''Fox College Football'' (or ''Fox CFB'' for short) is the branding used for broadcasts of NCAA Division I FBS

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games produced by

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, and broadcast primarily by Fox, FS1, and FS2. Initial college football broadcasts on the Fox network were limited to selected

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s, beginning with the

Cotton Bowl Classic The Cotton Bowl Classic (also known as the Cotton Bowl) is an American college football bowl game that has been held annually in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex since January 1, 1937. The game was originally played at its namesake stadium in ...

from 1999 to 2014. From 2007 to 2010, Fox broadcast the

Bowl Championship Series The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was a selection system that created four or five bowl game match-ups involving eight or ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of American college football, includin ...

(excluding games played at the

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, whose rights were held by ABC under a separate agreement), branded as the ''BCS on Fox.'' In 2012, Fox began to air a regular schedule of Saturday college football games during the regular season. Fox primarily airs coverage of the

Big Ten The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representati ...

Big 12 The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference headquartered in Irving, Texas, USA. It consists of ten full-member universities. It is a member of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for all sports. Its f ...

, and

Pac-12 The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference, that operates in the Western United States, participating in 24 sports at the NCAA Division I level. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Divisi ...

, and holds rights to the

and

championship games (with the latter alternating yearly with ESPN/ABC). Since 2020, Fox has aired games from the

Mountain West Conference The Mountain West Conference (MW) is one of the collegiate athletic conferences affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) (formerly I-A). The MW officially began operations ...

(including Boise State home games, and the Mountain West championship game). Fox also holds rights to the

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Coverage history

FSN coverage (1996–2019)

In order to better compete with national networks like

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, since its inception the

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(FSN) has carried college football games from the then Pac-10 conference and

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. These telecasts were distributed to individual Fox Sports Networks and other affiliates. In 2011 FSN added a package of

Conference USA Conference USA (C-USA or CUSA) is an intercollegiate athletic conference whose current member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports. C-USA's offices are ...

football games. Many of these games were aired exclusively, aired as a simulcast, or aired on tape delay on

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. Pac-12 games moved from FSN to Fox, FX and eventually FS1 in 2012. The C-USA left Fox Sports entirely in 2016. FSN affiliates continued to largely hold the third-tier rights to many Big 12 teams until 2020, when

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acquired the tier 3 media rights to all but two of the conference's members (with the only holdouts being the

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, who maintained their contract with Fox Sports Oklahoma, and the

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, who have a long-term deal with ESPN and

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to operate its

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). After the sale of FSN to

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as part of Disney's acquisition of

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(and their subsequent rebranding as

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in 2021), production duties for FSN's Conference USA broadcasts were assumed by new sister network

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in 2020. The

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's syndication package for regional sports networks—which are produced by

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, had primarily been carried by FSN channels since 2011, were also retained by Bally Sports.

Cotton Bowl Classic (1998–2013)

The Fox network acquired its first college football telecast in 1998, when it obtained the broadcast rights to the annual

held each January on (eventually, the day after)

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; the first game to be shown on the network as part of the deal was held on January 1, 1999. Fox renewed its contract to carry the game in 2010, in a four-year agreement that ran through the 2013 NCAA college football season. Fox lost the rights to the Cotton Bowl to

for the 2015 edition, as the cable network holds the television contract to all six bowl games that encompass the

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system under a twelve-year deal worth over $7.3 billion. The Cotton Bowl was the only game among the six that was not already broadcast by ESPN.

Bowl Championship Series, launch of Big Ten Network (2006–2009)

From the

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through the 2009 seasons, Fox held the broadcast rights to most of the games comprising the

(BCS) – including the

Sugar Bowl The Sugar Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in New Orleans, Louisiana. Played annually since January 1, 1935, it is tied with the Orange Bowl and Sun Bowl as the second-oldest bowl games in the country, surpassed only ...

