ESPN unveiled its weeknight primetime college football schedule for the 2013 season, and it's a lot more than just MACtion.
The highlight of the 69 games is easily Oregon-Stanford on Nov. 7, perhaps two of the top three teams in college football last season. Last year's game was an overtime thriller with the Cardinal knocking off the Ducks, 17-14, on a field goal, a loss that kept Oregon out of the national championship game and put Stanford into the Pac-12 title game. This year, the squads will meet at Stanford on a Thursday night, and the team that wins will probably be the one that represents the Pac-12 North with a chance to win the conference title.
The season's first week has a host of weeknight games: nine on Aug. 29, including North Carolina-South Carolina and the SEC's first game of the year between Ole Miss and Vanderbilt, plus four games on Aug. 30 and Florida State-Pittsburgh on Sept. 2.
There's a fair share of MAC games -- 18, to be exact -- as the high-octane mid-major conference will appear in the Tuesday/Wednesday time slots that made them the darling of the college football internets, but there's also games between the big boys. There are seven ACC conference matchups, three Pac-12 games, two games from the Big 12 and SEC, and one game from the Big Ten.
Here's the full list:
The highlight of the 69 games is easily Oregon-Stanford on Nov. 7, perhaps two of the top three teams in college football last season. Last year's game was an overtime thriller with the Cardinal knocking off the Ducks, 17-14, on a field goal, a loss that kept Oregon out of the national championship game and put Stanford into the Pac-12 title game. This year, the squads will meet at Stanford on a Thursday night, and the team that wins will probably be the one that represents the Pac-12 North with a chance to win the conference title.
The season's first week has a host of weeknight games: nine on Aug. 29, including North Carolina-South Carolina and the SEC's first game of the year between Ole Miss and Vanderbilt, plus four games on Aug. 30 and Florida State-Pittsburgh on Sept. 2.
There's a fair share of MAC games -- 18, to be exact -- as the high-octane mid-major conference will appear in the Tuesday/Wednesday time slots that made them the darling of the college football internets, but there's also games between the big boys. There are seven ACC conference matchups, three Pac-12 games, two games from the Big 12 and SEC, and one game from the Big Ten.
Here's the full list:
| Thu, Aug 29 | 6 p.m. | North Carolina at South Carolina | ESPN |
| 6 p.m. | Liberty at Kent State | ESPN3 | |
| 6:30 p.m. | Presbyterian at Wake Forest | ESPN3 | |
| 7 p.m. | Tulsa at Bowling Green | ESPNU | |
| 7 p.m. | Illinois State at Ball State | ESPN3 | |
| 7 p.m. | Akron at Central Florida | ESPN3 | |
| 7:30pm | Towson at Connecticut | ESPN3 | |
| 7:30 p.m. | Southern Utah at South Alabama | ESPN3 | |
| 9:15 p.m. | Ole Miss at Vanderbilt | ESPN | |
| 10:30 p.m. | Rutgers at Fresno State | ESPNU | |
| Fri, Aug 30 | 7 p.m. | Samford at Georgia State | ESPN3 |
| 8 p.m. | Texas Tech at SMU | ESPN | |
| 8 p.m. | Florida Atlantic at Miami | ESPNU | |
| 8:30 p.m. | Southern at Houston | ESPN3 | |
| Mon, Sep 2 | 8 p.m. | Florida State at Pittsburgh | ESPN |
