College Football on NBC Sports
College Football on NBC Sports is the de facto title used for broadcasts of NCAA college football games produced by NBC Sports.
This article is about current college football coverage on, NBC, CNBC, USA Network, and Peacock. For NBC's coverage of Notre Dame football, see Notre Dame Football on NBC. For earlier college football coverage from NBC, see NBC College Football Game of the Week.College Football on NBC Sports
Notre Dame Football on NBC/Peacock
Big Ten Saturday on Peacock
Big Ten Saturday Night
Big Ten Football Night (non-Saturday games)
Charlie Dammeyer
John Colby (Notre Dame)
Fall Out Boy (Big Ten)
“Here Comes Saturday Night” by Fall Out Boy (primetime games only)
United States
English
16
Matt Marvin
210 minutes or until game ends (inc. adverts)
NBC
USA Network
CNBC
Peacock
Universo via Telemundo Deportes
(Spanish simulcasts of select games)
September 30, 1939
present
Via its experimental station W2XBS, NBC presented the first television broadcast of American football at any level on September 30, 1939, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets. NBC held rights to the NCAA's regular-season game of the week package from 1952–53, 1955–59, and 1964–65. From 1952 to 1988, NBC was the broadcaster of the Rose Bowl Game. In 1990, NBC first acquired the rights to Notre Dame Fighting Irish home games, as well as the Bayou Classic—agreements that have continued to this day, and have most recently been renewed through 2029 and 2025 respectively.
After Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal, Versus—later renamed NBC Sports Network (NBCSN)—was merged into the NBC Sports division in 2011. By then, the network's coverage of Division I FBS football (billed as College Football on NBC Sports Network) was limited to a contract with the Mountain West that ended in 2012, and a package of Pac-10 games that had been sub-licensed by the Fox Sports Networks. NBCSN subsequently acquired packages of Division I FCS games from the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) and Ivy League; both contracts ended in 2017.
From 2015 to 2020, NBCSN broadcast selected Notre Dame home games not televised by NBC. Since 2020, NBC Sports has preferred using Peacock or other NBCUniversal channels (such as USA Network and CNBC) to carry college football games not aired by the main network. The Bayou Classic moved from the NBC broadcast network to NBCSN in 2015, but moved back to NBC in 2022 following the closure of NBCSN in December 2021.
In August 2022, NBC Sports announced that it had acquired a share of the Big Ten's football rights beginning in the 2023 season, which will include Big Ten Saturday Night games in primetime on NBC, and a package of games on Peacock branded as Big Ten Saturday. The Big Ten Saturday branding also includes games from the Big Ten Saturday Night package that air in the afternoon due due to Notre Dame primetime games.