This weekend’s schedule of live TV sports events begins on the gridiron with the NFL divisional playoff round.
Saturday’s NFL playoffs lineup features Houston Texans-Baltimore Ravens at 4:30 p.m. on ABC and ESPN and Green Bay Packers-San Francisco 49ers contest at 8:15 p.m. on Fox. On Sunday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers play the Detroit Lions at 3 p.m. on NBC, while the Kansas City Chiefs travel to Buffalo to face the Bills at 6:30 p.m. on CBS.
In the octagon, ESPN will distribute the UFC 297 pay-per-view event featuring a main event bout between middleweight champion Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis. The co-main event features a women’s bantamweight fight between Raquel Pennington and Mayra Bueno Silva.
In men’s college basketball, top-ranked UConn faces Big East rival Villanova on FS1, second-ranked Purdue faces Iowa on FS1, third-ranked Kansas plays West Virginia on ESPN Plus, fourth-ranked North Carolina travels to Boston College on The CW and fifth-ranked Houston battles UCF on ESPN Plus.
Sunday’s women’s college basketball lineup includes top-ranked South Carolina battling Texas A&M on SEC Network, second-ranked Iowa meeting Big Ten rival Ohio State on NBC, third-ranked Colorado facing No. 6 USC on Pac-12 Network, and fourth-ranked North Carolina State hosting Duke on ACC Network.
ESPN2 will offer weekend third and fourth-round action from tennis’s Australian Open, while NBC and Golf Channel will offer weekend late-round coverage of the LPGA Tournament of Champions.
