The Pac-12 cannot afford to wait for the College Football Playoff to expand in 2026. It needs to act now to prevent the competitive gap from widening.
Two things became equally clear in Indianapolis last weekend, on the field and in the boardroom.
In the boardroom: The conference commissioners and university presidents aren’t close to agreement on expanding the College Football Playoff. But the entrenched positions of so many conferences make unanimity a heavy underdog and suggest every facet of the sport’s machinery should brace for four more years of a four-team event.
Without divisions, the two best teams would meet for the title and increase the likelihood of the winner, whether it’s the No. 1 or No. 2 seed, having a playoff-caliber resume.Any move to reduce the number of conference games from nine to eight hinges on the replacement options. The Pac-12’s media partners would ask for their money back if the conference tried to swap the ninth conference game for a non-conference creampuff.
It might conclude, based on feedback from media partners, that adding a challenge series against the Pac-12 is good business — or bad business. Either way, the Pac-12 must wait on the Big Ten’s decision. To the extent that the Pac-12 can expedite the implementation of NIL oversight at the federal level, it must. Otherwise, the talent drain will continue.For years, Pac-12 fans heard former commissioner Larry Scott preach the virtues of his media strategy — in particular, that retaining 100 percent ownership of the Pac-12 Networks would allow the conference to remain flexible in an ever-changing media environment.
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