We don’t yet know who the quarterback will be, but at least the University of Hawaii football team’s television picture is coming into clearer focus.

The one thing for certain is the Rainbow Warriors won’t lack for visibility — here or nationally — to start rookie head coach Nick Rolovich’s inaugural season.

With 65 days remaining before the earliest intercollegiate opener in UH history, all 13 games are expected to be available across most cable outlets in the state, eight of them via the 15th season of pay-per-view offerings.

Only the season opener itself, an Aug. 27 meeting with California in Sydney, Australia, is so far unannounced. A Pac-12 Conference spokesman said the game will be on one of that league’s TV partners, ESPN, Fox or the Pac-12 Network, with an announcement expected shortly.

The game’s promoter, TLA Worldwide, controls the TV rights and is said to still be in negotiations with the networks.

If ESPN or Fox ends up with the game, it will mark the first time UH has started a season with consecutive appearances on one or more of the major networks. ESPN has already announced it has picked up UH’s second game, Sept. 3, at Michigan.

Both figure to provide UH with considerable visibility since the Cal game is positioned to serve as the opener to the college football season. By virtue of special dispensation from the NCAA to start the season early, it will be the only major college game that day.

The Michigan game will have an attractive window with a noon Eastern Time (6 a.m. in Hawaii) kickoff.

Last year’s two marquee road games, Ohio State and Wisconsin, by comparison, were shunted off to the less widely available Big Ten Network.

The CBS Sports Network will show the Rainbow Warriors’ most attractive conference games, the Nov. 5 UH game at San Diego State and Nov. 12 contest against Boise State at Aloha Stadium. In addition the Pac-12 Network has the Sept. 17 game at Arizona.

CBSSN, formerly known as College Sports TV, is CBS’ national cable sports network.

Under terms of its contracts, UH does not share in direct rights payments from those games or the Mountain West TV deal, but does keep its Oceanic PPV fees.

While pricing is yet to be announced, UH’s rights fees this year rise to a guarantee of at least $2,392,920, up nearly $47,000 from 2015, according to the contract. UH would share in a portion of sales that exceed revenue milestones.

This despite lessening sales that come with the longest drought, five consecutive losing seasons, since PPV became a mainstay of televised UH sports in 2002.

The eight PPV games will include the first five conference games, Nevada, San Jose State, Nevada-Las Vegas, Air Force and New Mexico, that pretty much line up as the make or break point for this year’s schedule.

As former head coach Dick Tomey once said about the pluses and perils of playing on TV: “There is exposure and (then) there is being exposed.”

Reach Ferd Lewis at flewis@staradvertiser.com or 529-4820.