Man, oh man, were there some overreactions this week…oh and the Week 2 College Football TV Schedule

Posted on September 7, 2023 by guelphbossman

Look, did Colorado surprise a lot of people this past weekend? Absolutely. No doubt about it. Deion Sanders is proving, whether you like him or not, that he can flat-out coach. And overhauling the roster like he did was not a bad idea at all. It does suck for the players that had to transfer out but unfortunately it’s football and the name of the game is winning.

Saying that………the amount of people I saw on Twitter that said Colorado will win 10 or 11 games this season was way too much. It should have been zero. Colorado may be better than advertised but they aren’t all of a sudden a New Year’s Six possibility. But hey, that’s the reactions from Week 1 of college football. Every. Single. Fucking. Year.

So let’s do it again on here! It’s overreaction time! Let’s look at some of the other overreactions you may (or may not) have heard after the Week 1 games were complete:

Ohio State is just an average team. Do we expect more from the Buckeyes against a team like Indiana? Sure. But they are bringing in a new quarterback and their best receiver was not 100%. The defense was amazing. Now the offense does have to be ready since in about a week and a half they get Notre Dame and that could get ugly if they don’t produce more points.
Colorado will have not one, but TWO Heisman finalists. What in the fuck? Who are the morons saying this? They are out there for sure. I saw them. Sure, they did great in their opening week win over TCU but calm the fuck down. TCU isn’t the TCU of last season for one and it’s only WEEK ONE. Anyway, moving on…
Gene Chizik has finally got the defense cooking in Chapel Hill. Again, it’s one game. Do the Heels look improved? Sure. But it’s not like South Carolina played well at all because, for the most part they didn’t. That, and the chain gang wouldn’t eat their hot dogs fast enough. Let’s see how UNC does when a top-notch offense is staring them in the face.
Jalen Milroe is already looking like another Alabama Jalen…that being Hurts. My God where do these people come up with this shit? Milroe looked OK but it was Middle Tennessee and he’s playing for Ala-frickin-Bama. We will see how he handles SEC competition before crowning him anything.
Washington has the best offense in the country. Could that end up being the case? Possibly. Michael Penix Jr. has already started his Heisman campaign in style. But let’s slow our roll here. There are at least four teams who looked better on offense (Colorado, Florida State, Oklahoma, Oregon) during Week 1. And I wouldn’t even say any of those teams will be the best offense in the country so why go ahead and put the Huskies at #1?
Book the Sooners for the Big XII Championship NOW! As I said, their offense was on fire but they were playing Arkansas State. We are all waiting to see if Brent Venables can have a Venables-type defense in Norman. If that happens, this could very well happen. But for now, I wouldn’t book any tickets yet if I were a Sooners fan.
Miami is BACK. Ho boy. Pump the damn brakes.

Let’s just put Week 1 behind us, shall we? Let’s move on to Week 2 which…oh my. Well, it’s better than Week 1. That’s really all I can say. But you know what that usually means. That’s right…chaos!

Thursday

Yep, that’s a new logo you see. TSN+ will be showing college football games this year. It kind of mimics the specialty pack but there are a few differences. But if you want to get TSN+ rather than the specialty pack for your college football fix, you are getting close to the same. Not a bad alternative and a good move by TSN to copy ESPN for the 10,000th time.

Friday

		US	Canada
Indiana State at Indiana	7:00
Illinois at Kansas	7:30

It kind of feels like this could be a relatively important game when the Illini travel to Lawrence to face the Jayhawks. Imagine saying that even two years ago. You’d be laughed out of whatever building you were in.

Saturday Early

Is the quality there? Eh, not really. But there’s choice. A lot of it. Can’t ask for much else. Also…MORNING FOOTBAW! The ACC Network’s weird annual Week 2 quadrupleheader hits again with the odd three hour-and-fifteen-minute windows. This will be a lot easier to do next year when Stanford and California join as you know one of them will host the ACC After Dark Week 2 matchup, guaranteed.

Saturday Afternoon

Is the afternoon slate better than the Noon slate? Sure. Not by much though. Some intriguing matchups though. As per the rules, one of Texas A&M or Miami must win their game against each other. Ties were outlawed almost three decades ago. Will CyHawk feature more than 30 points? Can App State and UNC put up ridiculous numbers like last year? And this will be Tulane’s opportunity to get a huge leg up in the Group of Five. A win over Ole Miss would be massive.

Saturday Primetime

		US	Canada
Ohio at FAU	6:00
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh	6:30
#11 Texas at #3 Alabama	7:00
#13 Oregon at Texas Tech	7:00
Houston at Rice	7:00
#19 Wisconsin at Washington State	7:30
Eastern Michigan at Minnesota	7:30
Temple at Rutgers	7:30
UCLA at San Diego State	7:30
Grambling at #14 LSU	7:30
McNeese State at Florida	7:30
Charlotte at Maryland	7:30
Arizona at Mississippi State	7:30
Air Force vs. Sam Houston (in NRG Stadium)	8:00
Southern Miss at #4 Florida State	8:30

FIFTEEN GAMES! Holy shit! I think this has to be the most in one timeslot ever on this blog. I don’t feel like checking so let’s just say we have a new record! Plenty of games but most people will be watching one game in particular, that being the Longhorns and the Crimson Tide. If Texas can somehow do what they were robbed of last season and upset Bama, this season turns on its head. This game is so big that they are also showing it on ESPN2 in the US and on TSN+ and the specialty packs. But it’s not the same broadcast. It’s the Pat McAfee Show alternate broadcast. So if you like that kind of thing, have at it.

Also, you will notice we have a new network showing college football. That’s right, the CW, with such hits as 7th Heaven, Gilmore Girls, Smallville and LIV Golf (well it was a hit with the golfers who got fucking PAID with that Saudi blood money) will be showing ACC football (and later on, ACC basketball) this year. This replaces Bally which, for all intents and purposes, is flat broke. There will be games most weeks and, it looks like, at odd times. 6:30? Weird.

Saturday Late Night

		US	Canada
UC-Davis at #16 Oregon State	9:00
Auburn at California	10:30
Stanford at #6 USC	10:30

FOX quadrupleheader? Don’t mind if I do. TSN2 quadrupleheader? Yes, please. A good week if you are a Canadian as I don’t remember seeing this much college football being shown up here in a while. Maybe things are turning around. Looks like TSN finally gives a shit about things that aren’t the CFL, NFL, and NHL (which they don’t even have the national broadcasting rights to).

Hey, Watch This!

Texas at Alabama (7:00, TSN2/TSN+/specialty pack) – Unequivocally the game of the week and there’s nothing else close. That also means there will be some wild and wacky finishes that might overshadow this game. That is, unless, this is a close one and the Longhorns pull off the upset. Then it will be THE story in college football no matter what else happens.

Ole Miss at Tulane (3:30, TSN+/specialty pack) – As I mentioned above, if the Green Wave pull off a win here in front of what should be a raucous crowd in hot and humid New Orleans, there’s not a whole lot that will prevent them from a perfect regular season and another New Year’s Six spot. Normally I would say this is a lose-lose situation for any Power Five team in this situation but when the Group of Five team is ranked it can count as a big win (as long as that team doesn’t totally shit the bed the rest of the way).

Texas A&M at Miami (3:30, ABC/TSN2) – I made the joke above that one of these teams has to win, as per the rules of college football. We may actually see which one of these teams is back (for the most part) and which team still has some work to do. Now watch it be a 13-10 almost-unwatchable slog.

Nebraska at Colorado (Noon, FOX) – Alright, I’ll bite. Let’s see if the hype matches what ends up happening. Some might have put this higher but that’s crazy. It makes this list because of the talk, not because of the teams involved. And Colorado can’t just win this game by a little. That would prove nothing. If they beat the brakes off the Huskers, then we all have to take notice and maybe think the Buffs could be for real.

Sickos Game of the Week

Temple at Rutgers (7:30, specialty pack) – Look, Rutgers is probably going to start 2-0 which really doesn’t mean a whole lot considering their schedule but still, that’s something right? With everything on at this time, you would have to be a complete psychopath to watch this game. I will make sure to tune in and watch at least a few plays. I feel like I owe it to everyone and myself.

Hubba Bubba Blowout of the Week

Ball State at Georgia (Noon, TSN+/specialty pack) – Time to bring back the blowout of the week segment. And this could be the dictionary definition of blowout. I could see UGA putting up 60 on the poor Cardinals.

Wanna Bet?

Nebraska was actually a good bet. That game ended up exactly how I thought it would (for the most part). Florida, however….well the less said about that one the better. Time for my gambling picks for the second week of the college football season. Use them at your own peril.

Indiana (-30.5) over Indiana State

Purdue (+3) over Virginia Tech (and the outright win)

Ohio State (-41.5) over Youngstown State

Utah (-8) over Baylor

Nebraska (+2.5) over Colorado (and the upset win…definitely going out on a limb with this one)

Michigan (-37.5) over UNLV

Tulane (+7.5) over Ole Miss (but the Rebs will hold on for a close victory)

Texas A&M (-4) over Miami

Alabama (-7) over Texas

Washington State (+6) over Wisconsin (with the Badgers winning a tight affair)

Minnesota (-20.5) over Eastern Michigan

Mississippi State (-9) over Arizona

Stanford (+29.5) over USC (I feel a backdoor cover in this one)

I will be on the Twitter/X machine again this weekend. Even without Tweetdeck I am figuring out how to navigate fairly well. We shall see if I can make it two Saturdays in a row making it all the way to the end. Enjoy the games everyone!

Can anyone upend Bama? Week 3 College Football TV Schedule

Posted on September 15, 2021 by guelphbossman

I mean you have to say yes, right? Not much feels worse than knowing the outcome (or having a very good idea of it) early on in the season. And so far, Alabama has looked a whole lot better than any other college football team in the land. Now if you recall my SEC preview, you will remember me saying Bama will drop a game during the regular season. Some of you may scoff at that right now since it looks like they won’t lose at all until well into the 2022 season. That’s the interesting thing about college football though: it is easily the most random of the well watched sports over here in this part of the world. Many early polls look like complete ravings of dummies when at least 20% of the teams end up being terrible. But there are always a few constants and that is that if you see a team in the Top 10, don’t be surprised if they win it all at the end of the season. And that means Bama is always a contender these days. And will be until Nick Saban decides to retire, probably when he’s like 91 years old.

Let’s stop talking about the Alabama Crimson Tide…well, specifically since they show up later in this post. How about a look at the schedule for Week 3? Isn’t that why you’re here? I sure hope so because other than that (and my witty banter) I don’t know why you’d read this.

Thursday

		US	Canada
Alabama A&M at Bethune-Cookman	7:30 PM
Ohio at Louisiana	8:00 PM

Two games. One is the introduction of a new member to a conference. The other a game between a team just outside the Top 25 and one who just lost to an FCS school. Bethune-Cookman has it’s first SWAC conference game after joining the conference along with Florida A&M. Look, you can think what you want about Deion Sanders but he made a good point about this realignment the other day. He said that the MEAC should consider joining forces with the SWAC to make one HBCU mega-conference in FCS. Honestly, it’s not a bad idea, especially if they decide to allow their champ to go to the FCS playoffs once again. As for the other game, I will just assume Louisiana will be up by about 30 by halftime.

