College Football on NBC Sports
| College Football on NBC Sports | |
|---|---|
| File:NBCSN College Football logo.png Logo formerly used for broadcasts on NBCSN. | |
| Also known as | College Football on NBC Sports Network/NBCSN |
| Genre | College football telecasts |
| Presented by | See List of College Football on NBCSN commentators |
| Theme music composer | John Colby |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 16 |
| No. of episodes | 188 (as of September 18, 2021) |
| Production | |
| Production locations | Various NCAA stadiums |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 210 minutes or until game ends (inc. adverts) |
| Production company | NBC Sports |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC USA Network CNBC Peacock NBC Universo via Telemundo Deportes (Spanish simulcasts of select games) |
| Original release | September 16, 2006 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related | Notre Dame Football on NBC |
College Football on NBC Sports is the de facto title used for broadcasts of NCAA college football games produced by NBC Sports. The title is rarely used on-air, as NBC's college football telecasts have presently been limited to its coverage of Notre Dame Fighting Irish home games—which are billed as Notre Dame Football on NBC—and its coverage of selected games highlighting historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), such as the Bayou Classic.
Via its experimental station W2XBS, NBC presented the first television broadcast of American football at any level on September 30, 1939, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets. NBC held rights to the NCAA's regular-season game of the week package from 1952–53, 1955–59, and 1964–65. From 1952 to 1988, NBC was the broadcaster of the Rose Bowl Game. In 1990, NBC first acquired the rights to Notre Dame Fighting Irish home games, as well as the Bayou Classic—agreements that have continued to this day, and have most recently been renewed through 2025.
After Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal, Versus—later renamed NBC Sports Network (NBCSN)—was merged into the NBC Sports division in 2011; by then, the network's coverage of Division I FBS football (billed as College Football on NBC Sports Network) was limited to a contract with the Mountain West that ended in 2012, and a package of Pac-10 games that had been sub-licensed by the Fox Sports Networks. NBCSN subsequently acquired packages of Division I FCS games from the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) and Ivy League; both contracts ended in 2017.
The Bayou Classic moved from the NBC broadcast network to NBCSN in 2015, but will move back to NBC in 2022. From 2015 to 2020, NBCSN also broadcast selected Notre Dame home games not televised by NBC; since 2020, NBC Sports has preferred using Peacock or other NBCUniversal channels (such as USA Network and CNBC) to carry college football games not aired by the main network. In August 2022, NBC Sports announced that it had acquired a share of the Big Ten's football rights beginning in 2023, which will include Big Ten Saturday Night games in primetime on NBC, and a package of games on Peacock.
History
Experimental broadcasts and the Game of the Week, bowl games
On September 30, 1939. NBC broadcast a game between Waynesburg and Fordham on station W2XBS (which would eventually become NBC's flagship station, WNBC) with one camera and Bill Stern[1] as play-by-play announcer. With an estimated audience of 1,000 television sets, it was the first American football game to ever be broadcast via television.[2][3] Twelve years later, the first live regular season college football game to be broadcast coast-to-coast by NBC—featuring Duke at Pittsburgh—was broadcast on September 29, 1951.[4][5]
Under an argument that television broadcasts of football games would be detrimental to in-person attendance, the NCAA voted to prohibit the broadcast of any regular-season college football game without its permission, and establish an exclusive, NCAA-controlled broadcast rights package, consisting of one game per-week. Teams would be limited to one national television appearance per-season. This "game of the week" package was first sold to NBC in 1952 under a one-year contract for $1.144 million.[6][7] [8][9][10] By 1953, the NCAA allowed NBC to add what it called "panorama" coverage of multiple regional broadcasts for certain weeks—shifting national viewers to the most interesting game during its telecast.[11]
After NBC lost its college football contract following the 1953 season, NBC regained college football rights in 1955 and aired games through the 1959 season. NBC regained the NCAA contract for the 1964 and 1965 seasons.[citation needed]
Even after losing the rights to regular season college football in both 1959 and 1965, NBC continued to carry postseason football. NBC carried the Blue–Gray Football Classic, an all-star game, on Christmas Day, until dropping the game in 1963 as a protest of the game's policy of segregation.[12] It consistently served as the Rose Bowl Game's television home from 1952 until 1988 (when it moved to ABC),[13] and added the Sugar Bowl from 1958 to 1969 (which replaced the network's coverage of the Cotton Bowl Classic).[citation needed]
Notre Dame football
In June 1984, the Supreme Court ruled in NCAA v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma that the NCAA's broadcast rights policy violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, and that individual universities and athletic conferences were free to sell the broadcast rights to their games. 67 NCAA schools pooled their broadcast rights as part of a group known as the College Football Association (CFA), which negotiated packages with networks on their behalf.[14][15]
