On Tuesday, ESPN/ABC disclosed kickoff timings and TV schedules for Week 0 and Week 1 of the 2024 college football season, including the first two visits for College GameDay.
On Thursday, August 29, Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes will take on North Dakota State at 7 p.m. on ESPN to kick off Week 1 of the college football season. Temple versus Oklahoma at 6 p.m. and TCU versus Stanford at 9:30 p.m. are the two games in a Friday ESPN doubleheader.
The network also revealed that the ABC tripleheader, which begins with Clemson vs. Georgia at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta at noon ET and Miami vs. Florida at 3:30 p.m. ET would culminate with the Fighting Irish-Aggies showdown.
In Week 1, there will also be college football games on Sunday night (USC vs. LSU in Las Vegas) and Monday night (Boston College at Florida State), coinciding with Labor Day weekend.
ESPN Has Several Marquee Matchups Scheduled For First Week Of College Football
Here’s the full 2024 Week Zero/Week 1 college football TV schedule on ESPN & ABC (All times are in central) via ESPN Press Room:
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Saturday, Aug. 24
- Florida State vs. Georgia Tech (Dublin, Ireland), 11 a.m., ESPN
- Florida A&M vs. Norfolk State (Atlanta), 6:30 p.m., ABC
Thursday, Aug. 29
- North Dakota State at Colorado, 7 p.m., ESPN
Friday, Aug. 30
- Temple at Oklahoma, 6 p.m., ESPN
- TCU at Stanford, 9:30 p.m., ESPN
Saturday, Aug. 31
- Clemson vs. Georgia (Atlanta), 11 a.m., ABC
- Miami at Florida, 2:30 p.m., ABC
- Colorado State at Texas, 2:30 p.m., ESPN
- Western Kentucky at Alabama, 6 p.m., ESPN
- Notre Dame at Texas A&M, 6:30 p.m., ABC
Sunday, Sept. 1
- USC vs. LSU (Las Vegas), 6:30 p.m., ABC
Monday, Sept. 2
- Boston College at Florida State, 6:30 p.m., ESPN
The 2024 College Football Season Will Usher In 12-Team Format
The 11th College Football Playoff season will take place in 2024, marking the first time the 12-team format will be used.
There was only one Group of Five teams that made it to the four-team field in the first ten years of the College Football Playoff.
For the first time in playoff history, the Group of Five will receive automatic entry when the CFP grows to 12 teams in 2024. It’s still being determined if that will hold true in the long run. However, the top-ranked G5 club will have a position in the field in the near future.
