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• The Pac-12 is negotiating with MGM. I’ve previously reported that. It’s either going to be the MGM Grand Garden Arena or the Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay. 
• The Pac-12 had two officiating crews that worked Oregon State and Washington State home football games in 2025. With eight football-playing members, the conference will need as many as five crews. Officials who have previous “Power Four/Five” or “autonomy” conference experience are being targeted, per sources.
• The format of the conference basketball tournaments has been decided, per sources. Who gets the byes in the bracket? How many? And will the men’s and women’s tournaments overlap on the calendar or operate independently? I expect news on that front by the end of the month.

This is quite a bit for the Pac-12.

This conference is really about to be the West Coast Big East.

It appears more likely that the College Football Playoff will go to 24 teams but I wonder, will the Pac-12 be able to get more teams or just one in the playoff and if they do get more teams, it can help the conference gain a more positive reception among conferences and can allow to teams like Boise, Wazzu, SDSU and OSU and other teams like TXST, Fresno, CSU, USU to grow their brand tremendously from just making the playoff.

I have pushed UCONN to the Pac-12, the most, but it might be the conference's only option until 5 years from now but this article does show many of the pessimism that I have and many people on this sub have as well.

"This is progressing now, per sources. I’m told that the two high-priority items right now are building the officiating pool and locking in the men’s and women’s basketball tournament venues. News on these fronts soon".

Hopefully these Pac-12 refs are better than the old ones.

This sub usually talks about just football and basketball but I also want to see how Pac-12 baseball will be and it should be pretty good, Gonzaga just won their first WCC regular season title since 2022, SDSU is solid and in conference title contention, Washington State is really good and just made their first postseason appearance since 2010, Oregon State and DBU exist, so I think this league could be a consistent 3-4 bid league for the postseason and could send a team for the CWS.

The Pac-12 will have a bowl lineup for 2026, but it is not clear as of this moment, we know that the Poinsettia, and Hoilday Bowls will probably be connected to the Pac-12 based on them most likely going to the CW, there is also the thing that the Pac-12 is trying to allow it's new schools be eligible for the old Pac bowl games, (Sun, Las Vegas and etc). But I have seen on Twitter that the Independence Bowl could be in the lineup and it could be Big 12 vs Pac-12 which is a very interesting choice.

In my opinion, I think the bowl lineup will be Poinsettia, Hoilday, Independence and Potato Bowl although I would swap the Independence Bowl for the Arizona Bowl but that just me, but the conference does have some options to choose from.

Fresno State basketball, hold up a minute..

The Pac-12 nonconference schedule is going to be absolutely mental...

I think she has done very well, taking a conference that was basically dead in the water and rebuilt it from the ground up and has given it a very promising future with new schools like Boise, CSU, SDSU, Gonzaga, finally completing the Pac-12 media deal with The CW, CBS, USA Network and turning the Pac-12 Network into Pac-12 Enterprises, allowing more money to be made from the conference and schools.

Overall, there has been a lot more positives than negatives in her reign so far, in my opinion.