By the late-1980's, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish—which had become one of the most recognizable teams on national television—had grown dissatisfied with the CFA and its contracts, which had an emphasis on regional games. In 1990, the Fighting Irish broke away from the CFA and announced that it would sign a five-year, $38 million contract with NBC to televise its home games beginning in 1991. Analysts felt that given the team's stature, it was inevitable that Notre Dame would eventually choose to negotiate its own television deal. It was also believed that the move would trigger a larger realignment of television rights in college football.[16][14][15] This prediction would be realized when the Big East Conference and Southeastern Conference (SEC) also broke away, and signed with CBS Sports beginning in the 1995 season.[17] The CFA eventually shut down in 1997.[18]
Also in the 1991 season, NBC first acquired rights to the Bayou Classic, an annual rivalry game between Grambling State and Southern; the game was considered to be one of the first major, network television broadcasts of a college football game between historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).[19]
College Football on Versus (2006–2011)
In 2005, Comcast-owned cable network OLN—which would rebrand the following year as Versus—made an eight-year, $450 million offer for rights to a new late-season package of National Football League games. The network had been expanding into a mainstream sports service, having also recently acquired the cable rights to the National Hockey League. The NFL ultimately decided to decline offers by third-party broadcasters for the package, and chose to air the games on NFL Network instead.[20]
In January 2006, OLN announced that it would air Mountain West Conference college football beginning in the 2006 season under a multi-year deal. As part of the contract, Comcast also agreed to be a partner alongside CBS Corporation (owner of the conference's other rightsholder, CSTV) on the new MountainWest Sports Network—the first sports channel devoted to a single collegiate conference.[21] For its inaugural season of college football broadcasts in 2006, Gary Bender or Bob Papa served as the play-by-play announcer, with Glenn Parker as the analyst and Argy Stathapulos as the sideline reporter for Mountain West football game coverage.[citation needed]
In 2007, Fox Sports agreed to sub-license ten Big 12 and Pac-10 football games per-season from Fox Sports Net to Versus, replacing a package it had previously sub-licensed to TBS. The Big 12 sub-licensing deal concluded in 2010.[citation needed]
In 2008, Versus announced a contract with the Ivy League to broadcast at least three games each year beginning in the 2008 season, culminating with the annual Harvard–Yale rivalry game. The initial two-year contract was later renewed in 2010.[22]
NBC Sports Group (2011–2019)
In 2011, Comcast acquired a majority stake in NBC Universal, and merged its existing sports networks—including Versus, which was relaunched as NBC Sports Network (NBCSN) in January 2012—into the NBC Sports division.[23][24][25] With the expansion of the Pac-10, Fox Sports decided to move some of its games to FX, while Versus would continue holding rights to seven games each season.[26] The sub-licensing agreement ended in the 2012 season, when the newly-renamed Pac-12 began a new 12-year deal with Fox, ESPN, and the new conference-run Pac-12 Networks.[27][28]
Ahead of the 2012 season, NBC Sports reached a five-year contract with the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) to carry basketball and FCS football on its networks; football games would be carried on the Comcast SportsNet networks, with five games per-season airing on NBCSN—marking the first college sports contract reached by the merged division.[29][30] NBC Sports also renewed its rights to the Ivy League for two additional seasons, with NBCSN carrying at least six to ten football games per-season.[31]
In 2013, NBCSN lost its share of Mountain West rights to ESPN.[32][33] On April 9, 2013, NBC Sports renewed its broadcasting contract with Notre Dame through the 2025 season. As part of the contract, NBCSN also gained the rights to exclusively broadcast select Notre Dame home games.[34]
In 2014, NBCSN lost a portion of the CAA rights to the American Sports Network, an upstart sports syndication service launched that year by the Sinclair Broadcast Group.[35] NBCSN also initially declined to renew its television deal with the Ivy League, which would have left that league without a television broadcaster for the 2014 season; the channel's increased emphasis on Premier League soccer matches reduced the number of opportunities for the network to carry college football on Saturday afternoons. However, NBCSN reversed its decision and added select Ivy League games beginning in late October 2014 in a joint agreement with Fox College Sports. NBCSN lost its Ivy League rights after the 2017 season as the conference signed an agreement with ESPN the following year, with most games being moved to subscription service ESPN+.[36] The CAA left NBCSN for a one-year deal with CBS Sports Digital and Fox Sports Go in 2018, before signing with FloSports in 2019.[37]
In 2015, the Bayou Classic moved from NBC to NBCSN.[38] In 2020, USA Network exclusively aired one Notre Dame game on September 19, 2020, as overflow for NBC's coverage of the 2020 U.S. Open.[39] A second primetime game was briefly preempted from NBC to USA due to coverage of a speech by 2020 presidential election winner Joe Biden.[40] For the 2021 season, Notre Dame's home opener was aired exclusively on NBCUniversal's new streaming service Peacock.[41] NBCSN shut down at the end of 2021, with its sports coverage expected to be assumed by Peacock, USA, and other NBCUniversal channels.
