The 12-team playoff era of college football is underway and the first games of the 2024 season provided plenty of intriguing storylines and developments to digest. But Saturday's schedule, which features 75 Week 2 games involving at least one FBS team, offers up a little bit of everything now that what's happening on the field starts to carry more weight than the speculation of preseason polls.
There's a top-10 showdown between No. 3 Texas and No. 9 Michigan in the noon (ET) television window and then a top-25 showdown between No. 12 Tennessee and No. 23 North Carolina State in primetime Saturday night. There are conference games in the Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big 12, and regional non-conference rivalry games (Iowa State at No. 21 Iowa and Colorado at Nebraska). There's even a familiar Group of Five conference playoff hopeful (Boise State) getting a chance at a marquee win against one of the Big Ten's newest arrivals (No. 6 Oregon) to wrap up the weekend.
We already saw a few unexpected results in Week 1, and there seem to be more opportunities for upsets this week as college football sorts itself out in this first month of the first season with a 12-team playoff.
Here's the full schedule for Saturday during Week 2 of the 2024 college football season, including game times and how to watch:
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College Football Week 2 schedule
Saturday, September 7
All times Eastern
- No. 3 Texas at No. 9 Michigan: 12 p.m. on FOX
- Bowling Green at No. 8 Penn State: 12 p.m. on Big Ten Network
- Arkansas at No. 17 Oklahoma State: 12 p.m. on ABC and ESPN+
- No. 16 Kansas State at Tulane: 12 p.m. on ESPN
- No. 23 Georgia Tech at Syracuse: 12 p.m. on ACC Network
- Pittsburgh at Cincinnati: 12 p.m. on ESPN2
- Troy at Memphis: 12 p.m. on ESPNU
- Akron at Rutgers: 12 p.m. on Big Ten Network
- Army at Florida Atlantic: 12 p.m. on CBS Sports Network
- Rhode Island at Minnesota: 12 p.m. on Peaco*ck
- Merrimack at UConn: 12 p.m. on WFSB (in Connecticut), UCONN+
- McNeese State at Texas A&M: 12:45 p.m. on SEC Network
- Tennessee Tech at No. 1 Georgia: 2 p.m. on ESPN+
- Missouri State at Ball State: 2 p.m. on ESPN+
- St. Francis at Kent State: 2:30 p.m. on ESPN+
- Utah Tech at UNLV: 3 p.m. on MW Network
- Northern Illinois at No. 7 Notre Dame: 3:30 p.m. on NBC and Peaco*ck
- Baylor at No. 11 Utah: 3:30 p.m. on FOX
- Iowa State at No. 21 Iowa: 3:30 p.m. on CBS and Paramount+
- South Carolina at Kentucky: 3:30 p.m. on ABC and ESPN+
- California at Auburn: 3:30 p.m. on ESPN2
- Michigan State at Maryland: 3:30 p.m. on Big Ten Network
- Eastern Michigan at No. 25 Washington: 3:30 p.m. on Big Ten Network
- South Dakota at Wisconsin: 3:30 p.m. on FS1
- Charlotte at North Carolina: 3:30 p.m. on ACC Network
- Temple at Navy: 3:30 p.m. on CBS Sports Network
- Idaho at Wyoming: 3:30 p.m. on TruTV and Max
- Jacksonville State at No. 24 Louisville: 3:30 on ESPN+
- Duquesne at Boston College: 3:30 p.m. on ESPN+
- UMass at Toledo: 3:30 p.m. on ESPN+
- UTSA at Texas State: 4 p.m. on ESPNU
- Middle Tennessee State at No. 5 Ole Miss: 4:15 p.m. on SEC Network
- Marshall at Virginia Tech: 4:30 p.m. on The CW Network
- Florida A&M at No. 15 Miami: 6 p.m. on ESPN+
- Albany at West Virginia: 6 p.m. on ESPN+
- Central Michigan at Florida International: 6 p.m. on ESPN+
- Gardner-Webb at James Madison: 6 p.m. on ESPN+
- East Carolina at Old Dominion: 6 p.m. on ESPN+
- South Alabama at Ohio: 6 p.m. on ESPN+
- Sam Houston at UCF: 6:30 p.m. on ESPN+
- South Florida at No. 4 Alabama: 7 p.m. on ESPN
- Virginia at Wake Forest: 7 p.m. on ESPN2
- No. 20 Kansas at Illinois: 7 p.m. on FS1
- San Jose State at Air Force: 7 p.m. on CBS Sports Network
- Georgia Southern at Nevada: 7 p.m. on TruTV and Max
- Buffalo at No. 10 Missouri: 7 p.m. on ESPN+
- Samford at Florida: 7 p.m. on ESPN+
- Cal Poly at Stanford: 7 p.m. on ESPN+
- Tulsa at Arkansas State: 7 p.m. on ESPN+
- UAB at UL-Monroe: 7 p.m. on ESPN+
- Texas Southern at Rice: 7 p.m. on ESPN+
- William & Mary at Coastal Carolina: 7 p.m. on ESPN+
- Eastern Kentucky at Western Kentucky: 7 p.m. on ESPN+
- Chattanooga at Georgia State: 7 p.m. on ESPN+
- Louisiana at Kennesaw State: 7 p.m. on ESPN+
- SE Louisiana at Southern Miss: 7 p.m. on ESPN+
- Northern Colorado at Colorado State: 7 p.m. Altitude Sports (regional) and TheMW.com
- No. 12 Tennessee vs. No. 23 North Carolina State (in Charlotte): 7:30 p.m. on ABC and ESPN+
- Colorado at Nebraska: 7:30 p.m. on NBC and Peaco*ck
- Western Michigan at No. 2 Ohio State: 7:30 p.m. on Big Ten Network
- Alcorn State at Vanderbilt: 7:30 p.m. on ESPNU
- Nicholls at No. 19 LSU: 7:30 p.m. on ESPN+
- Stephen F. Austin at North Texas: 7:30 p.m. on ESPN+
- Houston at No. 13 Oklahoma: 7:45 p.m. on SEC Network
- Appalachian State at No. 22 Clemson: 8 p.m. on ACC Network
- Long Island at TCU: 8 p.m. on ESPN+
- Southern Utah at UTEP: 9 p.m. on ESPN+
- Boise State at No. 6 Oregon: 10 p.m. on Peaco*ck
- Texas Tech at Washington State: 10 p.m. on FOX
- Northern Arizona at No. 18 Arizona: 10 p.m. on ESPN+
- Sacramento State at Fresno State: 10 p.m. on Fubo
- Liberty at New Mexico State: 10:15 p.m. on ESPN2
- Mississippi State at Arizona State: 10:30 p.m. on ESPN
- Oregon State at San Diego State: 10:30 p.m. on CBS Sports Network
- Utah State at No. 14 USC: 11 p.m. on Big Ten Network
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