Friday

		US	Canada
UCF at Louisville	7:30 PM

Only one game tonight. This could be one that Scott Satterfield absolutely needs to keep his job. Not saying the Cards are going to win but they have to stay close.

Saturday Early

		US	Canada
Michigan State at #24 Miami	Noon
Albany at Syracuse	Noon
Northern Illinois at #25 Michigan	Noon
UConn at Army	Noon
#8 Cincinnati at Indiana	Noon
#16 Coastal Carolina at Buffalo	Noon
Boston College at Temple	Noon
Nebraska at #3 Oklahoma	Noon
Western Michigan at Pittsburgh	Noon
New Mexico at #7 Texas A&M	Noon

Whoa! TSN has games on every one of their channels to start the day. Very impressive. The expectation, at this point, is that the Albany-Syracuse game would be the one game not on a TSN channel (that could be put on there) but that could change. I’m glad they are going this route because it means they aren’t relying on just showing the ABC game on multiple TSN channels since it kind of defeats the purpose of even having the contract to be able to show ABC/ESPN network games. Honestly, the schedule isn’t great but that’s when you get some crazy good games so watch out for ones like MSU-Miami and Coastal-Buffalo. As for Huskers-Sooners? I don’t think this will harken memories of the old Big Eight.

Saturday Afternoon

		US	Canada
Purdue at #12 Notre Dame	2:30 PM
Georgia Tech at #6 Clemson	3:30 PM
Delaware at Rutgers	3:30 PM
Kent State at #5 Iowa	3:30 PM
#1 Alabama at #11 Florida	3:30 PM
SMU at Louisiana Tech	3:30 PM
Florida State at Wake Forest	3:30 PM
USC at Washington State	3:30 PM
Northwestern at Duke	4:00 PM
Mississippi State at Memphis	4:00 PM
Colorado State at Toledo	4:00 PM
Georgia Southern at #20 Arkansas	4:00 PM

Possible Game of the Year? If Florida can keep this close after three quarters then watch out. Also, Notre Dame gets the opportunity to be upset on regular NBC this week so that more people can watch. I do wonder how many people signed up for Peacock for the one reason that one Notre Dame football game was on there this season. If they can prove that a lot of people signed up for that then maybe it was all worth it. Until I see evidence of that, I still believe streaming services really have no hope of competing with television channels. That will most certainly change in the next decade but it’s slow moving for sure and will be for a while. Oh, remember what I said about TSN in the first timeslot? Yeah they are now down to one game in this timeslot (and then none after this). Oh well, it’s still CFL season so have to expect those games to be shown on all the channels. Between that, UFC, MLS and (ugh) NASCAR, there is no room for college football for the most part after the Noon timeslot until into November really. It is what it is. Kind of why I wish Sportsnet would figure out a way to get in on the action but they won’t because HOCKEY!

Saturday Primetime

		US	Canada
Utah at San Diego State	7:00 PM
South Carolina at #2 Georgia	7:00 PM
#22 Auburn at #10 Penn State	7:30 PM
Virginia at #21 North Carolina	7:30 PM
Furman at NC State	7:30 PM
Central Michigan at LSU	7:30 PM
Tulane at #17 Ole Miss	8:00 PM
Stanford at Vanderbilt	8:00 PM

The Tigers-Nittany Lions game should be a good one and was a good choice by ABC to show in primetime. Expect a few other games to be pretty good. No UGA should mop the floor with the Gamecocks. But many of the rest could be relatively close. Utah-SDSU should be fun, UVA-UNC could be surprisingly close unless the Tar Heels are back to the form many thought they would be in and Stanford-Vandy are two schools that have high academic standards…OK that last one should be a blowout as well.

Saturday Late Night

		US	Canada
#19 Arizona State at #23 BYU	10:15 PM
#14 Iowa State at UNLV	10:30 PM

Actually this is pretty good…well, except for one team. Can’t win ’em all right? ASU-BYU should be a barnburner and we will see if the Cougars are for real. Iowa State should put away the Rebels by midnight.

Games to set your eyeballs on

Alabama at Florida (3:30, CBS) – Huge Game of the Year possibility here and possibly a harbinger of what the SEC season will look like (until Bama and Georgia meet up). And it’s on the SEC on CBS which means we get….ugh….the return of Gary Danielson. I believe Brad Nessler is one of the greatest college football play-by-play guys in history. Danielson is just…not that good at his job. His obvious love for everything Alabama I’m sure will shine through again in this one and his analysis of the game is lacklustre at best. Honestly, it’s time to put him out to pasture and bring up Aaron Taylor and be done with it.

Auburn at Penn State (7:30, ABC) – How often do the top two games of the week end up in the two most important slots? Surprisingly enough, I think it’s rare. But this is classic college football for sure. I can just see the old CFA logo on the top of the screen during the intro as this would be one of those matchups that you never see, even in bowl season. Anyway, this will be the first big test for Bryan Harsin as he finally gets some serious competition in a potentially underrated Penn State team (if you can believe it). With the Ohio State loss this past weekend, the Big Ten is a bit more open than people may have thought it would be this year so Penn State has to capitalize on these opportunities.

Arizona State at BYU (10:15, specialty pack) – Would it be an upset if the Cougs beat ASU? Not really. BYU might be almost as good as last year’s team which is scary, especially with a better schedule. Could this team somehow make their way into the Top 10? If they win games like this one, absolutely. On the other foot, Arizona State has every opportunity to cease control in the Pac-12 South with USC being an utter mess. Yes they still have UCLA and Utah to contend with but these kinds of games are important as well. I’ll be honest: even though it’s BYU I’m surprised this game wasn’t put in primetime or the afternoon timeslot. I guess at least this way most of the eyeballs will be here for college football fans so it’s a win for ESPN in that regard.

Cincinnati at Indiana (Noon, TSN3) – Sure the Bearcats weren’t that impressive against Murray State but it was Murray State so who cares. This is one of the games that Cincy absolutely has to win if they want to have a fighter’s chance at the College Football Playoff. They also have to have Indiana be really good so the Hoosiers starting 1-2 wouldn’t make that very easy for them. It’s quite the conundrum Cincinnati is in really. Indiana is really still looking to bounce back from being trounced by Iowa in Week 1 (although if Iowa ends up in the CFP, Hoosiers fans shouldn’t feel too bad about that).

Michigan State at Miami (Noon, ABC/TSN4) – Put your hand up if you thought the Spartans would look this impressive early on. Now put them down because pretty much no one did. Yes, their big win is over Northwestern who could actually be merely mediocre but still, things are looking a whole lot better after Mel Tucker’s debut last year. This is the first test (in a lot of tests this season) and if they win this, they are easily in the Top 25 and have to be considered dangerous the rest of the way. The Canes need something since they have had a rocky start to the surprise of no one. Get boatraced by Bama? Check. Win a close one over App State? Check. Like they are following a script. The script says they should win this easily but who knows.

Honourable mention: Purdue at Notre Dame (2:30, NBC), Nebraska at Oklahoma (Noon, FOX), Coastal Carolina at Buffalo (Noon, TSN1)

You bet!

I know. I picked Houston over Rice, Iowa State over Iowa, USC over Stanford and Texas over Arkansas. Sweet Jesus. I did pick Oregon over Ohio State but who gives a shit with that track record. Here are this week’s picks to hopefully take that awful taste out of the gambling mouth:

Coastal Carolina over Buffalo

Alabama over Florida

Penn State over Auburn

Arizona State over BYU

Notre Dame over Purdue

Cincinnati over Indiana

Miami over Michigan State

Oklahoma over Nebraska

SMU over Louisiana Tech

Texas A&M over New Mexico

UCF over Louisville

Again this is not the greatest schedule, on paper. We know how that generally works out. So buckle up because this should be good and you don’t know when the next great finish will be. Enjoy the games everyone and have a great weekend!

You know what time it is? WEEK 1 OVERREACTION TIME! Oh and the Week 2 TV Schedule as well.

Posted on September 5, 2019 by guelphbossman

Who saw that coming for Tennessee last Saturday? What’s Jeremy Pruitt’s future with the team? Should people dump garbage on his lawn because they are upset? Overreaction? Absolutely! But some people think that and are serious about it. Week 1 of the college football season is always chock full of these tasty nuggets. Like these:

UCLA will lose almost every game this season. Not so fast. One game against one of the better Group of Five teams does not a season make. Now if the Bruins lose to San Diego State this Saturday then yeah maybe you can start to panic.
The SEC is terrible! The SEC is a lot like many of the Power Five conferences: the top three-to-six teams are good to great and the rest are mediocre to trash. No difference here.
Boise State has clinched the New Year’s Six spot. Uh, no. I will admit the Broncos are a great contender but UCF is still the favourite and I still have Memphis as my choice.
The Pac-12 has no chance at going to the College Football Playoff. Um, Oregon is not the only good team in the Pac-12. Now apologize to Utah and Washington THIS INSTANT!

Alright Week 1 is in the books and it’s time for Week 2’s schedule and yeah, it’s pretty bad. Sorry guys.

Friday

		US	Canada
WIlliam & Mary at Virginia	8:00 PM
Wake Forest at Rice	8:00 PM
Marshall at #24 Boise State	9:00 PM

A huge Group of Five game starts the week as two New Year’s Six contenders clash on the blue turf of Boise. Still got to favour Boise State in this one but you never know as they always struggle at least once year when they shouldn’t. The Deacs are playing Rice in one of those not-so-odd-anymore Power Five at Group of Five games as well. And yes, there is no Thursday college football. Don’t want to compete with opening night in the NFL since no one would watch the college game (I hate to say that but it’s true).

Saturday Early

		US	Canada
Ohio at Pittsburgh	11:00 AM
Cincinnati at #5 Ohio State	Noon
Vanderbilt at Purdue	Noon
UAB at Akron	Noon
#21 Syracuse at Maryland	Noon
West Virginia at Missouri	Noon
Old Dominion at Virginia Tech	Noon
Army at #7 Michigan	Noon
Charleston Southern at South Carolina	Noon
Western Carolina at NC State	12:30 PM

As per usual, a boatload of games in the early timeslot. And yes, one game starts at 11 in the morning. You can thank the ACC Network going with stupid three hour windows in their second week of existence. Ridiculous. So if you are an ACC fan you will miss the first quarter of multiple games almost guaranteed. A few good ones early on with UC-tOSU and Army-UM the two biggest (although the over/under for Cuse-UMD could be seriously high). I am going out on a limb and saying Western Carolina-NC State will appear on the specialty pack although I see nothing yet in any of the guides.

