Daily Best Bets

1) Football, 7:30 p.m. ET, NBC. Two top-10 teams collide, with Notre Dame (shown here) hosting Ohio State. That’s on the second Saturday this year (and the second one ever) when five broadcast networks have primetime games. Also at 7:30 p.m.. ABC has Texas at Baylor and CBS has Iowa at Penn State. CW has Georgia Tech at Wake Forest at 6:30 p.m.; Fox has Oregon State at Washington State at 7, then Southern Cal at Arizona State at 10:30. Read more…

1) “IHeartRadio Music Festival,” 10 p.m. ET (7 p.m. PT), Hulu; continues Saturday. This used to give the CW network a vibrant start to its fall season. Now, instead, it’s livestreamed. Ryan Seacrest hosts from Las Vegas, with a line-up that has country (Tim McGraw, Kane Brown), rap and hip hop (Public Enemy, Lil Wayne) and waves of pop and R&B – Kelly Clarkson, Lenny Kravitz (shown here in a previous show), Sheryl Crow, Miguel, TLC, Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters and more. Read more…

1) “American Ninja Warrior,” 9-11 p.m., NBC. In two weeks, NBC will fill this spot with new episodes of “Transplant” (a fairly good Canadian drama) and reruns of “Dateline.” For now, it reruns the “Ninja” special (shown here) from Monday – a relay race involving people who are couples in real life. That’s preceded at 8 p.m. by a “Password” rerun that has Jimmy Fallon and Meghan Trainor. Read more…

1) “MasterChef” finale, 8-10 p.m., Fox. The South team has dominated all season. Last week, it had three people in the final six … but then two were ousted. That leaves Jennifer Maune (shown here), 42, a mother of six and lifestyle blogger who’s been a cheerleader, Junior Leaguer. real-estate salesperson and more. She faces people from the Midwest (Grant Gillan, 32, a brewery sales director) and West (Kennedy U., 26, a festival vendor). Each prepares a three-course dinner. Read more…

1) “America’s Got Talent,” 8-10 p.m., NBC. It’s time to fill the last spots in next week’s finals. Tonight’s contestants come from Russian Japan, Brazil, South Korea and Tanzania. They range from a 7-year-old dancer to a 61-year-old magician. There’s another magician, a dance group, an acrobat duo and a hula hoop aerialist, plus three solo singers, a duo (Trailer Flowers, shown here) and a chorus. Viewers will vote; on Wednesday, at least two acts will learn they’re in the finals. Read more…

1) “Academy of Country Music Honors,” 8-10 p.m., Fox. This is a night to honor generations of country stars. There are the veterans – Clint Black, Tim McGraw, Mary Chapin Carpenter and the late Charlie Daniels – and newer arrivals, Kane Brown, Chris Stapleton (shown here) and Breland. Carly Pearce hosts; the line-up has Keith Urban, Lady A, Lee Brice, Trisha Yearwood, Billy Ray Cyrus, Sara Evans, Priscilla Block, Chris Janson, Anne Wilson, and more. Read more…

1) “Yellowstone opener,” 8:30 to 10:30 p.m., CBS. On a shaky channel — the Paramount Network, formerly the Nashville Network, National Network and Spike – this became a ratings triumph. Written and produced by Taylor Sheridan and starring Kevin Costner (shown here), it’s a modern western, with taut dialog, strong characters and sprawling settings. Now it moves to CBS (also owned by Paramount) to rerun the entire series, starting with the two-hour opener. Read more…

1) “48 Hours” season-opener, 9 and 10 p.m., CBS. It’s the 36th season for the show, with most of that time spent on true-crime tales. Erin Moriarty, for instance, has been covering the Gilgo Beach murders since 2010. This is the show’s sixth report on the case, now adding an interview with a co-worker of Rex Heuermann, the arrested suspect who’s shown here. The second hour probes the murders of four Idaho State students. Read more…

1) “American Masters,” 9-10:30 p.m., PBS. Jerry Brown kept defying traditions. He was California’s youngest governor (36) and its oldest (80 when his term ended). He was a Catholic seminarian, a student of Buddhism, a rock-type star who dated Linda Ronstadt (they’re shown here). He had three failed runs for president and one for Senate – then rebounded. But he was consistent in some areas, especially climate. It’s a fascinating story that (after a bumbling start) is well-told. Read more…

1) “Buddy Games” debut, 9 p.m., CBS. There will be way too many reality shows this fall, but the first arrival is fun. Josh Duhamel (shown here), a TV and movie star, returns home to Montana each summer, to play odd games with his friends. Now he’s producing and hosting a TV version. The teams are varied – cops, beauty queens, Roller Derby women, LGBTQ, etc. The games are big and broad; at times, people are muddy, messy, naked, tired and quite cheerful. Read more…