{"id":985538,"date":"2026-08-28T14:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/985538\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T14:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:09:15","slug":"your-2026-week-0-college-football-announcing-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/985538\/","title":{"rendered":"Your 2026 Week 0 college football announcing schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 FBS college football season kicks off with Week 0 on Saturday, beginning with Bill Belichick and North Carolina taking on TCU at the Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The UNC-TCU game will\u00a0air on ESPN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/espn\/disney-plus-college-football-simulcasts-missing-biggest-games.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">and Disney+<\/a>, with\u00a0Mike Monaco on play-by-play, Jordan Rodgers as the color commentator, and Dana Boyle as the sideline reporter. <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/espn\/jordan-rodgers-mike-monaco-friday-college-football.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">As was recently reported<\/a>, Monaco, Rodgers, and Boyle will mainly form ESPN\u2019s crew for Friday night games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, former LSU, Notre Dame, and Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/cbs\/sports-brian-kelly-doug-pederson-college-football-analysts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">will make his debut as a color commentator<\/a> for the Jacksonville State-North Dakota State game on CBS Sports Network.<\/p>\n<p>In total, there will be eight FBS college football games in Week 0, all on Saturday. Week 1 will follow with games from Thursday, Sept. 3 through Monday, Sept. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the television networks and announcers for the Week 0 college football games (all times are Eastern):<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, August 29<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina vs. TCU in Dublin, Ireland (12 p.m., ESPN\/Disney+): Mike Monaco (play-by-play), Jordan Rodgers (analyst), Dana Boyle (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>San Jos\u00e9 State at No. 14 USC (3 p.m., NBC\/Peacock): Noah Eagle (play-by-play), Todd Blackledge (analyst), Kathryn Tappen (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>NC State at Virginia (3:30 p.m., ESPN): Wes Durham (play-by-play), Max Browne (analyst), Madison Fitzpatrick (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville State at North Dakota State (5:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network): Rich Waltz (play-by-play), Adam Breneman (analyst), Brian Kelly (analyst), Jordan Giorgio (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State at Eastern Michigan (6:30 p.m., ESPN+): Mick Tidrow (play-by-play), Je\u2019Rod Cherry (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Hawai\u2019i at Stanford (7 p.m., ACC Network): Jorge Sedano (play-by-play), Rodney McLeod (analyst), Kendra Douglas (reporter)<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico State at Florida State (7 p.m., The CW): Thom Brennaman (play-by-play), Jason Cabinda (analyst)<\/p>\n<p>Memphis at UNLV (10 p.m., Fox\/Fox One): Tim Brando (play-by-play), Devin Gardner (analyst)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 FBS college football season kicks off with Week 0 on Saturday, beginning with Bill Belichick and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":985539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3851,22040,7,30436,129474,49,48,4717,4724],"class_list":["post-985538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-bill-belichick","tag-brian-kelly","tag-football","tag-jordan-rodgers","tag-mike-monaco","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-tcu-horned-frogs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117173535598473415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}