, the

Fiesta Bowl The Fiesta Bowl is an American college football bowl game played annually in the Phoenix metropolitan area. From its beginning in 1971 until 2006, the game was hosted at the Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. Since 2007, the game has been pl ...

and the

Orange Bowl The Orange Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in the Miami metropolitan area. It has been played annually since January 1, 1935, making it, along with the Sugar Bowl and the Sun Bowl, the second-oldest bowl game in ...

, as well as the

BCS Championship Game The BCS National Championship Game, or BCS National Championship, was a postseason college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), first played in the 1998 college foo ...

. Fox paid close to $20 million per game for the rights to televise the BCS games. The network's contract with the BCS excluded any event in the series that was held at the

, such as the

Rose Bowl Game The Rose Bowl Game is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 (New Year's Day) at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. When New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, the game is played on Monday, January 2. The Ro ...

and the

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, as ABC already had a separate arrangement with the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association to serve as the broadcaster for the games. ESPN, which is majority owned by ABC's corporate parent

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and serves as the producer for all of ABC's sports coverage, would displace Fox outright as the broadcaster of the BCS beginning in the 2010–11 season. This left the Fox network with only the Cotton Bowl Classic as the sole college football game, to which it held the television rights until the 2013–14 season.

Expansion of national regular season coverage, Big Ten contract (2011–2019)

Beginning with the 2011 season, sister cable channel FX began airing a "game of the week" on Saturdays featuring matchups from the

, and

. The Fox network also obtained the rights to air the Big Ten Conference's new football championship game beginning that season and running through 2016, as part of Fox Sports' partnership with the conference on the

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. Fox also acquired bi-yearly rights to the inaugural Pac-12 Football Championship Game, alternating with ESPN/ABC. Beginning with the 2012 season, Fox added regular season games on Saturdays to its lineup; it broadcast eight afternoon games and twelve nighttime games throughout the season, with the latter telecasts airing as part of a new strategy by the network to carry more sports programming on Saturday nights during prime time. FS1 replaced FX's coverage upon its launch in August 2013, though some overflow coverage has aired on FX occasionally when warranted; since 2017, overflow coverage has been carried FS2, and before that on Fox Business Network, which usually carries paid programming on Saturday afternoons of little consequence to pre-emption. Fox's coverage of the 2015 season opened with a game on FS1 featuring the

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at the

Utah Utes The Utah Utes are the intercollegiate athletics teams that represent the University of Utah, located in Salt Lake City. The athletic department is named after the Ute tribe of Native Americans. The men's basketball team is known as the Runnin' ...

. As the first game featuring new head coach

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, the season premiere was promoted with a touring "HarBus"—decorated with a sweater and khakis in imitation of Harbaugh's on-field wardrobe—travelling to Salt Lake City for the game, accompanied by a group of "HarBros" dressed like Harbaugh. The tour concluded at Salt Lake City's

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for game day; the bus itself was barred from entering the University of Utah's campus. On July 12, 2016, the

San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's Nationa ...

announced that they had taken over the Foster Farms Bowl (now known as the

Redbox Bowl The San Francisco Bowl was an annual postseason college football bowl game certified by the NCAA and played in the San Francisco Bay Area. Originally named the Diamond Walnut San Francisco Bowl during its first two editions from 2002 to 2003, it ...

), and had reached a four-year deal to move the game to Fox and Fox Deportes beginning in 2016. It was also reported by ''

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'' that Fox was pursuing a share of the Big Ten's primary football rights. Fox began streaming select college football games in 360-degree video for the 2016 season. The following year, FS1 also acquired rights to the

, ending a long-standing relationship between the game and ESPN. On July 24, 2017, the

Big Ten Conference The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representati ...

announced that Fox and ESPN had acquired rights to its games under a six-year deal beginning in the 2017 season. The contract also includes an extension of Fox's contract to operate Big Ten Network through 2032. The deal gives Fox the first choice of games on most weeks, including marquee games such as the Michigan/Ohio State game—which had been a fixture of ABC's college football schedule for over a half-decade. The game will remain in its traditional noon slot on the last day of the Big Ten's regular season. Fox promoted its addition of Big Ten football with promotional campaigns focusing on each team; a ''

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''-themed commercial focusing on the

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was pulled after complaints by the school.

