Canes learn start times, TV info for early games; will face Texas A&M Sept. 17
The Miami Hurricanes’ first game under Mario Cristobal will take place in the afternoon at Hard Rock Stadium, and his first marquee game will unfold in prime time on national television.
The Atlantic Coast Conference announced on Thursday that UM’s season opener against Bethune Cookman has been set for 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 3 at Hard Rock Stadium and will be televised on ACC Network.
Meanwhile, ESPN announced it will televise UM’s Sept. 17 game at Texas A&M at 9 p.m.
UM has two other nonconference games: home on Sept. 10 against Southern Mississippi and home on Sept. 24 against Middle Tennessee State.
The Southern Mississippi game was set for noon and will be televised on ACC Network. Kickoff time and TV information weren’t announced for the Middle Tennessee game.
FYI: Mississippi State and LSU will play at 6 p.m. on ESPN on Sept. 17. With most college football games taking more than three hours, that could force the UM-Texas A&M kickoff to be pushed back until 9:15 or so.
UM’s conference schedule includes games Oct. 8 against North Carolina, Oct. 15 at Virginia Tech, Oct. 22 against Duke, Oct. 29 at Virginia, Nov. 5 against FSU, Nov. 12 at Georgia Tech, Nov. 19 at Clemson and Nov. 26 against Pittsburgh.
Kickoff time and TV information have not been announced for any of those games, which will all be on Saturday.
Other highlights from the ABC/ESPN early season schedule announced Thursday:
Clemson-Georgia Tech will be the Labor Day night game on ESPN. FSU and LSU will meet on ABC on the Sunday night of Labor Day weekend.
Utah at Florida will be ESPN’s 7 p.m. game on Sept. 3. Kentucky at Florida will be ESPN’s 7 p.m. game on Sept. 10.
ABC’s Sept. 3 tripleheader: Colorado StateMichigan at noon, Oregon-Georgia at 3:30 p.m. and Notre Dame-Ohio State at 7:30 p.m. ...
ABC’s Sept. 10 tripleheader: Penn State-Ohio at noon, Tennessee-Pittsburgh at 3:30 p.m. and Southern Cal-Stanford at 7:30 p.m. …
ABC’s Sept. 17 tripleheader: Michigan-Connecticut at noon, Mississippi-Georgia Tech at 3:30 p.m. and Michigan State-Washington at 7:30 p.m.
FSU’s first three games are Aug. 27 against visiting Duquesne at 5 p.m. on ACC Network, the LSU game on that Labor Day Sunday night and at Louisville on Friday night, Sept. 16 on ESPN.
UF and FSU previously announced that they will play the Friday after Thanksgiving at 7:30 p.m. on ABC.
Also, Fox announced that it will televise Alabama-at-Texas at noon Sept. 10 and will carry a rare quadruple-header on
Sept. 17: Oklahoma at Nebraska at noon, BYU at Oregon at 3:30 p.m., Toledo at Ohio State at 7 p.m. and Fresno State at USC at 10:30 p.m. Fox also has Michigan-Ohio State at noon on Nov. 26.