College Football: No. 23 Florida State at No. 10 Miami and No. 1 Alabama at No. 16 Arkansas in Prime Time Highlights ESPN/ABC Week 6 Schedule
ESPN/ABC’s week 6 college football schedule is highlighted by two prime time, in-conference, ranked matchups when No. 23 Florida State travels to No. 10 Miami (8 p.m. on ABC) and No. 1 Alabama is at No. 16 Arkansas (7 p.m. on ESPN) on Saturday, Oct. 8. The two matchups are among 12 ranked teams, including No. 2 Ohio State, No. 3 Clemson and No. 4 Michigan, on an ESPN network.
ABC/ESPN Prime Time Action
ABC’s Saturday Night Football features the Seminoles-Hurricanes matchup, an in-state rivalry that dates back to 1951 and has seen FSU win the last six matchups. Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Samantha Ponder will be on the call from Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla.
ESPN airs the Crimson Tide-Razorbacks game, a matchup of SEC West division teams. Joe Tessitore, Todd Blackledge and Holly Rowe will be on the call from Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, AR.
Additional ESPN/ABC Highlights:
- Friday Night Lights: 3 Clemson is at Boston College on Friday, Oct. 7 (7:30 p.m. on ESPN)
- SEC West vs. East: LSU at No. 18 Florida in an SEC battle (Noon on ESPN)
- Saturday Matinee: Notre Dame at NC State (Noon on ABC)
- ACC Ranked Foes: 25 Virginia Tech is at No. 17 UNC (3:30 p.m. on ABC/ESPN2**)
- Big Ten Battle: 2 Ohio State plays host to Indiana (3:30 p.m. on ESPN)
- Wolverines’ First Road Test: 4 Michigan at Rutgers (7 p.m. on ESPN2)
ESPN3 Secondary Screen Experiences
ESPN3 will once again utilize SkyCam, DataCenter and Command Center for select games this week. More information on each option can be found here.
- Sky Cam:
- LSU at Florida (Noon)
- Indiana at Ohio State (3:30 p.m.)
- Alabama at Arkansas (7 p.m.)
- Georgia at South Carolina (7:30 p.m.)***
- Data Center:
- Temple at Memphis on Thursday, Oct. 6 (8 p.m.)
- Command Center:
- Alabama at Arkansas (7 p.m.)
All games are Saturday, Oct. 8, unless noted
Please note: This was updated on October 6 at 5 p.m. ET
ESPN’s Networks Week 6 Schedule
| Date | Time (ET) | Game | Network | |||
| Wed, Oct. 5 | 8 p.m. | Georgia Southern at Arkansas State Chris Cotter, Rocky Boiman, Quint Kessenich |
ESPN2 | |||
| Thu, Oct. 6 | 7:30 p.m. | Norfolk State at North Carolina AT&T | ESPNU | |||
| 8 p.m. | Temple at Memphis Dave Flemming, Jesse Palmer, Laura Rutledge |
ESPN | ||||
| Fri, Oct. 7 | 7:30 p.m. | No. 3 Clemson at Boston College Adam Amin, Mack Brown, Molly McGrath |
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SMU at Tulsa Mike Corey, Rene Ingoglia |
ESPN2 | ||||
| Sat, Oct. 8 | Noon | Notre Dame at NC State Dave Pasch, Greg McElroy, Tom Luginbill |
ABC | |||
| Auburn at Mississippi State Tom Hart, Andre Ware, Cole Cubelic |
ESPN | |||||
| Iowa at Minnesota Beth Mowins, Anthony Becht, Rocky Boiman |
ESPN2 | |||||
| TCU at Kansas Eamon McAnaney, John Congemi |
ESPNU | |||||
| East Carolina at South Florida Mike Couzens, Dan Hawkins |
ESPNEWS | |||||
| Benedictine at Culver-Stockton | ESPN3* | |||||
| Shippensburg at West Chester | ESPN3* | |||||
| Georgia Tech at Pittsburgh | ACC Network Extra* | |||||
| 1 p.m. | Samford at Furman | ESPN3 | ||||
| Dartmouth at Yale | ESPN3* | |||||
| 1:30 p.m. | East Tennessee State at VMI | ESPN3 | ||||
| Bethune-Cookman at South Carolina State Eric Clemons, Jay Walker |
ESPN3 | |||||
| Tusculum at Wingate | ESPN3 | |||||
| 2 p.m. | North Greenville at The Citadel | ESPN3 | ||||
| Gannon at Edinboro | ESPN3* | |||||
| Drake at Valparaiso | ESPN3 | |||||
| Tennessee Tech at Jacksonville State | ESPN3 | |||||
| Bowling Green at Ohio Dave Weekley, John Gregory |
ESPN3 | |||||
| 3 p.m. | Saint Francis (PA) at Robert Morris | ESPN3 | ||||
| Youngstown State at Illinois State | ESPN3* | |||||
| North Dakota State at Missouri State | ESPN3* | |||||
| Northern Iowa at South Dakota | ESPN3* | |||||
| Miami (Ohio) at Akron Michael Reghi, Dustin Fox |
ESPN3 | |||||
| Toledo at Eastern Michigan | ESPN3* | |||||
| West Florida at Mississippi College | ESPN3 | |||||
| 3:30 p.m. | BYU at Michigan State Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham, Dr. Jerry Punch |
ABC and ESPN2** | ||||
| No. 25 Virginia Tech at No. 17 North Carolina Dave Lamont, Ray Bentley, Alex Corddry |
ABC and ESPN2** | |||||
| Indiana at No. 2 Ohio State Bob Wischusen, Brock Huard, Allison Williams |
ESPN | |||||
| Iowa State at Oklahoma State Anish Shroff, Ahmad Brooks, Dawn Davenport |
ESPNU | |||||
| Army at Duke | ACC Network Extra | |||||
| Kent State at Buffalo Doug Sherman, Marcus Ray |
ESPN3 | |||||
| Ball State at Central Michigan | ESPN3* | |||||
| Texas State at Georgia State Matt Stewart, Wayne Gandy |
ESPN3 | |||||
| 4 p.m. | Vanderbilt at Kentucky David Neal, Matt Stinchcomb, Olivia Harlan |
SEC Network | ||||
| Indiana State at Western Illinois | ESPN3 | |||||
| No. 21 Colorado at USC Bill Rosinski, David Norrie, Ian Fitzsimmons |
ESPN Radio | |||||
| 6 p.m. | Presbyterian at Gardner-Webb | ESPN3 | ||||
| Mercyhurst at Slippery Rock | ESPN3* | |||||
| 7 p.m. | No. 1 Alabama at No. 16 Arkansas Joe Tessitore, Todd Blackledge, Holly Rowe |
ESPN | ||||
| No. 4 Michigan at Rutgers Jason Benetti, Kelly Stouffer, Paul Carcaterra |
ESPN2 | |||||
| Texas Tech at Kansas State Clay Matvick, Dusty Dvoracek |
ESPNU | |||||
| Syracuse at Wake Forest | ACC Network Extra | |||||
| Fresno State at Nevada Trey Bender, Jay Taylor |
ESPN3* | |||||
| Idaho at Louisiana-Monroe Shawn Kenney, Forrest Conoly |
ESPN3 | |||||
| Campbell at Jacksonville | ESPN3 | |||||
| Ferris State at Grand Valley State | ESPN3 | |||||
| Sam Houston State at Incarnate Word | ESPN3 | |||||
| Campbell at Jacksonville | ESPN3 | |||||
| South Dakota State at Southern Illinois | ESPN3 | |||||
| 7:30 p.m. | Georgia at South Carolina Brent Musburger, Jesse Palmer, Kaylee Hartung |
SEC Network | ||||
| 8 p.m. | No. 23 Florida State at No. 10 Miami Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Samantha Ponder |
ABC | ||||
| Midwestern State at Texas A&M Commerce | ESPN3* | |||||
| 10:30 p.m. | Washington State at No. 15 Stanford Mark Jones, Rod Gilmore, Quint Kessenich |
ESPN | ||||
| UCLA at Arizona State Allen Bestwick, Mike Bellotti, Kris Budden |
ESPN2 | |||||
| UNLV at San Diego State Roy Philpott, Tom Ramsey |
ESPNU |
*Non-Exclusive Game
**Reverse Mirror game
*** on SEC Network +
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