What to Watch Saturday, September 19: LSU-Ole Miss, Michigan State-Notre Dame & iHeartRadio Music Festival

Saturday belongs to college football, and there are enough ranked teams on television to make the remote work overtime. The biggest game comes in primetime as No. 7 LSU visits No. 8 Ole Miss, while No. 3 Notre Dame hosts Michigan State on NBC and Peacock. ESPN's College GameDay is also in Oxford for the first top-10 LSU-Ole Miss matchup in the rivalry's history.

For anyone whose Saturday plans don't involve football, there are options. Lori Loughlin returns as Jennifer Shannon in a new Garage Sale Mysteries movie on Hallmark, NASCAR goes under the lights at Bristol, and the iHeartRadio Music Festival closes out its two-night run with Benson Boone, Ciara, Lainey Wilson, LE SSERAFIM, Muse, Snoop Dogg and more.

TV Cave Top Pick: LSU vs. Ole Miss

Saturday's biggest college-football game lands at 7:30 PM ET on ABC, with No. 7 LSU visiting No. 8 Ole Miss in Oxford. The SEC rivalry gets an especially big spotlight this year, and College GameDay will spend the morning at The Grove before the teams finally meet in primetime.

The rest of the day isn't exactly quiet. Georgia-Arkansas opens ABC's slate at noon, Florida State-Alabama follows at 3:30 PM, and Michigan State-Notre Dame gives LSU-Ole Miss some serious primetime competition. Saturday has officially reached the part of football season when choosing one game means nervously checking the score of three others on your phone.

Saturday, September 19 TV Schedule

Time (ET)	Show	Network/Streaming	Tonight
9:00 AM	College GameDay	ESPN	Live from The Grove at Ole Miss
12:00 PM	No. 2 Georgia at Arkansas	ABC	SEC matchup
12:00 PM	North Carolina at Clemson	ESPN	ACC matchup
12:30 PM	Eastern Michigan at Wisconsin	Peacock	Big Ten matchup
2:00 PM	Southern Illinois at Illinois	Peacock	College football
3:30 PM	Florida State at No. 10 Alabama	ABC	Ranked matchup
3:30 PM	Kentucky at No. 9 Texas A&M	ESPN/ESPN2	SEC matchup
4:00 PM	Kent State at No. 6 Ohio State	FOX	College football
4:00 PM	Western Kentucky at No. 4 Indiana	Peacock	College football
7:00 PM	Florida at Auburn	ESPN	SEC matchup
7:30 PM	No. 7 LSU at No. 8 Ole Miss	ABC	Top-10 SEC showdown
7:30 PM	Michigan State at No. 3 Notre Dame	NBC / Peacock	Rivalry game
7:30 PM	No. 11 BYU at Colorado State	CBS	Battle of unbeaten teams
7:30 PM	Bass Pro Shops Night Race	USA Network	NASCAR Cup Series at Bristol
8:00 PM	Garage Sale Mysteries: Murder Takes the Stage	Hallmark Channel	Original movie premiere
11:00 PM*	Austin City Limits: Billy Strings	PBS	Season 52 performance; check local listings
10:30 PM	iHeartRadio Music Festival	Disney+ / Hulu	Night 2 livestream

*PBS airtimes vary by local station.

Michigan State and Notre Dame Renew Their Rivalry

Notre Dame Fighting Irish football gets another primetime showcase when Michigan State visits at 7:30 PM ET on NBC and Peacock. The rivalry dates back to 1897, but the schools haven't played since 2017, making tonight's meeting a long-awaited return rather than just another game on the schedule.

Notre Dame enters after shutting out Rice 52-0, while Michigan State handled Eastern Michigan 35-7 last weekend. With LSU-Ole Miss airing simultaneously on ABC and BYU-Colorado State on CBS, this is one of those nights when picture-in-picture suddenly feels like essential technology.

Garage Sale Mysteries Returns

Hallmark brings Garage Sale Mysteries: Murder Takes the Stage to television at 8 PM ET, with Lori Loughlin returning as amateur sleuth Jennifer Shannon alongside Sarah Strange and Steve Bacic. Hallmark confirms the movie premieres tonight before becoming available on Hallmark+ Sunday.

The franchise is returning with a particularly theatrical mystery involving Jennifer's true-crime book club and a murder connected to its Lizzie Borden reenactment. Apparently even reading about murder isn't safe in Hallmark's mystery universe anymore.

iHeartRadio Music Festival Closes Out Night Two

The iHeartRadio Music Festival wraps up tonight from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, streaming live on Disney+ and Hulu. Saturday's lineup includes Benson Boone, Ciara, Lainey Wilson, LE SSERAFIM, Major Lazer, Muse, Snoop Dogg and The Smashing Pumpkins.

The show begins at 7:30 PM in Las Vegas, which is 10:30 PM ET, so East Coast viewers should plan for a late night. Considering that lineup jumps from country to K-pop to hip-hop to alternative rock, genre loyalty has been politely asked to take Saturday off.

Between a top-10 SEC showdown, Notre Dame-Michigan State, NASCAR at Bristol, Hallmark mystery-solving and a music festival that somehow puts Snoop Dogg, Lainey Wilson and The Smashing Pumpkins on the same bill, Saturday isn't hurting for options. Football clearly owns the day, but there are enough escape routes for anyone who would rather spend the evening solving a murder or watching Snoop take over Vegas.