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College Football TV Schedule and Rooting Guide for Vols fans (with Vols hoops): Week 13

Here’s the Week 13 college football TV schedule, curated for Vols fans. As always, it includes kickoff times, TV stations, and what might be of interest to a Vols fan, along with helpful suggestions on how to watch everything most efficiently and who to root for in each game. We’ve also tossed in Vols hoops this week.

The full (football) schedule for the entire weekend is also included at the bottom of the post.

Go Vols!

Tuesday-Thursday, November 21-23

Date Time TV Away Team Home Team Why How Root For
Tuesday 7:00 PM ESPN3 Bowling Green Eastern Michigan It's football. Pick one and relax.
Tuesday 7:00 PM ESPNU Kent State Akron
Tuesday 7:00 PM ESPN3 Miami, OH Ball State
Wednesday 12:00 PM ESPN2 Tennessee Purdue GO VOLS! Live GO VOLS!
Thursday 12:30/7:00 TBD Tennessee Villanova/WKU GO VOLS! Live GO VOLS!
Thursday 7:30 PM ESPN Ole Miss (16) Mississippi State Dan Mullen in action Live Mississippi State

 

As far as we know, Dan Mullen is still in play to be Tennessee’s next head coach, so Thursday provides a chance to kick his tires a bit. Plus, if you haven’t checked out Vols hoops yet, you should. They’re fun to watch, and they have at least one really good opportunity to build a nice resume Wednesday, and, depending on how Wednesday goes, perhaps another one Thursday.

Friday, November 24

On tap on Black Friday? More hoops, plus a bunch of Tennessee football coaching candidate watching. I don’t know how viable of a candidate Gary Patterson is, but you get a chance to watch him in action at noon, and then at 3:30, we get a look at both Charlie Strong and Scott Frost. The Nebraska game at 4:00 made the curated list because of the fragile hope that the Huskers have such a huge win that they decide not to fire their coach and therefore miss out on alum Scott Frost.

Time TV Away Team Home Team Why How Root For
TBD TBD Tennessee TBD GO VOLS! Live GO VOLS!
12:00 PM FS1 Baylor (12) TCU Gary Patterson Live TCU
3:30 PM ABC USF (15) UCF Charlie Strong/Scott Frost Live Discuss
4:00 PM FS1 Iowa Nebraska Scott Frost Peek in Huskers

 

Saturday, November 25

I LOVE rivalry week, and this is a good one, with a couple of games featuring ranked rivals going at each other. The Iron Bowl, in particular, should be fun to watch. Plus, there are a ton of opportunities to watch Vols coaching candidates in action. Oh, and the Vols send out their seniors against Vanderbilt at 4:00 on the SECN.

Time TV Away Team Home Team Why How Root For
12:00 PM ABC (7) Georgia Georgia Tech Former opponents Channel hop The flexbone
12:00 PM FOX (9) Ohio State (24) Michigan Big game/Greg Schiano Channel hop
12:00 PM ESPNU East Carolina (21) Memphis Mike Norvell Channel hop
12:00 PM SECN Louisville Kentucky Bobby Petrino Channel hop
12:00 PM CBSSN Tulane SMU Chad Morris Channel hop
12:30 PM RSN Duke Wake Forest David Cutcliffe Channel hop
3:30 PM CBS (1) Alabama (6) Auburn HUGE GAME Live/Peek in Auburn
3:30 PM BTN (10) Penn State Maryland James Franklin/D.J. Durkin DVR
3:30 PM ESPN2 Iowa State Kansas State Matt Campbell DVR
4:00 PM SECN Vanderbilt Tennessee GO VOLS! Live GO VOLS!
7:30 PM SECN Texas A&M (20) LSU Coaching search Peek in Texas A&M
8:00 PM FOX (14) Washington State (18) Washington Mike Leach Live

 

Noon slot

At noon, there’s a big game between ranked rivals Ohio State and Michigan that also features a Tennessee coaching candidate in Buckeyes’ defensive coordinator Greg Schiano. There are also a handful of other coaching candidates in action, plus a chance to see if Georgia might have some trouble with Georgia Tech’s flexbone offense.

Afternoon slot

In the afternoon slot, an absolutely huge Iron Bowl will test your devotion to the Vols. There are a couple of other coaching candidates to watch as well, but there’s too much competition to really pay much attention to them unless you want to DVR them.

Evening slot

The evening period gives you a chance to root for Texas A&M to not fire their coach and present Tennessee with additional competition on the coaching carousel. Mike Leach is also in action.

