College football week #11: Full TV schedule; All networks, times, every announcer, CBS has LSU-Alabama
Saturday announced a doubleheader next Saturday, the 16th: Florida at Missouri and Georgia at Auburn

WEEK 11
- Well, no more complaining please. We have it down to a five-day work week. College football begins on a Tuesday and ends on a Saturday. That’s five straight days on the college gridiron. It’s the first time this season that between the NFL and college, there are live games every day of the week
- Some compelling games this weekend, none bigger than rivals (2) LSU and (1) Alabama. It airs at 3:30 on CBS. Wondering why it wasn’t moved to primetime. Wouldn’t CBS have preferred it in prime? Was there an issue between CBS and the SEC?
- Lisa Byington goes back to the sideline for Illinois at Michigan State. A good reporter, she’s better suited there than in the play-by-play chair
- Dave Ryan is doing a couple games this weekend, one for CBS Sports, Tuesday’s Kent State at Toledo and then Saturday’s UAB at Southern Miss game, aired on NFL Network
- Mark Jones stays home in South Florida for Louisville at Miami telecast
- Tim Brando has already been assigned basketball by Fox. He and partner Spencer Tillman are in Madison for football Saturday, Iowa at Wisconsin
- There’s nothing like a rivalry with great heritage when the opponents are highly ranked. CBS says that its coverage of the Georgia-Florida game last Saturday scored big. The telecast attracted an average of 6.978 million viewers and was Saturday’s most-watched college football game on any network. Moreover, CBS Says, Georgia-Florida was the most-watched meeting between the teams in 32 years. I would imagine that the Georgia-Florida numbers will be topped this Saturday when the Tiffany Network runs the LSU-Alabama showdown.
- Next Saturday, November 16th, CBS runs an SEC doubleheader beginning at high noon. Carter Blackburn and Aaron Taylor preside over Florida at Missouri and Brad Nessler and Gary Danielson will have Georgia at Auburn
- Ryan Leaf crawled through darkness as a young adult. A number two pick overall from Washington State, he was addicted to drugs and emerged as a bust in the NFL. He says he’s on the recovery trail and now lectures against addiction. ESPN has given him work this collegiate season as an analyst. Last week, I had a chance to listen. Ryan’swell spoken but will need to prepare more thoroughly. If he does he’s got a shot at getting steady work. There are lots of openings each Saturday. With streaming, there are well over 100 games available available on some platform
- Brian Custer and Robert Smith hope to rebound from a challenging broadcast last Saturday night. They lacked fill material in covering Indiana’s blowout win on FS1 over Northwestern. They have Baylor at TCU this Saturday
- Sideliners? CBS’ Jamie Erdahl is on LSU at Alabama; Fox’ Jenny Taft is on Maryland at Ohio State; the highly praised Maria Taylor is with ESPN’s A team for Clemson at North Carolina State and Kevin Harlan’s daughter, Olivia Decker has Louisville at Miami on ESPN
- Game Day will be as you’d expect in Tuscaloosa. It means that Kirk (Herbie Pulpit) charters from there to Raleigh for the ABC’s primetime telecast, Clemson at N. C. State
Jake Basin profiles Roy Philpott, just below the full schedule
Tuesday, Nov. 5
Kent State at Toledo | 7 p.m. | CBSSN Dave Ryan, Corey Chavous
Ball State at Western Michigan | 8 p.m. | ESPN2 Mark Neely, Tom Ramsey
Wednesday, Nov. 6
Miami (OH) at Ohio | 8 p.m. | ESPN2 Matt Barrie, Desmond Howard
Thursday, Nov. 7
Louisiana at Coastal Carolina | 7:30 p.m. | ESPNU Dave LaMont, Ray Bentley
Temple at South Florida | 8 p.m. | ESPN Adam Amin, Matt Hasselbeck
Friday, Nov. 8
UCF at Tulsa | 7 p.m. | ESPN2 Dave Flemming, Gene Chizik
Washington at Oregon State | 10:30 p.m. | FS1 Cory Provus, Shane Vereen, Petros Papadakis
Saturday, Nov. 9
Penn State at Minnesota | 12 p.m. | ABC Sean McDonough, Todd Blackledge
Vanderbilt at Florida | 12 p.m. | ESPN Bob Wischusen, Dan Orlovsky
Florida State at Boston College | 12 p.m. | ACC Network Wes Durham, Roddy Jones, Eric Wood
Maryland at Ohio State | 12 p.m. | FOX Gus Johnson, Joel Klatt
Texas Tech at West Virginia | 12 p.m. | ESPN2 Beth Mowins, Anthony Bech
