FOX reveals 2025 Friday night college football schedule

By Kevin Kelley -

FOX Sports has revealed its Friday night college football schedule for the 2025 season, which includes 21 games on FOX, FS1, and the Big Ten Network.

The Friday primetime slate on the FOX broadcast networks this season includes games from the Big Ten, Big 12, and Mountain West conferences. The slate of games kicks off on Friday, Aug. 29 with the Baylor Bears hosting the Auburn Tigers at 8:00pm ET on FOX.

The FOX College Football Friday schedule concludes with the Mountain West Championship Game on Friday, Dec. 5. The game will be televised by FOX at a time to be announced.

Check out the complete slate of Friday night college football games on FOX below. The complete early season college football TV schedule was released earlier on Thursday. The college football bowl schedule is set to be unveiled the following week on Thursday, June 5.

FOX 2025 Friday night college football schedule

Friday, Aug. 29
Auburn at Baylor – 8pm, FOX
Western Michigan at Michigan St. – 7pm, FS1
Central Michigan at San José St. – 10:30pm, FS1

Friday, Sept. 5
Eastern Washington at Boise St. – 9pm, FS1
Northern Illinois at Maryland – 7:30pm, BTN
Western Illinois at Northwestern – 7:30pm, BTN

Friday, Sept. 12
K-State at Arizona – 9pm, FOX
Indiana St. at Indiana – 6:30 or 7pm, BTN
New Mexico at UCLA – TBD

Friday, Sept. 19
Iowa at Rutgers – 8pm, FOX

Friday, Sept. 26
TCU at Arizona St. – 9pm, FOX

Friday, Oct. 3
New Mexico at San José St. – 10pm, FS1

Friday, Oct. 10
Rutgers at Washington – 9pm, FS1

Friday, Oct. 17
Nebraska at Minnesota – 8pm, FOX

Friday, Nov. 7
Northwestern at USC – 9pm, FOX
Houston at UCF – TBD, FS1

Friday, Nov. 14
Minnesota at Oregon – 9pm, FOX

Friday, Nov. 21
Hawai’i at UNLV – 10:30pm, FS1

Friday, Nov. 28
Arizona at Arizona St. – TBD, FOX
Air Force at Colorado St. – TBD, FS1

Friday, Dec. 5
Mountain West Championship – TBD, FOX

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Comments (7)

Interesting. Only 5 B10 conference games on Friday night.

And only 7 Friday night games on Fox total.

I am wondering what is going on too. No games on Oct. 24 and 31 make sense because of the World Series, and on Oct 3 FOX could air a NLDS game. Be interesting to see what FOX puts on the other weeks without a game. Also, odd that a majority of the 7 games start at 9:00 PM EST instead of 8:00.

My suggestion & this is only a suggestion when FOX have World Series is BTN show Big Ten & FS1 show Big 12 would be my option.

Probably push back from B10 schools (and maybe NBC and CBS as well). Many B10 schools don’t like Friday games, the cold weather B10 schools generally don’t like November night games, and fewer B10 conference games on Fridays means a better selection for NBC and CBS.

NBC putting Navy@ND at night means that’s another November Saturday when a B10 conference games doesn’t have to be at night.

Fantastic article Richard I fully support My Michigan Wolverines having desire of not playing on Friday also I fully support cold weather teams that have no interest playing in November plus that good news for CBS & as well NBC too.