Pac-12 football schedule and TV guide for Week 3

#USC has this weekend off, so kick back and enjoy the other #Pac12 football games on the slate. We have all the information.

The Week 3 schedule for the 2023 college football season is not particularly electric or amazing. This is one of those weeks in which interesting games are going to emerge from unexpected sources. The weeks when everything seems chalky and predictable are often the weeks when all heck breaks loose, but the magic in all of this is that you don’t know which game will create the unexpected chaos.

One obvious note about the Week 3 schedule in college football is that USC won’t be part of it. The Trojans will rest up for the challenging, demanding nine-week gauntlet they are about to enter. That’s right: USC will play on nine straight weekends from September 23 through November 18. The Trojans will need to conserve their energy and be as efficient as they reasonably can if they want to reach the Pac-12 Championship Game and contend for the College Football Playoff.

This weekend, USC will kick back, relax, and watch other teams play college football. You can, too.

Here’s the full Pac-12 schedule for you, complete with network assignments and game announcers:

USC has to play late-night game at Arizona State on Sept. 23 — which is great news

#USC and #Pac12 fans normally hate late-night games, but playing late is great news for the Trojans here. We’ll explain.

The Pac-12’s television selections have been announced for Week 4 of the season on September 23. USC plays at Arizona State, the Trojans’ first road game of their 2023 season.

We know that USC fans and Pac-12 fans hate the late-night kickoffs at 7:30 p.m. in Los Angeles, Seattle, Corvallis, Berkeley, and all other Pacific time zone locations. The Trojans will have to wait until 7:30 p.m. in Tempe, Arizona, for the Week 4 battle against the Arizona State Sun Devils. USC was placed in the late-night slot on Fox Sports.

USC fans might groan and grumble about the late-game placement for September 23, but we are here to tell you this is a good thing for the Trojans.

A night game being good? On the road? In this economy? This is actually one instance in which a night-game kickoff for USC is beneficial to the Trojans. The explanation is not complicated at all.

Let’s go through the details and give you other Pac-12 football information for Week 4 on September 23:

TV, announcers, kickoff times, and live streaming for Week 1 of Pac-12 football

Get full TV information — networks, announcers, and start times — for Week 1 of #Pac12 football from August 31-Sept. 3.

This week’s USC football game against Nevada will be the last USC home football game shown on Pac-12 Network. USC might play one more game on Pac-12 Network this year, but if it does, it won’t be at home in the Los Angeles Coliseum.

We noted that “There is only one remaining USC game which might have a slight chance of being on Pac-12 Network: USC at California on October 28 in Berkeley. USC could be favored by 35 points heading into that game, and the big networks might not pick it up. However, later in the season, the odds are that one of the main networks will want to show the Trojans, especially if they are still alive in the push for a College Football Playoff berth.”