In the world of cord-cutting and streaming, it's difficult to know where you can watch your favorite Texas college football team on Saturday. Here's a Texas-centric TV guide, and watchability ranking, so you can spend less time finding that gosh-darned channel and more time watching football.

Note:  UTEP  beat Sam Houston 37-34 on Wednesday night. Texas Tech and TCU are on bye.

1. Texas State vs. Troy (6 p.m., ESPN+)

It's homecoming week in San Marcos, which means Texas State is breaking out the SWT jerseys for the program's most important game since they made the name switch. A win Saturday night and Texas State is bowl eligible. If they do topple 5–2 Troy, the focus will switch from getting into a bowl game to contending for the Sun Belt Conference Championship.

Prediction: Texas State 28, Troy 21. The San Marcos faithful show out for homecoming and give Texas State the advantage.

2. Rice vs. No. 22 Tulane (3 p.m., ESPN 2)

This is the week's most exciting quarterback duel. Rice is 4–3 largely behind JT Daniels's sensational season, but Tulane is the reigning American Athletic Conference champs behind the calm, cool and collected Michael Pratt. Tulane showed itself beatable last week squeaking out a win against UNT. Rice has the offensive power to win, but can the defense get a few timely turnovers? 

Also of note: Trolli is giving out free gummy worms to the first 2,000 students after Rice's "Gummy Worm Guy", Daniel Domian, went viral.

Prediction: Tulane 45, Rice 30. The Green Wave offense is too much for Rice to defend.

3. Texas vs. BYU (2:30 p.m., ABC)

Quinn Ewers is week-to-week with a Grade 2 AC joint sprain, which means Texas's CFP hopes hinge on redshirt freshman Maalik Murphy. The 6-foot-5-inch, 238-pound signal caller wowed Texas fans with a rocket arm in the spring game to win the backup quarterback job over five-star freshman Arch Manning, but this will be his first crucial game action of his young career. Can he pilot Texas unscathed until Ewers returns?

Prediction: Texas 24, BYU 13. Murphy goes through some freshman bumps, but Pete Kwiatkowski's defense gets a bounce-back game.

4. North Texas vs. Memphis (2 p.m., ESPN+)

North Texas played Tulane to the wire last Saturday to open up their four-game gauntlet with the American Athletic Conference's top four teams. Memphis is the most vulnerable of this daunting stretch. If the Mean Green win, they vault into the conference's second tier with Memphis. If they lose, it's going to be tough to find three more wins in their final four games. 

Prediction: Memphis 44, North Texas 35. Memphis QB Seth Henigan's homecoming spoils North Texas's hopes.

5. Texas A&M vs. South Carolina (11 a.m., ESPN)

Talk about an Anxiety Bowl for Texas A&M. Win this game and it's what you were supposed to do. South Carolina is 2–5 after all. But lose, and those wonderings aloud on Jimbo Fisher's buyout turn into shouts. The vibes are pretty low in College Station. They're 4–3 battling for a mid-tier bowl game and have now lost two five-star commitments from their 2024 recruiting class.  Does a win brighten spirits?

Prediction: Texas A&M 20, South Carolina 17. Aggies get the win and no one is happy.

6. Houston at Kansas State (11 a.m., ESPN 2)

Try finding a more brutal two-game stretch for Houston. Riding the emotional roller coaster of hosting former Sothwest Conference rival Texas straight into traveling to Manhatten to face the buzz saw that is Kansas State. The Wildcats are using two quarterbacks and both of them are awesome. After some early-season struggles, K-State looks like a team playing for a Big 12 Championship again.

Prediction: Kansas State 35, Houston 13. K-State is on another level right now.

7. Baylor vs. Iowa State (2:30 p.m., Big 12 Network/ESPN+)

Baylor mustered a win against Big 12 cellar dwellar Cincinatti last week to keep its bowl hopes alive, but now they're back at McLane Stadium where they're 1–4 on the year with the only win coming against Long Island. Don't look now, but Matt Campbell's got his Iowa State sitting at a salty 4–3 after everyone wrote them off due to roster attrition and gambling suspensions. 

Prediction: Iowa State 27, Baylor 23. The vibes plummet in Waco

8. UTSA vs. East Carolina (2:30 p.m., ESPN +)

UTSA is riding a three-game win streak into this matchup against 1–6 East Carolina. Naturally, Jeff Traylor put mouse traps all around the locker room to remind his guys not to take the cheese. The only problem was a player handed Traylor one of them and it snapped on his finger. A bad omen for Saturday? I don't think so.

Prediction: UTSA 45, East Carolina 17. UTSA train keeps rolling.

9. SMU vs. Tulsa (11 a.m., ESPNU)

This is the last layup game for SMU before they go on an interesting three-game stretch against Rice, North Texas and Memphis. The Mustangs have their most balanced team in recent memory behind the leadership of quarterback Preston Stone and safety Jonathan McGill, and they should roll a Tulsa team that just got blown out by Rice.

Prediction: SMU 38, Tulsa 7. The Pony Express gets to 6–2.