Acquisition of Big Ten rights (2022–present)
In 2022, NBC Sports acquired rights to the inaugural HBCU NYC Football Classic game and HBCU Pigskin Showdown all-star game, both of which will air on CNBC and stream on Peacock.[42][43]
In August 2022, it was reported that NBC Sports, along with CBS and current top rightsholder Fox, were the frontrunners for shares of the Big Ten's next round of media rights beginning in 2023.[44][45] On August 18, 2022, the Big Ten officially announced that it had reached seven-year deals with Fox, CBS, and NBC to serve as its media partners beginning in the 2023–24 season. NBC will air primetime games throughout the regular season under the title Big Ten Saturday Night. All telecasts will be available on Peacock, while eight Big Ten games per-season (including four intraconference games) will be exclusive to Peacock. NBC will carry the Big Ten championship game in 2026, while the contract also includes a package of Big Ten basketball games and Olympic sports coverage for Peacock.[46][47]
Schedules
2000s
2006 schedule
| Date | Game | Kickoff Time (Eastern Time) |
Host Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 9/16/06 | Texas Tech at TCU | 5:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Thursday 9/28/06 | BYU at TCU | 6:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/30/06 | Boise State at Utah | 3:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Thursday 10/5/06 | TCU at Utah | 9:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 10/28/06 | BYU at Air Force | 2:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 11/4/06 | TCU at UNLV | 3:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 11/11/06 | Colorado State at Utah | 2:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 11/18/06 | San Diego State at TCU | 4:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
2007 schedule
| Date | Game | Kickoff Time (Eastern Time) |
Host Conference | Network(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 9/1/07 | Virginia at Wyoming | 2:00 p.m. | Mountain West | Versus |
| Arizona at BYU | 5:30 p.m. | Mountain West | ||
| Saturday 9/8/07 | BYU at UCLA | 6:30 p.m. | Pac-10 | |
| Wisconsin at UNLV | 10:00 p.m. | Mountain West | ||
| Saturday 9/15/07 | Iowa at Iowa State | 1:30 p.m. | Big 12 | |
| UCLA at Utah | 5:00 p.m. | Mountain West | ||
| Saturday 9/22/07 | Arizona at California | 6:00 p.m. | Pac-10 | |
| Delaware at Towson | 7:00 p.m. | CAA | CSN Mid-Atlantic | |
| Saturday 9/29/07 | Villanova at JMU | 12:00 p.m. | CAA | CSN Mid-Atlantic CSN Philadelphia CSS |
| Baylor at Texas A&M | 12:30 p.m. | Big 12 | Versus | |
| Cincinnati at San Diego State | 10:00 p.m. | Mountain West | ||
| Saturday 10/6/07 | Richmond at Towson | 12:00 p.m. | CAA | CSN Mid-Atlantic |
| Southern California at Stanford | 7:00 p.m. | Pac-10 | Versus | |
| Saturday 10/13/07 | Hofstra at Towson | 3:30 p.m. | CAA | CSN New England CSN Philadelphia SNY |
| Oregon State at California | 7:00 p.m. | Pac-10 | Versus | |
| Thursday 10/18/07 | Utah at TCU | 8:00 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Saturday 10/20/07 | Texas at Baylor | 12:30 p.m. | Big 12 | |
| Thursday 10/25/07 | Air Force at New Mexico | 9:00 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Saturday 10/27/07 | Richmond at JMU | 12:00 p.m. | CAA | CSN Mid-Atlantic CSN Philadelphia |
| Saturday 11/3/07 | JMU at Delaware | 12:00 p.m. | CAA | CSN Mid-Atlantic CSN Philadelphia SNY CSS |
| Kansas State at Iowa State | 12:30 p.m. | Big 12 | Versus | |
| Thursday 11/8/07 | TCU at BYU | 9:00 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Saturday 11/10/07 | Villanova at Towson | 12:00 p.m. | CAA | CSN Mid-Atlantic CSN Philadelphia |
| Kansas State at Nebraska | 12:30 p.m. | Big 12 | Versus | |
| Saturday 11/17/07 | William & Mary at Richmond | 12:00 p.m. | CAA | CSN Mid-Atlantic |
| Saturday 11/24/07 | Utah at BYU | 2:00 p.m. | Mountain West | Versus |
| Saturday 12/1/07 | California at Stanford | 7:00 p.m. | Pac-10 |
2008 schedule
| Date | Game | Kickoff Time (Eastern Time) |