''Big Noon Saturday'', Mountain West contract, Big Ten renewal (2019–present)

Prior to the 2019 season, Fox lost its rights to future Big 12 championship games to ESPN as part of an expansion of its rights to the conference. Fox declined to bid on the 2019, 2021, and 2023 games. In the 2019 season, Fox introduced a new flagship Noon ET window known as ''Big Noon Saturday.'' The games are accompanied by a pre-game show, ''

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''. A Fox executive stated that the network's highest-rated games were often those with a Noon kickoff, and that the network also wanted to avoid competition from other highly-viewed windows such as the ''SEC on CBS'' and ABC's ''

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''. The new emphasis on early games proved successful: in the first weeks of the 2019 season, Fox had the highest-rated game in the timeslot on multiple occasions. This pattern continued into subsequent seasons, with ''Big Noon Saturday'' overtaking the ''SEC on CBS'' as having the highest average viewership in the 2021 season, and the Michigan/Ohio State game (which saw Michigan end an eight-game losing streak in the rivalry) being the highest-rated regular-season game of the 2021 season, and most-watched regular-season game since the Alabama–LSU game in 2019. Due to the early kickoff times, the package has faced criticism for having undue impacts on teams not based in the

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(ET), including from University of Oklahoma Athletics Director

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(who felt that a Noon ET kickoff for a 2021 game against Nebraska, marking the 50th anniversary of their 1971 "Game of the Century", would diminish its profile), and Stanford head coach David Shaw (who, in particular, criticized Fox Sports for scheduling noon kickoffs involving visiting Pac-12 teams). In August 2021, University of Oklahoma president Joe Harroz cited criticism of ''Big Noon Saturday'' when discussing the Sooners' proposed move to the SEC, arguing that the Big 12 conference would be "last in line" in negotiating new media deals, and that "our fans talk about that. It also matters to student-athletes. When those who go before you, in terms of negotiations for 2025 and beyond, if those premiere slots are already taken up, it impacts things in a material way. It translates into disadvantages in recruiting the top talent, disadvantages for our student-athletes and a detriment to the fan experience." On January 9, 2020, the

announced that its next top-tier basketball and football contracts would be split between

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and Fox Sports under a six-year deal, with Fox replacing ESPN. Fox will hold rights to 23 games per-season, including the conference championship and all

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home games (since 2012, as part of concessions to remain in the conference, the Mountain West has allowed Boise State's home games to be sold as a separate package from the remainder of its media rights).

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will remain the main broadcaster for the conference outside of these games. On August 18, 2022, Fox renewed its rights to the Big Ten under a seven-year deal beginning in the 2023 season. Under the new contract, Fox, CBS, and NBC will hold rights to Noon, 3:30 p.m. ET, and prime time games respectively. There will be a larger number of games on the Fox broadcast network, and an option to air "premier" Big Ten games in other timeslots after

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and

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move to the conference in 2024. Fox will air four Big Ten championship games in odd-numbered years over the length of the contract. ''All rankings are from that week's

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, and that week's CFP rankings.

2019

* August 31:

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at 5

Ohio State The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best public ...

Columbus, Ohio Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, an ...

, Ohio State 45–21 * September 7:

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at 7

Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and t ...

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, Michigan 24–21^(2OT) * September 14: 6

Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th ...

Bloomington, Indiana Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the central region of the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the seventh-largest city in Indiana and the fourth-largest outside the Indianapolis metropolitan area. According to the Mo ...

, Ohio State 51–10 * September 21: 11

at 13

Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...

Madison, Wisconsin Madison is the county seat of Dane County and the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census the population was 269,840, making it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 80th ...

, Wisconsin 35–14 * September 28:

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at 6

Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New ...

Norman, Oklahoma Norman () is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, with a population of 128,097 as of 2021. It is the largest city and the county seat of Cleveland County, and the second-largest city in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, be ...

, Oklahoma 55–16 * October 5: 14

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at 19

, Michigan 10–3 * October 12: 6

vs 11

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

Dallas, Texas Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County ...

