1) Football, 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN. It’s time for the semi-finals of the college championships. Notre Dame (shown here) faces Penn State today, with Texas and Ohio State on Friday; the winners collide Jan. 20. And yes, there’s a trend here: The four top-ranked teams had byes the first week … and all four promptly lost in the second week.
2) “Hollywood Squares” opener, 8 p.m., CBS. It’s a new edition of a show that began 58 years ago. Now Drew Barrymore is in the center square, surrounded by comedians. The result is sometimes funny, but often skids toward chaos and cacophony.
3) “Animal Control,” 9 p.m., Fox. It’s not easy to be funny when your story includes a rattlesnake bite, a wayward alligator and the intensive care unit. But this episode pulls it off. One story – Patel throwing the first pitch – is fairly funny; another – romancing a potential donor – is often hilarious.
4) “Going Dutch,” 9:30, Fox. After a so-so opener, this improves for its second episode. The colonel (Denis Leary) is determined to impress someone – maybe himself – by stealing a tank. Catherine Tate, an award-winner for her British comedy show and for “Doctor Who,” is his driving instructor.
5) MORE: At 8 p.m., Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen” is down to six chefs. At 9:02 and 9:51, ABC reruns excellent episodes of “Only Murders in the Building,” with Mabel (Selena Gomez) immersed in the art world; that’s followed at 10:37 by a shortened “What Would You Do?” CBS also has strong reruns – “Georgie & Mandy,” “Ghosts,” “Matlock” – from 9-11 p.m.