ESPN releases highlights of Week 1 college football schedule

As detailed on this site previously, the biggest coming change to the college football regular season from a television perspective is that the SEC has now officially left CBS for ABC.

The SEC has aired games on ESPN for decades and is already a business partner with Disney through the SEC Network, but college football's premier conference changing network partners will have a two-pronged effect on the way we watch games this fall. First, it means CBS is now all-in on the Big Ten in the 3:30 p.m. ET time slot. And it means ABC will now air SEC games in the morning, afternoon or night.

Or, in the case of Week 1's schedule, morning, noon and night.

ESPN joined the slow trickle of game time announcements on Tuesday as networks present their fall schedules to advertisers, joining Fox and NBC's announcements of select Big Ten games on Monday. 

Saturday, Aug. 24
Florida State vs. Georgia Tech at Dublin, Ireland (noon ET, ESPN)
Florida A&M vs. Norfolk State at Atlanta (7:30 p.m. ET, ABC)

Thursday, Aug. 29
North Dakota State at Colorado (8 p.m. ET, ESPN)

Friday, Aug. 30
Temple at Oklahoma (7 p.m. ET, ESPN)
TCU at Stanford (10:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)

Saturday, Aug. 31
Clemson vs. Georgia at Atlanta (noon ET, ABC)
Miami at Florida (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC)
Colorado State at Texas (3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
Western Kentucky at Alabama (7 p.m. ET, ESPN)
Notre Dame at Texas A&M (7:30 p.m. ET, ABC)

Sunday, Sept. 1
USC vs. LSU at Las Vegas (7:30 p.m. ET, ABC)

Monday, Sept. 2
Boston College at Florida State (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)

With Notre Dame-Texas A&M garnering the prime time slot, GameDay will be on hand in College Station to herald the beginning of the Mike Elko era (and also the beginning of the 2024 college football season).

With a triple-header on their very first Saturday, it's so far, so good for the SEC's new all-in deal with ESPN/ABC.

As always, stay tuned to The Scoop for the latest.