EUGENE -- The Pac-12 is monitoring the smoky skies in the Willamette Valley and could potentially alter kickoff times for Saturday's home games at Oregon and Oregon State.
Though forecasts call for a chance of showers later this week, as of Tuesday morning air quality in Eugene was deemed "hazardous" by the Lane Regional Air Protection Agency due to several wildfires in the state. Oregon hosts Nebraska, and Oregon State hosts Minnesota, on Saturday.
"Oregon and Oregon State have been working closely with the relevant regional air protection agency, the Pac-12, and their own medical personnel to monitor and assess the air quality situation since the fires broke out," Andrew Walker, the Pac-12's vice president of public affairs, wrote in an email to The Oregonian/OregonLive.