College broadcasts simple as ABC; full schedule

Amid the sometimes confusing world of paper-or-plastic, Tara Reid-or-Mena Suvari choices, college football comes full circle this fall. There'll be between 1 and 100 games on our TVs every Saturday, sure, but there's a 94 percent likelihood the game we want to watch will be on ABC.

Not only does ABC own and operate the Bowl Championship Series until 2006, it has negotiated its way back into first dibs on the games of every major Division I-A conference except the Southeastern. (Also, ESPN signed cable deals with eight leagues and markets ABC's out-of-market regional games on pay-per-view. Hold on to that Disney stock.) This is equivalent to, oh, controlling all of baseball but the NL Central.

"Some networks' philosophies changed, but not ABC's," says Loren Matthews, second-year ABC programmer. "It's considered itself the college football network since 1966."

Full TV schedule
(All times listed are Pacific. Times and games are subject to change. More games will be announced as the season progresses.)