Oregon @ Utah Sept. 12th

At least they’ll be breaking in a new QB and most of their O line. Although the guys on the line they have stepping in, will be VERY good.

Would you please elaborate?

Yep. BYU is a win, Oregon is a probable loss.

Hmm.  That’s actually a good idea. 

Ug still see THIBODEAUX ; dude was a monster that game. At least we’ll play em early; might play to our favor

The only way to play 5 home games and 5 away games would be to completely revamp the schedule for EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL. It’s actually IMPOSSIBLE to only add one team to each opponent’s schedule because the annual schedule rotation the Pac-12 uses prevents it. I know because I painstakingly worked all of this out earlier. The only way to add additional conference games to each team’s schedule would be to add TWO games, which would actually be a full round-robin schedule. The pairings for each team would be as follows:

Utah: vs. Stanford and @ Oregon
Colorado: vs. California and @ Oregon State
Arizona: vs. Washington State and @ California
ASU: vs. Washington and @ Stanford
UCLA: vs. Oregon and @ Washington
USC: vs. Oregon State and @ Washington State
California: vs. Arizona and @ Colorado
Stanford: vs. ASU and @ Utah
Oregon: vs. Utah and @ UCLA
Oregon State: vs. Colorado and @ USC
Washington: vs. UCLA and @ ASU
Washington State: vs. USC and @ Arizona

That would give half of the schools 6 conference home games while the other half would only get 5. Maybe the Pac-12 could make its conference-only schedule less strict and allow each school to play ONE non-conference game, which would allow the schools with only 5 conference home games to schedule an additional home game against a non-conf opponent (like BYU or Montana State in Utah’s case), thus balancing their schedules to 6 home and 6 away games. That would be far more feasible, as the league would only need to worry about the outside logistics of non-league play (and Covid control) for ONE WEEK. Seems reasonable to me, but I’m just a simple man with simple desires.

Here’s the thing about Stanford. Utah has a better chance at playing home games than they do. Nobody knows if any college football will be played in California this year. Don’t be surprised if Gavin doesn’t allow it. I can’t speak for Oregon or what the political situation is up there. If it’s similar to California, they may just be scheduling the game in Salt Lake because it’s more likely to happen in September there than it is in Eugene. Just a thought and complete speculation on my part.