Purdue at Northwestern | 12 p.m. | Big Ten Network Brandon Gaudin, James Laurinaiti
UMass at Army | 12 p.m. | CBSSN Ben Holden, Ross Tucker
East Carolina at SMU | 12 p.m. | ESPNU/FLIPCARD Mike Couzens, Kirk Morrison
Western Kentucky at Arkansas | 12 p.m. | SEC Network Taylor Zarzour, Matt Stinchcomb
Baylor at TCU | 12 p.m. | FS1 Brian Custer, Robert Smith
Georgia Tech at Virginia | 12:30 p.m. | ACC Network Extra Tom Werme, James Bates,
Air Force at New Mexico | 2 p.m. | AT&T Sportsnet Drew Goodman, Sed Bonner,
UTSA at Old Dominion | 2 p.m. | ESPN3 Ted Alexander, Andy Mashaw
Stanford at Colorado | 3 p.m. | Pac-12 Networks Guy Haberman, Anthony Herron
Charlotte at UTEP | 3 p.m. | ESPN+ Andy Morgan, Trevor Vittatoe
South Alabama at Texas State | 3 p.m. | ESPN3 Brant Freeman, Joplo Bartu
LSU at Alabama | 3:30 p.m. | CBS Brad Nessler, Gary Danielson
Illinois at Michigan State | 3:30 p.m. | FS1 Kevin Kugler, Matt Millen
Southern California at Arizona State | 3:30 p.m. | ABC Jason Benetti, Rod Gilmore
UAB at Southern Miss | 3:30 p.m. | NFL Network Dave Ryan, Michael Robinson
Louisville at Miami | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN2 Mark Jones, Dusty Dvoracek
Wake Forest at Virginia Tech | 3:30 p.m. | ACC Network Chris Cotter, Mark Herzlich
Kansas State at Texas | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN Dave Pasch, Greg McElroy
Georgia Southern at Troy | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN+ Matt Stewart, Wayne Gandy
UConn at Cincinnati | 3:30 p.m. | CBSSN Rich Waltz, Aaron Murray
New Mexico State at Ole Miss | 4 p.m. | SEC Network Dave Neal, D.J. Shockley
Iowa at Wisconsin | 4 p.m. | FOX Tim Brando, Spencer Tillman
North Texas at Louisiana Tech | 4 p.m. | Stadium/Facebook Chris Hassell, AJ Hawk
Georgia State at UL Monroe | 5 p.m. | ESPN+ Doug Anderson, Chris Mycoskie
Florida International at Florida Atlantic | 6 p.m. | Stadium Noah Coslov, Max Starks
Missouri at Georgia | 7 p.m. | ESPN Steve Levy, Brian Griese, Todd McShay
Washington State at California | 7 p.m. | Pac-12 Networks Ted Robinson, Yogi Roth
Appalachian State at South Carolina | 7 p.m. | ESPN2 Anish Shroff, John Congemi
Utah State at Fresno State | 7 p.m. | CBSSN Carter Blackburn, Aaron Taylor
Clemson at N.C. State | 7:30 p.m. | ABC Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit,
Notre Dame at Duke | 7:30 p.m. | ACC Network Dave O’Brien , Tim Hasselbeck,
Liberty at BYU | 7:30 p.m. | ESPNU Mike Corey, Rene Ingoglia
Tennessee at Kentucky | 7:30 p.m. | SEC Network Tom Hart, Jordan Rodgers
Iowa State at Oklahoma | 8 p.m. | FOX Joe Davis, Brock Huard,
Wyoming at Boise State | 10:15 p.m. | ESPN Roy Philpott, Kelly Stouffer
Nevada at San Diego State | 10:30 p.m. | ESPN+ Clay Matvick, Ryan Leaf
San Jose State at Hawai’i | 11 p.m. | Spectrum Sports Robert Kekaula, Rich Miano, Scott Robbs
Roy Philpott by Jake Baskin
Roy Philpott has the call for ESPN’s mid-major nightcap between Wyoming and 22nd-ranked Boise State on Saturday night. He’s is in his first season as one of ESPN’s main Saturday rotation and has veteran analyst and former Colorado State quarterback Kelly Stouffer by his side.
Philpott, 44, graduated from Clemson with a degree in computer engineering. He got his start in sports media as a web developer, launching a website dedicated to Clemson athletics in 2001. The site was soon affiliated with Fox Sports and it allowed him to write under a national banner. He continued in his role as the publisher of the site into his tenure with ESPN.
Roy started his on-air career in 2003 as a radio host in his home state of South Carolina, and got his first television job as the play-by-play announcer for the ABC affiliate in Asheville, North Carolina, that covered high school and college football as well as Minor League Baseball. He also returned to his alma mater as the radio voice of Clemson baseball and women’s basketball and as pre- and post-game host for Tigers football and men’s basketball.
ESPN brought Philpott into the fold in 2013 as a play-by-play announcer for college football, basketball, and baseball. He has quickly risen up the ranks in football, spending three seasons with Tom Ramsey in ESPN’s secondary Saturday rotation before being promoted to the primary group in 2019.