The following is a guide for the announcer pairings of Week 10.
After a thrilling Week 9 filled with close calls among ranked teams, Week 10 of the college football season picked up with Western Michigan defeating Ball State 52-20 on Tuesday night. In addition to Tuesday night, the selection committee released their first rankings, unanimously voting for Alabama at No. 1. The SEC bias continued to be welcomed back as Texas A&M grabbed the No. 4 placement, along with Auburn at No. 9.
Proceeding with this weekend’s schedule, newly-appointed No. 14 Oklahoma travels to Ames, Iowa, a place where the Sooners haven’t lost a game since 1960. In terms of other action, most of Saturday’s feature presentations don’t get the ball rolling until primetime.
The Big Three of announcing, Kirk Herbstreit and Samantha Ponder, will voiceover a Big Ten match-up between Ohio State and Nebraska. Of all the four games they’ve met each other, Ohio State leads the series 3-1. In their last meeting (2012), both schools pulled off monster ground games (NEB: 223 yards, 4 TD; OSU: 371 yards, 6 TD).
Next: College Football Playoff Rankings, Week 10
For Week 10, College GameDay visits Baton Rouge, LA, for college football’s game of the week, Alabama-LSU. Serving as headliners for this game are two ingredients: Alabama’s defense and LSU RB Leonard Fournette. An uncontested Alabama squad is looking to contain RB Leonard Fournette, while LSU hopes to reject Alabama’s defense of their 13th D/ST touchdown. Calling this game is Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson with Allie LaForce helping out on the sidelines.
Thanks to Eye on Sky and Air Sports for providing the following information. All game listings are based on Eastern Standard Time.
Thursday, November 3
No. 14 Oklahoma at Iowa State at 7:30
- Network: ESPN
- Play by Play: Dave Flemming
- Color Commentary: Jesse Palmer
- Sideline Reporter: Laura Rutledge
UCLA at No. 15 Colorado at 8:00
- Network: FS1
- Play by Play: Joe Davis
- Color Commentary: Brady Quinn
- Sideline Reporter: Jenny Taft
Friday, November 4
San Jose State at No. 24 Boise State at 10:30
- Network: ESPN2
- Play by Play: Dave LaMont
- Color Commentary: Ray Bentley
Saturday, November 5
Notre Dame at Navy at 11:30
- Network: CBS
- Play by Play: Carter Blackburn
- Color Commentary: Adam Archuleta
- Sideline Reporter: Jenny Dell
NOON GAMES
No. 8 Wisconsin at Northwestern
- Network: ABC
- Play by Play: Bob Wischusen
- Color Commentary: Brock Huard
- Sideline Reporter: Allison Williams
Vanderbilt at No. 9 Auburn
- Network: ESPN
- Play by Play: Mike Patrick
- Color Commentary: Ed Cunningham
- Sideline Reporter: Jerry Punch
No. 7 Louisville at Boston College
- Network: ESPN2
- Play by Play: Jason Benetti
- Color Commentary: Kelly Stouffer
- Sideline Reporter: Paul Carcaterra
Georgia Southern at Ole Miss
- Network: ESPNU
- Play by Play: Eamon McAnaney
- Color Commentary: John Congemi
Texas at Texas Tech
- Network: FS1
- Play by Play: Tim Brando
- Color Commentary: Spencer Tillman
- Sideline Reporter: Bruce Feldman
No. 4 Texas A&M at Mississippi State
- Network: SEC Network
- Play by Play: Dave Neal
- Color Commentary: Matt Stinchcomb
- Sideline Reporter: Olivia Harlan
