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Week 1 of the college football season is over and the US LBM Coaches Poll gives us our first glimpse of how this season might turn out.
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College football’s 12-team playoff era is underway, and the first few games of the 2024 season offered plenty of exciting storylines and developments to digest. But Saturday’s schedule, which includes 75 Week 2 games featuring at least one FBS team, offers a little bit of everything as what happens on the field begins to carry more weight than the speculation of the preseason polls.
There’s a top-10 matchup between No. 3 Texas and No. 9 Michigan in the noon ET television window and then a top-25 matchup between No. 12 Tennessee and No. 23 North Carolina State in primetime Saturday night. There are conference games in the Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big 12, as well as regional rivalry games outside of the conference (Iowa State vs. No. 21 Iowa and Colorado vs. Nebraska). There’s even a big-name Group of Five conference playoff contender (Boise State) getting a chance at a top-seeded win over one of the Big Ten’s newcomers (No. 6 Oregon) to close out the weekend.
We’ve already seen some unexpected results in Week 1, and this week there seem to be even more opportunities for surprises as college football regroups with a 12-team playoff in the first month of its inaugural season.
Here is the full schedule for Saturday in Week 2 of the 2024 college football season, including game times and ways to watch:
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Schedule for the second week of college football
Saturday, September 7
All times Eastern
- No. 3 Texas at No. 9 Michigan: 12pm on FOX
- Bowling Green at No. 8 Penn State: 12pm on Big Ten Network
- Arkansas at No. 17 Oklahoma State: 12pm on ABC and ESPN+
- No. 16 Kansas State at Tulane: 12pm on ESPN
- No. 23 Georgia Tech at Syracuse: 12pm on ACC Network
- Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati: 12pm on ESPN2
- Troy in Memphis: 12pm on ESPNU
- Akron at Rutgers: 12pm on Big Ten Network
- Army on the Florida Atlantic: 12pm on CBS Sports Network
- Rhode Island in Minnesota: 12pm on Peacock
- Merrimack at UConn: 12pm on WFSB (in Connecticut), UCONN+
- McNeese State at Texas A&M: 12:45 pm on SEC Network
- Tennessee Tech at No. 1 Georgia: 2:00 p.m. on ESPN+
- Missouri State vs. Ball State: 2:00 p.m. on ESPN+
- St. Francis at Kent State: 2:30 p.m. on ESPN+
- Utah Tech at UNLV: 3pm on MW Network
- Northern Illinois at No. 7 Notre Dame: 3:30 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
- Baylor at No. 11 Utah: 3:30 p.m. on FOX
- Iowa State ranked 21st Iowa: 3:30 p.m. on CBS and Paramount+
- South Carolina in Kentucky: 3:30 p.m. on ABC and ESPN+
- California in Auburn: 3:30 p.m. on ESPN2
- Michigan State vs. Maryland: 3:30 p.m. on Big Ten Network
- Eastern Michigan ranked 25th Washington: 3:30 p.m. on Big Ten Network
- South Dakota in Wisconsin: 3:30 p.m. on FS1
- Charlotte, North Carolina: 3:30 p.m. on the ACC Network
- Temple at Navy: 3:30 p.m. on CBS Sports Network
- Idaho to Wyoming: 3:30 p.m. on TruTV and Max
- Jacksonville State at No. 24 Louisville: 3:30 on ESPN+
- Duquesne at Boston College: 3:30 p.m. on ESPN+
- UMass-Toledo: 3:30 p.m. on ESPN+
- UTSA at Texas State: 4pm on ESPNU
- Middle Tennessee State at No. 5 Ole Miss: 4:15 p.m. on SEC Network
- Marshall at Virginia Tech: 4:30 p.m. on The CW Network
- Florida A&M at No. 15 Miami: 6pm on ESPN+
- Albany, West Virginia: 6pm on ESPN+
- Central Michigan at Florida International: 6pm on ESPN+
- Gardner-Webb at James Madison: 6pm on ESPN+
- East Carolina at Old Dominion: 6pm on ESPN+
- South Alabama in Ohio: 6pm on ESPN+
- Sam Houston at UCF: 6:30 p.m. on ESPN+
- South Florida at No. 4 Alabama: 7pm on ESPN
- Virginia at Wake Forest: 7pm on ESPN2
- No. 20 Kansas in Illinois: 7pm on FS1
- San Jose State at the Air Force: 7 p.m. on CBS Sports Network
- Georgia Southern in Nevada: 7pm on TruTV and Max
- Buffalo at No. 10 Missouri: 7pm on ESPN+
- Samford, Florida: 7pm on ESPN+
- Cal Poly at Stanford: 7pm on ESPN+
- Tulsa vs Arkansas State: 7pm on ESPN+
- UAB at UL-Monroe: 7pm on ESPN+
- Texas Southern at Rice: 7pm on ESPN+
- William & Mary on the Carolina Coast: 7pm on ESPN+
- Eastern Kentucky in Western Kentucky: 7pm on ESPN+
- Chattanooga vs Georgia State: 7pm on ESPN+
- Louisiana vs. Kennesaw State: 7pm on ESPN+
- Southeast Louisiana at Southern Miss: 7pm on ESPN+
- Northern Colorado in the state of Colorado: 7pm Altitude Sports (regional) and TheMW.com
- No. 12 Tennessee vs. No. 23 North Carolina State (in Charlotte): 7:30 p.m. on ABC and ESPN+
- Colorado in Nebraska: 7:30 p.m. on NBC and Peacock
- Western Michigan at No. 2 Ohio State: 7:30 p.m. on Big Ten Network
- Alcorn State at Vanderbilt: 7:30 p.m. on ESPNU
- Nicholls at No. 19 LSU: 7:30 p.m. on ESPN+
- Stephen F. Austin in North Texas: 7:30 p.m. on ESPN+
- Houston at No. 13 Oklahoma: 7:45 p.m. on SEC Network
- Appalachian State at No. 22 Clemson: 8pm on ACC Network
- Long Island at TCU: 8pm on ESPN+
- Southern Utah at UTEP: 9pm on ESPN+
- Boise State at No. 6 Oregon: 10pm on Peacock
- Texas Tech in Washington State: 10pm on FOX
- Northern Arizona at No. 18 Arizona: 10pm on ESPN+
- Sacramento State at Fresno State: 10pm on Fubo
- Freedom at New Mexico State: 10:15 p.m. on ESPN2
- Mississippi State vs. Arizona State: 10:30 p.m. on ESPN
- Oregon State vs. San Diego State: 10:30 p.m. on CBS Sports Network
- Utah State ranked 14th USC: 11 p.m. on the Big Ten Network
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