Welcome to the season!

If you have cable TV in the Pac-12 footprint -- and many places beyond -- it's likely you will be able to watch Utah and Arizona State kick off their seasons tonight. And on Friday you get to watch Stanford. And on Saturday you get to watch California and Washington.

All of those teams' games will be broadcast on the Pac-12 Networks.

And if you have DirecTV you get none of it. Why? That is a question for DirecTV.

The Pac-12 Network has released an open letter to Pac-12 fans: