The Houston Cougars-Oregon State Beavers football game in 2025 has been moved up one day and will now be played on a Friday evening, according to an announcement from the Pac-12 Conference.
Houston will travel to face Oregon State on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. The game will be played at Reser Stadium in Corvallis, Ore., and it will be televised live via ESPN at 10:30pm ET (9:30pm CT / 7:30pm PT).
With the move, Houston will now play three Friday night games this fall. The Cougars are scheduled to host the Colorado Buffaloes at TDECU Stadium in Houston, Texas, on Friday, Sept. 12 and will travel to face the UCF Knights at FBC Mortgage Stadium in Orlando, Fla., on Friday, Nov. 7.
Houston is scheduled to open the 2025 season on Thursday, Aug. 28 at home against the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks. The kickoff time and television coverage for that contest will be announced late next month.
Oregon State opens its 2025 campaign on Saturday, Aug. 30 at home against the California Golden Bears. The game will kickoff at 10:30pm ET / 7:30pm PT and it will air on ESPN.
Houston and Oregon State have met three times previously on the gridiron in a series that began in 1960 in Portland, Ore. The Cougars won the most recent contest in Houston in 1970, 19-16, and currently lead the overall series 2-1.
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You can´t fault teams for wanting more exposure by playing on Friday, even if it seems like college football is seemingly overshadowing high school football by playing some games on Friday.
I live in Chicagoland & I like both College & High School Football have zero Concerns over it.
You may not fault them for wanting more exposure, but you can fault them for relying on federal law to prevent the NFL from squashing them on Saturday, while then turning around and doing the same to high school football. If colleges are going to play on Friday night, then Congress should repeal the law that prohibits the NFL from playing on Saturday during college football season.
I´m confused why you´re bringing up the NFL. This is about not wanting to get overshadowed by SEC and B1G games.
I bring up the NFL because the colleges seem to want to have their cake and eat it to. They like the federal law that protects them from competition on Saturday, but then they have no problem scheduling over high school football on Friday night. If they are going to have the ability to play on Friday night, then why shouldn’t the NFL have the ability to play on Saturday?
I’m not saying I want the NFL playing on Saturday, I’m just pointing that they should either take the position of anyone can play anytime, or that the NFL should play on Sunday, college on Saturday, and high school on Friday. They want to do to high school football exactly what they want the feds to prevent the NFL from doing to them.
Sure? Anyway, I care about CFB and not at all about HS football or the NFL so I’m fine with it.
I enjoy CFB games on Friday evening & I fully respect My Michigan Woverines having desire not to play on Fridays.
To Z-Man I greatly appreciate you leave Big Ten teams that are not interested in playing on Fridays alone & I was very comfortable when Z-Man stick his nose to penalized them to be disqualified from being shown on FOX Big Noon Saturday which is bunch of bologna.
Correction: I was very uncomfortable when Z-Man penalized Big Ten Teams that have desire of not playing on Friday.
This is an intriguing non-conference game.