Weekend TV viewing includes ex-Hawk QBs, Cubs-Cards vitriol, happy NFL fans

There's nostalgia galore tonight for local football fans on both the Big Ten Network and NFL Network.

The Big Ten Network will air "The Big Ten's Greatest Quarterbacks of the 1980s" at 7 p.m. I'm told former Hawkeyes Chuck Long and Chuck Hartlieb are on the list.

Concurrently on the NFL Network, the 1995 replay of the shootout between Pittsburgh and Chicago will air. That game spurred Pittsburgh to the AFC championship while it cost 9-7 Chicago a return trip to the playoffs.

The National League Central race is all but over, but baseball's best rivalry continues at 7 tonight with the Chicago Cubs playing at St. Louis. Here are a couple of YouTube clips showing fans' venom against once another.

ESPN airs the Western Athletic Conference showdown wit Boise State playing at Fresno State at 8 tonight.

(Of course, I recommend a trip to a local football game or Hawkeye Downs to enjoy the beautiful early fall weather rather than watching sports - tonight at least.)

Here's Saturday's college football lineup:

11 a.m. games

• ESPN: California at Minnesota
• ESPN2: East Carolina at North Carolina
• BTN: Eastern Michigan at Michigan (overflow games include Northern Illinois at Purdue, Wofford at Wisconsin, Temple at Penn State)
• ESPNU: Louisville at Kentucky
• Versus: Duke at Kansas

2:30 p.m. games

• KCRG/ABC: Arizona at Iowa
• KGAN/CBS: Tennessee at Florida
• KWWL/NBC:Michigan State at Notre Dame
• ESPN: Utah at Oregon
• ESPN2: Nebraska at Georgia Tech
• ESPNU: Indiana at Akron
• Fox Sports/Comcast: Tulsa at Oklahoma

Evening games

• Fox Sports: Cincinnati at Oregon State (5:45 p.m.)
• Versus: Florida State at BYU (6 p.m.)
• ESPNU: Louisiana-Lafayette at LSU (6 p.m.)
• BTN: Temple at Penn State (6:30 p.m. - replay)
• ESPN: Georgia at Arkansas (6:45 p.m.)
• ESPN2: West Virginia at Auburn (6:45 p.m.)
• KCRG/ABC: Texas Tech at Texas (7 p.m.)

Late Games

• Fox Sports: Kansas State at UCLA (9:15 p.m.)
• ESPNU: Hampton at North Carolina A&T (9:30 p.m.)

As for Sunday, this is one of those weeks where KGAN/KFXA can exhale and make almost everyone happy. The two stations will air every game from the region's three most popular NFL teams - Minnesota, Green Bay and Chicago. At noon, the Packers host Cincinnati on KGAN, while Minnesota plays at Detroit on KFXA. The Bears host Pittsburgh in the late national game at 3:15 p.m. on KGAN. The Sunday night game features the New York Giants at Dallas in owner Jerry Jones' new $1.2 billion playground.