1) College football, noon ET, Fox. This is what sports fans and accountants dream of: Arch-rivals, undefeated and ranked No. 2 and 3 in the nation, collide in a stadium that has held 115,000. Ohio State visits Michigan (shown here); the winner faces Iowa in the Big Ten championship game. Also, top-ranked Georgia visits Georgia Tech at 7:30 p.m. on ABC and Iowa State is at Kansas State at 8 on Fox.
2) “A Royal Date for Christmas,” 8 p.m. ET, Great American Family. There seems to be a lot of unattached princes wandering unattached during the holidays. To avoid that cliché, this film has an unattached duke. The story ranges from predictable to illogical, but Danica McKellar (“Wonder Years”) somehow brings intelligence and beauty to the role of an underinformed fashion consultant. The settings are gorgeous; the moods are mild.
3) More Christmas movies. We can’t always have unaware lasses meeting royalty; in “Christmas at Notting Hill,” an unaware American meets a soccer star. That’s 6 p.m. on Hallmark, which follows at 8 with “Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up.” It a sequel, with Lacey Chabert as the girlfriend of a combative homeowners’ association. Lifetime counters with Teri Hatcher in “Christmas at the Chalet.”
4) “The Grio Awards,” 8-10 p.m., CBS. The second annual ceremony honors Black and biracial stars, including Mariah Carey, Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Don Cheadle and dancer Misty Copleland. Sheryl Underwood and Roy Wood Jr. host, with music by Jennifer Hudson, Coco Jones, Smokey Robinson, Patti LaBelle and Boyz II Men.
5) Reruns: From 8-10 p.m., NBC repeats Thursday’s “National Dog Show” and CW has a movie from last year, “Waltons Thanksgiving”: It’s Harvest Festival time and a young man arrives who will change Waltons’ lives. At 11:29, NBC repeats the “Saturday Night Live” with Bad Bunny as host and music guest. Some very funny moments are in sketches that are mostly in Spanish.