Saturday Afternoon

		US	Canada
USF at Georgia Tech	2:00 PM
#12 Texas A&M at #1 Clemson	3:30 PM
Central Michigan at #17 Wisconsin	3:30 PM
Eastern Illinois at Indiana	3:30 PM
Illinois at UConn	3:30 PM
Southern Miss at Mississippi State	3:30 PM
#25 Nebraska at Colorado	3:30 PM
Grambling at Louisiana Tech	3:30 PM
Murray State at #3 Georgia	4:00 PM
New Mexico State at #2 Alabama	4:00 PM
ULM at Florida State	5:00 PM

One of the games of the year right here in this timeslot. The Aggies will make a massive statement and upset the college football apple cart if they can somehow beat Clemson. Here you see the continuation of the weird ACC Network times. If you are using a PVR this may get frustrating but I know it’s because there are so many ACC non-conference games this week, more than any other week by a country mile. The rest of the games are technically college football games so let’s all hope they are at least close going into the fourth quarter. Also we have the debut of the NFL Network as they will be broadcasting Conference USA games this season. Interesting contract but hey, it could work for the conference as they need some sort of quasi-national audience so they don’t fall behind the rest of the Group of Five conferences.

Saturday Primetime

		US	Canada
#18 UCF at Florida Atlantic	7:00 PM
BYU at Tennessee	7:00 PM
#6 LSU at #9 Texas	7:30 PM
Western Michigan at #19 Michigan State	7:30 PM
Tulane at #10 Auburn	7:30 PM
UT-Martin at #11 Florida	7:30 PM
Buffalo at #15 Penn State	7:30 PM
Eastern Michigan at Kentucky	7:30 PM
Arkansas at Ole Miss	7:30 PM
Miami at North Carolina	8:00 PM

Not exactly stacked but this does contain another potential Game of the Year as LSU travels to Austin to play the Longhorns. Again, don’t need to belabour the point but this could lead to College Football Playoff chatter (along with New Year’s Six chatter). Yes, Miami-UNC could be good considering how the Tar Heels have already looked impressive and Miami…not so much. Also the Cougars of BYU travel to Knoxville to face a team with the most frustrated fanbase in college football. Other than that there are a few decent games and some dreck. Can’t win ’em all.

Saturday Late Night

		US	Canada
Minnesota at Fresno State	10:30 PM
#23 Stanford at USC	10:30 PM

Not much of a late night sked but two pretty good games, at least on paper. Clay Helton better pray his new quarterback, true freshman Kedon Slovis, figures things out quick or Helton’s days may be numbered…and by numbered I mean single digits. The other game should be close as Minnesota looked shitty against South Dakota State and should be better against a good Mountain West team in the Bulldogs.

Games to set your eyeballs on

LSU at Texas (7:30, ABC/TSN2) – This is the only game on TSN this week and it’s the game of the week. Honestly this isn’t a huge deal since there is only one other game that could warrant GOTW status. But we know what happens on weeks like this. Usually absolute chaos and/or some fantastic finishes. Anyway, we have to say that this is a huge game that could shape both teams’ seasons. The winner has a leg up on hopefully getting to the College Football Playoff whereas the loser almost has to look at the New Year’s Six (unless more chaos happens later on in the season).

Texas A&M at Clemson (3:30, ABC) – Survive this game and the Tigers don’t have much to stop them from winning the ACC Atlantic Division. Before I continue, can they either make the divisions make more sense geographically or get rid of divisions altogether? That would be great. Don’t think this will be an easy one for the Dangerous Dabos since TAMU might be improved from last year when they took Clemson to the limit. I still think this would be a monumental upset, though, if the Aggies can pull it out.

Cincinnati at Ohio State (Noon, ABC) – Man, does this ever drop off after the first two. But ABC does have the top three games of the week officially. Time to celebrate? I’d say no. Honestly I can’t see this game being close but it does mark the return of Luke Fickell to Columbus. And now the Bearcats are actually a good team. Still though. I won’t regret putting this game on the list since there isn’t much to pick from.

Army at Michigan (Noon, FOX) – Hey, finally a non-ABC game. Fantastic. I hope FOX really doesn’t care about this week since this is not good as their best game. Saying that, remember what the Black Knights did in Oklahoma last season. They almost pulled off the monumental upset of the Sooners. Now if they can somehow finish things off this year it would do two things: have everyone saying Michigan still sucks and putting Army squarely in the New Year’s Six conversation. Actually there will be a third thing. Jimmy Harbaugh will go back to the hot seat list which he is almost never off of anyway.

Stanford at USC (10:30, specialty pack) – Look, USC is an interesting story so far this season. And now they have lost their starting quarterback for the season and will have to start a true freshman. But this is USC so you know they always have a chance. Plus, the Cardinal didn’t exactly look like world-beaters against Northwestern last week. Don’t be surprised if around 1:30 in the morning, many eyeballs are on this game because it’s close.

Honourable mention: Buffalo at Penn State (7:30, FOX); Syracuse at Maryland (Noon, specialty pack); Marshall at Boise State (Friday, 9:00, specialty pack)

Some gambling fun and games

Like last year at this very same time, I will say that Florida State losing wasn’t a bad pick on my part since they should have won. Picking Oregon was also not a bad pick since that was a great again against Auburn. Other than that I did amazing last week. So let’s get to another week of fantastic (or not fantastic) picks that are straight up and not against the spread:

Boise State over Marshall

Penn State over Buffalo

Texas over LSU (upset pick!)

Clemson over Texas A&M

Michigan over Army

Ohio State over Cincinnati

Syracuse over Maryland

USC over Stanford (another upset pick!)

Tennessee over BYU

Arkansas State over UNLV

Wisconsin over Central Michigan

As of now I see nothing on the guide for the specialty pack. Nothing. I know the games are coming but don’t see them yet. Frustrating. Maybe that will change by the time the games start tomorrow. I wonder if it’s due to nothing on tonight for college football. Who the fuck knows. Either way, the schedule I have above (less the one game on FOX Sports Network) should appear as I have said it will.

The reason no college football tonight? The NFL is back baybee! The opening game for this season (which is the NFL’s 100th season) is the Packers and the Bears. We will get a good idea of if Aaron Rodgers can co-exist with new head coach Matt Lafleur. Also we will get a good idea of Vic Fangio was the reason for the Bears’ success last season. The game is on NBC, CTV2 and all the TSNs except TSNs 2 and 5.

I will be on the Twitter machine again this weekend. I made it to the end last Saturday. I felt very proud of myself. It means I know I’m ready for the season. Now I have to hope a late night game doesn’t go to like five overtimes otherwise I will be a brain-dead idiot on Sunday. Enjoy the games everyone!

Hey it’s that time of the year again! Week 3 College Football TV Schedule

Posted on September 13, 2018 by guelphbossman

It’s hurricane season for the Southern and Southeastern United States. And the East Coast really. So like a good portion of the country. And man do they get hit hard with these storms. The amount of destruction is something most of us have never gone through (thankfully). And it happens every year (for the most part) and always seems to centre in September. At this point I am surprised Bermuda even exists with what hits them on a yearly basis.

Now this isn’t a weather blog. This is a college football blog (OK and an NFL blog as well). So how does Hurricane Florence affect the college football world? Plenty. First of all, we already have a few games being moved up so they can be played earlier and a bunch of games have been cancelled. With a couple of those games scheduled for ESPNU this Saturday this will definitely make things interesting. Which makes it worse for us since, in my experience, the specialty packs really struggle when this happens. It’s like they don’t know what to do anymore because one game has been replaced by a different game (chances are). It boggles my mind how this happens. Don’t even get me started on PVRing games. You might want to be cautioned on that this Saturday. I don’t do that anymore (unless I absolutely have to) so thankfully I won’t have to deal with that mess.

In the end, this is more about people’s safety than anything. College football is secondary and by a wide margin. Now let’s get to the schedule…or at least what I can piece together:

Thursday

		US	Canada
Boston College at Wake Forest	5:30 PM

The scheduling changes start tonight as BC-WF is moved up to 5:30, probably so the Eagles can get the fuck outta there before anything hits (although according to that weather map above, they should be playing in a monsoon by the start of the 4th quarter). TSN2 still showing this game. Good on them for keeping with it with the time change.

Friday

		US	Canada
Georgia State at Memphis	7:00 PM

Memphis is in the western part of Tennessee so they won’t be affected as much or as early as the places east of them by the hurricane. Memphis should win in a walk but wacky things have happened on Friday nights in the past.

Saturday Early

		US	Canada
#5 Oklahoma at Iowa State	Noon
Florida State at Syracuse	Noon
#21 Miami at Toledo	Noon
Hawaii at Army	Noon
Troy at Nebraska	Noon
Temple at Maryland	Noon
Ball State at Indiana	Noon
~~UCF at North Carolina~~	Noon
Georgia Southern at #2 Clemson	Noon
Murray State at Kentucky	Noon
UTEP at Tennessee	Noon
~~East Carolina at #13 Virginia Tech~~	12:30 PM

Here we get to see part of the domino effect of rescheduled and cancelled games. UCF-UNC and ECU-VT have been outright cancelled. No replacement has been named for the ACC Network although it wouldn’t shock me if they put Georgia Tech-Pitt on in this timeslot (since it’s already at 12:30 on a regional FOX Sports Network). Georgia Southern-Clemson was at 3:30 on ESPN2 and has been moved to Noon. Chances are it will end up on ESPNU and thus the specialty pack but nothing is confirmed yet. UPDATE #2: This game is confirmed for ESPNU. OU-ISU is probably the biggest game at Noon (especially if the Cyclones can repeat what they did last year in Norman).

Saturday Afternoon

		US	Canada
Vanderbilt at #8 Notre Dame	2:30 PM
BYU at #6 Wisconsin	3:30 PM
#12 LSU at #7 Auburn	3:30 PM
Lehigh at Navy	3:30 PM
USF vs. Illinois (in Chicago)	3:30 PM
SMU at #19 Michigan	3:30 PM
Miami-OH at Minnesota	3:30 PM
#17 Boise State at #24 Oklahoma State	3:30 PM
~~#14 West Virginia at NC State~~	3:30 PM
Colorado State at Florida	4:00 PM
North Texas at Arkansas	4:00 PM
Houston at Texas Tech	4:30 PM

Possibly a PEW! PEW! PEW! game of the year as Boise State goes to Stillwater to face the Pokes. WVU-NCSU cancelled means ESPNU loses another game due to the hurricane. This is a trend. Tiger Bowl is also huge in this timeslot as the winner joins Mississippi State as the only (probably) real contenders to Alabama. Also, note the different start time for the VU-ND game. Notre Dame football on NBC used to start a lot of their games at 2:30 instead of 3:30. I kind of like it. Especially if it gets to be a competitive game at the end.

UPDATE: I haven’t even finished the post for this week and already have an update. Figured I’d put it here. Ohio vs. Virginia, which has been moved to Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville, will now air at 4:30 on ESPN2 and, presumably, the specialty pack. Fingers crossed this all works out.

