{"id":889762,"date":"2026-10-21T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/889762\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T07:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:24:10","slug":"your-2026-week-8-college-football-announcing-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/889762\/","title":{"rendered":"Your 2026 Week 8 college football announcing schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It will be hard to top <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/college-football\/playoff-expansion-ruining-regular-season-24-teams.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">last weekend in college football<\/a>, but Week 8 features two ranked games and some other marquee matchups that should make for entertaining television.<\/p>\n<p>No. 6 Indiana and Michigan will meet at \u201cThe Big House\u201d for the Fox Big Noon Saturday matchup. Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt will have the call.<\/p>\n<p>In that same 12 p.m. ET slot, Lane Kiffin and No. 18 LSU will take on Auburn at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Sean McDonough and Greg McElroy will call for ABC.<\/p>\n<p>No. 7 Ole Miss and No. 19 Texas will meet for the ABC Saturday Night Football game in Austin (7:30 p.m. ET). Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit will deliver the commentary.<\/p>\n<p>And the final game of Week 8 will feature a Big 12 showdown between No. 14 Houston and No. 10 Utah (10:15 p.m. ET). Tom Hart and Roddy Jones will call for ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the television networks and announcers for the Week 8 FBS college football games (all times are Eastern).<\/p>\n<p>(You can pass along further details on omissions or corrections to mclapp@awfulannouncing.com)<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, October 20<\/p>\n<p>Middle Tennessee at Florida International (7 p.m., CBS Sports Network): Justin Kutcher (play-by-play), Ben DiNucci (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Missouri State at Delaware (7 p.m., ESPNU): Mike Corey (play-by-play), Craig Haubert (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>South Alabama at Marshall (7:30 p.m., ESPN2): Clay Matvick (play-by-play), Rocky Boiman (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday October 21<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico State at Sam Houston (8 p.m., ESPN2): Jorge Sedano (play-by-play), Rodney McLeod (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, October 22<\/p>\n<p>James Madison at App State (7 p.m., ESPNU): Taylor Zarzour (play-by-play), Jeff Woody (analyst), Michella Chester (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Liberty at Kennesaw State (7 p.m., CBS Sports Network):\u00a0Jordan Kent (play-by-play), Robert Turbin (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>East Carolina at Memphis (7:30 p.m., ESPN2): Matt Barrie (play-by-play), Chase Daniel (analyst), Paul Carcaterra (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Friday, October 23<\/p>\n<p>Duke at Virginia (7 p.m., ESPN): Mike Monaco (play-by-play), Jordan Rodgers (analyst), Dana Boyle (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts at UConn (7 p.m., CBS Sports Network): Jack Gordon (play-by-play), Taylor McHargue (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Army at Tulsa (8:30 p.m., ESPN2): Courtney Lyle (play-by-play), Rene Ingoglia (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Air Force at Wyoming (9 p.m., The CW): Chris Fisher (play-by-play), Isaiah Stanback (analyst), Bryan Walters (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>NC State at Stanford (10:30 p.m., ESPN): Anish Shroff (play-by-play), Andre Ware (analyst), Morgan Uber (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, October 24<\/p>\n<p>No. 6 Indiana at Michigan (12 p.m., Fox): Gus Johnson (play-by-play), Joel Klatt (analyst), Jenny Taft (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh at No. 1 Miami (12 p.m., ESPN): Bob Wischusen (play-by-play), Louis Riddick (analyst), Stormy Buonantony (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>No. 18 LSU at Auburn (12 p.m., ABC):\u00a0Sean McDonough (play-by-play), Greg McElroy (analyst), Katie George (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>No. 8 Texas Tech at Cincinnati (12 p.m., FS1): Jack Kizer (play-by-play), Mark Helfrich (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia at TCU (12 p.m., ESPN2): Chuckie Kempf (play-by-play), Dustin Fox (analyst), Laura Stickells (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Rutgers at No. 24 Northwestern (12 p.m., Peacock): Paul Burmeister (play-by-play), Yogi Roth (analyst)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>California at No. 23 SMU (12 p.m., The CW): Thom Brennaman (play-by-play), Jason Cabinda (analyst), Wes Bryant (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Western Michigan at Toledo (12 p.m., CBS Sports Network):\u00a0TBD<\/p>\n<p>Rice at Florida Atlantic (12 p.m., ESPNU): Richard Cross (play-by-play), Craig Haubert (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Baylor at Kansas (1 p.m., TNT): J.B. Long (play-by-play), Mike Golic Jr. (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Miami