Host Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 8/30/08 | TCU at New Mexico | 6:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/6/08 | Texas A&M at New Mexico | 5:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/13/08 | UCLA at BYU | 3:30 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/20/08 | Utah at Air Force | 4:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/27/08 | Army at Texas A&M | 12:30 p.m. | Big 12 |
| Florida A&M vs Tennessee State | 4:00 p.m. | Atlanta Football Classic | |
| Thursday 10/2/08 | Oregon State at Utah | 9:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 10/4/08 | Kansas at Iowa State | 12:30 p.m. | Big 12 |
| Navy at Air Force | 4:00 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Washington at Arizona | 7:30 p.m. | Pac-10 | |
| Saturday 10/11/08 | Cornell at Harvard | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Thursday 10/16/08 | BYU at TCU | 8:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 10/18/08 | Nebraska at Iowa State | 12:30 p.m. | Big 12 |
| Oregon St at Washington | 7:00 p.m. | Pac-10 | |
| Saturday 10/25/08 | Baylor at Nebraska | 12:30 p.m. | Big 12 |
| Dartmouth at Columbia | 4:00 p.m. | Ivy League | |
| Saturday 11/1/08 | Brown at Pennsylvania | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Saturday 11/8/08 | Iowa State at Colorado | 1:30 p.m. | Big 12 |
| Saturday 11/15/08 | Princeton at Yale | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Southern California at Stanford | 7:00 p.m. | Pac-10 | |
| Saturday 11/22/08 | Yale at Harvard | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Air Force at TCU | 3:30 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Oregon St at Arizona | 7:00 p.m. | Pac-10 | |
| Saturday 11/29/08 | Baylor at Texas Tech | 12:30 p.m. | Big 12 |
| Oregon at Oregon St | 7:00 p.m. | Pac-10 |
2009 schedule
| Date | Game | Kickoff Time (Eastern Time) |
Host Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 9/12/09 | Texas at Wyoming | 3:30 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/19/09 | Duke at Kansas | 12:00 p.m. | Big 12 |
| Florida State at BYU | 7:00 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Saturday 9/26/09 | Cornell at Yale | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Florida A&M vs Tennessee State | 3:30 p.m. | Atlanta Football Classic | |
| Arizona at Oregon State | 7:30 p.m. | Pac-10 | |
| Saturday 10/03/09 | Oregon State at Arizona State | 7:00 p.m. | Pac-10 |
| Saturday 10/10/09 | Iowa State at Kansas | 12:30 p.m. | Big 12 |
| Saturday 10/17/09 | Princeton at Brown | 12:30 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Colorado State at TCU | 4:00 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Stanford at Arizona | 7:30 p.m. | Pac-10 | |
| Saturday 10/24/09 | Oklahoma State at Baylor | 12:30 p.m. | Big 12 |
| Air Force at Utah | 4:00 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| TCU at BYU | 7:30 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Saturday 10/31/09 | Nebraska at Baylor | 12:30 p.m. | Big 12 |
| UNLV at TCU | 4:00 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Saturday 11/07/09 | Kansas at Kansas State | 12:30 p.m. | Big 12 |
| TCU at San Diego State | 4:00 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Saturday 11/14/09 | Missouri at Kansas State | 12:30 p.m. | Big 12 |
| Arizona at Cal | 7:00 p.m. | Pac-10 | |
| Saturday 11/21/09 | Harvard at Yale | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| San Diego State at Utah | 4:00 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Cal at Stanford | 7:00 p.m. | Pac-10 |
2010s
2010 schedule
| Date | Game | Kickoff TimTime (Easternstern Time) |
Host Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 9/2/10 | Pitt at Utah | 8:30 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/4/10 | Wisconsin at UNLV | 11:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/11/10 | BYU at Air Force | 4:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/18/10 | Baylor at TCU | 4:30 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/25/10 | Florida A&M vs Tennessee State | 3:30 p.m. | Atlanta Football Classic |
| Saturday 10/2/10 | Navy at Air Force | 2:30 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 10/9/10 | USC at Stanford | 7:00 p.m. | Pac-10 |