Saturday Primetime

		US	Canada
Arkansas State at Tulsa	7:00 PM
#1 Alabama at Ole Miss	7:00 PM
~~Middle Tennessee at #3 Georgia~~	7:15 PM
UMass at FIU	7:30 PM
Missouri at Purdue	7:30 PM
Northern Iowa at Iowa	7:30 PM
Akron at Northwestern	7:30 PM
Louisiana at Mississippi State	7:30 PM
~~Marshall at South Carolina~~	7:30 PM
Oregon State at Nevada	7:00 PM
ULM at Texas A&M	7:30 PM
#4 Ohio State vs. #15 TCU (in Arlington)	8:00 PM
#22 USC at Texas	8:00 PM

Huge primetime game at JerryWorld between the Buckeyes and the Horned Frogs. Final game of Urban Meyer’s way-too-short suspension and will be the biggest test by far in non-conference play. USC goes to Austin to face Texas (are they back yet?) and Bama playing Ole Miss in Oxford are the other two good games in this timeslot. ESPNU gets the clean sweep of cancellations as Marshall-SC has been kiboshed. MTSU-UGA has been moved to Noon and we won’t see it because it will be on ESPNEWS. I know it’s out of order but Oregon State-Nevada has been moved from ESPN3 to ESPNU to replace the Marshall-SC cancellation. Louisiana-Mississippi State has been moved up from the SEC Network to ESPN2. Doesn’t really matter to us since we would see it anyway on the specialty pack.

Saturday Late Night

		US	Canada
#10 Washington at Utah	10:00 PM
#23 Arizona State at San Diego State	10:30 PM

Another of those Power Five team visiting a Group of Five team deals that happens like four or five times a season. The Sun Devils have been WAY better than I or anyone else thought they would be. If they lay an egg at the Murph (or whatever it’s called now) this Saturday then I don’t know what to think anymore. Huskies-Utes could be big in the fact that a Washington loss will make it VERY tough for the Pac-12 to get to the College Football Playoff.

Games to set your eyeballs on

Ohio State vs. TCU (in Arlington) (8:00, ABC) – To all the SEC homers out there, this is the game of the week. I am not sorry for saying that. This is a game that undoubtedly shapes the College Football Playoff whereas the other game may shape the SEC West. Maybe. Anyway, this is one of those neutral-site games that aren’t really netural-site games that I despise. I get it: it’s to sell more tickets. Smart. But to call it neutral-site is ridiculous.

LSU at Auburn (3:30, CBS) – Let’s be honest here: Brad Nessler has not called very many good games since moving to the SEC on CBS to replace Uncle Verne. I think he had two good games last season and that’s it. This should be a good one. Should be. I hope so for his sake since he is, arguably, the best announcer currently on the air today for college football.

Boise State at Oklahoma State (3:30, specialty pack) – The Pokes aren’t the Pokes of old but they still can put up a pile of points. And Boise State is Boise State but better this season. This could easily top 100 points but I would still be a bit shocked if the Cowboys were within two touchdowns of the Broncos at the end.

Oklahoma at Iowa State (Noon, ABC/TSN5) – Remember what happened last season? Of course you remember. Joel Lanning went all Joel Lanning and produced one of the most complete games we’ve ever seen and Kyle Kempt, a former walk-on, started his first game ever and threw for 300+ and 3 scores. It was lightning in a bottle for the Cyclones. Will that happen again? It would be fun to see and give a big boost off the hop to an average (and somewhat haphazard) college football Saturday.

Alabama at Ole Miss (7:00, specialty pack) – To be honest I could have stopped the list at four games. It really drops off after this. This is more of a curiosity game. Ole Miss allowed Southern Illinois to score 41 points on them last week. How many will the Fighting Sabans drop on them this Saturday? The Rebels may have to score like 80 just to have a chance to win.

Honourable mention: BYU at Wisconsin (3:30, ABC); Washington at Utah (10:00, specialty pack); Vanderbilt at Notre Dame (2:30, NBC).

Some gambling fun and games

Some of my original picks were games that no longer will be played. So many changes. Here we go with my (decent at best) gambling picks o’ the week:

Notre Dame over Vanderbilt

Boise State over Oklahoma State

Alabama over Ole Miss

Auburn over LSU

Wisconsin over BYU

Oklahoma over Iowa State

TCU over Ohio State (there’s your quasi-upset of the week)

Stanford over San Diego State

Washington over Utah

San Diego State over Arizona State (another upset perhaps?)

Texas over USC (ok maybe I need my head checked)

The specialty pack schedules were up. With all these changes, though, who knows how it will shake out. Should be interesting for sure. I am looking forward to it but also not looking forward to it (considered I had two updates already before this was even posted).

Hey the Thursday Night Football matchup is on FOX! Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, the broadcast team everyone loves, right? Baltimore travels to Cincinnati. I am sure many people will have HOT TAKES on how shitty FOX does at something they have done for years, but now on a different night. Because everyone cares about everyone’s opinion in 2018. Ugh. Anyway, enjoy the games everyone!

It is now time for the dog’s breakfast portion of our show…

Posted on July 17, 2017 by guelphbossman

Hey, hey! (I say that in my head in Krusty The Clown’s voice). This will be the second year in a row I take a (probably totally inaccurate) stab at the schedules for the SEC Network, Big Ten Network, ACC Network, Notre Dame on NBC, and even the TSN schedules for this college football season. Remember, Bell subscribers (which I am one of) will not get BTN this season. But hey, Rogers customers get the SEC Network games now! Good for them (and good for Rogers for coming to their senses on something that made no sense to begin with). And for the first time ever, I will include the CBS Sports Network schedule as well. I know, I know…you are so excited to hear that (I wanted the “Dripping Sarcasm” font for this part but couldn’t find it). Alright, here we go with Round 1!

As I mentioned above, Rogers subscribers (including other smaller telcos that I tend to forget) now get the games from the SEC Network. Good stuff. Unfortunately you juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust missed hearing Big Game Brent doing less-than-big games on the Ocho (You are looking live at…wait, Sam Houston State? Good lord. Hey Joe, find the ten hottest girls in the crowd so I can ogle them throughout the game alright?). So here we go with the projected schedule since I think not a single game has been confirmed yet:

August 31st	Florida A&M at Arkansas (confirmed)	8:00 PM
September 2nd	Missouri State at Missouri	Noon
September 2nd	Charleston Southern at Mississippi State	4:00 PM
September 9th	Indiana State at Tennessee	Noon
September 9th	Eastern Kentucky at Kentucky	Noon
September 9th	Northern Colorado at Florida	4:00 PM
September 9th	Alabama A&M at Vanderbilt	4:00 PM
September 9th	Chattanooga at LSU	7:30 PM
September 9th	UT-Martin at Ole Miss	7:30 PM
September 16th	Purdue at Missouri	Noon
September 16th	Samford at Georgia	Noon
September 16th	UL-Lafayette at Texas A&M	4:00 PM
September 16th	Mercer at Auburn	4:00 PM
September 16th	Kentucky at South Carolina	7:30 PM
September 23rd	Louisiana Tech at South Carolina	Noon
September 23rd	UMass at Tennessee	4:00 PM
September 23rd	Auburn at Missouri	7:30 PM
September 30th	Eastern Michigan at Kentucky	Noon
September 30th	Troy at LSU	Noon
September 30th	New Mexico State at Arkansas	4:00 PM
September 30th	South Carolina at Texas A&M	7:30 PM
October 7th	Georgia at Vanderbilt	Noon
October 7th	Missouri at Kentucky	4:00 PM
October 7th	Ole Miss at Auburn	7:30 PM
October 14th	Vanderbilt at Ole Miss	Noon
October 14th	Missouri at Georgia	4:00 PM
October 14th	BYU at Mississippi State	7:30 PM
October 21st	LSU at Ole Miss	Noon
October 21st	Idaho at Missouri	7:30 PM
October 28th	Tennessee at Kentucky	Noon
October 28th	Vanderbilt at South Carolina	3:30 PM
October 28th	Mississippi State at Texas A&M	7:15 PM
November 4th	Western Kentucky at Vanderbilt	Noon
November 4th	Coastal Carolina at Arkansas	4:00 PM
November 4th	UMass at Mississippi State	4:00 PM
November 4th	Southern Miss at Tennessee	7:30 PM
November 11th	Tennessee at Missouri	Noon
November 11th	New Mexico at Texas A&M	3:30 PM
November 11th	Kentucky at Vanderbilt	7:30 PM
November 18th	Missouri at Vanderbilt	Noon
November 18th	Mercer at Auburn	Noon
November 18th	ULM at Auburn	4:00 PM
November 18th	Wofford at South Carolina	4:00 PM
November 18th	Mississippi State at Arkansas	7:30 PM
November 18th	UAB at Florida	7:30 PM
November 25th	Louisville at Kentucky	Noon
November 25th	Vanderbilt at Tennessee	3:30 PM
November 25th	Texas A&M at LSU	7:30 PM

OK I lied. As of right now, one game is confirmed. The first three weeks are confirmed in terms of the games that will appear on the SEC Network (and thus, the specialty pack up here). The times are all TBA. And as per usual, September is kind of garbage and then it picks up significantly starting in October with more conference play.

Just like last year, here is my opportunity to ask the stupid CRTC to just offer a package that includes all college football games from as many channels as possible and charge for that. I would gladly pay more than what I am paying now for the U.S. College Sports Package. But alas, they won’t because we don’t get nice things up here (except the health care system which is pretty damn sweet I must say).

Alright so here is the BTN schedule for this season which may or may not be a bit lighter due to the B1G signing up with FOX. Rogers/Eastlink and I assume Shaw customers get this channel. Bell subscribers do not. Oh well. The (alternate) means this will appear on the specialty pack for people who get BTN.

August 31st	Buffalo at Minnesota (confirmed)	7:00 PM
September 2nd	Wyoming at Iowa (confirmed)	Noon
September 2nd	Ball State at Illinois (alternate) (confirmed)	Noon
September 2nd	Nevada at Northwestern (confirmed)	3:30 PM
September 2nd	Arkansas State at Nebraska (confirmed)	8:00 PM
September 9th	Towson at Maryland (alternate) (confirmed)	Noon
September 9th	Florida Atlantic at Wisconsin (confirmed)	Noon
September 9th	Eastern Michigan at Rutgers (alternate) (confirmed)	3:30 PM
September 9th	Western Michigan at Michigan State (confirmed)	3:30 PM
September 16th	Air Force at Michigan (confirmed)	Noon
September 16th	FIU at Indiana (alternate) (confirmed)	3:30 PM
September 16th	Morgan State at Rutgers (alternate) (confirmed)	3:30 PM
September 16th	Middle Tennessee at Minnesota (confirmed)	3:30 PM
September 16th	Bowling Green at Northwestern (confirmed)	7:30 PM
September 16th	Georgia State at Penn State (alternate) (confirmed)	7:30 PM
September 23rd	Rutgers at Nebraska	3:30 PM
September 23rd	UNLV at Ohio State	7:30 PM
September 30th	Ohio State at Rutgers	7:30 PM
October 14th	Purdue at Wisconsin	3:30 PM
October 14th	Rutgers at Illinois	7:30 PM
October 21st	Purdue at Rutgers	Noon
October 21st	Illinois at Minnesota	3:30 PM
November 4th	Maryland vs. Rutgers (in the Bronx)	Noon
November 4th	Illinois at Purdue	3:30 PM
November 4th	Wisconsin at Indiana	7:30 PM
November 11th	Indiana at Illinois	Noon
November 11th	Purdue at Northwestern	3:30 PM
November 11th	Michigan at Maryland	7:30 PM
November 18th	Rutgers at Indiana	Noon
November 18th	Purdue at Iowa	3:30 PM
November 18th	Maryland at Michigan State	8:00 PM
November 25th	Indiana at Purdue	Noon
November 25th	Michigan State at Rutgers	3:30 PM

Just like the SEC Network, the Big Ten Network mandates that every team appear at least once during a season. And also just like the SEC Network the bottom two or three teams appear much more often than the top two or three teams. Makes sense, right? I mean other than Wisconsin at Indiana (at this point), there aren’t any fairly huge games on this network although I think that will change over the course of the season. Besides, do you really want Rutgers on a big-time network more than once or twice this season?