Ohio at Central Michigan (1 p.m., ESPN+): Evan Stockton (play-by-play), Marcus Ray (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Akron at Kent State (1 p.m., ESPN+): Michael Reghi (play-by-play), Barrett Brooks (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Oregon at Illinois (3 p.m., Big Ten Network): Chris Vosters (play-by-play), Jake Butt (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Texas A&amp;M at No. 13 Alabama (3:30 p.m., ABC):\u00a0Joe Tessitore (play-by-play), Jesse Palmer (analyst), Kris Budden (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>No. 2 BYU at UCF (3:30 p.m., Fox): Connor Onion (play-by-play), Robert Griffin III (analyst), Alexa Landestoy (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>No. 11 Tennessee at South Carolina (3:30 p.m., ESPN+): Wes Durham (play-by-play), Dusty Dvoracek (analyst), Taylor McGregor (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>No. 15 Iowa at Minnesota (3:30 p.m., FS1): Tim Brando (play-by-play), Devin Gardner (analyst), Josh Sims (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State at No. 9 UCLA (3:30 p.m., CBS): Brad Nessler (play-by-play), Charles Davis (analyst), Jenny Dell (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma at Mississippi State (3:30 p.m., SEC Network):\u00a0Dave Neal (play-by-play), Cole Cubelic (analyst), Tori Petry (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Boston College at Georgia Tech (3:30 p.m., ACC Network): Roxy Bernstein (play-by-play), Dave Clawson (analyst), Madison Hock (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>North Texas at Navy (3:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network): John Sadak (play-by-play), Randy Cross (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Bowling Green at Buffalo (3:30 p.m., ESPN+): Anthony Lima (play-by-play), Ryan Cavanaugh (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Hawai\u2019i at Northern Illinois (3:30 p.m., MW+ and K5): Matt Rodewald (play-by-play), Clay Harbor (analyst); Kanoa Leahey (play-by-play), Rich Miano (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State at Ball State (3:30 p.m., ESPN+): Joe Tordy (play-by-play), Forrest Conoly (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Kansas State at Arizona State (3:45 p.m., ESPN2): Jay Alter (play-by-play), Tom Luginbill (analyst), Lauren Sisler (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Michigan at Ohio (4 p.m., ESPNU): Doug Sherman (play-by-play), Tyoka Jackson (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>UL Monroe at Troy (4 p.m., ESPN+):\u00a0TBD<\/p>\n<p>San Jos\u00e9 State at Nevada (5 p.m., MW+):\u00a0TBD<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana at Southern Miss (5 p.m., ESPN+):\u00a0TBD<\/p>\n<p>Old Dominion at Louisiana Tech (5 p.m., ESPN+):\u00a0TBD<\/p>\n<p>No. 21 Boise State at Washington State (6 p.m., USA): Nate Gatter (play-by-play), Ryan Leaf (analyst), Lauren Green (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>San Diego State at Colorado State (6:30 p.m., The CW): Rick Allen (play-by-play), Will Blackmon (analyst), Michael Bumpus (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Tech at Clemson (7 p.m., ESPN): Roy Philpott (play-by-play), Brock Osweiler (analyst), Sherree Burruss (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Colorado at Oklahoma State (7 p.m., FS1): Carlo Jim\u00e9nez (play-by-play), Robert Smith (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Georgia State at Arkansas State (7 p.m., ESPN+):\u00a0TBD<\/p>\n<p>No. 7 Ole Miss at No. 19 Texas (7:30 p.m., ABC): Chris Fowler (play-by-play), Kirk Herbstreit (analyst), Holly Rowe (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>No. 16 USC at Wisconsin (7:30 p.m., NBC): Noah Eagle (play-by-play), Todd Blackledge (analyst), Kathryn Tappen (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt at No. 12 Kentucky (7:30 p.m., SEC Network):\u00a0Matt Schumacker (play-by-play), Aaron Murray (analyst), Taylor Davis (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Iowa State at No. 25 Arizona (7:30 p.m., ESPN2): Lowell Galindo (play-by-play), Kirk Morrison (analyst), Dawn Davenport (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Syracuse at North Carolina (7:30, ACC Network): Justin Kutcher (play-by-play), Max Browne (analyst), Madison Fitzpatrick (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Utah State at Texas State (7:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network): Rich Waltz (play-by-play), Adam Breneman (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>UTSA at Tulane (8 p.m., ESPNU): Ted Emrich (play-by-play), Fozzy Whittaker (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota State at New Mexico (10 p.m., The CW): Jack McMullen (play-by-play), Cody Kessler (analyst), Marshall Newhouse (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>No. 14 Houston at No. 10 Utah (10:15 p.m., ESPN): Tom Hart (play-by-play), Roddy Jones (analyst), Quint Kessenich (reporter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It will be hard to top last weekend in college football, but Week 8 features two ranked games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-889762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}