ESPN College Football Week 8 – TV Schedule, College GameDay, and More
Monday, October 13, 2014
- 5 Notre Dame at No. 2 Florida State Highlights Three Matchups between Ranked Teams
- ESPN’s College GameDay Visits Florida State for Second Time this Season
- SEC Network Football in Mississippi: SEC Film Room with Coach Dan Mullen Wednesday; SEC Nation spends Saturday at “The Grove”
- Football on ESPN Radio: ESPN Radio College GameDay at FSU
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No. 5 Notre Dame at No. 2 Florida State Highlights Three Matchups between Ranked Teams
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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.
Full Schedule: https://es.pn/1qVy3Dm
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ESPN’s College GameDay Visits Florida State for Second Time this Season
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ESPN’s College GameDay Built by The Home Depot – college football’s longest running and most celebrated pregame show – will make a second stop this season in Tallahassee, Fla., for a showdown of the unbeaten, AP-ranked No. 5 Notre Dame (6-0) and No. 2 Florida State (6-0) on Saturday, Oct. 18. The weekly three-hour Emmy Award-winning show (Saturday 9 a.m. – noon) will originate from Langford Green outside of Doak Campbell Stadium.
Hosted by Chris Fowler, the GameDay team consists of analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack with reporting by Samantha Ponder, Tom Rinaldi, Scott Van Pelt, George Whitfield and Gene Wojciechowski.
College GameDay Nuggets:
- This is the third time College GameDay has been to the same school twice in the first eight weeks of the season. Last year, College GameDay was in Clemson for the Georgia (win) and Florida State (loss) games and in 2007, College GameDay was at LSU twice in the first eight weeks for the Virginia Tech (win) and Florida (win) games.
- This is the 41st regular season Top 5 matchup College GameDay has been at. Of the 34 played at a home stadium, the home teams are 18-16, but just 2-5 in the last seven.
- Lee Corso is 6-1 in headgear picks in the last seven regular season Top 5 matchups.
- Including bowls and conference championship games, this is the 66th Top 5 matchup College GameDay has originated from. The lower-ranked team has won four of the last six.
- This week marks the 11th time College GameDay has been to Tallahassee for a Florida State game; FSU is just 6-4 in the previous ten. Twice Lee Corso has picked FSU’s opponent in Tallahassee – Oklahoma in 2011, Miami in 2001 – he was correct both times.
- Lee Corso has picked Florida State 18 times. He’s 12-6 when picking the Seminoles and won the last six times.
- Lee Corso is 7-2 in its last nine week eight headgear picks.
Full Release: https://es.pn/1saxCci
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SEC Network Football in Mississippi: SEC Film Room with Coach Dan Mullen Wednesday; SEC Nation spends Saturday at “The Grove”
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SEC Network heads into week eight of the 2014 college football with a tripleheader Saturday, Oct. 18, and exclusive programming surrounding football in the state of Mississippi.
Analyst David Greene sits down with the top team in the country this week, No. 1 Mississippi State, in SEC Film Room Wednesday at 10 p.m. Greene and Coach Mullen will breakdown the X’s & O’s of the Bulldogs rise to the top for the polls for the first time in school history. The show will also spend time with quarterback Dak Prescott.
On Saturday, the network’s traveling pre-game show is live in Oxford, Miss. at “The Grove”, the hallowed tailgating grounds of No. 3 Ole Miss. SEC Nation’s Tim Tebow, Marcus Spears, Paul Finebaum, host Joe Tessitore and reporter Kaylee Hartung will bring the sights & sounds of the tailgating scene prior to the Tennessee at No. 3 Ole Miss football game.
The day’s tripleheader schedule includes:
| Date | Time (ET) | Game/Commentators |
| Sat, Oct 18 | noon | Furman at South Carolina Tom Hart, Matt Stinchcomb & Kayce Smith |
| 4 p.m. | No. 10 Georgia at Arkansas Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Laura Rutledge |
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| 7:30 p.m. | Kentucky at LSU Brent Musburger, Jesse Palmer & Maria Taylor |
Full Release: https://es.pn/1wuRV4G
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ESPN Radio College GameDay at FSU
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ESPN Radio’s College GameDay will travel to the Notre Dame at Florida State game in Tallahassee, Fla., on Saturday, Oct. 18. Host Matt Barrie and analysts Brad Edwards and Trevor Matich will be on-site for the seven-hour program that kicks off at noon. .
Full Release: https://es.pn/1njDQYb
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