| Saturday 10/16/10 | BYU at TCU | 4:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Arizona at Washington State | 7:30 p.m. | Pac-10 | |
| Saturday 10/30/10 | Stanford at Washington | 7:00 p.m. | Pac-10 |
| Saturday 11/6/10 | Penn at Princeton | 3:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Oregon State at UCLA | 7:00 p.m. | Pac-10 | |
| Saturday 11/13/10 | Brown at Dartmouth | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| San Diego State at TCU | 4:00 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Oregon at Cal | 7:30 p.m. | Pac-10 | |
| Saturday 11/20/10 | Yale at Harvard | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Saturday 11/27/10 | TCU at New Mexico | 4:00 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Oregon State at Stanford | 7:30 p.m. | Pac-10 | |
| Saturday 12/4/10 | Washington at Washington State | 7:00 p.m. | Pac-10 |
2011 schedule
| Date | Game | Kickoff Time (Eastern Time) |
Host Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 9/10/11 | TCU at Air Force | 3:30 p.m. | Mountain West[48] |
| Utah at USC | 7:30 p.m. | Pac-12[49] | |
| Saturday 9/17/11 | Texas Tech at New Mexico | 3:30 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 9/24/11 | Cornell at Yale | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League[50] |
| Southern vs. Florida A&M | 3:30 p.m. | Atlanta Football Classic | |
| Nebraska at Wyoming | 7:30 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Saturday 10/01/11 | Nevada at Boise State | 2:30 p.m. | Mountain West |
| Saturday 10/08/11 | Colorado at Stanford | 7:30 p.m. | Pac-12 |
| Saturday 10/15/11 | Penn at Columbia | 3:30 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Stanford at Washington State | 7:30 p.m. | Pac-12 | |
| Saturday 10/22/11 | Yale at Penn | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Air Force at Boise State | 3:30 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Saturday 11/5/11 | Arizona State at UCLA | 7:30pm | Pac-12 |
| Saturday 11/12/11 | Penn at Harvard | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| TCU at Boise State | 3:30 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Arizona State at Washington State | 10:30 p.m. | Pac-12 | |
| Saturday 11/19/11 | Harvard at Yale | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Colorado State at TCU | 3:30 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Colorado at UCLA | 7:30 p.m. | Pac-12 | |
| Saturday 11/26/11 | Washington State at Washington | 7:30 p.m. | Pac-12 |
| Saturday 12/3/11 | UNLV at TCU | 2:30 p.m. | Mountain West |
2012 schedule
| Date | Game | Kickoff Time (Eastern Time) |
Host Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 9/8/12 | Delaware State at Delaware | 3:30 p.m. | CAA[51] |
| Army at San Diego State | 7:30 p.m. | Mountain West[52] | |
| Saturday 9/15/12 | William & Mary at Towson | 12:00 p.m. | CAA |
| Miami (OH) at Boise State | 4:00 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Saturday 9/22/12 | Yale at Cornell | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Harvard at Brown | 4:30 p.m. | Ivy League | |
| Nevada at Hawaiʻi | 10:30 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Saturday 9/29/12 | Penn at Dartmouth | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Southern vs. Florida A&M | 3:30 p.m. | Atlanta Football Classic[53] | |
| Saturday 10/6/12 | Towson at James Madison | 1:00 p.m. | CAA |
| Saturday 10/13/12 | Brown at Princeton | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Fresno State at Boise State | 3:30 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Saturday 10/20/12 | Penn at Yale | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| UNLV at Boise State | 3:30 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Saturday 10/27/12 | Delaware at Old Dominion | 12:00 p.m. | CAA |
| Saturday 11/3/12 | Towson at Delaware | 12:00 p.m. | CAA |
