ConferenceUSA.com | |||
| 10:15 | Utah State - Wyoming ESPN2, WatchESPN | Nevada - New Mexico ESPNU, WatchESPN | |
| 10:30 | #5 Washington - Cal ESPN, WatchESPN | ||
| Watch THIS | Maybe watch this | This is a football game |
Some notes!
- Your Watch THIS games, other than Alabama-LSU, are reasonably open to debate. Texas-Texas Tech should be interesting for its points, and because Charlie Strong can only afford so many more problems this season, even after an uplifting moment last week. That Washington-Cal game has high #Pac12AfterDark potential, but it remains to be seen if Cal’s air raid will actually work against UW’s awesome defense. Either way, watch that.
- Navy-Notre Dame at 11:30 a.m. ET is a potential treat. Not that it means a great deal, with Notre Dame 3-5 and Navy only on the fringes of the Group of 5 New Year’s Six bowl picture. That could be fun mainly because Navy’s triple-option is always a wild card, and Brian Kelly changing colors while the Mids run wild wouldn’t be something to miss. Just monitor this, at the least.
- That same logic maybe could apply to Georgia Southern-Ole Miss. That’s not what you’d call a “good football game” if you were just tossing around terms, but if Southern can run on Ole Miss with the option, we’ve got serious angry-coach potential on the other side. All I’m saying is you should consider it.
- Air Force-Army is low-key a cool game this year. The Falcons could clinch the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy, which goes to the service academy with the best annual record against the other two. Because Air Force already beat Navy, a win seals the deal. But Army’s a lot better this year, and a Black Knights victory at home would set up a winner-takes-the-CIC Army-Navy game next month (Navy won it last year, so if every team goes 1-1, Navy keeps it). The Knights haven’t won the CIC since 1996. This year, it’s not impossible, but it’ll take two wins. Just keep this in your back pocket for the noon slate, OK?
- I’m partial to Nebraska-Ohio State, but that’s probably just a commercial channel-changer during ‘Bama-LSU. The Buckeyes are more than two-touchdown favorites, but it’s not hard to imagine it being close and therefore fun.
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