College Football Week 7 Schedule Highlights Top-Five Matchup and National Slate
A guide to the college football Week 7 schedule, featuring a top-five matchup between No. 4 Ohio State and No. 5 Indiana, plus national games including No. 2 Notre Dame at No. 8 BYU.
College football Week 7 brings a top-five Big Ten matchup to Bloomington, where No. 4 Ohio State visits No. 5 Indiana on FOX at noon ET on Saturday. This guide covers nine games on FOX, FS1 and BTN, starting with Washington at Purdue on Friday night, plus three more national matchups, including No. 2 Notre Dame at No. 8 BYU.
Rankings reflect the AP Top 25 released Oct. 11. Washington is 3-3 and has lost three straight, most recently 41-24 to Iowa last Friday. Purdue is also 3-3 after a 41-13 win over Minnesota last Saturday, and Washington won the 2025 meeting 49-13.
Kansas is 2-3 after a 41-24 loss at Utah, one week after a 55-0 win over Middle Tennessee. Kansas State is 3-2 and has lost two straight, most recently 35-16 to Houston, after winning the 2025 meeting 42-17.
Ohio State is 5-1, with its lone loss a 24-23 defeat at Texas on Sept. 12, and beat Maryland 45-16 on Oct. 10. Indiana is 6-0 after a 20-17 win at Nebraska last Saturday in Ohio State’s second top-five matchup of the season. Indiana won the most recent meeting, 13-10 in the 2025 Big Ten championship game.
Rutgers is 1-4 and had a bye last week after a 47-15 loss to Indiana, while Maryland is 2-4 and has lost four straight, including 45-16 at Ohio State last week. Rutgers has won the last two meetings, 35-20 in 2025 and 31-17 in 2024.
Texas Tech is 5-0 and comes off a bye after a 29-7 win over Colorado on Oct. 3. Arizona State is 3-2 after a 30-12 win over Hawai’i last Saturday, following a 55-19 loss at Baylor, while Arizona State won the 2025 meeting 26-22.
Baylor is 4-1 and has won four straight, beating Arizona State 55-19 on Oct. 3 before a bye last week. TCU is 2-3 after a 17-10 loss to BYU on Oct. 3, having won the 2025 meeting 42-36.
Houston is 5-1 after a 35-16 win over Kansas State last week. Oklahoma State is 4-1 after a 42-28 win over UCF, with its lone loss a 24-10 defeat at Tulsa on Sept. 5 in the first meeting between the teams as ranked opponents after Houston won the 2025 meeting 39-17.
New Mexico is 4-1 and had a bye last week after a 61-7 win over UTEP. Hawai’i is 1-5 and has lost three straight, most recently 30-12 at Arizona State, after winning the 2024 meeting 38-30.
Nebraska is 5-1 after a 20-17 loss to Indiana last week. Oregon is 3-2 and fell out of the AP Top 25 after a 17-15 home loss to UCLA, with Oregon winning the most recent meeting 42-35 in 2017.
Other notable matchups include No. 6 Alabama at No. 14 Tennessee, where Alabama comes off a 20-17 home loss to Georgia and Tennessee beat Arkansas 24-17 last week. Alabama has lost its last two visits to Knoxville.
No. 13 Missouri visits No. 9 Ole Miss after beating Texas A&M 27-6 last week, its lone loss being 31-24 at Mississippi State on Sept. 26. Ole Miss beat Vanderbilt 52-17 last week after a 52-28 loss at Florida, and Missouri won the most recent meeting 38-27 in 2019.
No. 2 Notre Dame plays at No. 8 BYU after beating Stanford 58-7 last week. BYU beat Iowa State 24-10 last Friday and won 17-10 at TCU on Oct. 3 in the first top-10 matchup at LaVell Edwards Stadium, with BYU winning the last time Notre Dame visited in 2004 and Notre Dame winning in 2022 by 28-20.
The nine FOX-family games air on FOX, FS1 or BTN and stream on FOX One. Washington at Purdue, Ohio State at Indiana, Arizona State at Texas Tech, Oklahoma State at Houston and Nebraska at Oregon air on FOX. Kansas at Kansas State, TCU at Baylor and New Mexico at Hawai’i air on FS1, while Rutgers at Maryland airs on BTN.
Alabama at Tennessee, Missouri at Ole Miss and Notre Dame at BYU are available through ESPN Unlimited via the FOX One and ESPN Bundle. Subscriptions, authentication requirements and availability vary by service, plan and location, and local listings should be checked before kickoff.