College Football on TNT Sports

TNT Sports (formerly Turner Sports) has occasionally televised college football games on its networks since 1982; that year, under an agreement with the NCAA, TBS became the first broadcaster to nationally televise college football on cable. After the NCAA broadcasting package was dismantled in 1984 following a Supreme Court ruling, TBS would broadcast SEC football from 1984 to 1992, along with selected bowl games through 2000.

Regular-season college football returned to TBS in 2002 as part of a sub-licensing agreement with Fox Sports Net, broadcasting a package of Pac-10 and Big 12 games through 2006. In 2024, ESPN announced that it had reached an agreement with TNT Sports to televise College Football Playoff games on TNT beginning that season. This was followed by its acquisition of a Mountain West Conference package for TruTV.

Early coverage
In 1982, SuperStation WTBS reached a special "supplemental" television contract with the NCAA—who controlled all college football television rights at the time—to carry a package of live games on cable. TBS became the first cable network to nationally televise college football games. They aired a package of live Division I-AA games on Thursday nights and Division I-A games on Saturdays.

WTBS was only able to show teams that had not been on national television in 1981. There were a maximum of four teams that had been on regional television on two occasions. Meanwhile, ABC and CBS had the right to take away a game from WTBS as long as it did so no later than the Monday before the game. Bob Neal and Tim Foley were the booth commentators for WTBS during this period. Meanwhile, Craig Sager, Paul Hornung and Pepper Rodgers anchored the pregame show for WTBS.

In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled in NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma that the NCAA's television rights model for college football violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, thus allowing individual schools to sell the television rights to their home games. In June 1984, WTBS sports director Terry Hanson stated that they planned to compete for the national television rights being offered by the College Football Association (CFA)—a consortium of major conferences—and would challenge any attempt to impose regional blackouts. He told the press, "Every organization takes the personality of its leader. So we are obnoxiously aggressive." WTBS would acquire a package of games from the Southeastern Conference (SEC).

TBS dropped regular season college football after the 1992 season, but acquired rights to the Gator Bowl from 1991 to 1995 (after which the game moved to NBC),  and the Carquest Bowl under an agreement with its owner Raycom Sports (a deal that would be later renewed through 2000).

2002–2006: Big 12 and Pac-10 sub-license
In 2002, Turner Sports reached a five-year sub-licensing agreement with Fox Sports Net (FSN), under which it would broadcast a package of games from the Big 12 and Pac-10 conferences. The agreement ended after the 2006 season, after which the package moved to Versus for 2007.

2024–2028: College Football Playoff and Mountain West
On May 22, 2024, ESPN announced that it had sub-licensed a portion of the College Football Playoff broadcast rights to TNT Sports from the 2024 season—which will be the first to see the CFP expanded into a 12-team tournament—through 2028. Under the agreement, TNT will broadcast two of the new first-round games annually. Beginning in 2026, TNT will also broadcast two of the New Year's Six bowls hosting the CFP quarterfinals. The telecasts will be produced by ESPN, and it was reported that ESPN would also keep all advertising revenue from the telecasts for at least the first two years of the agreement; sports media writer John Ourand suspected that that the agreement was intended as leverage in carriage negotiations for TNT, and to bolster Venu Sports—an upcoming sports streaming service that includes ESPN and TNT Sports as partners.

On July 1, 2024, TNT Sports also announced an agreement with the Mountain West Conference, under which it will carry a package of 14 games on TruTV and Max throughout the 2024 season.

Play-by-play

 * Gary Bender
 * Chip Caray
 * Skip Caray
 * Kevin Harlan
 * Verne Lundquist
 * Bob Neal
 * Lindsey Nelson
 * Ron Thulin
 * Pete van Wieren

Color commentators

 * Trev Alberts
 * Charles Davis
 * Archie Griffin
 * Pat Haden
 * Paul Hornung
 * Tim Foley
 * Mark May
 * Alan Page
 * Tom Ramsey
 * Dave Rowe
 * Sam Wyche

Sideline reporters

 * Erin Andrews
 * Marc Fein
 * Craig Sager

Studio hosts

 * Kevin Christopher
 * Marc Fein
 * Ernie Johnson, Jr.
 * Craig Sager

Studio analysts

 * Brian Bosworth
 * Paul Hornung
 * Pepper Rodgers