The Trojans and Utes are valuable chess pieces for November.
Jon Wilner The San Jose Mercury News Oregon State is 3-0 for the first time since 2014, halfway to bowl eligibility and preparing for two of its biggest games of the season.
At the heart of the issue is an aspect of the TV selection process that requires each team to make a minimum number of appearances on the Pac-12 Networks. And that minimum is equivalent to the number of nonconference home games it plays. If the Trojans are as good as they look under Lincoln Riley, they will play a series of high-profile games down the stretch.
Oh, and one more important point: The networks schedule their weekly broadcast windows months before the season and base those decisions on both the conference schedule and their own projections for each team.
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