Beavers To Meet Cougs In Daylight

Oregon St. will get an early afternoon home game against Washington St. The TV schedule for Sat., Nov. 8 is out, and the Beavers' game against the Cougars, which will be Dad's Weekend on the Corvallis Campus, will be a 1 PM game. It will be relegated to the Pac-12 channel.

The day in the Pac-12, which has 3 teams, USC, California, and Stanford, on byes, will start a half hour earlier, with Notre Dame visiting Arizona St., for a 1:30 PM AST (12:30 PM PDT) start, on ABC. And ABC apparently isn't too concerned with the WSU-OSU game stealing that audience, and waived the clause preventing any game from airing in near head-to-head competition.

The premium late afternoon slot goes to the UCLA at Washington game, which will start at 4 PM, and air on Fox Sports 1.

Games totally in the dark include Colorado at Arizona, which will be the day's other Pac-12 channel game, starting at 6 PM AST/MST in Tucson, and the late, late game on ESPN, which could be the game of the week, Oregon at Utah. The game, a potential preview of the Pac-12 title game, will kick just after 8 PM MST in Rice-Ecles (7 PM PST) in Salt Lake City.

Andy_Wooldridge@yahoo.com