This used to be easy. WSBK out of Boston was pretty much everyone’s go-to for the ACC Network game of the week. Now WNLO out of Buffalo is in the mix as well and we saw this come up when there were two ACC Network games at the same time. This will actually work out so much better when the true ACC Network begins in 2019 (as long as it follows the format of the SEC Network up here in the Great White North). We will just get the games throughout the day on the specialty pack and everyone will be happy (who actually orders the specialty pack).

And this year we have a slight wrinkle early on which may rear its head later on in the season as well (although for now I don’t foresee it). This actually may make it more PVR-friendly to be honest with you. Schedule followed by a couple thoughts:

September 2nd	California at North Carolina (confirmed)	12:30 PM
September 9th	ULM at Florida State (confirmed)	7:00 PM
September 16th	Furman at NC State (confirmed)	12:30 PM
September 23rd	Boston College at Clemson	12:30 PM
September 30th	Rice at Pittsburgh	12:30 PM
October 7th	Pittsburgh at Syracuse	12:30 PM
October 14th	Virginia at North Carolina	12:30 PM
October 21st	Wake Forest at Georgia Tech	12:30 PM
October 28th	Louisville at Wake Forest	12:30 PM
November 4th	Syracuse at Florida State	12:30 PM
November 4th	Georgia Tech at Virginia	12:30 PM
November 11th	Virginia at Louisville	12:30 PM
November 18th	Syracuse at Louisville	12:30 PM
November 25th	Duke at Wake Forest	12:30 PM

Primetime ACC Network game. PRIMETIME ACC NETWORK GAME! Normally this kind of game would go to the regional FOX network and we might get it on the specialty pack in poverty Standard Definition. Instead, this game goes to primetime which is nice and I think it’s almost a test run for primetime games on the brand-new ACC Network in a couple seasons. My guess is that they will go to an SEC Network type schedule then: three games a week (on average). Does this mean no games on ESPNEWS starting then? Wouldn’t surprise me since I can’t see them finding value in more Group of Five games on the family of networks.

I have this feeling one day NBC will add something on weeks when Notre Dame doesn’t play at home or at a neutral site. Notre Dame could still have exclusivity on days they are on NBC but otherwise NBC could expand their portfolio (especially now when everything in the world of college football broadcasting seems to be in flux). Here’s the FULLY CONFIRMED ND on NBC schedule for this season:

September 2nd	Temple at Notre Dame	3:30 PM
September 9th	Georgia at Notre Dame	7:30 PM
October 21st	USC at Notre Dame	7:30 PM
October 28th	NC State at Notre Dame	3:30 PM
November 4th	Wake Forest at Notre Dame	3:30 PM
November 18th	Navy at Notre Dame	3:30 PM

It seems like the norm that two primetime games occur every year for Notre Dame on NBC. I am positive I saw somewhere that it is supposed to be three in a two-year span but I am guessing the two-year spans are not revolving in this case. Also, this season we go back to having a game on NBC Sports Network which we, of course, do not receive. Notre Dame hosts Miami-OH so it’s not like we are missing much there. Plus it’s at the odd time of 5PM. Weird.

Yes the CBS Sports Network schedule for the first time this season! And now that I pay less for the channel itself (like $2/month) it makes sense rather than the $7/month I started paying before (which I hated). So if you love AAC and MWC football (with a sprinkling of MACtion) this is the channel for you. It really has become the de facto Group of Five major network with the sheer amount of games they have. So here we go (this will be a looooooong list):

August 26th	Oregon State at Colorado State (confirmed)	2:30 PM
August 26th	USF at San Jose State (confirmed)	7:30 PM
August 31st	FIU at UCF (confirmed)	6:00 PM
August 31st	ULM at Memphis (confirmed)	9:00 PM
September 1st	Fordham at Army (confirmed)	6:00 PM
September 1st	Boston College at Northern Illinois (confirmed)	9:30 PM
September 2nd	Kentucky at Southern Miss (confirmed)	4:00 PM
September 2nd	Vanderbilt at Middle Tennessee (confirmed)	8:00 PM
September 9th	Buffalo at Army (confirmed)	Noon
September 9th	Tulane at Navy (confirmed)	3:30 PM
September 9th	Mississippi State at Louisiana Tech (confirmed)	7:30 PM
September 16th	Iowa State at Akron (confirmed)	Noon
September 16th	Virginia Tech at East Carolina (confirmed)	3:30 PM
September 16th	Oregon at Wyoming (confirmed)	7:00 PM
September 16th	Stanford at San Diego State (confirmed)	10:30 PM
September 22nd	Florida Atlantic at Buffalo	7:30 PM
September 23rd	Army at Tulane	Noon
September 23rd	Cincinnati at Navy (confirmed)	3:30 PM
September 23rd	San Diego State at Air Force (confirmed)	7:00 PM
September 29th	BYU at Utah State (confirmed)	8:00 PM
September 30th	Akron at Bowling Green	Noon
September 30th	UTEP at Army (confirmed)	3:30 PM
September 30th	Air Force at New Mexico (confirmed)	7:00 PM
September 30th	Northern Illinois at San Diego State (confirmed)	10:30 PM
October 5th	Western Michigan at Buffalo	8:00 PM
October 6th	Fresno State at San Jose State	10:00 PM
October 7th	UCF at Cincinnati	Noon
October 7th	Air Force at Navy (confirmed)	3:30 PM
October 7th	Central Michigan at Ohio	7:00 PM
October 7th	Hawaii at Nevada (confirmed)	10:30 PM
October 13th	Wyoming at Utah State	10:00 PM
October 14th	Eastern Michigan at Army (confirmed)	Noon
October 14th	Toledo at Central Michigan	3:30 PM
October 14th	Navy at Memphis	7:00 PM
October 14th	Boise State at San Diego State (confirmed)	10:30 PM
October 20th	Western Kentucky at Old Dominion	6:00 PM
October 20th	Air Force at Nevada (confirmed)	9:30 PM
October 21st	Temple at Army (confirmed)	Noon
October 21st	UCF at Navy (confirmed)	3:30 PM
October 21st	SMU at Cincinnati	7:00 PM
October 21st	Fresno State at San Diego State (confirmed)	10:30 PM
October 26th	Toledo at Ball State	7:00 PM
October 27th	Tulane at Memphis (confirmed)	8:00 PM
October 28th	Buffalo at Akron (confirmed)	11:30 AM
October 28th	Air Force at Colorado State (confirmed)	3:00 PM
October 28th	Cincinnati at USF	6:30 PM
October 28th	Boise State at Utah State (confirmed)	10:00 PM
November 2nd	Ball State at Eastern Michigan	6:00 PM
November 3rd	Marshall at Florida Atlantic	6:00 PM
November 4th	Houston at USF	Noon
November 4th	Army at Air Force (confirmed)	3:30 PM
November 4th	Colorado State at Wyoming (confirmed)	7:00 PM
November 8th	Kent State at Western Michigan	7:30 PM
November 9th	Ball State at Northern Illinois (confirmed)	7:00 PM
November 11th	Duke at Army (confirmed)	Noon
November 11th	SMU at Navy (confirmed)	3:30 PM
November 11th	UConn at UCF	7:00 PM
November 11th	Boise State at Colorado State (confirmed)	10:30 PM
November 15th	Eastern Michigan at Miami-OH	8:00 PM
November 16th	Buffalo at Ball State (confirmed)	7:00 PM
November 17th	Middle Tennessee at Western Kentucky (confirmed)	8:00 PM
November 18th	UCF at Temple	Noon
November 18th	San Jose State at Colorado State (confirmed)	3:30 PM
November 18th	Boston College vs. UConn (in Fenway Park) (confirmed)	7:00 PM
November 18th	Nevada at San Diego State (confirmed)	10:30 PM
November 24th	Northern Illinois at Central Michigan	Noon
November 24th	New Mexico at San Diego State (confirmed)	3:30 PM
November 25th	USF at UCF	Noon
November 25th	Boise State at Fresno State (confirmed)	3:30 PM
November 25th	BYU at Hawaii (confirmed)	9:00 PM
December 16th	Cure Bowl (confirmed)	2:30 PM
December 29th	Arizona Bowl (confirmed)	5:30 PM

What did I tell you? Such a huge schedule. It’s ESPN-esque! Anyway, you will see gratuitous AAC and Mountain West fare here along with a sprinkling of MAC and Conference USA with NO SUN BELT ANYWHERE. Poor Sun Belt. Also nice is that the majority of the schedule is confirmed. Much different than the SEC Network pile o’ games.

Speaking of long schedules, let me take a crack at the potential TSN schedule. I know I will be wrong. Almost guaranteed. But I will try. That’s what’s important. Right?

None of the games are confirmed yet (although some are confirmed on American networks) and none will be until mid-August when maybe the first week will be set up. Not as bad as the specialty packs (which still amazes me…it can’t be that difficult to do schedules for those) but still bad. So here we go and let’s get on with the carnage!

