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Kickoff Set for UW-Cal Game; Be Prepared for Late One

The Huskies and Bears will play at night to accommodate an ESPN broadcast.
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Kickoff Set for UW-Cal Game; Be Prepared for Late One
Kickoff Set for UW-Cal Game; Be Prepared for Late One

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Get out the ski parkas and hand warmers, early kickoffs for University of Washington football games at Husky Stadium were routine these past two weeks but not absolute going forward. 

Kickoff for the UW-California match-up on Sept. 23 has been set for 7:30 p.m., accommodating a national TV broadcast for ESPN and likely creating a lot of expected grumbling among the older fan base.

Then again, the Huskies and Bears are used to playing at a late hour in Montlake. 

It's been just four years since these two Pac-12 sides met in the infamous lightning-strike game in which they kicked off at 7 p.m., ran off 11 plays, had a fierce storm roll in and cause a two-hour, 39-minute delay, and didn't finish up a 20-19 Cal victory until 1:22 a.m.

The Huskies welcomed a conventional 12:30 p.m. kickoff for the season opener at home against Boise State, and pushed back slightly to 2 p.m. to face Tulsa last weekend.

Even this Saturday's UW game at Michigan State will tee off at 2 p.m. PT in East Lansing, which is an Eastern time zone city as well as Big Ten territory. 

 

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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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