It’s hardly unprecedented for Utah and Brigham Young to produce elite seasons in the same year. In 2021, Utah won the Pac-12 championship while the Cougars won 10 games as…
Jon Wilner
The fight for survival between the Pac-12 and Mountain West moved from the boardroom to the courtroom on Tuesday when the Pac-12 began legal proceedings against its regional adversary over…
The first day of the second phase of the Pac-12’s expansion process did not unfold smoothly or ideally for a conference that aimed high and wide. The Pac-12 intended on…
Expansion of the College Football Playoff is arguably the greatest competitive change in the sport’s history — more significant than the move from the Bowl Championship Series to the four-team…
In college football’s upper left corner, the trajectories have crossed. The school left behind is out in front. Washington State has an undefeated record, the Apple Cup trophy, accelerating momentum…
It didn’t take long for the audience metrics to justify Fox’s strategy of stocking its Friday night shelf with college football. It took one night, in fact. Kansas State’s lopsided…
Expansion of the College Football Playoff is arguably the greatest competitive change in the sport’s history — more significant than the move from the Bowl Championship Series to the four-team…
The decision to add the top football schools in the Mountain West did not require Pac-12 commissioner Teresa Gould, Washington State and Oregon State executives or their strategic consultants to reimagine college…
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It took 13 months, eight days and many millions of dollars, but the Pac-12 is off the mat. It’s not the same Pac-12 that existed for 109 years — it…
