College Football Week Two TV/Streaming Schedule

It’s a bye week for the good guys, and surely your football jones hasn’t been satiated by one measly long weekend. So you get to sit back and enjoy a full slate of games without any stress, and that’s always nice.

The day starts off with... well, nothing exciting. Indeed, the most interesting game of the morning flight is interesting because of off-field issues, as the sixth-ranked team in FCS, Charleston Southern, visits #3 Florida State. In the wake of their thrilling yet disappointing loss in Fargo two weeks ago, CSU will probably have to play the Seminoles with 14 players suspended for the horrible crime of spending their book money at the school bookstore on things that weren’t books.

I’m not joking when I say the two best televised games of the morning are off your radar. They’re both on ESPN3. Slippery Rock, ranked #11 in D-II, takes on in-state rival West Chester. In NAIA action, the boys from Baldwin head to Iowa as #5 Baker visits #23 William Penn.

The early afternoon is a bit better. Top-ranked Alabama hosts a feisty Western Kentucky team in a game our pals at Roll Bama Roll are more worried about than they were USC last week. But, once again, the real action is on the undercard. For the second game in a row, FCS #1 North Dakota State hosts a top-ten squad. This time, it’s #7 Eastern Washington, a team that’s already sporting a win over an FBS squad. As we drift into late afternoon, #14 Montana visits #3 Northern Iowa. Both of those games are also on ESPN3.

As we head into the dinner hour, we finally get some FBS games of interest as Arkansas visits #15 TCU. Iowa State visits #16 Iowa in a game that is always prone to laughter, and FCS #4 Jacksonville State -- you remember them taking Auburn to overtime one year ago — visiting #21 and offense-challenged LSU. But the big guns in the early evening window is the Holy War, as BYU visits Utah, and that ridiculous Tennessee-Virginia Tech tilt at Bristol Motor Speedway.

The late game selections once again slide into uninspiring territory, although Texas Tech at Arizona State could be interesting. But it’s football, and that’s the important thing.

So grab your favorite adult beverage, tilt back that recliner, and join us for a worry-free Saturday! This is your bye week open thread. As always, the schedule includes all games airing on any nationally-available network plus all games carried on ESPN3, regardless of division.