What to watch

Published: September 22, 2006

While last Saturday was billed as "Separation Saturday," this Saturday might be "Boring Saturday" with no telecasts between top 25 teams.

• KOCO-5 (Cox 8) has Iowa State at No. 7 Texas at 2:30 p.m. and No. 12 Notre Dame at Michigan State at 7 p.m.

• KWTV-9 (Cox 10) will air an all-red SEC battle of Alabama at Arkansas at 2:30 p.m.

• FSN Southwest (Cox 37) will have both Kansas Big 12 teams — No. 7 Louisville at Kansas State at 11 a.m. and South Florida at Kansas at 6 p.m.

• It won't be easy to catch OU's and OSU's games. You'll need to fork out $29.95 for OU's 6 p.m. pay-per-view broadcast against Middle Tennessee State (announcers Mitch Holthus, Dean Blevins and Sean Kelley), which will be available on Cox channel 610 and other cable and satellite providers, and use a satellite dish to catch the Oklahoma State at Houston game (Carter Blackburn and Brian Jones) at 8 p.m. on CSTV (DirecTV 610 and Dish Network 152).

• ESPN's "Monday Night Football" will be in New Orleans as the Louisiana Superdome reopens with a meeting of unbeaten teams, Atlanta and New Orleans, at 7:30 p.m. The pregame show, 6 to 7:30 p.m., will include performances by Goo Goo Dolls, U2 and Green Day.

• KOKH-25 (Cox 12) has a strong Sunday doubleheader with Chicago at Minnesota at noon and N.Y. Giants at Seattle at 3:15 p.m. Fox's "NFL Sunday" will be in Seattle.

• KWTV-9 (Cox 10) will air the Cincinnati at Pittsburgh AFC Central battle at noon.

• KFOR-4 has a playoff rematch of Denver at New England at 7:15 p.m.

Golf fans can enjoy early morning coverage of the Ryder Cup. Coverage will air 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. today on USA Network (Cox 24) and 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 6 to 11:30 a.m. Sunday on KFOR-4 (Cox 3).