Three CFP teams from last season \u2014 Indiana, Oregon and Texas Tech \u2014 will be part of Fox\u2019s beefed-up Friday night college football lineup this fall.<\/p>\n
In the third season of placing Friday games on its broadcast network, Fox increased its lineup from nine games to 12. They include the Missouri-Kansas Border War<\/a> in Week 2, a potential Top 25 matchup in Week 3 between Texas Tech and Houston and Penn State visiting Northwestern on Oct. 2 in the Wildcats\u2019 first game at their new stadium<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other Friday contests include defending national champion Indiana\u2019s Big Ten opener against Northwestern on Sept. 26, Iowa at Washington on Oct. 9 and Oregon at Michigan State on Nov. 20.<\/p>\n Fox 2026 Friday CFB schedule<\/p>\n Sept. 4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Fresno State at USC<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Sept. 11<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Missouri at Kansas<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Sept. 18<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Houston at Texas Tech<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 8 p.m<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Sept. 25<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Northwestern at Indiana<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Oct. 2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Penn State at Northwestern<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Oct. 9<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Iowa at Washington<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 9 p.m.*<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Oct. 16<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Washington at Purdue<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Nov. 6<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Nebraska at Illinois<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Nov. 13<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Illinois at UCLA<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Nov. 20<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Oregon at Michigan State<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Nov. 27<\/p>\n<\/td>\n West Virginia at Utah<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 8 or 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Dec. 4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Mountain West championship<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n *May move to FS1 due to MLB playoffs<\/p>\n Friday games have at times drawn backlash from coaches and fans, but Fox touts that the slot averaged higher audience numbers last season (2.3 million) than its Saturday mid-afternoon (2.1 million) or Saturday primetime (1.9 million) games, per Nielsen data.<\/p>\n \u201cIt provides opportunities for teams to be the marquee game on a Friday night, versus on Saturday, you\u2019d be competing against other marquee games,\u201d said Derek Crocker, Fox\u2019s senior vice president for college sports. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge advantage for a school, from an opportunity to showcase them on a national stage.\u201d<\/p>\n Texas Tech board chair and mega-booster Cody Campbell apparently doesn\u2019t agree. Upon learning in late March of Fox\u2019s interest in moving Tech\u2019s home date with Houston to Friday, he sent an angry tweet<\/a> calling the decision \u201cabsurd\u201d and criticizing the Big 12, Fox and Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark.<\/p>\n Yormark responded a few days later<\/a>, telling the Lubbock-Avalanche Journal, \u201cCody Campbell does not run the Big 12.\u201d<\/p>\nDateGameStart time (ET)<\/tr>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n