The Pac-12 announced the abbreviated 2020 football schedule Saturday morning and in a mild surprise, Cal will play at Arizona State in their lone matchup with the South Division. It was expected in many quarters that Cal’s scheduled game against the South would be either USC or UCLA.
The Big Game will be the Friday after Thanksgiving, Nov. 27 in Berkeley.
The Cal season opens at home against Washington on Nov. 7, followed by the trip to ASU on Nov. 14, at Oregon State Nov. 21, the Big Game on the 27th, Oregon at home Dec. 5, and at Washington State Dec. 12. Starting times and the television schedule will be announced later. Not playing one or both of the LA schools interrupts at least one of Cal’s longest rivalries. The matchups against USC began in 1912 and UCLA games date back to 1934.
The seventh game, a crossover matchup against a South the team the weekend of Dec. 18-19, will be announced that week.
In a news release, Cal said: “Under current guidelines from both the state of California and the conference, no fans will be permitted to events on Pac-12 campuses out of health and safety concerns, although the policy will be revisited by the Pac-12 in January for future events should conditions allow.”
The conference schedule includes eight Friday games along with the Championship Game set to take place on a Friday evening. The road team for the regular season Friday games is assured of a home game the preceding week. Updated tie-breaking procedures for determining division champions and Football Championship Game participants for the 2020 season will be finalized in the near future.
Every game through the first six weeks of the season will be televised nationally by a combination of ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, Fox and FS1. Fox will televise the Football Championship game on Friday, Dec. 18.
Cal’s 2020 Schedule
Sat., Nov. 7 – Washington*
Sat., Nov. 14 – at Arizona State*
Sat., Nov. 21 – at Oregon State*
Fri., Nov. 27 – Stanford*
Sat., Dec. 5 – Oregon*
Sat., Dec. 12 – at Washington State*
Fri., Dec. 18 – Pac-12 Championship Game presented by 76®
Home Games in bold .*Pac-12 Game;
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They will try to prevent it. But they only get there so early and they probably won't go up on the hill to chase anyone off.azulviejo said:I was just thinking the same thing.chalcidbear said:
So, with no fans allowed in the stadium, how crowded will Tightwad Hill get?
Or can The University, keep fans out of there?
Will there still be a canon?
Even in the snow, Washington would power-run all over the Cougs, we will do the same.Larno said:
Surprised no one has mentioned it yet - Dec. 12 at WSU will be very cold, good chance of snow. Remember some of those Apple Cup games in November in snow storms? Bring the longjohns.
Besides Cal's kick-off game against the Huskies, we will also get some idea of how well Bears will stack up in the conference because ASU, Cal's second-game opponent, will play u$C.HoopDreams said:
what's the scouting report on ASU?
Cal coaches are throwing the dice now to pick a kicker!??HoopDreams said:
Speaking of kickers, do we know who our starting kicker/punter will be?
BearoutEast67 said:
6 feet everybody!
Thank you, but please be aware that I didn't pick UDub to win outright; it's a 50/50 toss up game. I do noteDCW67MSW said:
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