LOS ANGELES — Each of the Big Ten’s new West Coast schools will make at least one appearance this season on Fox Sports’ “College Football Friday” package. The 12-game schedule includes nine Big Ten matchups. Oregon, USC, UCLA and Washington will have at least one Friday night home game.
The Ducks, Bruins and Huskies, along with Rutgers, Michigan State and Purdue, will make two appearances. Washington — which got to the College Football Playoff title game before losing to Michigan — visits Rutgers on Sept. 27 in its first conference road game and hosts UCLA on Nov.
15. The Bruins are the only team playing on back-to-back Fridays. They host Iowa on Nov.
8 before their trip to Seattle to face the Huskies. Oregon hosts Michigan State on Oct. 4 before going to Purdue two weeks later.
USC will host Rutgers on Oct. 25 at 10 p.m.
Central. The kickoff is late because Fox has Game 1 of the World Series. With the exception of the USC game, the other Big Ten games on the West Coast will start at 8 p.
m. Central. Five Big Ten schools — Indiana, Penn State, Ohio State, Minnesota and Wisconsin — are not scheduled for Friday night.
Ohio State and Michigan have been among the most vehemently opposed to Friday games since the conference started holding them in 2017 with a limited slate on Big Ten Network and FS1. “It did take us some time and a lot of collaboration between us, the conference office and all the athletic directors to finally get to where we are,” said Mike M.
