The debut of University of Hawaii football games streaming on Facebook Saturday has its opponent, Oregon State, and the Beavers’ fans scrambling.

“We’ve been getting calls from fans who want to know how — and where — to find the game,” said Steve Fenk, OSU sports information director. “We’re hoping the Mountain West (Conference) will send us the link.”

Fenk said it is the first time since 2009 that a Beavers’ game won’t be available on over-the-air TV.

In Hawaii, the 6 p.m. nonconference game at Aloha Stadium will be available via pay-per-view to Spectrum and Hawaiian Telcom customers. But, viewers outside Hawaii can access it free on Facebook, the MWC website said.

As a MWC member, the conference controls UH’s TV rights.

OSU and UH said they are awaiting additional information from the MWC about links to aid mainland viewers.

It is the third year that the MWC has partnered with Facebook but a first for the Rainbow Warriors to have their games appear there, a UH spokesman said. Overall, seven UH games are scheduled to be on the Facebook platform this year.

The MWC’s agreement with Facebook comes as the conference surveys the landscape for prospective media rights deals after its current contract with ESPN and CBS Sports Network expires next year.

UH does not currently receive any direct revenue from Facebook or the conference’s upper tier partners, CBS and ESPN, but is scheduled to receive $2.53 million this year from its Spectrum deal.

Meanwhile, a worker at a Corvallis, Ore., Buffalo Wild Wings near campus, where Beavers fans gather to watch OSU’s road games, said management was trying to determine if it could show the UH game via a projector at the restaurant.

Fenk said, “In reality, Facebook might be a better option for some (fans), but it might also be a problem for some older fans who don’t use Facebook or social media.”

Fenk said his 90-year-old mother asked him where she could catch the game on TV. When he told her it was available only on Facebook, “She said, ‘OK, then I can just watch it on my iPad.’”

Fenk said “Facebook, Netflix and Amazon could be a wave of the future (for football games).”

But, Beavers’ fans would just like to know where to find the UH-OSU game in the immediate term.