(because more games than usual are on the Friday Thanksgiving weekend) means increased chances of BYU getting the late slot for that day.

Utes play away that weekend. Colorado plays Friday, Cal plays away, Stanford plays on Friday.

So if of the 7 possible, only 2 of them have a home game that saturday. Perhaps both of them are in a late slot - Az vs. Az. St. on ESPN and BYU-Houston on ESPN2? Actually often I think ESPN just has one game in the very late slot.