Fox College Football
television series
Fox College Football is the branding used for broadcasts of NCAA college football games produced by Fox Sports and broadcast primarily by Fox, FS1, FS2 and Fox One.
Initial college football broadcasts on the Fox network were limited to selected bowl games, beginning with the Cotton Bowl Classic from 1999 to 2014. From 2007 to 2010, Fox broadcast the Bowl Championship Series (excluding games played at the Rose Bowl stadium, 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 and Big 12 and holds alternating rights to the Big Ten championship game. Since 2020, Fox has aired games from the Mountain West Conference (including Boise State home games prior to them joining the Pac-12 in 2026), and the Mountain West championship game). Fox also holds rights to the Holiday Bowl until the 2025 season. As of the 2024 season, coverage on the main Fox network currently consists of four regular weekly windows, including a Friday prime time game, a Saturday afternoon doubleheader (with the early game—branded as Big Noon Saturday—considered Fox's flagship game of the week), on most weeks a Saturday prime time game and on select weeks a Saturday late night game.
Coverage history
FSN coverage (1996–2019)
In order to better compete with national networks like ESPN, since its inception the Fox Sports Networks (FSN) has carried college football games from the then Pac-10 conference and Big 12 conference. These telecasts were distributed to individual Fox Sports Networks and other affiliates.
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