
UConn: 11/25 in Vegas
Michigan: 12/21 in NYC
Gonzaga: 2/20 in Detroit

UConn: 11/25 in Vegas
Michigan: 12/21 in NYC
Gonzaga: 2/20 in Detroit
Important points from the article,
We will see what the Pac-12 does.
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.
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.
"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.
The SunBelt requires 24 months of notice, the MWC requires a full-year cycle, the AAC 27 months, and CUSA 14 months. If any CUSA schools wanted to exit without additional exit penalties, they would have to have given notice by May 1, 2026. This most likely means, unless some major shakeup happens, 2027 (and most likely 2028), the Pac-12 will have the same lineup as 2026.
“I am waiting to see what the conference is going to do in 2027 as it pertains to are they adding a football-only member? There's been a lot of smoke around UConn. UConn is currently one of the two programs nationally that competes as an independent.”
“UConn has been able to cobble together schedules in independent schedules and play games. So I think there is some truth to the thought that if the Pac-12 is going to add a school as a one-off, football only, that UConn could be that school. Now is it possible that the Pac-12 could do some things from a basketball standpoint with UConn? Absolutely. And the people I talk with in the Pac-12, campus sources, university presidents, athletic directors, it's not that they're telling me that UConn is super attractive to the Pac-12. It's that they won't shoot it down when I bring it up.”
From Bald Faced Truth with John Canzano: BFT Show: Kicking off football questions... including, is UConn right for the Pac-12?, Apr 30, 2026 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bft-show-kicking-off-football-questions-including-is/id947734998?i=1000765147788&r=322 This material may be protected by copyright.
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.
If I ever win the lottery the first thing I’m doing is buying out the media rights contracts for every former pac school and forcing them to return to the greatest conference in the world, the Conference of Champions (!!!) along with SDSU, Boise, and a few other MW schools to create the perfect geological conference. Anyone like my plan?