DATE	GAME	TIME	TSN NETWORK	US NETWORK
September 2nd	Kent State at Clemson	Noon	TSN1	ESPN
September 2nd	Florida vs. Michigan (in Arlington)	3:30 PM	TSN2	ABC
September 2nd	Alabama vs. Florida State (in Atlanta)	8:00 PM	TSN2	ABC
September 2nd	BYU vs. LSU (in Houston)	9:30 PM	TSN1	ESPN
September 9th	Louisville at North Carolina	Noon	TSN3	ABC
September 9th	Cincinnati at Michigan	Noon	TSN4	ESPN
September 9th	Utah at BYU	10:15 PM	TSN1	ESPN2
September 9th	Boise State at Washington State	10:30 PM	TSN3	ESPN
September 16th	Oklahoma State at Pittsburgh	Noon	TSN2	ABC
September 21st	Temple at USF	8:00 PM	TSN2	ESPN
September 23rd	Alabama at Vanderbilt	Noon	TSN3	ESPN
September 23rd	Mississippi State at Georgia	Noon	TSN2	ESPN2
September 23rd	Louisiana Tech at South Carolina	Noon	TSN4/TSN5	SEC Network
September 30th	Florida State at Wake Forest	Noon	TSN4	ESPN
September 30th	Syracuse at NC State	Noon	TSN3	ESPN2
October 4th	Arkansas State at Georgia Southern	8:00 PM	TSN3	ESPN2
October 5th	Louisville at NC State	8:00 PM	TSN2	ESPN
October 7th	Notre Dame at North Carolina	Noon	TSN5	ABC
October 7th	Penn State at Northwestern	Noon	TSN3	ESPN
October 7th	Illinois at Iowa	Noon	TSN4	ESPN2
October 7th	LSU at Florida	7:00 PM	TSN1/TSN5	ESPN
October 14th	NC State at Pittsburgh	Noon	TSN5	ABC
October 14th	Oklahoma vs. Texas (in Dallas)	Noon	TSN3	ESPN
October 14th	Michigan State at Minnesota	Noon	TSN1	ESPN2
October 19th	Memphis at Houston	8:00 PM	TSN3/TSN5	ESPN
October 21st	Louisville at Florida State	Noon	TSN4	ABC
October 21st	Indiana at Michigan State	Noon	TSN1	ESPN
October 21st	USF at Tulane	Noon	TSN2	ESPN2
October 28th	Georgia Tech at Clemson	Noon	TSN4	ABC/ESPN2
October 28th	Wisconsin at Illinois	Noon	TSN2	ESPN
November 9th	North Carolina at Pittsburgh	8:00 PM	TSN2	ESPN
November 10th	Temple at Cincinnati	7:00 PM	TSN2	ESPN2
November 11th	West Virginia at Kansas State	Noon	TSN3	ABC/ESPN2
November 11th	Rutgers at Penn State	Noon	TSN1	ABC/ESPN2
November 11th	Alabama at Mississippi State	Noon	TSN4	ESPN
November 11th	UL-Lafayette at Ole Miss	Noon	TSN2	ESPNU
November 11th	Florida State at Clemson	3:30 PM	TSN1	ABC
November 11th	Iowa at Wisconsin	3:30 PM	TSN4	ESPN
November 11th	Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech	3:30 PM	TSN3	ESPN2
November 14th	Ohio at Akron	7:00 PM	TSN3	ESPN2
November 17th	UNLV at New Mexico	9:30 PM	TSN2	ESPN2
November 18th	Virginia at Miami	Noon	TSN3	ESPN
November 18th	California at Stanford	3:30 PM	TSN3	ESPN
November 18th	NC State at Wake Forest	7:00 PM	TSN2	ESPN
November 18th	UCLA at USC	10:30 PM	TSN2	ESPN
November 23rd	Ole Miss at Mississippi State	7:30 PM	TSN1/TSN3/TSN4	ESPN
November 24th	Miami at Pittsburgh	11:00 AM	TSN1	ESPN2
November 24th	West Virginia at Oklahoma	3:30 PM	TSN5	ABC
November 24th	Boston College at Syracuse	3:30 PM	TSN1	ESPN2
November 24th	Notre Dame at Stanford	8:00 PM	TSN1	ESPN
November 25th	Penn State at Maryland	Noon	TSN1	ABC
November 25th	Clemson at South Carolina	Noon	TSN5	ESPN
November 25th	Washington State at Washington	3:30 PM	TSN1	ABC
November 25th	Wisconsin at Minnesota	3:30 PM	TSN5	ESPN
November 25th	North Carolina at NC State	3:30 PM	TSN2	ESPN2
November 25th	UTSA at Louisiana Tech	7:00 PM	TSN2	ESPN2
November 25th	Florida State at Florida	7:30 PM	TSN5	ESPN
November 25th	Georgia at Georgia Tech	8:00 PM	TSN4	ABC
December 2nd	AAC Championship Game	Noon	TSN4	ABC
December 2nd	Conference USA Championship Game	Noon	TSN1	ESPN
December 16th	New Orleans Bowl	1:00 PM	TSN2	ESPN
December 16th	New Mexico Bowl	4:30 PM	TSN2	ESPN
December 16th	Camellia Bowl	8:00 PM	TSN2	ESPN
December 19th	Boca Raton Bowl	7:00 PM	TSN2	ESPN
December 22nd	Bahamas Bowl	12:30 PM	TSN4/TSN5	ESPN
December 22nd	Idaho Potato Bowl	4:00 PM	TSN4/TSN5	ESPN
December 23rd	Dollar General Bowl	7:00 PM	TSN2	ESPN
December 26th	Cactus Bowl	9:00 PM	TSN3	ESPN
December 27th	Independence Bowl	1:30 PM	TSN2	ESPN
December 27th	Pinstripe Bowl	5:15 PM	TSN2	ESPN
December 27th	Texas Bowl	9:00 PM	TSN2	ESPN
December 28th	Camping World Bowl	5:15 PM	TSN2	ESPN
December 28th	Alamo Bowl	9:00 PM	TSN2	ESPN
December 29th	Cotton Bowl	8:30 PM	TSN3/TSN5	ESPN
December 30th	TaxSlayer Bowl	Noon	TSN4/TSN5	ESPN
December 30th	Fiesta Bowl	4:00 PM	TSN1/TSN5	ESPN
December 30th	Orange Bowl	8:00 PM	TSN5	ESPN
January 1st	Outback Bowl	Noon	TSN2	ESPN2
January 1st	Peach Bowl	12:30 PM	TSN1/TSN4/TSN5	ESPN
January 1st	Rose Bowl (CFP Semi-Final)	5:00 PM	TSN1/TSN4/TSN5	ESPN
January 1st	Sugar Bowl (CFP Semi-Final)	8:45 PM	TSN1/TSN4/TSN5	ESPN
January 8th	National Championship Game	8:00 PM	TSN1/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5	ESPN

Good lord that’s a long list. That’s not a bad thing and I am not complaining. I will say that many of these will be slightly incorrect where I chose the wrong TSN network or something like that. I only have one SEC Network and one ESPNU game being broadcast by TSN and it wouldn’t surprise me if that was one too many for both.

Finally done. This took way too long to do but it’s getting me organized and giving you a glimpse of what you may be looking at this late Summer, Fall, and very early Winter. We are now exactly 40 days away from the start of the college football season and I am way behind on my posts. Coming up it’s prediction posts and then some other tidbits about the season. It’s right around the corner. Finally!

Our long national nightmare is over. College football is back BAYBEE!!!! And here’s your Week 1 Schedule!

Posted on August 31, 2016 by guelphbossman

Longest…seven…and a half…months…EVER.

We’re back fans. We’ve made it. We’ve survived. I mean technically the 2016 college football season started this past Friday night. But really, that game kind of sucked. And the commentary was atrocious. That game should be the first red flag to ESPN to tell them that Allen Bestwick is not even close to a decent replacement for either Sean McDonough or Brad Nessler. The fact that Steve Levy is the best replacement that the four-letter network named says a lot about what is happening at ESPN past the top four or five commentary teams. Oh well, at least the FCS Kickoff game Saturday night was a fantastic one to watch. If you could get it. Sounds like Rogers customers had issues with both games. Ah, college football season…where cable companies in Canada tell you go to fist yourself if you don’t like their mediocre attempt to give you what you are paying for.

So I have decided to go with a little different format this season. Hoping this will be a little more organized, especially for you visual people. Here we go!

Thursday

			ROGERS	FIBE	SAT
Indiana at FIU	7:30 PM	SP	X	X	X
Appalachian State at #9 Tennessee	7:30 PM	SP		X	X
Rice at Western Kentucky	8:00 PM	CBSSN	X	X
South Carolina at Vanderbilt	8:00 PM	SP	X	X	X
Oregon State at Minnesota	9:00 PM	BTN	X

Nothing THAT special tonight but it is technically opening night. OK last Friday’s Outback Showdown (or whatever it was called) was the real opening night but whatever. ESPN obviously doesn’t care since they have told anyone who will listen that it starts SATURDAY! But it’s football so I will watch with glee. I am actually looking forward to seeing if Appalachian State can give the Vols a game.

Friday

			ROGERS	FIBE	SAT
Furman at #12 Michigan State	7:00 PM	BTN	X
Army at Temple	7:00 PM	CBSSN	X	X
Colorado vs. Colorado State (in Denver)	8:00 PM	SP	X	X	X
Toledo at Arkansas State	9:00 PM	SP	X	X	X

OK even less than Thursday but again, it’s still football. Toledo-Arkansas State is a great Group of Five matchup. I would argue that they should have got the main network spot and the Rocky Mountain Showdown should have been relegated to ESPNU. Doesn’t matter to us since it’s all in the same cluster of channels.

UPDATE: Thanks to reader Dan’s message, I can tell you that Toledo-ASU is no longer on TSN networks. I can’t see any evidence that it is on the specialty packs…yet. It should show there since it is an ESPNU game but we have seen stranger things before.

UPDATE #2: I have found Toledo-ASU on SD on both Fibe and Satellite. Nothing on Rogers yet but that’s not surprising. Should show up on HD on all three soon enough.

UPDATE #3: OK it looks like it is SD everywhere but I can’t see it showing up in HD on any provider. Hopefully that changes. It should. I can’t see a reason why it wouldn’t. But remember who we’re talking about here.

UPDATE #4: Um, Peachtree TV is showing Ball State-Georgia State right now. Talk about out of the blue…Ah, that makes a bit more sense. It’s an ASN broadcast. We get them on MyTV in this area but it would be games close to the Buffalo area. So for Peachtree they will get ASN games close to Atlanta. Looks like we will have this all year as next week’s South Alabama-Georgia Southern is on Peachtree (as of right now).

UPDATE #5: Well, Toledo-ASU actually did end up only on SD as far as I can tell. Someone dropped the ball. And let it roll away.

Saturday Early Afternoon

			ROGERS	FIBE	SAT
Boston College vs. Georgia Tech (in Dublin)	7:30 AM	TSN1	X	X	X
#15 Houston vs. #3 Oklahoma (in NRG Stadium)	12:00 PM	ABC	X	X	X
Bowling Green at #6 Ohio State	12:00 PM	BTN	X
Howard at Maryland	12:00 PM	SP	X
Fordham at Navy	12:00 PM	CBSSN	X	X
Hawaii at #7 Michigan	12:00 PM	TSN2	X	X	X
Western Michigan at Northwestern	12:00 PM	SP	X	X	X
South Alabama at Mississippi State	12:00 PM	SP		X	X
Liberty at Virginia Tech	12:30 PM	WSBK/SP	X	X	X

Yes I know 7:30 in the morning isn’t early afternoon but I figured I would stick it here since I wasn’t going to give Georgia Tech-Boston College it’s own timeslot section. No way.

So this is where the REAL games start. Houston-Oklahoma is the first game of the season that has College Football Playoff implications. As of right now, the game in Ireland and the Hawaii-Michigan game appear on the Super Sports Pack guide but I am guessing that will be removed since both games are on one of the TSN Five.

