10/24 – ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 9

No. 5 Notre Dame at No. 8 Oklahoma & No. 11 Mississippi State at No. 1 Alabama in Prime Time

ESPN’s college football schedule this week will be highlighted by two Saturday night telecasts matching ranked teams with all four in the top 11 of the BCS standings:

• ABC will broadcast undefeated No. 5 Notre Dame at one-loss No. 8 Oklahoma as part of the Saturday Night Football series at 8 p.m. ET. Notre Dame has defeated Oklahoma eight of the nine all-time meetings against the Sooners, including the last meeting in 1999.
• ESPN will televise No. 11 Mississippi State at No. 1 Alabama in a showdown of unbeaten SEC teams at 8:30 p.m. Mississippi State, at 7-0, has had its best start to a season since 1999 and won its first seven games for only the second time in 113 years of playing football. Alabama has won eight of the last 10 games against the Bulldogs.

Overall, ESPN platforms will offer coverage of seven of the remaining 11 undefeated teams: No. 1 Alabama, No. 5 Notre Dame, No. 11 Mississippi State, No. 15 Rutgers, No. 16 Louisville, No. 24 Ohio and Ohio State. Additional highlights:

• An ESPN Friday night matchup on October 26 will pit one-loss Cincinnati at undefeated BIG EAST foe No. 16 Louisville at 8 p.m.
• ESPN will televise unbeaten Ohio State at a Penn State squad that has won five straight since opening the season 0-2 on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 5:30 p.m.
• ESPN3 will provide coverage of Kent State, with a 6-1 record, at undefeated No. 15 Rutgers on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 3:30 p.m.

ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN 3D and ESPN Radio Schedule

Date	Time (ET)	Game / Commentators	Network
Thu, Oct 25	7:30 p.m.	No. 18 Clemson at Wake Forest Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, David Pollack & Samantha Steele	ESPN
	7:30 p.m.	Delaware State at Morgan State Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU
	7:30 p.m.	Valdosta State at Shorter	ESPN3
Fri, Oct 26	8 p.m.	Cincinnati at No. 16 Louisville Carter Blackburn, Rod Gilmore & Jemele Hill	ESPN
Sat, Oct 27	Noon	Tennessee at No. 13 South Carolina Dave Pasch, Brian Griese & Jenn Brown	ESPN & ESPN 3D
	Noon	Iowa at Northwestern Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway & Lewis Johnson	ESPN2
	Noon	Kentucky at Missouri Tom Hart & John Congemi	ESPNU
	Noon	Ole Miss at Arkansas Dave Neal, Andre Ware & Cara Capuano	ESPN3 & SEC Network
	Noon	Temple at Pittsburgh Eamon McAnaney, David Diaz-Infante & Paul Carcaterra	ESPN3 * & BIG EAST Network
	Noon	Northern Illinois at Western Michigan Michael Reghi & Doug Graber	ESPN3 *
	12:30 p.m.	NC State at North Carolina	ESPN3 * & ACC Network
	1 p.m.	Maryland at Boston College Shawn Kenney & John Bunting	ESPN3
	1 p.m.	Stony Brook at Presbyterian	ESPN3
	1:30 p.m.	The Citadel at Wofford	ESPN3
	1:30 p.m.	Presbyterian at Charleston Southern	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Utah State at Texas-San Antonio Jonathan Yardley & Forrest Conoly	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	South Dakota at Indiana State	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	BYU at Georgia Tech	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Youngstown State at South Dakota State	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Michigan State at No. 25 Wisconsin Mike Patrick, Ed Cunningham & Jeannine Edwards	ABC & ESPN2 *
		No. 9 USC at Arizona Joe Tessitore, Matt Millen & Maria Taylor	ABC & ESPN2 *
	3:30 p.m.	Duke at No. 12 Florida State Anish Shroff, Dan Hawkins & Tom Luginbill	ESPNU
	3:30 p.m.	Kent State at No. 15 Rutgers Mike Corey & Rene Ingoglia	ESPN3 *
	3:30 p.m.	No. 24 Ohio at Miami (Ohio)	ESPN3 *
	3:30 p.m.	Eastern Michigan at Bowling Green Greg Franke & Tom Cole	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	North Texas at Middle Tennessee	ESPN3
	3:30 p.m.	Liberty at Coastal Carolina	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Sam Houston State at Lamar	ESPN3
	5:30 p.m.	Ohio State at Penn State Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman & Quint Kessenich	ESPN
	6 p.m.	Western Kentucky at Florida International Drew Fellios & Warrick Dunn	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	No. 20 Texas A&M at Auburn Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb & Allison Williams	ESPNU
	7 p.m.	Syracuse at South Florida Mike Gleason & John Gregory	ESPN3
	7 p.m.	Massachusetts at Vanderbilt	ESPN3 *
	8 p.m.	No. 5 Notre Dame at No. 8 Oklahoma Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit & Heather Cox	ABC
	8 p.m.	No. 22 Michigan at Nebraska ESPN: Mark Jones, Brock Huard & Jessica Mendoza  ESPN Radio: Bill Rosinski, David Norrie & Joe Schad	ESPN2 & ESPN Radio
	8 p.m.	Louisiana Tech at New Mexico State	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	Stephen F. Austin at McNeese State	ESPN3
	8 p.m.	West Texas A&M at West Georgia	ESPN3
	8:30 p.m.	No. 11 Mississippi State at No. 1 Alabama Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe	ESPN
	10:30 p.m.	Magic City Classic: Alabama A&M vs. Alabama State (from Birmingham) Joe Davis & Jay Walker	ESPNU ***

* Local blackout may apply
** Reverse mirror in which ESPN2 will regionalize two games on ABC to markets not receiving the telecast
*** Live on ESPN3 at 3:30 p.m. ET & same day delay on ESPNU

ESPN will use BCS Standings through the remainder of the season