College Football TV Listings 2018, Week 3

This is a list of every game played during week 3 of the 2018 college football season involving at least one FBS or FCS school. All games are listed, televised or not.

For the streamed/televised games (only live broadcasts are listed), I include the announcers and sideline reporters (where applicable). I put all of it on a Google Documents spreadsheet that can be accessed at the following link:

College Football TV Listings 2018, Week 3

A significant number of games this week have been rescheduled and/or postponed, all due to Hurricane Florence. I have indicated games that have been completely postponed (or canceled, in some cases) on the spreadsheet.

It is likely that more moves will be made during the week, including some changes involving broadcast outlets (i.e. games moving from ESPN3 to ESPNU, etc.). I will adjust the spreadsheet to reflect any and all alterations as quickly as possible.

Additional notes:

– I include games streamed by ESPN3.com, Fox Sports Go, and BTN2Go; they are denoted as “ESPN3”, “FS-Go”, and “BTN2Go”, respectively. This season, I will also list streamed games for NBC Live Extra, CBS Sports Digital, and WatchESPN.

– I also list digital network feeds provided by various conferences. For some of these feeds, the audio will be a simulcast of the home team’s radio broadcast. Other online platforms have their own announcers.

For now, the digital networks I am including in the listings are those for the ACCCAABig Sky (Pluto TV), Big SouthOVCSoConWCCNEC (Front Row), CUSAMountain West, and Patriot League (the last four of those being on the Stadium platform).

Occasionally individual schools (almost always at the FCS level) provide video feeds. When that is the case, I list those as well.

– This year, thanks mostly to the proliferation of ESPN+ games, I am including pay-per-view telecasts and streams. These matchups are sometimes listed as “PPV” telecasts or (in the case of feeds from individual schools) “All-Access” streams, though an occasional stream with that description is actually free.

– The local affiliates for the ACC Network “national” game of the week can normally be found on a link in the document, but this week’s game (East Carolina-Virginia Tech) has been postponed.

– The regional sports networks carrying the ACC Network “regional” game of the week can be found on a link in the document, and here:  Georgia Tech-Pittsburgh

– The regional sports networks carrying FSN games can be found in a note in the document, and here:  Rutgers-Kansas, UTSA-Kansas State

– Links to games carried on the Stadium platform can be found in notes in the document, and here:  Yale-Holy Cross, Wofford-Wyoming,                                       Stony Brook-FordhamBethune-Cookman University-FAUMonmouth-Lafayette, Prairie View A&M-UNLV

– Links to games streamed on Facebook can be found in notes in the document, and here: Tennessee Tech-Utah State (Thursday night), Tulane-UAB, Wofford-Wyoming, Bethune-Cookman University-FAU, Stony Brook-Fordham

Blackout map for Nicholls-McNeese State

– ESPN College Extra games:  Rhode Island-Connecticut (blackout map), Georgia Tech-Pittsburgh (blackout map), Northern Arizona-Missouri State, North Dakota-Sam Houston State (blackout map), Abilene Christian-Houston Baptist

– BTN (formerly Big Ten Network) “gamefinder”:  Link

– AP Poll (FBS):  Link

– AFCA Coaches’ Poll (FCS):  Link

A lot of the information I used in putting this together came courtesy of Matt Sarzyniak’s staggeringly comprehensive and simply indispensable site College Sports on TV, a must-bookmark for any fan of college football and/or basketball. It is also well worth following the weekly schedule put together by lsufootball.net, particularly for devotees of the central time zone.

As always, I must mention the relentless information gatherers (and in some cases sports-TV savants) at the506.com. I am also assisted on occasion by helpful athletic media relations officials at various schools and conferences.

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