This coming directly from the Pac-12 Conference. This is an aggregate TV schedule of the football games that will be carried on the CBS Sports Network, ESPN Family of Networks, Fox/Fox Sports 1, NBC and the Pac-12 Networks. NBC will air the USC at Notre Dame game live from South Bend, IN.
ESPN and Fox are the national rightsholders for the Pac-12 and will combine to carry 45 games. Pac-12 Networks will carry 35 home conference games. Among the highlights:
- ABC or ESPN will air its first Pac-12 Championship Game on Saturday, December 7.
- Fox Sports 1 airs its first Pac-12 game on Thursday night, August 29 with Utah State at Utah and that will be part of a trio of conference contests for the network on the first weekend of the 2013 college football season.
- Fox will air Ohio State at Cal on Saturday, September 14 and most likely carry Notre Dame at Stanford on Saturday, November 30.
- In addition to USC at Notre Dame on Saturday, October 19, NBC also has Arizona State visiting the Fighting Irish two weeks prior.
- CBS Sports Network carries at least five games involving Pac-12 teams in the early portion of the season.
Let’s take a look at the press release and schedule.
PAC-12 EARLY FOOTBALL TELEVISION SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED
ALL 80 HOME GAMES TO BE TELEVISED
WALNUT CREEK, Calif.–The Pac-12 Networks, along with Pac-12 Conference television partners ESPN and FOX will provide complete coverage of the entire Pac-12 home football schedule during the 2013 season. The Pac-12 Networks will air 35 Pac-12 home games, while ESPN and FOX will combine to televise 45 games from Pac-12 sites, including the Pac-12 Championship Game.
FOX will kick off the 2013 Pac-12 season with three telecasts during the opening week of the season, starting Thursday, August 29, with Utah State at UTAH on FOX Sports 1, which marks the first college football game to be aired on FOX’s new, national, multi-sport network.
Pac-12 Networks begins its second season in covering the Pac-12 Conference and will air the Northern Arizona at ARIZONA game on Friday, August 30 as one of its 750 live events to be aired by the Networks during the 2013-14 year. Pac-12 Networks will air 13 of the 22 Pac-12 home football games during the first three weeks of the season, and also has announced it will televise CALIFORNIA at OREGON in week five and OREGON at COLORADO in week six.
ESPN will carry its first Pac-12 game of the season on Saturday, August 31, when ESPN2 will air Northwestern at CALIFORNIA. ESPN or ABC will culminate the 2013 Pac-12 season when it carries the Pac-12 Championship Game on Saturday, December 7.
“Today’s announcement assures Pac-12 fans will once again enjoy the best television coverage of their favorite teams,” said Commissioner Larry Scott. “Through Pac-12 Networks, and our partners ESPN and FOX, all 80 Pac-12 home games will be available to passionate Pac-12 fans all across the country.”
The television arrangement with ESPN and FOX calls for Pac-12 football to receive full national distribution of each game. ESPN will televise on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU or ABC, while FOX will air its games on FOX or FOX Sports 1.
While television selections for the first three weeks of the 2013 season have been made, as well as all Thursday and Friday games throughout the season, all remaining television game selections and start times, starting with week four (Saturday, September 21) and running through the final week of the regular season (Saturday, November 30) will be made 12- or six-days in advance.
Additional non-conference road games will be televised as part of other conference or institution television packages. Those conferences and institutions will release their 2013 television schedule in the coming weeks. In all, every Pac-12 football game is expected to be televised this season.
Following is the television schedule for the 2013 Pac-12 football season…
Day/Date Game Time (PT/ET) TV Thurs., Aug 29 USC at Hawai’i 8 pm PT/11 pm ET CBS Sports Net