UPDATE #6: As I figured, Hawaii-Michigan and the current ACC affair across the pond are only on TSN now.

Saturday Mid-Afternoon

			ROGERS	FIBE	SAT
#5 LSU vs. Wisconsin (in Green Bay)	3:30 PM	ABC/TSN2	X	X	X
Gardner-Webb at Elon	3:30 PM	MyTV	X	X
Kent State at Penn State	3:30 PM	BTN	X
Murray State at Illinois	3:30 PM	SP	X
#16 UCLA at Texas A&M	3:30 PM	CBS	X	X	X
Texas State at Ohio	3:30 PM	CBSSN	X	X
Miami-OH at #17 Iowa	3:30 PM	SP	X	X	X
Louisiana Tech at Arkansas	4:00 PM	SP		X	X
New Mexico State at UTEP	5:30 PM	beIn	X	X	X
#18 Georgia vs. #22 North Carolina (in Atlanta)	5:30 PM	SP	X	X	X

Now we are getting into the meat of the schedule. LSU-Wisky in the not so Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field is another of those CFP-esque games. Wisconsin probably won’t contend but an upset turns college football upside down (and destroys my national championship prediction). Also UGA-UNC is a game between underrated contenders and UCLA-TAMU is underrated period. That should be a good one. I am glad to see CBS gets college football all year now thanks to the U.S. Open going to ESPN.

Saturday Primetime

			ROGERS	FIBE	SAT
San Jose State at Tulsa	7:00 PM	CBSSN	X	X
East Tennessee State at Kennesaw State	7:00 PM	Peachtree	X	X	X
Southern Miss at Kentucky	7:30 PM	SP	X	X	X
UMass at #25 Florida	7:30 PM	SP		X	X
#1 Alabama vs. #20 USC (in Arlington)	8:00 PM	ABC/TSN2	X	X	X
Fresno State at Nebraska	8:00 PM	BTN	X
#2 Clemson at Auburn	9:00 PM	TSN1	X	X	X
Northern Illinois at Wyoming	10:30 PM	CBSSN	X	X

This is why this Saturday is the best opening weekend lineup (arguably) in college football history. Bama-USC is the kind of mega-matchup that is worth the hype (despite the fact I don’t see USC as a true contender this year). We also get Clemson-Auburn at a special 9:00 start time. Fantastic stuff.

Sunday

			ROGERS	FIBE	SAT
Alcorn State at Bethune-Cookman	1:00 PM	SP	X	X	X
Texas Southern at Prairie View A&M	6:00 PM	SP	X	X	X
#10 Notre Dame at Texas	7:30 PM	ABC/TSN3	X	X	X

Notre Dame-Texas could be good. COULD be. Or it could be like last year’s debacle. ABC is sincerely hoping it’s the former since this is the only time ABC has EVER shown a game on Labour Day Sunday. If it bombs we may not see it next year…oh who are we kidding. We should be surprised if there isn’t a tripleheader next Labour Day Sunday.

Monday

			ROGERS	FIBE	SAT
#4 Florida State vs. #11 Ole Miss (in Orlando)	8:00 PM	SP	X	X	X

Wow there is a lot of football spread out over a lot of days. And I am not complaining. Let’s just hope that there are no issues like last year’s shitshow with the tOSU-VT game. TSN had it, then they put the FIBA tournament on, so it should have gone to the specialty pack. But for some reason it didn’t show up there. My guess is because of TSN’s late schedule change (it happened Sunday night), they couldn’t put the game on the specialty pack. Still makes no sense. Lucky for us it was a shitty game and we didn’t miss much. But again, when you pay for a service, you should expect to get that service. Period. End of story. End of rant.

So there you go. A shit-ton of football starting tomorrow night. I will be live-tweeting all Saturday so who knows what vile concoction of food and beverage will enter my belly that day (and night). I am hoping to also live-tweet the other days but we shall see. Saturday is the main event so that’s all that matters really. Remember, it’s @LikeABauce1978 if you want to catch me on the Twitter machine.

At some point I have to start mentally preparing myself for this. I tend to watch football late into the night, get less sleep than I do the other seven-and-a-half months of the year, and sometimes eat less than stellar food (health-wise at least). So if I had a personal trainer, he or she would probably go insane trying to deal with this. Ah, the life of a college football fan. I am sure it’s similar for other hardcore sports fans. At least that’s what I tell myself. Enjoy the games!

And here come the pretzels!

Posted on July 5, 2016 by guelphbossman

I mean the rest of the TV schedules. For the very first time I am going to do schedules for the SEC Network (for Bell subscribers), the Big Ten Network (for Rogers subscribers), the ACC Network (which appears on WSBK out of Boston for most of us), and even a stab at the TSN schedule (which should be way off but I digress). I’ll also include the NBC Notre Dame schedule. I’m not putting in CBS Sports Network or any games on MyTV from ASN. I don’t think I would even come close with those schedules.

Let’s begin with our friends (and I use that term loosely) at the SEC Network. A reminder that almost all SEC Network games are on the specialty pack for Bell customers (and a few others). In the past, a game or two has somehow crept its way onto one of the TSN networks. I don’t foresee that happening this season but you never know. So here is your SEC Network schedule (from what I see so far) (*denotes game and time has been set):

September-01-16	Appalachian State at Tennessee*	7:30 PM
September-03-16	South Alabama at Mississippi State*	12:00 PM
September-03-16	Louisiana Tech at Arkansas*	4:00 PM
September-03-16	Massachusetts at Florida*	7:30 PM
September-10-16	Prairie View A&M at Texas A&M*	12:00 PM
September-10-16	Nicholls State at Georgia*	12:00 PM
September-10-16	Wofford at Ole Miss*	4:00 PM
September-10-16	Middle Tennessee at Vanderbilt*	4:00 PM
September-10-16	Eastern Michigan at Missouri*	7:30 PM
September-10-16	Arkansas State at Auburn*	7:30 PM
September-17-16	Ohio at Tennessee*	12:00 PM
September-17-16	New Mexico State at Kentucky*	4:00 PM
September-17-16	East Carolina at South Carolina*	4:00 PM
September-17-16	Texas State at Arkansas*	7:30 PM
September-17-16	Georgia at Missouri*	7:30 PM
September-24-16	Delaware State at Missouri	12:00 PM
September-24-16	South Carolina at Kentucky	4:00 PM
September-24-16	Kent State at Alabama	7:30 PM
October-01-16	Florida at Vanderbilt	12:00 PM
October-01-16	Memphis at Ole Miss	4:00 PM
October-01-16	ULM at Auburn	7:30 PM
October-01-16	Alcorn State at Arkansas	7:30 PM
October-08-16	Georgia at South Carolina	12:00 PM
October-08-16	Tennessee at Texas A&M	4:00 PM
October-08-16	Vanderbilt at Kentucky	7:30 PM
October-15-16	Missouri at Florida	12:00 PM
October-15-16	Vanderbilt at Georgia	4:00 PM
October-15-16	Southern Miss at LSU	7:30 PM
October-22-16	Middle Tennessee at Missouri	12:00 PM
October-22-16	Massachusetts at South Carolina	4:00 PM
October-22-16	Tennessee State at Vanderbilt	7:30 PM
October-29-16	Tennessee at South Carolina	12:00 PM
October-29-16	Kentucky at Missouri	4:00 PM
October-29-16	New Mexico State at Texas A&M	7:30 PM
October-29-16	Samford at Mississippi State	7:30 PM
November-05-16	Missouri at South Carolina	12:00 PM
November-05-16	Tennessee Tech at Tennessee	12:00 PM
November-05-16	Vanderbilt at Auburn	4:00 PM
November-05-16	Texas A&M at Mississippi State	7:30 PM
November-12-16	Kentucky at Tennessee	12:00 PM
November-12-16	Vanderbilt at Missouri	4:00 PM
November-12-16	South Carolina at Florida	7:30 PM
November-19-16	South Alabama at LSU	12:00 PM
November-19-16	Austin Peay at Kentucky	12:00 PM
November-19-16	UTSA at Texas A&M	4:00 PM
November-19-16	Chattanooga at Alabama	4:00 PM
November-19-16	Alabama A&M at Auburn	7:30 PM
November-19-16	Presbyterian at Florida	7:30 PM
November-26-16	Tennessee at Vanderbilt	12:00 PM
November-26-16	Georgia Tech at Georgia	4:00 PM

The first three weeks are littered with alternate games and crappy non-conference schedules. It makes you wonder why you wanted these games in the first place. Then it picks up big time and other than that one Saturday in November (that we should never speak of), it’s a pretty good schedule the rest of the way.

You know, I wish we could just get all the FBS games we wanted and be able to pay a premium for it. Right now it’s $100 for the U.S. College Sports Package through Bell for the year. I would easily pay $150 if not a bit more if I was assured to get, at the very least, all Power Five conference games. But as for now we have the CRTC running the show. One of the C’s has to stand for Communists. Anyway…

Here’s the BTN schedule for you Rogers/Eastlink customers. Asterisks denote games that are set. Alternate BTN games (which would end up on the Super Sports Pack) are denoted by (alt):

September-01-16	Oregon State at Minnesota*	9:00 PM
September-02-16	Furman at Michigan State*	7:00 PM
September-03-16	Bowling Green at Ohio State*	12:00 PM
September-03-16	Howard at Maryland*(alt)	12:00 PM
September-03-16	Kent State at Penn State*	3:30 PM
September-03-16	Murray State at Illinois*(alt)	3:30 PM
September-03-16	Fresno State at Nebraska*	8:00 PM
September-10-16	Cincinnati at Purdue*	12:00 PM
September-10-16	Howard at Rutgers*(alt)	12:00 PM
September-10-16	Akron at Wisconsin*	3:30 PM
September-10-16	Illinois State at Northwestern*(alt)	3:30 PM
September-10-16	Iowa State at Iowa*(alt)	7:30 PM
September-10-16	North Carolina at Illinois*	7:30 PM
September-17-16	Temple at Penn State*	12:00 PM
September-17-16	Georgia State at Wisconsin*(alt)	12:00 PM
September-17-16	Colorado at Michigan*	3:30 PM
September-17-16	Duke at Northwestern*	8:00 PM
September-24-16	Nevada at Purdue	12:00 PM
September-24-16	Wake Forest at Indiana	4:00 PM
September-24-16	Nebraska at Northwestern*	7:30 PM
October-01-16	Wisconsin at Michigan	12:00 PM
October-01-16	Minnesota at Penn State	4:00 PM
October-01-16	Michigan State at Indiana*	8:00 PM
October-08-16	BYU at Michigan State	12:00 PM
October-08-16	Iowa at Minnesota	3:30 PM
October-08-16	Purdue at Illinois	8:00 PM
October-15-16	Illinois at Rutgers	12:00 PM
October-15-16	Minnesota at Maryland	3:30 PM
October-22-16	Purdue at Nebraska	12:00 PM
October-22-16	Wisconsin at Iowa	3:30 PM
October-22-16	Michigan State at Maryland*	7:30 PM
October-29-16	Maryland at Indiana	12:00 PM
October-29-16	Penn State at Purdue	3:30 PM
November-05-16	Indiana at Rutgers	12:00 PM
November-05-16	Purdue at Minnesota(alt)	3:30 PM
November-05-16	Michigan State at Illinois	3:30 PM
November-05-16	Iowa at Penn State*	7:30 PM
November-12-16	Ohio State at Maryland	12:00 PM
November-12-16	Rutgers at Michigan State	3:30 PM
November-12-16	Minnesota at Nebraska*	7:30 PM
November-19-16	Wisconsin at Purdue	12:00 PM
November-19-16	Maryland at Nebraska	3:30 PM
November-19-16	Penn State at Rutgers*	8:00 PM
November-26-16	Purdue at Indiana(alt)	12:00 PM
November-26-16	Illinois at Northwestern	12:00 PM
November-26-16	Rutgers at Maryland	3:30 PM

All the teams will appear at least once on BTN, exactly like the SEC Network. And also like SECN, the schools on the bottom rungs appear more often than the better schools. For example, I have Rutgers appearing six times on BTN, whereas I have tOSU only appearing twice. Again, a lot has to do with how good a program is this season. Plus, it seems like BTN is showing a few more games this season (quite a bit more games with alternates) so more teams have to appear more times.

