As many as eight of the University of Hawaii’s 13 football games could be shown on a pay-per-view basis by Oceanic Time Warner Cable this season, officials said Thursday.
Seven games have been lined up and an eighth, the Oct. 4 nonconference game in Houston against Rice, is said to be a possibility.
Seven games were shown in 2013 and six in 2012.
Under the terms of UH’s new six-year agreement with Oceanic, at least seven games must be available for PPV for UH to receive its $2.3 million minimum annual rights fee. UH does not receive a share of the Mountain West rights fees unless payments to all 11 other members top $2.3 million first.
So far, Oceanic has the rights to Northern Iowa (Sept. 13), Wyoming (Oct. 11), Nevada (Oct. 25), Utah State (Nov. 1), San Jose State (Nov. 15), Nevada-Las Vegas (Nov. 22) and Fresno State (Nov. 29) games.
Rights to the Rice game belong to Conference USA, which has yet to announce the game as a first- or second-tier selection by one of its network partners.
Rights for the Sept. 20 game at Colorado are owned by the Pac-12 Conference, which did not designate the game for ESPN, Fox or its own Pac-12 Network. The game will be made available to one of them, probably the Pac-12 Network, on a six or 12-day window. The conference has said all of its games will be shown by a partner.
The CBS Sports Network is scheduled to show three UH games — the Aug. 30 opener against Washington, the Sept. 6 Oregon State game and the Oct. 18 game at San Diego State.
One of the ESPN platforms (ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU) will carry the Nov. 8 game at Colorado State.
Oceanic said it will announce its prices when the schedule is completed.
