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Football Season Opener Moved To Sept. 3

Football Season Opener Moved To Sept. 3
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          BOULDER GÇö The University of Colorado football team will open the 2015 season two days earlier than previously announced, as the Buffaloes game at the University of HawaiGÇÖi has been moved to Thursday, Sept. 3.

          Originally scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 5, both schools agreed to move the game to a weeknight for a variety of reasons.  In the case of the Buffs, it will aide their recovery time with jet lag factors returning from the HawaiGÇÖi game, which will be the first of 13 consecutive weekends that CU will play this season.  HawaiGÇÖi will also have extra time to prepare for a game at national champion Ohio State the following Saturday.  The game will be played at Hawaiian Airlines Field at Aloha Stadium.

          No television arrangements have been set; it is in the Mountain West inventory with the CBS Sports Network having first rights; if no MW television partner selects the game, it will be a local Honolulu broadcast with the MW streaming live on the Internet.  As part of the agreement for HawaiGÇÖi to move the game to a weekday, kickoff has been set for 7 p.m. local (HST) time, which means an 11 p.m. kickoff in Colorado.

          This is the fifth meeting between the two schools, and the back end of a second set of home-and-home contests; the schools split the first pair in 2010-11, each team defending their home turf, while Colorado won last fall in Boulder, 21-12.   

           Colorado opened the 2014 season on a Friday night against Colorado State, just the third time the Buffaloes opened a season on a weeknight; in 1989, CU hosted Texas on Labor Day night and in 1964, the Buffs traveled to open the year at Southern California on a Friday.  This will be CUGÇÖs first season opener on a Thursday.

      With the addition of the CU-HawaiGÇÖi game on September 3, there are now 10 games scheduled that day to open the 2015 season; six involve Football Bowl Subdivision teams (FBS) playing each other with Pac-12 colleagues Arizona and Utah also open their seasons that same evening.   The full Sept. 3 slate (FBS teams in bold):

Alcorn State at Georgia Tech
Colorado at HawaiGÇÖi
Duke at Tulane
Michigan at Utah
North Carolina vs. South Carolina (at Charlotte)
Southern Utah at Utah State
Stony Brook at Toledo
TCU at Minnesota
Texas-San Antonio at Arizona
Villanova at Connecticut