College Game Day 2026

[Hufftwoseven]

Anyone know when game times will be announced? Want to go to UNC but if it’s a night game it will be near impossible to sell to the wife with a 5 and 3 year old lol

The Saturday games usually aren't announced until the week or two before at most, so unfortunately for UNC we won't know until mid-October. Depends on how well (or poorly) the teams are doing, what the network schedules are, etc.

The Thursday / Friday games will always be at night. Usually 7:30 or 8.

That really sucks for planning

 

[Sabetta]

FSU should be undefeated when we play them so that would be perfect

 

[aelmiami]

Odds are we are probably gameday the week before anyway. No chance we’d get it B2B weeks.

Probably, although Bama is @ LSU that weekend too, and Oregon is @ Ohio State. ESPN prefers doing Gameday when they also have the game's broadcasting rights, so with our game being on NBC/Peacock, not sure we will get it over the SEC game.

True. Not picking a potential T5 matchup of ND and Miami after how last year and the CFP went would be dumb for ESPN. But I do get the politicking side of it.

 

[caneingville]

That really sucks for planning

Yeah, I have an eight-year old, so I get it. Unfortunately, the TV networks (i.e., $$$) take precedence so they have always had control over it. It’s a bummer.