- The early selections include multiple games involving USC and Oregon, the No. 1 and No. 4 teams in a preseason College Football Live preseason top 25poll, respectively:
- No. 1 USC twice: at Utah (Thursday, Oct. 4, at 9 p.m. on ESPN) and against No. 24 Notre Dame (Saturday, Nov. 24, on ABC or ESPN).
- No. 4 Oregon three times: against Arkansas State (Saturday, Sept. 1, at 10:30 p.m. on ESPN), against Arizona (Saturday, Sept. 22, on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2) and at Arizona State (Thursday, Oct. 18, at 9 p.m. on ESPN).
- ESPN and ESPN2 will combine to televise six weeknight Pac-12 games:
- Four consecutive Thursday ESPN College Football Primetime telecasts, highlighted by three games involving a preseason ranked team and Arizona State making consecutive appearances.
- ESPN and ESPN2 will each air a Friday night telecast in November.
- The newly announced games include the debut of three head coaches on Saturday, Sept. 1:
- Arkansas State’s Gus Malzahn will open his coaching tenure with the Red Wolves, the defending Sun Belt Conference champions, at defending Pac-12 and Rose Bowl champion Oregon at 10:30 p.m. on ESPN. Malzahn was the offensive coordinator of the Auburn team that defeated Oregon in the 2011 Tostitos BCS National Championship.
- ESPNU will televise a showdown of new head coaches when Arizona and new head coach Rich Rodriguez hosts Toledo, now led by Matt Campbell, at 10:30 p.m.
- ABC or ESPN will televise Notre Dame at USC, one of sports’ greatest rivalries that started in 1926, on Saturday, Nov. 24. Other traditional rivalry games include the Holy War between BYU and Utah (Saturday, Sept. 15, at 10 p.m. on ESPN2) and the Territorial Cup matching Arizona State against Arizona (Friday, Nov. 23, at 10 p.m. on ESPN).
As part of the new 12-year agreement between ESPN and the Pac-12, ESPN will deliver more football games than the previous agreement, including more games in the late Saturday night window, plus the Pac-12 Football Championship Game every other year starting in 2013; the addition of an extensive schedule of men’s regular-season basketball games, as well as select Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament matchups and the Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament Championship every other year starting with the 2012-13 season; and for the first time rights to women’s college basketball and other sports content.
The 2012 Pac-12 schedule (additional selections to be announced):
| Date | Time (ET) | Game | Network |
| Sat, Sep 1 | 10:30 p.m. | Arkansas State at No. 4 Oregon | ESPN |
| Sat, Sep 1 | 10:30 p.m. | Toledo at Arizona | ESPNU |
| Sat, Sep 8 | 10:30 p.m. | Illinois at Arizona State | ESPN |
| Sat, Sep 15 | 10 p.m. | BYU at Utah | ESPN2 |
| Sat, Sep 22 | TBD | Arizona at No. 4 Oregon | ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 |
| Thu, Sep 27 | 9 p.m. | No. 15 Stanford at Washington | ESPN |
| Thu, Oct 4 | 9 p.m. | No. 1 USC at Utah | ESPN |
| Thu, Oct 11 | 9 p.m. | Arizona State at Colorado | ESPN |
| Thu, Oct 18 | 9 p.m. | No. 4 Oregon at Arizona State | ESPN |
| Fri, Nov 2 | 9 p.m. | Washington at California | ESPN2 |
| Fri, Nov 23 | 10 p.m. | Arizona State at Arizona | ESPN |
| Sat, Nov 24 | TBD | No. 24 Notre Dame at No. 1 USC | ABC or ESPN |
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