I don’t know if WSBK is now MyTV out of Boston or not now. But it’s out of Boston which makes sense since Boston College is in the ACC. It will be very interesting to see if they somehow come out with a true ACC Network (like the SEC Network or BTN), if it would change this schedule. My guess is, from history, that it definitely would.

But for now, we have the normal 12:30 start time which is great when you are watching games live. But when you’re not it sucks because you can never PVR it. So here is the schedule. You know the deal with the asterisks:

September-03-16	Liberty at Virginia Tech*	12:30 PM
September-10-16	Troy at Clemson*	12:30 PM
September-17-16	Vanderbilt at Georgia Tech*	12:30 PM
September-24-16	East Carolina at Virginia Tech	12:30 PM
October-01-16	Louisville at Clemson	12:30 PM
October-08-16	Virginia Tech at North Carolina	12:30 PM
October-15-16	Virginia Tech at Syracuse	12:30 PM
October-22-16	Syracuse at Boston College	12:30 PM
October-29-16	Army at Wake Forest	12:30 PM
November-05-16	Louisville at Boston College	12:30 PM
November-05-16	Georgia Tech at North Carolina	12:30 PM
November-12-16	Miami at Virginia	12:30 PM
November-19-16	Clemson at Wake Forest	12:30 PM
November-19-16	Florida State at Syracuse	12:30 PM
November-26-16	Kentucky at Louisville	12:30 PM

I do think there will be a couple of high quality games on the ACC Network this season, including Louisville at Clemson. More of the conference networks are trying to get at least one or two good games a season. Probably to justify their existence.

So basically the Notre Dame home game/neutral site schedule. Except for the game against Navy in Jacksonville. Here it is:

September-10-16	Nevada at Notre Dame*	3:30 PM
September-17-16	Michigan State at Notre Dame*	7:30 PM
September-24-16	Duke at Notre Dame*	3:30 PM
October-15-16	Stanford at Notre Dame*	7:30 PM
October-29-16	Miami at Notre Dame*	3:30 PM
November-12-16	Army vs. Notre Dame (in San Antonio)*	3:30 PM
November-19-16	Virginia Tech at Notre Dame*	3:30 PM

I have two primetime games in here. Don’t know if that is allowed under the current contract or not. Also I have put no games on NBCSN. Who knows whether one will be moved there or not since last year’s game against Boston College at Fenway was moved there interestingly enough.

This is a bit of a long schedule and very much a crapshoot. I am basing this on last year’s broadcasted games since TSN really increased their college football schedule from the previous year (all due to Rogers’ insane NHL contract).

Now with issues surrounding simsubbing (I will be honest and I say I do not know whether these are already enforced or not), many of the games already appearing on ABC may be removed from the schedule altogether or replaced with other games from the ESPN family of networks. This could have a trickle-down effect to the specialty packs which may a) make it less valuable to have if the cost to the consumer is the same and/or b) make it so including new networks (i.e. FOX Sports One or Pac-12 Network) has to be considered by Rogers and Bell.

Alright here is the schedule. The asterisked games are games that are already appearing on ABC. There are no games set on the TSN networks as this is almost always done on a week-by-week basis:

September-03-16	LSU vs. Wisconsin (in Green Bay)*	3:30 PM	TSN3
September-10-16	UCF at Michigan*	12:00 PM	TSN4
September-15-16	Houston at Cincinnati	7:30 PM	TSN3/TSN5
September-16-16	Baylor at Rice	8:00 PM	TSN2
September-17-16	Florida State at Louisville*	12:00 PM	TSN5
September-22-16	Clemson at Georgia Tech	7:30 PM	TSN2
September-24-16	Penn State at Michigan*	12:00 PM	TSN3
September-24-16	Pittsburgh at North Carolina	12:00 PM	TSN1
October-01-16	Rutgers at Ohio State*	12:00 PM	TSN1
October-01-16	Baylor at Iowa State	12:00 PM	TSN3
October-01-16	Utah State at Boise State	10:15 PM	TSN2
October-08-16	Maryland at Penn State*	12:00 PM	TSN5
October-08-16	Iowa State at Oklahoma State	12:00 PM	TSN3
October-08-16	Indiana at Ohio State	12:00 PM	TSN2
October-08-16	Alabama at Arkansas	3:30 PM	TSN2
October-13-16	Navy at East Carolina	7:30 PM	TSN1/TSN4
October-13-16	UCLA at Washington State	10:30 PM	TSN1/TSN4
October-15-16	Iowa at Purdue*	12:00 PM	TSN3
October-15-16	Kansas State at Oklahoma	12:00 PM	TSN2
October-15-16	Northwestern at Michigan State*	3:30 PM	TSN3
October-29-16	Northwestern at Ohio State	5:30 PM	TSN2
November-01-16	Bowling Green at Northern Illinois	8:00 PM	TSN4
November-03-16	Oklahoma at Iowa State	7:30 PM	TSN2
November-05-16	Virginia Tech at Duke*	12:00 PM	TSN4/TSN5
November-05-16	Georgia at Kentucky	12:00 PM	TSN1
November-05-16	Maryland at Michigan	12:00 PM	TSN3
November-08-16	Eastern Michigan at Ball State	7:30 PM	TSN1
November-12-16	Penn State at Indiana*	12:00 PM	TSN4
November-12-16	Ole Miss at Texas A&M	12:00 PM	TSN1
November-12-16	Pittsburgh at Clemson	12:00 PM	TSN2
November-12-16	Northwestern at Purdue	12:00 PM	TSN3
November-12-16	Illinois at Wisconsin*	3:30 PM	TSN4
November-12-16	Texas Tech at Oklahoma State	3:30 PM	TSN1
November-12-16	Baylor at Oklahoma	3:30 PM	TSN2
November-12-16	LSU at Arkansas	7:15 PM	TSN1/TSN4
November-12-16	California at Washington State	10:45 PM	TSN1
November-15-16	Ohio at Central Michigan	6:00 PM	TSN3/TSN5
November-17-16	Louisville at Houston	8:00 PM	TSN2
November-19-16	Indiana at Michigan*	12:00 PM	TSN4
November-19-16	Northwestern at Minnesota	12:00 PM	TSN2
November-19-16	Ohio State at Michigan State*	3:30 PM	TSN4
November-19-16	Duke at Pittsburgh	3:30 PM	TSN2
November-19-16	Missouri at Tennessee	7:00 PM	TSN4
November-19-16	USC at UCLA*	8:00 PM	TSN3
November-24-16	LSU at Texas A&M	7:30 PM	TSN5
November-25-16	NC State at North Carolina*	12:00 PM	TSN2
November-25-16	Baylor at Texas Tech (in Arlington)	6:00 PM	TSN1/TSN3/TSN5
November-26-16	Michigan at Ohio State*	12:00 PM	TSN4
November-26-16	South Carolina at Clemson	12:00 PM	TSN5
November-26-16	Duke at Miami	12:00 PM	TSN1
November-26-16	Michigan State at Penn State	3:30 PM	TSN5
November-26-16	UCF at USF	3:30 PM	TSN4
November-26-16	Navy at SMU	7:15 PM	TSN5
November-26-16	Mississippi State at Ole Miss	7:30 PM	TSN3
November-26-16	Notre Dame at USC*	8:00 PM	TSN1
December-03-16	AAC Championship Game*	12:00 PM	TSN4
December-03-16	Conference USA Championship Game	12:00 PM	TSN1
December-17-16	New Mexico Bowl	2:00 PM	TSN2
December-17-16	Camellia Bowl	5:30 PM	TSN2
December-17-16	New Orleans Bowl	9:00 PM	TSN2
December-20-16	Boca Raton Bowl	7:00 PM	TSN2
December-21-16	Poinsettia Bowl	9:00 PM	TSN2
December-22-16	Idaho Potato Bowl	7:00 PM	TSN2
December-22-16	Foster Farms Bowl	10:30 PM	TSN2
December-23-16	Bahamas Bowl	1:00 PM	TSN4/TSN5
December-23-16	GoDaddy Bowl	8:00 PM	TSN2
December-26-16	Independence Bowl	5:00 PM	TSN2
December-27-16	Holiday Bowl	7:00 PM	TSN1/TSN3
December-27-16	Cactus Bowl	10:15 PM	TSN1
December-28-16	Russell Athletic Bowl	5:30 PM	TSN2
December-28-16	Texas Bowl	9:00 PM	TSN2
December-29-16	Alamo Bowl	9:00 PM	TSN4
December-30-16	Liberty Bowl	12:00 PM	TSN4
December-30-16	Orange Bowl	8:00 PM	TSN1/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5
December-31-16	TaxSlayer Bowl	11:00 AM	TSN4/TSN5
December-31-16	Peach Bowl	3:00 PM	TSN1/TSN4/TSN5
December-31-16	Fiesta Bowl	7:00 PM	TSN1/TSN4/TSN5
January-02-17	Outback Bowl*	1:00 PM	TSN2
January-02-17	Cotton Bowl	1:00 PM	TSN1/TSN3
January-02-17	Rose Bowl	5:00 PM	TSN2
January-02-17	Sugar Bowl	8:30 PM	TSN2
January-09-17	National Championship Game	8:30 PM	TSN1/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5

I would say the majority of the Noon ABC games have been on TSN in the past, especially last season. That could all change with new CRTC simsubbing rules. So what I can say is this: the amount of games, including the amount of bowl games, being shown on TSN overall is probably pretty close to correct. The actual games could be very wrong though (and probably will be).

Alright, done. No more schedule stuff until mid-August at the earliest. Now it’s prediction time which will take up all of the next month or so. It’s getting close guys. Now that Cal-Hawaii has been slated for an ESPN network, this means the start of the season is 52 days away! I can feel it!!!!!

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