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Big 12 pac 1211/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Instead, the very same conference commissioners who have mangled the college sports map with realignment, will now have the opportunity to consolidate more of the power and money to an even small number of conferences. Ironically, when CFP leaders agreed to ensure six conference champions a spot in the bigger field - an announcement that came on the Friday of Labor Day weekend last year - there was talk about how the new format could quell conference realignment. Instead, the Pac-12 formed what turned out to be a meaningless alliance with the ACC and Big Ten. Phillips has seen the results of inaction in the current climate of college sports.īack when the Big 12 was teetering, the Pac-12 had the opportunity to strike a final blow, but couldn’t get its members to understand that Power Five conferences are not partners but competitors. “It’s absolutely good financially for us, but it also provides some stability,” Phillips said. But just in case Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina or another member with wandering eyes figures out a way, the ACC will have strength in numbers. Phillips said he was confident the grant of rights, which could cost hundreds of millions of dollars for an ACC school to break this far out, was strong. However, Oregon and Washington will only receive 50% of the annual share ($30 million with yearly $1 million escalators) after changing conferences, according to multiple reports.Even with a contract that binds its members together legally though 2036, there has been enough saber-rattling in the ACC - especially by the Seminoles - to make the rest of the conference ponder the possibility of losing members before the deal runs out. The Big 12, which has long been focused on expanding with at least two - if not all four - of Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah, is paying its members nearly $32 million annually through its new media rights agreement with ESPN and Fox.Īnnual payouts in the Big Ten are even more lucrative at $60 million per school annually through an agreement with CBS, Fox and NBC. The Apple-focused media rights package included tiers of incentivization with a significant upside for teams if certain subscription numbers were met, sources told Dodd. Those centered around a streaming contract with Apple that would have reportedly paid members around $20 million annually. Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff delivered an underwhelming media rights presentation to university administrators from the league earlier this week. The already murky future of the Pac-12 now hangs in the balance. "The Conference is gaining three premier institutions both academically and athletically, and the entire Big 12 looks forward to working alongside their presidents, athletic directors, student-athletes and administrators." "We are thrilled to welcome Arizona, Arizona State and Utah to the Big 12," said commissioner Brett Yormark in a statement. The Utes joined in 2011 out of the Mountain West. The Wildcats and Sun Devils have called the Pac-12 home since 1978 when they left the WAC, expanding the league from eight to 10 members. The schools' respective Boards of Regents formalized their transitions into the Big 12 on Friday night. ![]() Big 12 presidents unanimously voted to welcome Arizona into the league Thursday and did the same in a Friday meeting for Arizona State and Utah, sources told CBS Sports' Dennis Dodd. In adding three more Pac-12 teams, the Big 12 in 2024 will swell to 16 programs, the largest membership in league history.Ĭolorado was the first to jettison the Pac-12 for the Big 12 last week ahead of the Pac-12 finally unveiling a proposed media rights deal that was not received positively. Arizona, Arizona State and Utah will all join Colorado in the Big 12 starting ahead of the 2024-25 athletic season, the conference announced Friday night. The rest of the "Four Corners" schools are heading to the Big 12. ![]()
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