As TV details begin to trickle out for next fall’s college football season, Sports Media Watch has fans covered with a comprehensive look at the ways to watch FBS football in 2025. The first three weeks of the season were released Thursday, with the rest of the season released week-by-week. For more information, check out this feature on how the college football TV schedule comes together.
For the full college football schedule, with more television announcements as they arrive, visit SMW’s schedule page.
Broadcast TV
ABC
- ABC will once again go big on the SEC, opening up the season with a strong tripleheader of intraconference matchups. Syracuse will face Tennesse in Atlanta at noon, followed by Alabama-Florida State at 3:30 and LSU-Clemson at 7:30.
- In Week 2, Ole Miss-Kentucky kicks off conference play before a high-profile matchup between Michigan and Oklahoma. Week 3 is highlighted by rivalry games between Georgia and Tennessee at 3:30 and Florida and LSU at 7:30.
- ESPN and ABC will also air neutral site rivalry games from the SEC: Oklahoma-Texas from the Cotton Bowl on October 11 and Georgia-Florida in Jacksonville on November
- ABC will also televise a handful of games from the ACC, Big 12, and American.
- The Week 1 Sunday game will return, featuring Notre Dame-Miami in primetime.
- ABC will close the regular season with four conference championship games from the American, Big 12, SEC, and ACC.
FOX
- FOX will air matchups from the Big Ten, Big 12, and Mountain West conferences.
- Fox’s coverage gets started in Week 0 with Fresno State visiting Kansas, before featuring an Auburn-Baylor showdown on Friday night of Week 1.
- Opening up Week 1 on Saturday will be a CFP semifinal rematch between Texas and Ohio State, followed by South Dakota-Iowa State and Utah-UCLA in the late nit window.
- Week 2 will feature an interstate rivalry between Iowa and Iowa State at noon, with Colorado anchoring the afternoon slot against Delaware. Week 3 features the Oregon Ducks visiting Northwestern at noon, followed by Oregon State at Texas Tech.
- FOX will also air the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry on November 29, followed by the Big Ten Championship on December 6. Fox will also carry the Mountain West Championship Game on December 5.
NBC and CBS
- NBC and CBS will rotate the first, second, and third picks with Fox for weekly Big Ten games. CBS’s games will air at 3:30 PM ET, with NBC in primetime.
- CBS will also have a Week Zero game featuring Stanford visiting Hawai’i. Big Ten coverage kicks off in the network’s traditional 3:30 PM window with Nevada-Penn State in Week 1, USC-Purdue in Week 2, and Michigan-Nebraska in Week 3.
- CBS will get a Black Friday doubleheader, featuring Iowa-Nebraska at noon and Boise State-Utah State at 4 PM.
- NBC begins its coverage in Ann Arbor as the Michigan Wolverines host New Mexico. The highlight of NBC’s schedule is Penn State’s annual “White Out” game on September 27, which will feature Oregon this year.
- NBC will also televise all Notre Dame home games, including including matchups against Texas A&M and USC in primetime.
- CBS will also televise all three legs of the Commander-In-Chief’s trophy: Air Force-Navy on October 4, Army-Air Force on November 1, and Army-Navy on December 13.
The CW
- The CW will continue to carry a weekly ACC football game this season, scheduled around its expanded NASCAR coverage. The year’s slate begins with Baylor-SMU in Week 2.
- The CW will also carry most of the home games from the Pac-12 Conference (i.e., Oregon State and Washington State), beginning with Fresno State-Oregon State on September 6.
Cable
National Networks
- ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU will combine to televise at least a dozen games weekly from the SEC, ACC, Big 12, American, Sun Belt, MAC, and CUSA.
- ESPN will feature the American and Sun Belt on Thursday nights, and the Big 12 and ACC on Friday nights. Notable ACC Friday games include Louisville at Miami on October 17, North Carolina at Syracuse on October 31, and Clemson at Louisville on November 14.
- ESPN will also televise the bulk of the College Football Playoff, with two games also simulcast on ABC.
- FS1 will carry games from the Big Ten, Big 12, and Mountain West conferences.
- CBSSN will continue to televise coverage from the MAC, CUSA, and MWC, as well as most home games from Army and Navy.
Conference Networks
- SEC Network will air a full slate of Saturday games at 12:45 PM, 4:15 PM, and 7:45 PM.
- ACC Network will carry Saturday games at noon, 3:30 PM, and a featured game at 8:00.
- Big Ten Network will carry Saturday games. Big Ten women’s volleyball is also featured on BTN on Saturdays.
Streaming
- Peacock will air games from the Big Ten, beginning with Western Illinois-Illinois on August 29, and the NC State-Notre Dame game on October 11. Peacock will also simulcast all of NBC’s coverage.
- Paramount+ will simulcast all games airing on the CBS broadcast network, and HBO Max will carry all games from TNT.
- ESPN+ will stream all games not selected for linear television from the Big 12, MAC, CUSA, American, and Sun Belt.
- ESPN+ will also stream one non-conference home game from every SEC and ACC team. These can also be accessed without ESPN+ with pay-TV access to SEC Network and ACC Network.
- Last season, nearly every ABC game was simulcast on ESPN+.
- The free Mountain West Network will carry games from the MWC not selected for linear broadcast.
Correction: a previous version of this article suggested that Fox’s noon window would exclusively feature Big Ten games. This has been confirmed to not be the case.
