Twenty of the 25 teams in our Week 7 Top 25 play in Week 8, and the biggest game on the board is in Vermillion. No. 7 North Dakota (6-2) visits No. 8 South Dakota (6-2) at the DakotaDome at 2 p.m. ET on ESPN+ and Midco Sports Plus. North Dakota is coming off a 21-10 win over South Dakota State.
That's one of three ranked-on-ranked games. No. 21 Weber State (5-3) plays at No. 4 Montana State (6-1) at 3 p.m. ET, and No. 22 Southeastern Louisiana (4-3) visits No. 2 Stephen F. Austin (7-0) at 6 p.m. ET. Princeton (4-1) also visits No. 11 Harvard (5-0) at 3 p.m. ET, and both teams are 2-0 in the Ivy League.
No. 1 Tarleton State (7-0) is at West Georgia, and No. 5 South Dakota State (5-2) hosts Murray State a week after its loss in Grand Forks. No. 25 Colgate (4-3) visits Richmond (5-2) in a Patriot League game.
Here's the full Week 8 rundown from ESPN, including every matchup involving a team from our Week 7 Top 25. Times are Eastern.
Friday, Oct. 23
- North Carolina Central at Delaware State (5 p.m. ET, ESPN2)
- Yale at Penn (7 p.m. ET, ESPNU)
Saturday, Oct. 24
- UAlbany at Rhode Island (noon ET, FloSports)
- New Hampshire at Merrimack (noon ET, ESPN+)
- Cornell at Brown (noon ET, ESPN+)
- New Haven at Central Connecticut (noon ET)
- Stonehill at LIU (noon ET, NEC Front Row)
- Wagner at Duquesne (noon ET, SportsNet PIT / NEC Front Row)
- San Diego at Dayton (noon ET, FloSports)
- St. Thomas at Marist (noon ET, ESPN+)
- No. 10 Campbell at Maine (1 p.m. ET, FloSports)
- Bucknell at Holy Cross (1 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Lafayette at Fordham (1 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Butler at Drake (1 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Presbyterian at Valparaiso (1 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Jackson State at Bethune-Cookman (1 p.m. ET)
- Dartmouth at Columbia (1:30 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Norfolk State at South Carolina State (1:30 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- No. 17 East Tennessee State at VMI (1:30 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Stony Brook at Bryant (2 p.m. ET, FloSports)
- No. 19 Monmouth at Hampton (2 p.m. ET, FloSports)
- No. 7 North Dakota at No. 8 South Dakota (2 p.m. ET, ESPN+ / Midco Sports Plus)
- No. 20 Northern Iowa at Southern Illinois (2 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Mercyhurst at Robert Morris (2 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- No. 25 Colgate at Richmond (2 p.m. ET, ESPN+ / Patriot League TV)
- No. 1 Tarleton State at West Georgia (2 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Stetson at Morehead State (2 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Samford at Furman (2 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- No. 12 Tennessee Tech at The Citadel (2 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Chattanooga at Western Carolina (2:30 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Chicago State at Lindenwood (3 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Princeton at No. 11 Harvard (3 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Indiana State at No. 14 Illinois State (3 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Murray State at No. 5 South Dakota State (3 p.m. ET, ESPN+ / Midco Sports Plus 2)
- Howard at Morgan State (3 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- No. 21 Weber State at No. 4 Montana State (3 p.m. ET, ESPN+ / Scripps Sports)
- West Florida at Eastern Kentucky (3 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Southeast Missouri State at Eastern Illinois (3 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Florida A&M (3 p.m. ET)
- Southern at Texas Southern (3 p.m. ET)
- Nicholls at Northwestern State (3 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Georgetown at William & Mary (3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- No. 15 Lehigh at Villanova (3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Charleston Southern at Tennessee State (3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- UT Martin at Western Illinois (4 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Houston Christian at No. 16 Lamar (4 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Utah Tech at Cal Poly (5 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Southern Utah at Idaho (5 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- UTRGV at Central Arkansas (5 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- McNeese at Incarnate Word (5 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Portland State at Idaho State (6 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- No. 22 Southeastern Louisiana at No. 2 Stephen F. Austin (6 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- No. 9 Austin Peay at North Alabama (7 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Northern Colorado at No. 24 UC Davis (7 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
- Prairie View A&M at East Texas A&M (7 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
Bye week
No. 3 Youngstown State, No. 6 Northern Arizona, No. 13 Montana, No. 18 Mercer and No. 23 Abilene Christian are the five teams from our Top 25 off this week.
Rankings reflect our Week 7 FCS Top 25. Kickoff times and TV listings are from ESPN's FCS scoreboard as of Oct. 22.