| Saturday 11/10/12 | Harvard at Penn | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Air Force at San Diego State | 3:30 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Boise State at Hawaiʻi | 7:00 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Fresno State at Nevada | 10:30 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Saturday 11/17/12 | Yale at Harvard | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League |
| Colorado State at Boise State | 3:30 p.m. | Mountain West | |
| Old Dominion at James Madison | 7:00 p.m. | CAA | |
| Saturday 11/24/12 | Grambling State at Southern | 2:30 p.m. | Bayou Classic |
| Air Force at Fresno State | 3:30 p.m. | Mountain West |
2013 schedule
2014 schedule
2015 schedule
2016 schedule
2017 schedule
| Date | Game | Kickoff Time (Eastern Time) |
Host Conference | Network | Announcers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 09/29/17 | Dartmouth at Penn | 7:00 p.m. | Ivy League | NBCSN | Randy Moss Ross Tucker |
| Saturday 09/30/17 | Miami (OH) at Notre Dame | 5:00 p.m. | Notre Dame (Independent) | NBCSN | Paul Burmeister Doug Flutie Kathryn Tappen |
| Friday 10/20/17 | Princeton at Harvard | 7:30 p.m. | Ivy League | NBCSN | Paul Burmeister Ross Tucker |
| Saturday 10/28/17 | Cornell at Princeton | 7:00 p.m. | Ivy League | NBCSN | Paul Burmeister Ross Tucker |
| Friday 11/3/17 | Brown at Yale | 8:00 p.m. | Ivy League | NBCSN | Todd Harris Ross Tucker |
| Friday 11/10/17 | Dartmouth vs Brown | 8:00 p.m. | Ivy League | NBCSN | Paul Burmeister Ross Tucker |
| Saturday 11/18/17 | Harvard at Yale | 12:00 p.m. | Ivy League | CNBC | Paul Burmeister Ross Tucker |
| Saturday 11/25/17 | Southern vs. Grambling State | 5:00 p.m. | SWAC Bayou Classic |
NBCSN | Paul Burmeister Anthony Herron Ross Tucker Lewis Johnson |
2018 schedule
| Date | Game | Kickoff Time (Eastern Time) |
Host Conference | Network | Announcers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 11/24/18 | Southern vs. Grambling State | 4:00 p.m. | SWAC Bayou Classic |
NBCSN | Todd Harris Anthony Herron Charles Arbuckle Lewis Johnson |
2019 schedule
| Date | Game | Kickoff Time (Eastern Time) |
Host Conference | Network | Announcers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 11/23/19 | Boston College vs. Notre Dame | 2:30 p.m. | Notre Dame Independent |
NBCSN (alternate broadcast) | Paul Burmeister Ryan Harris Jack Nolan |
| Saturday 11/30/19 | Southern vs. Grambling State | 4:00 p.m. | SWAC Bayou Classic |
NBCSN | Todd Harris Anthony Herron Charles Arbuckle Lewis Johnson |
2020s
2020 schedule
| Date | Game | Kickoff Time (Eastern Time) |
Host Conference | Network | Announcers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 9/19/20 | South Florida vs. Notre Dame | 2:30 p.m. | ACC | USA | Paul Burmeister Tony Dungy Jac Collinsworth |
| Saturday 11/7/20 | Clemson vs. Notre Dame* | 7:30 p.m. | ACC | NBC/USA | Mike Tirico Tony Dungy Kathryn Tappen |
| Saturday 4/17/21 | Grambling State vs. Southern** | 2:30 p.m. | SWAC Bayou Classic |
NBCSN | Paul Burmeister Anthony Herron Lewis Johnson |
*Game moved to USA network during game due to speech by President-Elect Joe Biden[62] **Bayou Classic moved to spring 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic[63]
2021 schedule
| Date | Game | Kickoff Time (Eastern Time) |
Host Conference | Network | Announcers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 9/11/21 | Toledo vs. Notre Dame | 2:30 p.m. | Notre Dame (Independent) | Peacock | Mike Tirico (play by play) Drew Brees (color) |
| Saturday 9/18/21 | Hampton vs. Howard | 12:00 p.m. | Truth and Service Classic | NBCSN | Chris Lewis (play by play) Jay Walker (color) |
| Saturday 11/27/21 | Grambling State vs. Southern | 4:00 p.m. | SWAC Bayou Classic |
NBCSN | Chris Lewis (play by play) Anthony Herron (color) |
2022 schedule
| Date | Game | Kickoff Time (Eastern Time) |
Host Conference | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 9/17/22 | Howard vs. Morehouse | 3:00 p.m. | HBCU New York City Football Classic | CNBC |
| Saturday 10/22/22 | UNLV vs. Notre Dame | 2:30 p.m. | Notre Dame (Independent) | Peacock |
| Saturday 11/26/22 | Southern vs. Grambling State | 2:00 p.m. | SWAC Bayou Classic |
NBC |
| Saturday 12/17/22 | HBCU Pigskin Showdown | 1:00 p.m. | HBCU All Stars | CNBC |
See also
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