Reports: Fox to show college football game every Friday in 2024

Field Level Media|published: Thu 7th March, 15:58 2024

A Big Noon Kickoff logo is seen on a lift as setup continues for the Fox Sports NCAA football Big Noon Kickoff pregame show, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, on the east side of the Pentacrest on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City, Iowa. 211008 Big Noon Setup 007 Jpg credits: Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen / USA TODAY NETWORK

Fox will broadcast a Friday college football game every week of the 2024 season, The Athletic and Sports Business Journal reported Thursday.

College football's TV schedule will not be ironed out until May, but the games eligible for the Friday night treatment will feature teams from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Mountain West conferences.

Once reserved for high schools, Friday night football is not new to the Big Ten, which started putting select games on Friday nights in 2017. The Big Ten Network and Fox Sports 1 (FS1) have carried those games in the past.

Now, games will be carried on Fox each week in the run-up to the network's "Big Noon Saturday," its weekly show that competes with ESPN's "College GameDay" and highlights its best game of the week.

The college football games will fill an empty window after Fox did not renew its agreement for WWE's "Friday Night Smackdown."

—Field Level Media