The University of California and Santa Clara Stadium Authority have just announced today the California Golden Bears will be taking on the Oregon Ducks next year in football at newly built Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA instead of Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, CA. The game will be televised nationally on either ESPN or FOX on Friday Oct. 24th and will be the first collegiate football game played at the newly built stadium.
Levi’s Stadium is scheduled to become the new home of the San Francisco 49ers at the start of the 2014 NFL season. The $1.2 billion facility will seat 68,500 and serve as the site for Super Bowl L in 2016 as well as the annual Fight Hunger Bowl beginning next year.
A main draw hosting the Friday night game at Levi’s is it will allow the campus of UC-Berkeley and newly appointed chancellor Nicholas Dirks time to fully engage with faculty, students, staff and the surrounding community on how best to manage weeknight games in Berkeley for the future.
“At the same time, it gives our campus the ability to fully study the effects of weeknight games and develop solutions that not only minimize the impact when school is in session, but also accommodate our tens of thousands of fans coming to California Memorial Stadium,” said UC-Berkeley Director of Athletics Sandy Barbour.
The remainder of the Oregon Ducks 2014 conference schedule will be released by the PAC-12 sometime just after the New Year. Oregon is slated to face Colorado, Washington, Stanford, and Arizona at home and face California, Washington State, UCLA, Utah, and Oregon State on the road. The Ducks will kick-off the 2014 season with three-straight home games against FCS side South Dakota, Wyoming, and 2013 Big 10 Legends Division champs Michigan State.