The start of the 2024 college football season has arrived, so it’s time to start getting your Saturdays planned out for the fall. A huge piece of the 2024 season will be the full debut of the Big Ten on CBS as the conference moves into the iconic broadcast spot at 3:30 p.m. ET at a time when the league has, literally, never been bigger.
The Big Ten has welcomed USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington to the conference, and the opening weekend schedule includes includes a prime-time kickoff for the Bruins — Saturday, Aug. 31 on CBS, the second leg of a doubleheader that will start with Akron at Ohio State.
Outside of Week 1, the battle for the CyHawk Trophy between Iowa and Iowa State is set for a 3:30 p.m. kickoff on Sept. 7. There is also a return visit for Deion Sanders’ Colorado to Colorado State on the docket, which is getting a prime-time spot on CBS coming off last season’s overtime thriller. Notre Dame’s Week 3 game at Purdue and USC’s Week 4 Big Ten conference showdown at Michigan in the Big House are also slated for 3:30 p.m. starts on CBS as well.
In total, the CBS Sports college football schedule includes five different doubleheaders and three prime-time games, the last of which will be CBS’s inaugural broadcast of the Big Ten Championship Game on Dec. 7 at 8 p.m from Indianapolis.
Some of the mainstays from CBS’s traditional schedule remain, including a spotlight on the service academies with Navy at Air Force (Oct. 5), Air Force at Army (Nov. 2) and the Army-Navy Game (Dec. 14). CBS will wrap up the college football season by airing the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl on Dec. 30.
Those selections, and the rest of the yet-to-be-determined matchups in the schedule below, will be announced six to 12 days in advance of the games