Pac-12 releases 2015 football schedule

The debate between eight and nine-game conference schedules rages on inside college football, but the Pac-12 has come firmly down on the nine-game side of things as it released its full 2015 football schedule on Tuesday night.

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In the new College Football Playoff era, the Pac-12 is also upping the ante in the three non-conference games available to its teams. As the conference released its schedule for next season, it also showed that one-third of all non-conference games for the Pac-12 will be against so-called “Power 5” conference opponents.

Headlining the non-conference slate include matchups between Utah and Michigan, Washington at Boise State, Stanford at Northwestern and Oregon at Michigan State. Additional games with “Power 5” schools include Oregon State visiting Michigan, UCLA hosting Virginia, Utah going to Michigan, Washington State making the return trip to Rutgers and Cal traveling to Texas.

There are also games against Texas A&M, BYU and Notre Dame for Pac-12 teams and their fans to look forward to in 2015.

One of the more intriguing parts of the schedule release is the amount of Thursday games that will be played. Fans will be treated to some good football on Thursday nights in 2015 with contests like Michigan at Utah, Washington at USC and UCLA at Stanford dotting the schedule.

The conference will have a mix of national broadcast partners once again in 2015, with a combination of the ESPN channels, ABC, FOX and FOX Sports 1 will broadcast 44 games nationally and Pac-12 Networks offering 34 games to a national audience as well.

Here is the full slate of games for the 2015 season:

Thurs., Sept. 3	UTSA at ARIZONA
	Michigan at UTAH
Sat., Sept. 5	ARIZONA STATE vs. Texas A&M (1)
	Arkansas State at USC
	Virginia at UCLA
	COLORADO at Hawai’i
	Eastern Washington at OREGON
	Weber State at OREGON STATE
	WASHINGTON at Boise State
	Portland State at WASHINGTON STATE
	Grambling at CALIFORNIA
	STANFORD at Northwestern
Sat., Sept. 12	ARIZONA at Nevada
	Cal Poly at ARIZONA STATE
	Idaho at USC
	UCLA at UNLV
	UMass at COLORADO
	Utah State at UTAH
	OREGON at Michigan State
	OREGON STATE at Michigan
	Sacramento State at WASHINGTON
	WASHINGTON STATE at Rutgers
	San Diego State at CALIFORNIA
	Central Florida at STANFORD
Sat,. Sept. 19	Northern Arizona at ARIZONA
	New Mexico at ARIZONA STATE
	STANFORD at USC
	BYU at UCLA
	COLORADO vs. Colorado State (2)
	UTAH at Fresno State
	Georgia State at OREGON
	San Jose State at OREGON STATE
	Utah State at WASHINGTON
	Wyoming at WASHINGTON STATE
	CALIFORNIA at Texas
Fri., Sept. 25	STANFORD at OREGON STATE
Sat., Sept. 26	UCLA at ARIZONA
	USC at ARIZONA STATE
	Nicholls State at COLORADO
	UTAH at OREGON
	CALIFORNIA at WASHINGTON
Sat., Oct. 3	ARIZONA at STANFORD
	ARIZONA STATE at UCLA
	OREGON at COLORADO
	WASHINGTON STATE at CALIFORNIA
Thurs., Oct. 8	WASHINGTON at USC
Sat., Oct. 10	OREGON STATE at ARIZONA
	COLORADO at ARIZONA STATE
	CALIFORNIA at UTAH
	WASHINGTON STATE at OREGON
Thurs., Oct. 15	UCLA at STANFORD
Sat., Oct. 17	ARIZONA at COLORADO
	ARIZONA STATE at UTAH
	USC at Notre Dame
	OREGON at WASHINGTON
	OREGON STATE at WASHINGTON STATE
Thurs., Oct. 22	CALIFORNIA at UCLA
Sat., Oct. 24	WASHINGTON STATE at ARIZONA
	UTAH at USC
	COLORADO at OREGON STATE
	WASHINGTON at STANFORD
Thurs. Oct. 29	OREGON at ARIZONA STATE
Sat., Oct. 31	ARIZONA at WASHINGTON
	USC at CALIFORNIA
	COLORADO at UCLA
	OREGON STATE at UTAH
	STANFORD at WASHINGTON STATE
Sat., Nov. 7	ARIZONA at USC
	ARIZONA STATE at WASHINGTON STATE
	UCLA at OREGON STATE
	STANFORD at COLORADO
	UTAH at WASHINGTON
	CALIFORNIA at OREGON
Fri., Nov. 13	USC at COLORADO
Sat., Nov. 14	UTAH at ARIZONA
	WASHINGTON at ARIZONA STATE
	WASHINGTON STATE at UCLA
	OREGON at STANFORD
	OREGON STATE at CALIFORNIA
Sat., Nov. 21	ARIZONA at ARIZONA STATE
	USC at OREGON
	UCLA at UTAH
	COLORADO at WASHINGTON STATE
	WASHINGTON at OREGON STATE
	CALIFORNIA at STANFORD
Fri., Nov. 27	OREGON STATE at OREGON
	WASHINGTON STATE at WASHINGTON
Sat., Nov. 28	ARIZONA STATE at CALIFORNIA
	UCLA at USC
	COLORADO at UTAH
	Notre Dame at STANFORD
Fri., Dec. 4 or Sat., Dec. 5	Pac-12 Football Championship Game (3) (ESPN)

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