, Oklahoma 34–27 * October 19:

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at 5

, Oklahoma 52–14 * October 26: 13

at 3

, Ohio State 38–7 * November 2:

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, Purdue 31–27 (with Brando, Tillman, and Harvey) * November 9:

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at 3 (CFP 1)

, Ohio State 73–14 * November 16:

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at 14 (CFP 15)

, Michigan 44–10 * November 23: 9 (CFP 8) Penn State at 2 (CFP 2)

, Ohio State 28–17 * November 30: 2 (CFP 1)

at 10 (CFP 13)

, Ohio State 56–27 * December 7: 2 (CFP 1)

at 10 (CFP 8)

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, Ohio State 34–21 (

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, 8 ET kickoff)

2020

* September 12:

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at Kansas State in

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, Arkansas State 35–31 * September 26: Kansas State at 3

, Kansas State 38–35 * October 3: TCU at 9

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, TCU 33–31 * October 10: 22

vs.

, Oklahoma 53–45^(4OT) * October 17:

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, West Virginia 38–17 * October 24:

at 5

, Ohio State 52–17 * October 31:

at 13

, Michigan State 27-24 *November 7: Arizona State at 20

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, USC 28-27 *November 14: TCU at

(with Davis and Helfrich), West Virginia 24-6 *November 21: 9

at 3

, Ohio State 42–35 *November 28:

at 22 (CFP 23)

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(with Davis and Helfrich), Oklahoma State 50-44 *December 5:

at Kansas State in

, Texas 69-31 *December 12:

Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its ...

at 21 (CFP 21)

Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the ...

Boulder, Colorado Boulder is a home rule city that is the county seat and most populous municipality of Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 108,250 at the 2020 United States census, making it the 12th most populous city in Colora ...

, Utah 38-21 *December 19: 15 (CFP 14) Northwestern at 3 (CFP 4)

( 2020 Big Ten Championship Game) in

, Ohio State 22–10

2021

*September 4: 19 Penn State at 12 Wisconsin in

, Penn State 16–10 *September 11: 12 Oregon at 3 Ohio State in

, Oregon 35-28 *September 18:

at 3 Oklahoma in

, Oklahoma 23–16 *September 25: 12 Notre Dame vs 18 Wisconsin in

Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

, Notre Dame 41–13 *October 2: 14 Michigan at

, Michigan 38–17 *October 9:

at 7 Ohio State in

(with Goldsmith, Huard, and Feldman), Ohio State 66–17 *October 16: 12 Oklahoma State at 25 Texas in

, Oklahoma State 32–24 *October 23: Northwestern at 6 Michigan in

, Michigan 33–7 *October 30: 6 Michigan at 8 Michigan State in

East Lansing, Michigan East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. Most of the city lies within Ingham County with a smaller portion extending north into Clinton County. At the 2020 Census the population was 47,741. Located directly east of the state capital ...

, Michigan State 37–33 *November 6: 6 (CFP 5) Ohio State at

Lincoln, Nebraska Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers with a population of 292,657 in 2021. It is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 73rd-largest in the United ...

, Ohio State 26–17 *November 13: 4 (CFP 8) Oklahoma at 18 (CFP 13) Baylor in

Waco, Texas Waco ( ) is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin. The city had a 2020 population of 138,486, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the s ...

, Baylor 27–14 *November 20:

Iowa State Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the ...

at 12 (CFP 13) Oklahoma in

, Oklahoma 28–21 *November 27: 2 Ohio State at 6 (CFP 5) Michigan in

, Michigan 42–27 *December 4: 2 Michigan at 15 (CFP 13) Iowa ( 2021 Big Ten Championship Game) in

, (8 ET kickoff), Michigan 42–3

2022

* September 10: 1 Alabama at

, Alabama 20–19 * September 17: 6 Oklahoma at

, Oklahoma 49–14 * September 24:

at 4 Michigan in

, Michigan 34–27 * October 1: 4 Michigan at

Iowa City, Iowa Iowa City, offically the City of Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States. It is the home of the University of Iowa and county seat of Johnson County, at the center of the Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the tim ...

