College Football: No. 5 Notre Dame at No. 2 Florida State Highlights Three Matchups between Ranked Teams
ESPN’s college football game schedule for Saturday, Oct. 18, will include three matchups between ranked teams, highlighted by the Saturday Night Football telecast pitting unbeatens No. 5 Notre Dame at No. 2 Florida State at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. Overall, ESPN platforms will televise games involving 11 of the top 24 ranked teams and three of the remaining six undefeated.
ESPN’s lineup of four games on Saturday will begin with No. 14 Kansas State at No. 11 Oklahoma in a showdown between one-loss Big 12 squads at noon and conclude with No. 23 Stanford at No. 17 Arizona State at 10:30 p.m. ESPN will also televise unbeaten No. 3 Ole Miss against Tennessee at 7 p.m. and one-loss No. 8 Michigan State at Indiana at 3:30 p.m.
- ABC will provide a split national telecast of Rutgers at No. 13 Ohio State in a matchup between one-loss Big Ten squads and UCLA at Cal at 3:30 p.m. with reverse mirror coverage on ESPN2.
- Saturday afternoon telecasts will include one-loss No. 10 Georgia at Arkansas on SEC Network at 4 p.m. and No. 24 Clemson at Boston College at 3:30 p.m. on ESPNU.
- Saturday night telecasts include one-loss Kentucky at LSU at 7:30 p.m. on SEC Network; Georgia Tech, who lost their first game of the season last week, at North Carolina at 7 p.m. on ESPNU and Missouri at Florida on ESPN2 at 7 p.m.
ESPN Goal Line network will offer unlimited live cut-ins and highlights from numerous top college football games every Saturday noon to midnight. Zubin Mehenti will host the coverage with analyst Pete Najarian.
Every ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNEWS, ESPN3, SEC Network and Longhorn Network game will be available through WatchESPN, accessible online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app, through ESPN on Xbox LIVE, Amazon FireTV, Apple TV, Google Chromecast and Roku devices to fans who receive their video subscription from an affiliated provider.
ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPNEWS, SEC Network, ESPN Radio and Longhorn Network Schedule
| Date | Time (ET) | Game/Announcers | Network |
| Tue, Oct 14 | 8 p.m. | Louisiana-Lafayette at Texas State Kevin Dunn, Ahmad Brooks & Sean Adams |
ESPN2 |
| Thu, Oct 16 | 7 p.m. | West Alabama at Shorter | ESPN3 |
| 7:30 p.m. | Virginia Tech at Pittsburgh Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Ponder |
ESPN | |
| Fri, Oct 17 | 8 p.m. | Fresno State at Boise State Dave Flemming, David Diaz-Infante & Allison Williams |
ESPN |
| 9 p.m. | Temple at Houston Eamon McAnaney & Dan Hawkins |
ESPNU | |
| Sat, Oct 18 | Noon | No. 14 Kansas State at No. 11 Oklahoma TV: Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Tom Luginbill Radio: Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Joe Schad |
ESPN & ESPN Radio |
| Noon | Iowa at Maryland Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway & Paul Carcaterra |
ESPN2 | |
| Noon | Tulane at Central Florida Adam Amin & John Congemi |
ESPNU | |
| Noon | South Florida at Tulsa Mark Neely & Rene Ingoglia |
ESPNEWS | |
| Noon | Furman at South Carolina Tom Hart, Matt Stinchcomb & & Kayce Smith |
SEC Network | |
| Noon | Syracuse at Wake Forest | ESPN3 * | |
| 12:30 p.m. | Virginia at Duke | ESPN3 * | |
| 1 p.m. | Norfolk State at Hampton Mike Corey & Jay Walker |
ESPN3 * ^ | |
| 1 p.m. | Lafayette at Harvard | ESPN3 * | |
| 2 p.m. | Akron at Ohio Jim Barbar & John Gregory |
ESPN3 | |
| 2 p.m. | Western Michigan at Bowling Green | ESPN3 * | |
| 3 p.m. | Appalachian State at Troy Roy Philpott & Al Groh |
ESPN3 | |
| 3 p.m. | Eastern Michigan at Massachusetts (from Foxboro, Mass.) Bob Picozzi & Matt Chatham |
ESPN3 | |
| 3 p.m. | Presbyterian at Charleston Southern | ESPN3 | |
| 3 p.m. | South Dakota at Missouri State | ESPN3 * | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Rutgers at No. 13 Ohio State Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman & Todd McShay |
ABC & ESPN2 ** | |
| 3:30 p.m. | UCLA at California Bob Wischusen, Matt Millen & Quint Kessenich |
ABC & ESPN2 ** | |
| 3:30 p.m. | No. 8 Michigan State at Indiana Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards |
ESPN | |
| 3:30 p.m. | No. 24 Clemson at Boston College Clay Matvick & Anthony Becht |
ESPNU | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Ball State at Central Michigan Dan Gutowsky & Dustin Fox |
ESPN3 | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Army at Kent State Michael Reghi & Jerod Cherry |
ESPN3 | |
| 3:30 p.m. | NC State at Louisville | ESPN3 * | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Indiana State at North Dakota State | ESPN3 * | |
| 4 p.m. | No. 10 Georgia at Arkansas (from Little Rock, Ark.) Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Laura Rutledge |
SEC Network | |
| 4 p.m. | San Jose State at Wyoming Trey Bender & Jay Taylor |
ESPN3 | |
| 4 p.m. | Western Carolina at Mercer | ESPN3 | |
| 4 p.m. | Sam Houston State at Northwestern State | ESPN3 * | |
| 4 p.m. | Illinois State at Western Illinois | ESPN3 | |
| 4 p.m. | Southern Illinois at Youngstown State | ESPN3 * | |
| 5 p.m. | Miami (Ohio) at Northern Illinois Shawn Kenney & Rocky Boiman |
ESPN3 | |
| 5 p.m. | New Mexico State at Idaho Joel Meyers & Darius Walker |
ESPN3 | |
| 7 p.m. | Tennessee at No. 3 Ole Miss Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe |
ESPN | |
| 7 p.m. | Missouri at Florida Joe Tessitore, Brock Huard & Shannon Spake |
ESPN2 | |
| 7 p.m. | Georgia Tech at North Carolina Anish Shroff, Kelly Stouffer & Cara Capuano |
ESPNU | |
| 7 p.m. | Eastern Kentucky at Tennessee Tech Dave Weekley & Mickey Matthews |
ESPN3 | |
| 7 p.m. | Abilene Christian at McNeese State | ESPN3 * | |
| 7 p.m. | Murray State at Austin Peay | ESPN3 * | |
| 7:30 p.m. | Kentucky at LSU Brent Musburger, Jesse Palmer & Maria Taylor |
SEC Network | |
| 7:30 p.m. | Georgia State at South Alabama Drew Fellios & Forrest Conoly |
ESPN3 * | |
| 8 p.m. | No. 5 Notre Dame at No. 2 Florida State Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather Cox |
ABC | |
| 8 p.m. | Iowa State at Texas | Longhorn Network | |
| 10:15 p.m. | Nevada at BYU Dave Lamont, Ray Bentley & Dawn Davenport |
ESPN2 | |
| 10:30 p.m. | No. 23 Stanford at No. 17 Arizona State Mark Jones, Rod Gilmore & Jessica Mendoza |
ESPN | |
| Tue, Oct 21 | 8 p.m. | Arkansas State at Louisiana-Lafayette | ESPN2 |
* Local blackout may apply
** Reverse mirror in which ESPN2 will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast
^ Available on ESPNU at 10 p.m.
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