| Fri, Sep 6 | 8 p.m. | Wake Forest at Boston College | ESPN2 |
| Thu, Sept 12 | 7:30 p.m. | TCU at Texas Tech | ESPN |
| 7:30 p.m. | Troy at Arkansas State | ESPNU | |
| Fri, Sep 13 | 8 p.m. | Air Force at Boise State | ESPN |
| Thu, Sep 19 | 7:30 p.m. | Clemson at NC State | ESPN |
| Fri, Sep 20 | 9 p.m. | Boise State at Fresno State | ESPN |
| Thu, Sep 26 | 7:30 p.m. | Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech | ESPN |
| Fri, Sep 27 | 9 p.m. | Utah State at San Jose State | ESPN |
| 9 p.m. | Middle Tennessee at BYU | ESPNU | |
| Thu, Oct 3 | 7:30 p.m. | Texas at Iowa State | ESPN |
| 7:30 p.m. | Western Kentucky at Louisiana-Monroe | ESPNU | |
| Fri, Oct 4 | 9 p.m. | Nevada at San Diego State | ESPN |
| Thu, Oct 10 | 7:30 p.m. | Rutgers at Louisville | ESPN |
| Fri, Oct 11 | 8:30 p.m. | Temple at Cincinnati | ESPN or ESPN2 |
| Tue, Oct 15 | 8 p.m. | Louisiana-Lafayette at Western Kentucky | ESPN2 |
| Thu, Oct 17 | 7:30 p.m. | Miami at North Carolina | ESPN |
| Fri, Oct 18 | 8 p.m. | Central Florida at Louisville | ESPN |
| Tue, Oct 22 | 8 p.m. | Louisiana-Lafayette at Arkansas State | ESPN2 |
| Thu, Oct 24 | 7:30 p.m. | Kentucky at Mississippi State | ESPN |
| Fri, Oct 25 | 8 p.m. | Boise State at BYU | ESPN |
| Wed, Oct 30 | 8 p.m. | Cincinnati at Memphis | ESPN2 |
| Thu, Oct 31 | 7 p.m. | South Florida at Houston | ESPN |
| 7:30 p.m. | Louisiana-Monroe at Troy | ESPNU | |
| 10:30 p.m. | Arizona State at Washington State | ESPN | |
| Fri, Nov 1 | 9 p.m. | USC at Oregon State | ESPN2 |
| Tue, Nov 5 | 8 p.m. | Bowling Green at Miami (Ohio) | ESPN2 or ESPNU |
| 8 p.m. | Ohio at Buffalo | ESPN2 or ESPNU | |
| Wed, Nov 6 | 8 p.m. | Central Michigan at Ball State | ESPN2 |
| Thu, Nov 7 | 7:30 p.m. | Troy at Louisiana-Lafayette | ESPNU |
| 9 p.m. | Oregon at Stanford | ESPN | |
| Fri, Nov 8 | 8:30 p.m. | Louisville at Connecticut | ESPN2 |
| 9 p.m. | Air Force at New Mexico | ESPNU | |
| Tue, Nov 12 | 7:30 p.m. | Ohio at Bowling Green | ESPNU or ESPN3 |
| 7:30 p.m. | Buffalo at Toledo | ESPNU or ESPN3 | |
| Wed, Nov 13 | 8 p.m. | Ball State at Northern Illinois | ESPN2 or ESPNU |
| 8 p.m. | Miami (Ohio) at Kent State | ESPN2 or ESPNU | |
| Thu, Nov 14 | 7:30 p.m. | Georgia Tech at Clemson | ESPN |
| Fri, Nov 15 | 9 p.m. | Washington at UCLA | ESPN2 |
| Tue, Nov 19 | 8 p.m. | Kent State at Ohio | ESPN2 or ESPNU |
| 8 p.m. | Buffalo at Miami (Ohio) | ESPN2 or ESPNU | |
| Wed, Nov 20 | 8 p.m. | Northern Illinois at Toledo | ESPN2 |
| Thu, Nov 21 | 7:30 p.m. | Rutgers at UCF | ESPN |
| 9:30 p.m. | UNLV at Air Force | ESPNU | |
| Fri, Nov 22 | 9:30 p.m. | Navy at San Jose State | ESPN2 |
| Tue, Nov 26 | 7 p.m. | Western Michigan at Northern Illinois | ESPN2 |
| Thu, Nov 28 | 7:30 p.m. | Ole Miss at Mississippi State | ESPN |
| Fri, Nov 29 | Noon | Iowa at Nebraska | ABC |
| TBD | Miami at Pittsburgh | ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 | |
| TBD | South Florida at Central Florida | ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 | |
| TBD | SMU at Houston | ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 | |
| TBD | Mid-American Conference TBD | ESPNU | |
| TBD | Mid-American Conference TBD | ESPN3 | |
| Thu, Dec 5 | 7:30 p.m. | Louisville at Cincinnati | ESPN |
| Fri, Dec 6 | 8 p.m. | Marathon MAC Championship (from Detroit) | ESPN2 |