, Michigan 27–14 * October 8: 4 Michigan at

, Michigan 31–10 * October 15: 10 Penn State at 5 Michigan in

, Michigan 41–17 * October 22:

at 2 Ohio State in

, Ohio State 54–10 * October 29: 2 Ohio State at 13 Penn State in

University Park, Pennsylvania University Park (also referred to as Penn State University Park) is the name given to the Pennsylvania State University's main campus located in both State College and College Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The campus post office was ...

, Ohio State 44–31 * November 5:

at 7 (CFP 7 TCU in

Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth is the List of cities in Texas by population, fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the List of United States cities by population, 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, Texas, T ...

, TCU 34–24 * November 12:

at 2 (CFP 2 Ohio State in

, Ohio State 56-14 * November 19: 4 (CFP 4 TCU at Baylor in

(with Benetti, Huard and Feldman), TCU 29–28 * November 26: 3 (CFP 3 Michigan at 2 (CFP 2 Ohio State in

, Michigan 45–23 * December 3:

at 2 (CFP 2 Michigan ( 2022 Big Ten Championship Game) in

, (8 ET kickoff), Michigan 43–22

Nielsen ratings

Regular season

Conference championships

Bowls

; Redbox Bowl *

2018 Redbox Bowl The 2018 Redbox Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on December 31, 2018 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, with kickoff at noon PST (3:00 p.m. EST). It was one of the 2018–19 bowl games concluding the 201 ...

(Fox): 2.3 * 2019 Redbox Bowl (Fox): 1.2 * 2020 Redbox Bowl (Fox): Cancelled due to

Covid-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identi ...

; Holiday Bowl *

2017 Holiday Bowl The 2017 Holiday Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game, played at SDCCU Stadium in San Diego, California, on December 28, 2017. This was the first time that the Holiday Bowl was played at SDCCU Stadium. Previous to the 2017 season, th ...

(FS1): 0.9 *

2018 Holiday Bowl The 2018 Holiday Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 31, 2018. It was the 41st edition of the Holiday Bowl, and one of the 2018–19 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. This was the second season in which ...

(FS1): 0.9 *

2019 Holiday Bowl The 2019 Holiday Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 27, 2019. Kickoff was at 8:07 p.m. EST (5:07 p.m. local PST). The game was aired on FS1. It was the 42nd edition of the Holiday Bowl, and was one of the 201 ...

(FS1): 1.3 * 2020 Holiday Bowl (FS1): Cancelled due to

; Cotton Bowl Classic *

1999 Cotton Bowl Classic The 1999 Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic was a post-season college football game played on January 1, 1999. It pitted the Texas Longhorns against the Southeastern Conference (SEC) West champions Mississippi State Bulldogs. This was the fir ...

(Fox): 4.1 *

2000 Cotton Bowl Classic The 2000 SBC Cotton Bowl Classic game was a post-season college football bowl game that took place on Jan. 1, 2000 in Dallas, Texas. The Arkansas Razorbacks defeated the Texas Longhorns 27–6. The Texas Longhorns finished their regular season 9 ...

(Fox): 4.1 * 2001 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): 4.4 *

2002 Cotton Bowl Classic The 2002 Cotton Bowl Classic matched the Arkansas Razorbacks and the Oklahoma Sooners. Background This was the Sooners first Cotton Bowl Classic appearance ever. The Sooners finished 2nd in the Big 12 South after two crucial losses to Nebraska and ...

(Fox): 4.3 * 2003 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): 3.4 *

2004 Cotton Bowl Classic The 2004 Cotton Bowl Classic was a post-season college football bowl game between the Oklahoma State Cowboys and the Ole Miss Rebels on January 2, 2004, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. It was the final game of the 2003 NCAA Division I-A f ...

(Fox): 4.3 * 2005 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): 2.6 * 2006 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): 3.7 *

2007 Cotton Bowl Classic The 2007 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 2007, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, USA. The Cotton Bowl Classic was part of the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season and one of 32 games in th ...

