Weekend viewing includes College Gameday, ABC and a sports bar stop for non-Bears fans

Iowa gets the ABC big dogs this week at Penn State. Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit will call the game, while Lisa Salters reports from the sidelines. ESPN's College Gameday will air live from State College from 9-11 a.m.

Iowa is 0-4 when "College Gameday" comes to the host city. The Hawkeyes lost at Northwestern in 1995 and Ohio State in 1997, and lost to Ohio State both times Iowa City hosted the show in 1996 and 2006. According to ESPN earlier Thursday, Penn State fans plan to extend the "Whiteout" to "College Gameday." That apparently includes no lettering on shirts or signage. I'm sure the TV people love that although that's dedication.

Here's Saturday's college football lineup:

11 a.m. games

• ESPN: Michigan State at Wisconsin
• ESPN2: Indiana at Michigan
• ESPNU: South Florida at Florida State
• Fox/Comcast Sports: Southern Mississippi at Kansas
• Big Ten Network: Minnesota at Northwestern
• Versus: Cornell at Yale

1 p.m. game

• Mediacom Connections: Northern Iowa at Missouri State

2:30 p.m. games

• ABC/KCRG: Illinois at Ohio State
• CBS/KGAN: Arkansas at Alabama
• ESPN: Miami at Virginia Tech
• ESPNU: Pittsburgh at North Carolina State
• Fox Sports: UTEP at Texas
• Comcast Sports: Idaho at Northern Illinois
• Versus: Tennessee State at Florida A&M

Evening games

• ESPN2: Florida at Kentucky, 5 p.m.
• ESPNU: Arizona State at Georgia, 6 p.m.
• Versus: Arizona at Oregon State, 6:30 p.m.
• ABC/KCRG: Iowa at Penn State, 7 p.m.
• ESPN: Notre Dame at Purdue, 7 p.m.
• ESPN2: Texas Tech at Houston, 8:15 p.m.
• Fox/Comcast Sports: Washington State at USC, 9:15 p.m.
• ESPNU: Bethune-Cookman at Norfolk State, 9:30 p.m. (taped)
• Fox Sports Midwest: Northern Iowa at Missouri State, 1 a.m. (taped)

Friday night

The Colorado Rockies host St. Louis in a possible National League Divisional Series match-up on Fox Sports Midwest. Missouri plays Nevada in college football on ESPN. 

The Big Ten Network resumes its weekly series with the "The Big Ten's Best: Basketball Players of the 1980s." The 30-minute show should contain at least one former player with Hawkeye roots (I'm not saying who, though). The BTN also shows its "Friday Night Tailgate."

NFL Sunday

One week after making most local NFL fans happy by airing every game involving the Minnesota Vikings, Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears, local affiliates KGAN and KFXA were forced to upset two of the three fan groups this week.

This Sunday is a CBS doubleheader weekend, which allows Fox affiliates to broadcast just one game. Fox has rights to all non-prime time games involving two NFC teams or games featuring NFC at AFC teams. The three most popular local teams all feature games involving two NFC teams, meaning they're all on Fox. KFXA picked Chicago at Seattle at 3:15 p.m. Sunday, eschewing the earlier games involving San Francisco at Minnesota and Green Bay at St. Louis. On CBS, KGAN will broadcast Kansas City at Philadelphia at noon, followed by Pittsburgh at Cincinnati at 3:15 p.m.

The NBC/KWWL prime time game features Indianapolis at Arizona. Former Hawkeye Dallas Clark continues to star at TE for the Colts, posting one of the best games ever by a tight end with 183 receiving yards last Monday. Arizona, of course, boasts Cedar Rapids native Kurt Warner at quarterback.