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Huskies Draw Mid-Afternoon Kickoffs against Stanford and USC

The UW should welcome these game-opening times in California.
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Huskies Draw Mid-Afternoon Kickoffs against Stanford and USC
Huskies Draw Mid-Afternoon Kickoffs against Stanford and USC

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Remaining unbeaten through seven games apparently means the University of Washington football team doesn't have to stay up late at night for the near future.

The Huskies have been assigned mid-afternoon kickoffs for their next two outings against Stanford and USC, with both games held in California.

This coming Saturday, unbeaten and fifth-ranked UW (7-0 overall, 4-0 Pac-12) and the rebuilding Cardinal (2-5, 1-4) will get started at 4 p.m. in Palo Alto on Saturday, playing in front of FS1 TV cameras.

A week later, the Huskies will face 24th-ranked USC (6-2, 4-1) at 4:30 p.m. in their first meeting in four seasons, since a Chris Petersen-coached team took a 28-14 victory at Husky Stadium, and for the first time at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum since 2015 when Petersen's guys beat the Trojans 17-12.

The upcoming Nov. 4 encounter will be shown to an ABC audience. 

UW fans should find this pre-dinner timeframe as a welcome compromise after having to watch the Huskies deal with night-time kickoffs in three of their past four games.   

Of course, Kalen DeBoer's latest team has been able to handle its business regardless of whether their games are played day or night.

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DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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