(Fox): 3.7 *

2008 Cotton Bowl Classic The 2008 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 2008, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, USA. The Cotton Bowl Classic was part of the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season and one of 32 games in t ...

(Fox): 3.5 * 2009 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): 4.3 * 2010 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): 4.5 * 2011 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): 5.8 *

2012 Cotton Bowl Classic The 2012 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic, the 76th edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on January 6, 2012 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas as part of the 2011–12 NCAA Bowl season. The game, which wa ...

(Fox): 5.0 *

2013 Cotton Bowl Classic The 2013 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic was a post-season American college football bowl game held on January 4, 2013 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas in the United States. The 77th edition of the Cotton Bowl Classic began at 7:00 p.m. CST ...

(Fox): 7.2 *

2014 Cotton Bowl Classic The 2014 Cotton Bowl Classic was a college football bowl game between the #9 Missouri Tigers of the Southeastern Conference and the #13 Oklahoma State Cowboys of the Big 12 Conference. The 78th edition of the Cotton Bowl Classic took place on J ...

(Fox): 3.9 ; Orange Bowl * 2007 Orange Bowl (Fox): 7.0 * 2008 Orange Bowl (Fox): 7.4 *

2009 Orange Bowl The 2009 FedEx Orange Bowl was the 75th edition of Orange Bowl, an annual college football bowl game. It pitted the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) champion Virginia Tech Hokies against the Big East Conference champion Cincinnati Bearcats ...

(Fox): 5.4 *

2010 Orange Bowl The 2010 FedEx Orange Bowl game featured the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and the Iowa Hawkeyes on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, at Land Shark Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Iowa won the game 24–14, securing the Hawkeyes' first major bowl win si ...

(Fox): 6.8 ; Sugar Bowl * 2007 Sugar Bowl (Fox): 9.3 * 2008 Sugar Bowl (Fox): 7.9 * 2009 Sugar Bowl (Fox): 7.8 *

2010 Sugar Bowl The 2010 Allstate Sugar Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was part of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) for the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was the 76th Sugar Bowl. The Florida Gators defeated the Cincinnati B ...

(Fox): 8.5 ; Fiesta Bowl *

2007 Fiesta Bowl The 2007 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl was a college football bowl game played as part of the 2006–2007 Bowl Championship Series (BCS) of the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The game was played on January 1, 2007, at its new venue, the Unive ...

(Fox): 8.4 *

2008 Fiesta Bowl The 2008 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl was a college football bowl game. It was part of the 2007–2008 Bowl Championship Series (BCS) of the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Played annually since 1971, first at Sun Devil Stadium on the campus o ...

(Fox): 7.7 *

2009 Fiesta Bowl The 2009 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl game was a post-season college football bowl game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Texas Longhorns on Monday, January 5, 2009, at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Texas participated in t ...

(Fox): 10.4 * 2010 Fiesta Bowl (Fox): 8.2 ; Foster Farms Bowl * 2016 Foster Farms Bowl (Fox) 0.7 *

2017 Foster Farms Bowl The 2017 Foster Farms Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 27, 2017, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. The 16th edition of t ...

(Fox) 0.9 ; BCS National Championship Game * 2007 BCS National Championship Game (Fox): 17.4 * 2008 BCS National Championship Game (Fox): 14.4 * 2009 BCS National Championship Game (Fox): 15.8

Personalities

Announcer pairings

# Gus Johnson/ Joel Klatt/ Jenny Taft or Allison Williams or Tom Rinaldi ''(Fox Big Noon Saturday)'' # Jason Benetti/

Brock Huard Brock Anthony Huard (born April 15, 1976) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). His older brother Damon also played quarterback at the University of Washington and had a career in the NFL, while his yo ...

/ Allison Williams or Bruce Feldman '' (Fox/FS1)'' # Tim Brando/

Spencer Tillman Spencer Allen Tillman (born April 21, 1964) is an American former professional football player who played running back for eight seasons for the Houston Oilers and San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League (NFL). College career Colle ...

