College football's first full weekend of action stretches from the Thursday night kickoffs all the way a Monday night contest between Tennessee and Georgia Tech in Atlanta's brand new Mercedes-Benz Stadium, with at least one big-time game every day of the holiday weekend.
The kickoff times have been set for several nationally televised games, which you can find below (Updated: May 31, 2017).
Date | Time (ET) | Matchup | TV |
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Thursday, Aug. 26 | 7:30 p.m. | USF at San Jose State | CBSSN |
Thursday, Aug. 31 | 7:30 p.m. | Tulsa at Oklahoma State | FS1 |
8 p.m. | ESPN | ||
8:30 p.m. | Louisiana-Monroe at Memphis | CBSSN | |
Friday, Sept. 1 | 9 p.m. | ESPN | |
9:30 p.m. | Boston College at Northern Illinois | CBSSN | |
Saturday Sept. 2 | Noon | ESPN | |
Noon | Akron at Penn State | ABC | |
12:20 p.m. | Cal at North Carolina | ACC Network | |
3 p.m. | South Carolina vs. NC State (Charlotte, North Carolina) | ESPN | |
3:30 p.m. | ABC | ||
3:30 p.m. | Temple at Notre Dame | NBC | |
4 p.m. | CBSSN | ||
6:15 p.m. | ESPN | ||
7:30 p.m. | Louisville vs. Purdue (Indianapolis) | FOX | |
8 p.m. | Florida State vs. Alabama (Atlanta) | ABC | |
9:30 p.m. | LSU vs. BYU (Houston) | ESPN | |
Sunday, Sept. 3 | 7:30 p.m. | Texas A&M at UCLA | FOX |
7:30 p.m. | West Virginia vs. Virginia Tech (Landover, Maryland) | ABC | |
Monday, Sept. 4 | 8 p.m. | Tennessee vs. Georgia Tech (Atlanta) | ABC |