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And for all the Game Day location decisions, you have to remember ESPN really doesn't like to come to the west coast at all. The extremely early morning start usually means smaller crowds and the travel makes it a more expensive trip for the TV production (especially if they have east coast games the week before and the week after). So unless a Pac-12 game is an absolute no brainer (like the Oregon at Stanford game in 2011), ESPN won't come west.

Last year GameDay was in Tucson for UCLA/Arizona and SLC for Cal/Utah during the regular season.

The number of West Coast/Pac-12 regular season GameDays in recent years has averaged roughly 3/season which seems reasonable: 2015 (2), 2014 (1), 2013 (3), 2012 (3), 2011 (3), 2010 (5), 2009 (3).

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And for all the Game Day location decisions, you have to remember ESPN really doesn't like to come to the west coast at all. The extremely early morning start usually means smaller crowds and the travel makes it a more expensive trip for the TV production (especially if they have east coast games the week before and the week after). So unless a Pac-12 game is an absolute no brainer (like the Oregon at Stanford game in 2011), ESPN won't come west.

Last year GameDay was in Tucson for UCLA/Arizona and SLC for Cal/Utah during the regular season.

The number of West Coast/Pac-12 regular season GameDays in recent years has averaged roughly 3/season which seems reasonable: 2015 (2), 2014 (1), 2013 (3), 2012 (3), 2011 (3), 2010 (5), 2009 (3).