''(Fox/FS1)'' #Noah Eagle/ Mark Helfrich ''(Fox/FS1)'' #

Alex Faust Alex Faust (born January 14, 1989) is an American television sportscaster who is currently the television play-by-play voice for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He gained additional fame in 2018 when ''Jeopardy!'' hos ...

Jeff Levering Jeff Levering is an American sportscaster. Levering is currently the lead play-by-play announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers on Bally Sports. He was named to this position for the 2022 season. Broadcasting career Levering graduated from Chapman ...

Dan Hellie Dan Hellie (born May 23, 1975) is an American sports announcer for Fox Sports and the NFL Network. Hellie can also be seen on Dana White's UFC Tuesday Night Contender Series, Tennessee Titans preseason games and Facebook's streaming college foo ...

/ Petros Papadakis ''(FS1)'' #

Eric Collins Eric Collins (born June 16, 1969) is a play-by-play sports announcer, currently the voice of the NBA's Charlotte Hornets on Bally Sports South. Education Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Collins is a graduate of St. Lawrence University. He earned a m ...

or Adam Alexander/

Devin Gardner Devin Jaymes Gardner (born December 14, 1991) is a former American football quarterback. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the New England Patriots. He played professionally in Japan for two seasons. Gardner was the starting quarterbac ...

''(FS1)'' #Guy Haberman/

Charles Arbuckle Charles Edward Arbuckle (born September 13, 1968) is an American football coach and former professional tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He was recently the tight ends coach for the Arizona Hotshots of the Alliance of American Fo ...

or Will Blackmon ''(FS1)''

''
Big Noon Kickoff ''Big Noon Kickoff'' is a college football studio show broadcast by Fox, and simulcast on sister network Fox Sports 1 (FS1). Premiering on August 31, 2019, it serves as the pre-game show for ''Fox College Football'', and in particular, ''Big Noon ...
''

Hosts * Rob Stone (on site) * Mike Hill (studio) Analysts *

Matt Leinart Matthew Stephen Leinart (born May 11, 1983) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons. He played college football at USC, where he won the Heisman Trophy ...

Reggie Bush Reginald Alfred Bush Jr. (born March 2, 1985) is an American former football running back who now serves as an on-air college football analyst for Fox Sports. He played college football at USC, where he earned consensus All-American honors twi ...

, Brady Quinn,

Urban Meyer Urban Frank Meyer III (born July 10, 1964) is a college football TV commentator and former American football coach. He spent most of his coaching career at the collegiate level, having served as the head coach of the Bowling Green Falcons fro ...

(on site) *

Emmanuel Acho Emmanuel Chinedum Acho (born November 10, 1990) is a Nigerian-American former linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) and is currently working as an analyst for Fox Sports 1. He played college football at Texas before being dr ...

, Chris Petersen (studio) NCAA Insider *Bruce Feldman Contibutors *

Clay Travis Richard Clay Travis (born April 6, 1979) is an American writer, lawyer, radio host and television analyst. As a sports journalist, Travis founded ''OutKick''. As a political commentator, he and Buck Sexton host '' The Clay Travis and Buck S ...

Charles Woodson Charles Cameron Woodson (born October 7, 1976) is a former American football defensive back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons with the Oakland Raiders and Green Bay Packers. He played college football at Michiga ...

Reporter * Tom Rinaldi (on site)

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Coverage history

FSN coverage (1996–2019)

Cotton Bowl Classic (1998–2013)

Bowl Championship Series, launch of Big Ten Network (2006–2009)

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''Big Noon Kickoff ''Big Noon Kickoff'' is a college football studio show broadcast by Fox, and simulcast on sister network Fox Sports 1 (FS1). Premiering on August 31, 2019, it serves as the pre-game show for ''Fox College Football'', and in particular, ''Big Noon ...''

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Big Noon Kickoff ''Big Noon Kickoff'' is a college football studio show broadcast by Fox, and simulcast on sister network Fox Sports 1 (FS1). Premiering on August 31, 2019, it serves as the pre-game show for ''Fox College Football'', and in particular, ''Big Noon ...
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