Week eight of the 2012 college football season kicked off on Tuesday with UL Lafayette at North Texas. It continues tonight with two FBS games beginning at 8 p.m. ET.
Featured Top 25 match-ups this week include (7) South Carolina at (2) Florida, (4) Kansas State at (13) West Virginia, and (6) LSU at (18) Texas A&M.
Other top games include (1) Alabama at Tennessee, (3) Oregon at Arizona State, BYU at (5) Notre Dame, and (14) Florida State at Miami, FL.
ESPN Gameday will broadcast live from Gainesville, Florida, the site of 7th-ranked South Carolina at 2nd-ranked Florida.
Listed below are the games with TV, time and network. The schedule is also optimized for printing:
| Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 | ||||
| Game | Time (ET) | Network | Online | |
| Houston at SMU | 8:00 p.m. | FSN (HD) | — | |
| Oregon at Arizona State | 9:00 p.m. | ESPN (HD) | — | |
| Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 | ||||
| Connecticut at Syracuse | 8:00 p.m. | ESPN (HD) | ESPN3 | |
| Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 | ||||
| Iowa State at Oklahoma State | 12:00 a.m. | FX (HD) | — | |
| LSU at Texas A&M | 12:00 a.m. | ESPN (HD) (3D) | ESPN3 | |
| Minnesota at Wisconsin | 12:00 a.m. | ESPNU (HD) | ESPN3 | |
| Northern Illinois at Akron | 12:00 a.m. | ERTV/ESPN-GP | ESPN3 | |
| Purdue at Ohio State | 12:00 a.m. | ABC or ESPN2 (HD) | — | |
| Rutgers at Temple | 12:00 a.m. | SNY/MASN/CSCA/ESPN-GP | ESPN3 | |
| Virginia Tech at Clemson | 12:00 a.m. | ABC or ESPN2 (HD) | — | |
| Bowling Green at UMass | 12:00 a.m. | — | Video | |
| Auburn at Vanderbilt | 12:21 a.m. | SEC Network (HD)/ESPN-GP | ESPN3 | |
| Wake Forest at Virginia | 12:30 a.m. | ACC Network (HD)/ESPN-GP | ESPN3 | |
| FIU at Troy | 1:00 p.m. | Sun Belt Network/ESPN-GP | ESPN3 | |
| Army at Eastern Michigan | 1:00 p.m. | — | ESPN3 | |
| San Jose State at UTSA | 2:00 p.m. | — | ESPN3 | |
| Boston College at Georgia Tech | 3:00 p.m. | FSN (HD)/ESPN-GP | ESPN3 | |
| New Mexico State at Utah State | 3:00 p.m. | KMYU/ESPN-GP | Video | |
| Stanford at California | 3:00 p.m. | FOX (HD) | — | |
| BYU at Notre Dame | 3:30 p.m. | NBC (HD) | NBC | |
| Indiana at Navy | 3:30 p.m. | CBSSN (HD) | Video | |
| Michigan State at Michigan | 3:30 p.m. | BTN (HD) / | BTN2Go | |
| Nebraska at Northwestern | 3:30 p.m. | ABC or ESPN2 (HD) | — | |
| NC State at Maryland | 3:30 p.m. | ESPNU (HD) | — | |
| Pittsburgh at Buffalo | 3:30 p.m. | SNY/MASN/ERTV/ESPN-GP | ESPN3 | |
| Rice at Tulsa | 3:30 p.m. | FSN (HD)/FCSC | — | |
| South Carolina at Florida | 3:30 p.m. | CBS (HD) | CBS | |
| USF at Louisville | 3:30 p.m. | ABC (HD)/ESPN-GP |
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| Texas Tech at TCU | 3:30 p.m. | ABC or ESPN2 (HD)/ESPN-GP | — | |
| UNLV at Boise State | 3:30 p.m. | NBCSN (HD) | — | |
| Ball State at Central Michigan | 3:30 p.m. | — | ESPN3 | |
| Western Michigan at Kent State | 3:30 p.m. | — | Video | |
| ULM at Western Kentucky | 4:00 p.m. | — | ESPN3 | |
| Colorado at USC | 6:00 p.m. | Pac-12 Network (HD) | Pac-12 | |
| Alabama at Tennessee | 7:00 p.m. | ESPN (HD) | — | |
| Georgia at Kentucky | 7:00 p.m. | FSN (HD)/ESPN-GP | — | |
| Idaho at Louisiana Tech | 7:00 p.m. | MASN/ALT2/ERTV/ESPN-GP | ESPN3 | |
| Kansas at Oklahoma | 7:00 p.m. | FSN (HD)/FCSC | — | |
| Kansas State at West Virginia | 7:00 p.m. | FOX (HD) | — | |
| Marshall at Southern Miss | 7:00 p.m. | CBSSN (HD) | — | |
| Middle Tenn. at Mississippi St. | 7:00 p.m. | ESPN2 (HD) | — | |
| New Mexico at Air Force | 7:00 p.m. | RSRM | — | |
| North Carolina at Duke | 7:00 p.m. | ESPNU (HD) | — | |
| Cincinnati at Toledo | 7:00 p.m. | — | ESPN3 | |
| East Carolina at UAB | 7:00 p.m. | FCSA | — | |
| Baylor at Texas | 8:00 p.m. | ABC (HD)/ESPN-GP | — | |
| Florida State at Miami (FL) | 8:00 p.m. | ABC (HD)/ESPN-GP | — | |
| Penn State at Iowa | 8:00 p.m. | BTN (HD) | BTN2Go | |
| UCF at Memphis | 8:00 p.m. | CSMA/CSNC/CSS | — | |
| Tulane at UTEP | 8:00 p.m. | TBA | — | |
| Washington at Arizona | 10:00 p.m. | Pac-12 Network (HD) | Pac-12 | |
| San Diego State at Nevada | 10:30 p.m. | CBSSN (HD) | — | |
| Utah at Oregon State | 10:30 p.m. | ESPN2 (HD) | — | |
| Wyoming at Fresno State | 10:30 p.m. | RSRM/RSNW/CSCA/TW | — | |
