Washington Huskies football coach Chris Petersen received some pointed criticism from ESPN analysts during multiple of the company's college football broadcasts Saturday. It started on College Gameday, when Kirk Herbstreit responded to Petersen complaining about the fact that his team's games are always scheduled too late, which decreases exposure for the Pac-12 program.

“As an advocate on this show for the Pac-12 for the last 20 years, wanting to try to bring as much exposure to that conference as we can, you should be thanking ESPN for actually having a relationship thanks to (Pac-12 commissioner) Larry Scott with the Pac-12 because now your games are seen,” Herbstreit said.

The Pac-12 is in year six of a 12-year, $3-billion TV deal with ESPN and FOX. The games involving teams for the Pac-12 are typically broadcasted later, because many of the fans of those teams live in the pacific time zone. The ESPN commentators for Washington's victory over Cal Saturday night also seemed to take issue with Petersen for a different topic.

“So 38-7 (is the score) for Washington, an impressive performance,” Play-by-play man Mark Jones said, per The Seattle Times. “And maybe this will assuage the irascible and somewhat cantankerous head coach, Chris Petersen. … He didn’t have much time for us this week.”

“Yeah,” analyst Rod Gilmore added, “he declined to see us this week.”

Although the day-before-the-game meetings with the broadcast crews are customary, Petersen usually skips them with every network, The Seattle Times reported. So it doesn't appear to be a situation confined to ESPN. During the game, ESPN sideline reporter Quint Kessenich laid out cupcakes on the sideline to demonstrate the weakness of Washington's non-conference schedule, which included Rutgers, Montana and Fresno State. The Huskies (6-0) were ranked No. 5 in the latest AP Poll, but the non-conference schedule may keep Washington out of a second straight College Football Playoff if the committee deems other teams more worthy due to their full body of work.

For Petersen, it's time to move one.

“I think we just need to move on to a new topic,” the Washington coach said. “Let’s pick something next week that we can really care about. I think we beat this one up enough.”

It's a good bet that Petersen will keep his feelings about game times to himself for at least the rest of the 2017 season.