1) College football, 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN. The playoffs have been strewn with upsets. In the six quarter-final and semi-final games, only twice has the higher-ranked teams won. Both times it was Indiana (shown here), winning 38-3 and 56-22; now it faces 10th-ranked Miami for the title.
2) “I Am MLK Jr.” (2018), 8-10 p.m. today, CW. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, this documentary mixes vintage footage with fresh comments.That includes political figures — John Lewis, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton — plus Van Jones, Nick Cannon, Carmelo Anthony and more. Also, at 10 p.m., PBS reruns a Thurgood Marshall profile.
3) “King: A Film Record — Montgomery to Memphis” (1970), 4:30 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies. Here are two more documentaries, this one plus James Baldwin’s “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1982, 8 p.m.). They’re alongside scripted films — “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” (1974) at 2:30 p.m. and Spike Lee’s superb “Malcolm X” (1992) at 10.
4) “Hidden Assets” season-opener, www.acorn.tv. Two weeks ago, Acorn opened the season for the breezy “My Life is Murder.” (Tonight has a fairly good episode, including a canine-custody. dispute.) Now comes the opposite — a gritty, six-week Irish series, starting with a brutal murder.
5) ALSO: It’s a night of key reruns. ABC has the season’s first two “Will Trent” episodes, at 8 and 9 p.m. Also at 8, Fox has the “Hell’s Kitchen” hour that sets up Thursday’s finale; it follows at 9 with a strong “Doc,” setting up Tuesday’s episode.
— Mike Hughes, TV America