Complete college football TV schedule for Week 13

And here’s the complete football schedule for the week, paginated and searchable!

DATE TIME TV AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM
Tuesday 7:00 PM ESPN3 Bowling Green Eastern Michigan
Tuesday 7:00 PM ESPNU Kent State Akron
Tuesday 7:00 PM ESPN3 Miami, OH Ball State
Wednesday 12:00 PM ESPN2 Tennessee Basketball Purdue
Thursday 12:30/7:00 TBD Tennessee Basketball Villanova/WKU
Thursday 7:30 PM ESPN Ole Miss (16) Mississippi State
Friday TBD TBD Tennessee Basketball TBD
Friday 11:30 AM ESPNU Western Michigan Toledo
Friday 12:00 PM ABC (3) Miami, FL Pittsburgh
Friday 12:00 PM FS1 Baylor (12) TCU
Friday 12:00 PM ESPN Navy Houston
Friday 12:00 PM CBSSN NIU Central Michigan
Friday 1:00 PM ESPN3 Ohio Buffalo
Friday 2:30 PM CBS Missouri Arkansas
Friday 3:30 PM CBSSN New Mexico San Diego State
Friday 3:30 PM ABC USF (15) UCF
Friday 4:00 PM FS1 Iowa Nebraska
Friday 4:00 PM ESPN3 Texas State Troy
Friday 7:00 PM beIN SPORTS WKU FIU
Friday 8:00 PM FOX Texas Tech Texas
Friday 8:00 PM ESPN Virginia Tech Virginia
Friday 10:30 PM FS1 California UCLA
Saturday 12:00 PM ABC (7) Georgia Georgia Tech
Saturday 12:00 PM FOX (9) Ohio State (24) Michigan
Saturday 12:00 PM ESPNU East Carolina (21) Memphis
Saturday 12:00 PM ESPN Florida State Florida
Saturday 12:00 PM ESPN2 Indiana Purdue
Saturday 12:00 PM FS1 Kansas (13) Oklahoma State
Saturday 12:00 PM SECN Louisville Kentucky
Saturday 12:00 PM CBSSN Tulane SMU
Saturday 12:00 PM ESPNews UConn Cincinnati
Saturday 12:20 PM ACCN Boston College Syracuse
Saturday 12:30 PM RSN Duke Wake Forest
Saturday 1:00 PM ESPN3 North Texas Rice
Saturday 1:00 PM CUSA.TV UTEP UAB
Saturday 2:00 PM ESPN3 Appalachian State Georgia State
Saturday 2:00 PM Stadium Florida Atlantic Charlotte
Saturday 2:30 PM Stadium Southern Miss Marshall
Saturday 3:00 PM ESPN3 Arkansas State ULM
Saturday 3:00 PM ESPN3 Old Dominion Middle Tennessee
Saturday 3:00 PM ATTSNRM UNLV Nevada
Saturday 3:30 PM CBS (1) Alabama (6) Auburn
Saturday 3:30 PM BTN (10) Penn State Maryland
Saturday 3:30 PM CBSSN (25) Boise State Fresno State
Saturday 3:30 PM ABC (5) Wisconsin Minnesota
Saturday 3:30 PM ESPN2 Iowa State Kansas State
Saturday 3:30 PM ESPNU North Carolina (19) NC State
Saturday 3:45 PM ESPN West Virginia (4) Oklahoma
Saturday 4:00 PM FOX (17) Michigan State Rutgers
Saturday 4:00 PM FS1 (23) Northwestern Illinois
Saturday 4:00 PM ESPN3 Idaho New Mexico State
Saturday 4:00 PM ESPNews Temple Tulsa
Saturday 4:00 PM SECN Vanderbilt Tennessee
Saturday 4:30 PM Pac-12N Arizona Arizona State
Saturday 5:00 PM ESPN3 Georgia Southern UL Lafayette
Saturday 5:00 PM ESPN3 Wyoming San Jose State
Saturday 7:00 PM ESPN2 Oregon State Oregon
Saturday 7:30 PM ESPN (2) Clemson South Carolina
Saturday 7:30 PM SECN Texas A&M (20) LSU
Saturday 7:30 PM ESPNU UTSA Louisiana Tech
Saturday 8:00 PM FOX (14) Washington State (18) Washington
Saturday 8:00 PM ABC (8) Notre Dame (22) Stanford
Saturday 9:00 PM CBSSN BYU Hawaii
Saturday 10:00 PM FS1 Colorado Utah
Saturday 10:15 PM ESPN2 Utah State Air Force