Utah State at UTAH 5 pm PT/8 pm ET FOX Sports 1
Fri., Aug 30 Northern Arizona at ARIZONA 7 pm PT/10 pm ET Pac-12 Networks
Sat., Aug 31 Nicholls State at OREGON 1 pm PT/4 pm ET FOX Sports 1
Eastern Washington at OREGON STATE 3 pm PT/6 pm ET Pac-12 Networks
Boise State at WASHINGTON 7 pm PT/10 pm ET FOX Sports 1
Nevada at UCLA 7 pm PT/10 pm ET Pac-12 Networks
Northwestern at CALIFORNIA 7:30 pm PT/10:30 pm ET ESPN2
WASHINGTON STATE at Auburn
Sun., Sept. 1 Colorado State vs. COLORADO (1) 3 pm PT/6 pm ET CBS Sports Net
Thurs., Sept. 5 Sacramento State at ARIZONA STATE 7 pm PT/10 pm ET Pac-12 Networks
Sat., Sept. 7 Weber State at UTAH 11 am PT/2 pm ET Pac-12 Networks
OREGON at Virginia 12:30 pm PT/3:30 pm ET ABC/ESPN2
Portland State at CALIFORNIA 2 pm PT/5 pm ET Pac-12 Networks
Central Arkansas at COLORADO 5 pm PT/8 pm ET Pac-12 Networks
Hawai’i at OREGON STATE 5 pm PT/8 pm ET Pac-12 Networks
ARIZONA at UNLV 7:30 pm PT/10:30 pm ET CBS Sports Net
WASHINGTON STATE at USC 7:30 pm PT/10:30 pm ET FOX Sports 1
San Jose State at STANFORD 8 pm PT/11 pm ET Pac-12 Networks
Sat., Sept. 14 STANFORD at Army 9 am PT/12 noon ET CBS Sports Net
Fresno State at COLORADO 11 am PT/2 pm ET Pac-12 Networks
Tennessee at OREGON 12:30 pm PT/3:30 pm ET ABC, ESPN or ESPN2
WASHINGTON vs. Illinois (2) 3 pm PT/6 pm ET Big Ten Network
Ohio State at CALIFORNIA 4 pm PT/7 pm ET FOX
OREGON STATE at UTAH 7 pm PT/10 pm ET FOX Sports 1
Wisconsin at ARIZONA STATE 7:30 pm PT/10:30 pm ET ESPN or ESPN2
UTSA at ARIZONA TBD Pac-12 Networks
Boston College at USC TBD Pac-12 Networks
Southern Utah at WASHINGTON STATE TBD Pac-12 Networks
UCLA at Nebraska
Sat., Sept. 21 ARIZONA STATE at STANFORD
Utah State at USC
New Mexico State at UCLA
UTAH at BYU
OREGON STATE at San Diego State 4:30 pm PT/7:30 pm ET CBS Sports Net
Idaho State at WASHINGTON
Idaho at WASHINGTON STATE
Sat., Sept. 28 ARIZONA at WASHINGTON
USC at ARIZONA STATE
COLORADO at OREGON STATE
CALIFORNIA at OREGON TBD Pac-12 Networks
STANFORD at WASHINGTON STATE (3)
Thurs., Oct. 3 UCLA at UTAH 7 pm PT/10 pm ET FOX Sports 1
Sat., Oct. 5 ARIZONA STATE vs. Notre Dame (4) 4:30 pm PT/7:30 pm ET NBC
OREGON at COLORADO TBD Pac-12 Networks
WASHINGTON at STANFORD
WASHINGTON STATE at CALIFORNIA
Thurs., Oct. 10 ARIZONA at USC 7:30 pm PT/10:30 pm ET FOX Sports 1
Sat., Oct. 12 COLORADO at ARIZONA STATE
CALIFORNIA at UCLA
STANFORD at UTAH
OREGON at WASHINGTON
OREGON STATE at WASHINGTON STATE
Sat., Oct. 19 UTAH at ARIZONA
WASHINGTON at ARIZONA STATE
USC at Notre Dame 4:30 pm PT/7:30 pm ET NBC
UCLA at STANFORD
WASHINGTON STATE at OREGON
OREGON STATE at CALIFORNIA
Sat., Oct. 26 ARIZONA at COLORADO
UTAH at USC
UCLA at OREGON
STANFORD at OREGON STATE
CALIFORNIA at WASHINGTON
Thurs., Oct. 31 ARIZONA STATE at WASHINGTON STATE 7:30 pm PT/10:30 pm ET ESPN
Fri., Nov. 1 USC at OREGON STATE 6 pm PT/9 pm ET ESPN2
Sat., Nov. 2 ARIZONA at CALIFORNIA
COLORADO at UCLA
Thurs., Nov. 7 OREGON at STANFORD 6 pm PT/9 pm ET ESPN
Sat., Nov. 9 UCLA at ARIZONA
ARIZONA STATE at UTAH
USC at CALIFORNIA
COLORADO at WASHINGTON
Fri., Nov. 15 WASHINGTON at UCLA 6 pm PT/9 pm ET ESPN2
Sat., Nov. 16 WASHINGTON STATE at ARIZONA
OREGON STATE at ARIZONA STATE
STANFORD at USC
CALIFORNIA at COLORADO
UTAH at OREGON
Sat., Nov. 23 OREGON at ARIZONA
ARIZONA STATE at UCLA
USC at COLORADO
UTAH at WASHINGTON STATE
WASHINGTON at OREGON STATE
CALIFORNIA at STANFORD
Fri., Nov. 29 WASHINGTON STATE at WASHINGTON 12:30 pm PT/3:30 pm ET FOX
OREGON STATE at OREGON 4 pm PT/7 pm ET FOX Sports 1
Sat., Nov. 30 ARIZONA at ARIZONA STATE
UCLA at USC
COLORADO at UTAH
Notre Dame at STANFORD TBD FOX or FOX Sports 1
Sat., Dec. 7 Pac-12 Championship Game 4:45 pm or 5 pm PT ESPN or ABC
Games in italics have been selected to be televised as a part of other conference/institution television packages.
Neutral Sites (1) Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Denver, Colo. (2) Soldier Field, Chicago, Ill. (3) CenturyLink Field, Seattle, Wash. (4) Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, Texas For additional information on Pac-12 football, check out Pac-12.com.
That is all.
