Bowl games are culminating with ones you might have heard of, such as the Orange Bowl, where it’s Florida State vs. Michigan (ESPN, 8:30 p.m.).
Earlier games include Georgia vs. TCU (ESPN, noon) in the Liberty Bowl, North Carolina vs. Stanford (CBS, 2 p.m.) in the daytime network Sun Bowl, and Nebraska vs. Tennessee (ESPN, 3:30 p.m.) in the Music City Bowl.
There’s even less on tonight than normal Fridays, though. Networks are largely waiting until the new year for new programming.
So there’s “Caught on Camera with Nick Cannon” (NBC, 8 p.m.) for example, but everything else on network TV is a rerun.
Chief among them is the “iHeartRadio Music Festival” (The CW, 8 p.m.) for maybe the third time. I heart reruns, more like.
“Married to Medicine Houston” (Bravo, 9 p.m.) burns off its season with a pair of episodes.
Not that we need a reminder of an impending “Doomsday: 10 Ways the World Will End” (History, 9 p.m.), but aliens are tonight’s example.
Danielle Savre plays a woman with Histrionic Personality Disorder who kills her husband but covers it up and goes after a neighbor (Jefferson Brown) by saying she’s being stalked in the made for TV “The Perfect Stalker” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.).
“Treehouse Masters” (Animal Planet, 9 p.m.) look back at past projects and wonder once more why they’re on Animal Planet in the first place.
“Alaskan Bush People” (Discovery, 10 p.m.) are reflective at the end of the year as well.
Workers on “Gold Rush” (Discovery, 9 p.m.) are getting antsy after not getting paid for five weeks.
North Pole inspired stories are grist for “Mysteries at the Museum” (Travel, 9 p.m.).
“Paranormal Lockdown” (TLC, 9 p.m.) looks at haunted happenings at a Middleboro, Mass., mansion.
Skagway saloon keepers are skittish on “Alaska Haunting” (TLC, 10 p.m.), a show that combines two Friday night staples – ghost hunting and the 49th state.
The month-long Friday night tribute to Myrna Loy on Turner Classic Movies comes to an end with her later works, “Midnight Lace” (8 p.m.), “The Ambassador’s Daughter” (10 p.m.) and “Lonleyhearts” (midnight), followed by a 1991 documentary “Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To” (2 a.m.). Later comes a pair of films by Ernest Lubitsch, “Design for Living” (3 a.m.) and “The Love Parade” (4:45 a.m.).
Men’s college basketball includes West Virginia at Oklahoma State (ESPN2, 4 pm.), Valparaiso at Illinois Chicago (ESPNU, 5 p.m.), La Salle at Dayton (CBS Sports, 6 p.m.), Texas Tech at Iowa State (ESPNews, 6 p.m.), Baylor at Oklahoma (ESPN2, 7 p.m.), Rhode Island at Saint Louis (ESPNU, 7 p.m.), VCU at George Mason (CBS Sports, 8 p.m.), Texas at Kansas State (ESPNews, 8 p.m.), Kansas at TCU (ESPN2, 9 p.m.), South Carolina at Memphis (ESPNU, 9 p.m.), Southern California at Oregon (Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.) and Arizona at California (ESPN2, 11 p.m.).
Women’s games include St. John’s at Seton Hall (Fox Sports 2, 7 p.m.).
Pro games include Clippers at Houston (NBA, 8 p.m.)
Daytime Talk
Kelly Ripa: Martin Short, Ana Gasteyer, Carley Roney, Kevin Hart (rerun). The View: Sela Ward (rerun). Harry Connick: Terrence Howard, Chip & Joanna Gaines, Nicole Byer. Ellen DeGeneres: Oprah Winfrey, Simone Biles, Channing Tatum (rerun). Wendy Williams: Martha Stewart, Vikki Ziegler (rerun). The Real: Pitbull, Evelyn Lozada (rerun).
Late Talk
All reruns: Stephen Colbert: Mark Wahlberg, Lee Daniels, Miranda Lambert. Jimmy Kimmel: Ryan Seacrest, Zoey Deutch, James Vincent McMorrow. Jimmy Fallon: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Nealon, Gary Clark Jr. Seth Meyers: Mariah Carey, Colin Quinn, Megadeth, Dave Lombardo. James Corden: Kevin Bacon, Sarah Hyland, Saint Motel. Carson Daly: Alton Brown, Saves the Day, Roosevelt. Tavis Smiley: Graham Nash.