Air Force at Army
- Network: CBS Sports Network
- Play by Play: Ben Holden
- Color Commentary: Jay Feely
- Sideline Reporter: Jill Savage
12:30 GAMES
Pittsburgh at Miami (FL)
- Network: ACC Network
- Play by Play: Evan Lepler
- Color Commentary: Takeo Spikes
- Sideline Reporter: Amanda Kuhl
Georgia Tech at No. 21 North Carolina
- Network: ACC Network
- Play by Play: Tom Werme,
- Color Commentary: Dave Archer
- Sideline Reporter: Roddy Jones
3:30 GAMES
No. 18 Oklahoma State at Kansas State
- Network: ABC or ESPN2
- Play by Play: Allen Bestwick
- Color Commentary: Mike Bellotti
- Sideline Reporter: Kris Budden
Syracuse at No. 2 Clemson
- Network: ABC/ESPN2
- Play by Play: Dave Pasch
- Color Commentary: Greg McElroy
- Sideline Reporter: Tom Luginbill
No. 11 Florida at Arkansas
- Network: CBS
- Play by Play: Brad Nessler
- Color Commentary: Aaron Taylor
- Sideline Reporter: John Schriffen
TCU at No. 17 Baylor
- Network: FS1
- Play by Play: Gus Johnson
- Color Commentary: Joel Klatt
- Sideline Reporter: Shannon Spake
Maryland at No. 3 Michigan
- Network: ESPN
- Play by Play: Steve Levy
- Color Commentary: Brian Griese
- Sideline Reporter: Todd McShay
No. 19 Virginia Tech at Duke
- Network: ESPNU
- Play by Play: Clay Matvick
- Color Commentary: Dusty Dvoracek
Oregon State at Stanford
- Network: FS1
- Play by Play: Justin Kutcher
- Color Commentary: Petros Papadakis
- Sideline Reporter: A.J. Hawk
4:00 GAMES
Missouri at South Carolina
- Network: SEC Network
- Play by Play: Tom Hart
- Color Commentary: Andre Ware
- Sideline Reporter: Cole Cubelic
Tennessee Tech at Tennessee
- Network: SEC Network
- Play by Play: Taylor Zarzour
- Color Commentary: Jordan Rodgers
- Sideline Reporter: Dawn Davenport
Arizona at No. 25 Washington State
- Network: Pac-12 Network
- Play by Play: Roxy Bernstein
- Color Commentary: Anthony Herron
- Sideline Reporter: Lewis Johnson
7:00 GAMES
Oregon at USC
- Network: ESPN
- Play by Play: Joe Tessitore
- Color Commentary: Todd Blackledge
- Sideline Reporter: Holly Rowe
Kansas at No. 20 West Virginia
- Network: ESPN2
- Play by Play: Beth Mowins
- Color Commentary: Anthony Becht
- Sideline Reporter: Rocky Boiman
No. 22 Florida State at NC State
- Network: ESPNU
- Play by Play: Anish Shroff
- Color Commentary: Ahmad Brooks
- Sideline Reporter: Kevin Weidl
7:30 GAMES
Georgia at Kentucky
- Network: SEC Network
- Play by Play: Brent Musburger
- Color Commentary: Jesse Palmer
- Sideline Reporter: Kaylee Hartung
Iowa at No. 12 Penn State
- Network: Big Ten Network
- Play by Play: Kevin Kugler
- Color Commentary: Matt Miller
- Sideline Reporter: Lisa Byington
8:00 GAMES
No. 10 Nebraska at No. 6 Ohio State
- Network: ABC
- Play by Play: Chris Fowler
- Color Commentary: Kirk Herbstreit
- Sideline Reporter: Samantha Ponder
No. 1 Alabama at No. 13 LSU
- Network: CBS
- Play by Play: Verne Lundquist
- Color Commentary: Gary Danielson
- Sideline Reporter: Allie LaForce
LATE NIGHT GAMES
Utah State at Wyoming at 10:15
- Network: ESPN2
- Play by Play: Mark Neely
- Color Commentary: Pete Najarian
- Sideline Reporter: Alex Corddry
No. 5 Washington at Cal at 10:30
- Network: ESPN
- Play by Play: Mark Jones
- Color Commentary: Rod Gilmore
- Sideline Reporter: Quint Kessenich