- College Football: No. 7 Miami at No. 3 Florida State in Showdown of Unbeatens Saturday Night on ABC
- College GameDay Heads to Tallahassee for Third Straight Year
- This Week on ESPNU
- ESPN.com College Coverage: Basketball Just Under Two Weeks from Start of Season; College Football at the 10 Week Mark
- Recruiting: No. 19 James Blackmon Jr. to Announce College Decision on ESPNU Thursday
- ESPN’s 2013-14 Women’s College Basketball Schedule Showcases Best Teams in Nation
- ESPN Images: College Football and College GameDay
Note: Men’s college basketball schedule to be released this week
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ABC’s Saturday Night Football Presented by Windows on Saturday, November 2, at 8 p.m. ET, will showcase No. 7 Miami (Fla.) at No. 3 Florida State in a matchup between unbeaten ACC squads. ESPN Radio will also broadcast the game. Also on Saturday, ABC will televise No. 21 Michigan at No. 22 Michigan State at 3:30 p.m. in a game between one-loss Big Ten Conference teams vying for the top spot in the Legends division.
Each of the ESPN and ESPN2 Saturday night games will include a ranked, one-loss SEC team against a conference foe: No. 11 Auburn at Arkansas at 6 p.m. on ESPN2 and No. 9 Missouri against Tennessee at 7 p.m. on ESPN. ESPN2 will also televise No. 12 Texas A&M against UTEP at 9 p.m.
In addition, ESPN3 will carry two games involving a ranked team on Saturday: undefeated No. 17 Northern Illinois at Massachusetts at noon and No. 14 South Carolina against Mississippi State at 12:21 p.m. ESPNU will close out the night of coverage with undefeated No. 16 Fresno State against Nevada in a Mountain West Conference matchup at 10:30 p.m. Full Schedule
College GameDay Heads to Tallahassee for Third Straight Year
ESPN’s iconic college football pregame show, College GameDay Built by The Home Depot, will make its 10th appearance on the campus of Florida State University on Saturday, Nov. 2, at 9 a.m. on ESPN. The three-hour show will originate from Langford Green prior to the Saturday Primetime game featuring No. 3 Florida State vs. No. 7 Miami at 8 p.m. from Doak Campbell Stadium.
Hosted by Chris Fowler, the GameDay crew consists of analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack, with reporting by Samantha Ponder, Tom Rinaldi, Scott Van Pelt and Gene Wojciechowski.
Florida State holds a 5-4 record when College GameDay is in town. Corso has picked the Seminoles all 10 times GameDay has been at a regular-season game – home or away – with the former FSU player sporting a 6-4 record.
This Week on ESPNU
Tuesday
ESPN The Magazine College Hoops Tip-Off Show presented by Wendy’s (7 p.m.)
- A host of ESPN experts – Jay Bilas, Andy Katz, Jeff Goodman, Elena Bergeron, Jordan Brenner, Tim Keown and Morty Ain – discuss the upcoming season in-studio and on various basketball campuses. Bergeron and Bilas spend time with Kansas’s Andrew Wiggins on-and-off the court – seeing how he’ll use his first year of college to his benefit.
- Katz sits down with Ole Miss’ Marshall Henderson in a compelling interview that includes a discussion about his off-the-court discretions.
Wednesday
ESPNU Women’s College Basketball Preview Show (4 p.m.)
- Hosted by Cara Capuano, alongside Brooke Weisbrod and LaChina Robinson, the trio discuss who will be the top players to watch, a breakdown of the top 25 teams and the new NCAA rule changes, plus phone interviews with coaches.
ESPNU All-Access: Northern Illinois (5 p.m.)
- The weekly half-hour show takes viewers inside Northern Illinois for their first practice in the new Kenneth and Ellen Chessick Practice Center. Coaches are wired and cameras were embedded with the team from sun-up to sun-down – experiencing a typical Tuesday for the student-athletes.
ESPNU Road Trip: Clemson vs. Maryland (6:30 p.m.)
- Hosts Niki Noto and Ali Nejad make the show’s first visit to the Maryland campus, experiencing the pageantry, tradition and fun of Maryland Homecoming. The duo takes the viewer to its ACC matchup against Clemson, inside the Under Armour headquarters and through one of the nation’s most respected haunted houses alongside Terrapin mascot Testudo and the Maryland cheerleaders. Preview clip
ESPNU Wednesday Night Women’s Volleyball
- A doubleheader featuring Baylor at Kansas (7 p.m.) and Texas Tech at Iowa State (9 p.m.)
ESPN.com College Coverage: Basketball Just Under Two Weeks from Start of Season; College Football at the 10 Week Mark
ESPN.com has full coverage of the college football and men’s basketball seasons, including previews, analysis, blog posts and more. Check the website daily for additional features and headlines, including the start of the men’s basketball 2013-14 Power Rankings and a preview of the college football ACC top-10 matchup between No. 3 Florida State and No. 7 Miami. Highlights:
Men’s College Basketball
Monday
- The Preseason Power Rankings roll out this week, five a day, starting with Nos. 25-21 on Monday
- Fifty years after John Wooden won his first national title, Steve Alford is running UCLA. How did the storied program end up here? (Dana O’Neil)
- With the buzz gone from UCLA, can Andy Enfield ride the wave of Dunk City to shift the spotlight to USC. (Dana O’Neil)
Tuesday
- Power Rankings: No. 20-16
Wednesday
- Power Rankings: No. 15-11
Thursday
- Power Rankings: No. 10-6
Friday
- Power Rankings: No. 5-1
College Football
Monday
- On The Mark – breaking down the conference races
- Power rankings
- The ACC takes another star turn with a top 10 matchup and this one has a vintage feel to it as Miami and Florida State play in a game with national title implications. (Heather Dinich)
- October was a busted month for the Big Ten. November offers an opportunity to actually learn something about the league and who’s really in contention. (Adam Rittenberg)
Tuesday
- BMOC looks at the truth about the Heisman moment, Miami-FSU, Texas’ Mack Brown, What’s in and out and more. (Gene Wojciechowski)
- Heisman Watch
Wednesday
- Top 25 overview – quick look at all Top 25 games
Thursday
- GameDay Kickoff: Rece Davis previews Week 10
- Game predictions
- What to watch
Recruiting: No. 19 James Blackmon Jr. to Announce College Decision on ESPNU Thursday
James Blackmon, Jr., No. 19 on the men’s basketball ESPN 100, will make his college commitment live during Thursday’s ESPNU halftime show of the Louisiana-Monroe at Troy (7:30 p.m.) football game. Blackmon is ranked in the top 5 for shooting guards in the 2014 class and currently plays at Marion High School (Indiana). He is deciding between Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan and Michigan State.
ESPN’s 2013-14 Women’s College Basketball Schedule Showcases Best Teams in Nation
ESPN’s 2013-14 women’s college basketball regular-season schedule includes a record-high 209 exclusive games across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3. ESPN FULL COURT, the pay-per-view package, increases the total number of matchups to approximately 400 games this season.
The schedule boasts 22 programs on the espnW 2013-14 preseason top 25 – created by ESPN bracketologist Charlie Creme – including the top 17 teams. espnW.com will provide season-long original content and supporting material for ESPN’s top games.
ESPN Images: College Football and College GameDay
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