- College Football: Nine Unbeatens & 13 Ranked Teams Highlighted by ESPN Prime Time Doubleheader
- College GameDay to Make First Visit to University of Washington
- ESPN.com and College Football: Almost at the Halfway Point of Season, a Look around the Nation
- This Week on ESPNU
- Video: Washington’s Steve Sarkisian Talks College GameDay
- THE LINEUP: 10 purple-tinged moments from ESPN’s visit to Northwestern
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College Football: Nine Unbeatens & 13 Ranked Teams Highlighted by ESPN Prime Time Doubleheader
ESPN’s college football schedule this week includes nine undefeated teams and 13 of the top 25 ranked programs, highlighted by an ESPN doubleheader on Saturday, Oct. 12: unbeaten No. 18 Michigan at Big Ten rival Penn State at 5 p.m. ET followed by one-loss No. 9 Texas A&M at Ole Miss at 8:30 p.m.
The action for Saturday will begin at noon with ABC and ESPN telecasts involving an unbeaten team: The Red River Rivalry pitting No. 12 Oklahoma against Texas from Dallas on ABC and undefeated No. 25 Missouri at No. 7 Georgia, with its only loss of the season coming to No. 3 Clemson, on ESPN. Full Release
College GameDay to Make First Visit to University of Washington
ESPN’s iconic college football pregame show, College GameDay Built by The Home Depot, will make its first visit to the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle on Saturday, Oct. 12, for its three-hour show of features and analysis on ESPN at 9 a.m. The show will preview the day’s games, including the showdown between Pac-12 foes No. 2 Oregon and No. 16 Washington.
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.
In addition, several studio shows will have live hits from Seattle on Friday, including SportsCenter and College Football Live (5 p.m. / ESPN & 5:30 p.m. / ESPNU).
Tuesday
- BMOC looks at the playoff committee, the 17 undefeated teams and more (Gene Wojciechowski)
- Undefeated teams on a collision course including FSU-Clemson, OU-Baylor, Stanford-Oregon
Wednesday
- Marcus Mariota readies for his Heisman close-up as it gets real for Oregon (Ted Miller)
- Nick Saban’s challenges at Alabama with distractions and players that haven’t experienced pain of losing (Chris Low)
Thursday
- GameDay Kickoff
- What to Watch and predictions
Friday
- With all the teams in contention and points being scored, wouldn’t this be a great year for the playoff to start? (Chris Low)
- ESPNU All-Access: UCF (Wed, 6:30 p.m.) – ESPNU goes inside college football programs across the country each week with ESPNU All-Access. At the University of Central Florida, viewers will be a part of the football meetings, hear assistant coaches Brent Key and Tyson Summer wired at practice, as well as head coach George O’Leary, plus get a tour of the facilities with the McCray twins.
- ESPNU Wednesday Night Women’s Volleyball: LSU at Texas A&M (Wed, 8 p.m.) – Complete NCAA Volleyball Schedule
- GEICO ESPN High School Football Showcase: Pike (Ind.) at Carmel (Ind.) (Fri, 8 p.m.) – Complete High School Football Showcase schedule
Video: Washington’s Steve Sarkisian Talks College GameDay
Washington head coach Steve Sarkisian was asked this summer during the Pac-12 Car Wash on ESPN campus why College GameDay should go to Washington for the first time. Full clip
THE LINEUP: 10 purple-tinged moments from ESPN’s visit to Northwestern
This past weekend, ESPN invaded Northwestern to help cover the Wildcats’ Big Ten clash with Ohio State. Beginning with the Friday, 5 a.m. CT ESPN Radio/ESPN2 simulcast of Mike & Mike from the Evanston, Ill. campus, through College GameDay Built by The Home Depot’s telecast the next morning, ESPN was part of the buildup to the Northwestern homecoming game that aired Saturday night on ABC. A few of the highlights
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