{"id":181229,"date":"2026-02-17T08:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181229\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T08:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:35:20","slug":"pac-12-announces-fresno-states-2026-football-schedule-sports-selma-kingsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181229\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-12 announces Fresno State&#8217;s 2026 football schedule | Sports | Selma \/ Kingsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<br \/>The Bulldogs have a guaranteed six\u00a0home games in 2026 with the Pac-12&#8217;s addition of a flex game in Week 13 that has designated Fresno State a home team for that week with an opponent to be determined at a later date. Fresno State has the opportunity to host a seventh home game if it is atop the league standings at the end of conference play, setting itself up to host the Championship Game at Valley Children&#8217;s Stadium.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Fresno State&#8217;s\u00a0nonconference\u00a0slate begins at USC on Sept. 5 before hosting Sacramento State on Sept. 12 and traveling to San Jose State on Sept. 19. The\u00a0nonconference\u00a0slate closes with a home game against Rice on Sept. 26.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The Bulldogs&#8217; first Pac-12 game will be at Washington State on Oct. 3, with the possibility of the game moving to Friday. Fresno State will travel to Pullman for the first time since 1994.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Fresno State will have back-to-back rivalry games, hosting Boise State on Oct. 10 for the Milk Can and traveling to San Diego State for the Old Oil Can on Oct. 17. The Bulldogs&#8217; bye week is Oct. 24.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Fresno State will host Oregon State on Halloween weekend as the game could move to Friday, then look ahead to back-to-back road games at Utah State (Nov. 7) and Texas State (Nov. 14). The final conference game of the season is a home\u00a0matchup\u00a0against Colorado State on Nov. 21.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The Pac-12 introduced a Week 13 flex game across the league, scheduling a Pac-12 opponent for a\u00a0nonconference\u00a0matchup\u00a0in the final week of the regular season. Flex week\u00a0matchups\u00a0will be confirmed at least six days prior to the game.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The Pac-12 Championship Game will be a home-hosted event by the top team in the league on Dec. 4. The title game will be featured on CBS and Paramount+ as part of the conference&#8217;s new media partnership. The title game\u00a0matchup\u00a0will be determined at the conclusion of Week 12, two weeks prior to the championship game.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Season ticket deposits are available now for just $5.\u00a02026 Fresno State football scheduleSept. 5 &#8211; at USCSept 12 &#8211; vs. Sacramento\u00a0StateSept. 19 &#8211; at San Jose StateSept. 26 &#8211; vs. RiceOct. 3 &#8211; at Washington State\u00a0Oct. 10 &#8211; vs. Boise StateOct. 17 &#8211; at San Diego StateOct. 24 &#8211; BYEOct. 31 &#8211; vs. Oregon State\u00a0Nov. 7 &#8211; at Utah StateNov. 14 &#8211; at Texas StateNov. 21 &#8211; vs. Colorado StateNov. 28 &#8211; FLEX (projected\u00a0matchup\u00a0vs. San Diego State)Friday, Dec. 4\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Pac-12 Championship Game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0The Bulldogs have a guaranteed six\u00a0home games in 2026 with the Pac-12&#8217;s addition of a flex game in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[85914,85918,112,114,113,34565,29615,85915,85913,85917,85916,66750,44688,11879,85912,62025,29903,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-181229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-former-big-west-conference-teams","9":"tag-former-western-athletic-conference-teams","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-fresno-state-bulldogs-football","14":"tag-mountain-west-conference","15":"tag-mountain-west-conference-football","16":"tag-mountain-west-conference-teams","17":"tag-ncaa-division-i","18":"tag-ncaa-division-i-conferences","19":"tag-ncaa-division-i-fbs-football","20":"tag-ncaa-division-i-fbs-football-teams","21":"tag-ncaa-football","22":"tag-pac-12-conference","23":"tag-san-diego-state-aztecs-football","24":"tag-san-jose-state-spartans-football","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}