Pacific-12 Conference

In College Sports, the Power Five May Become the Power Two

So improvisation has all but become a sanctioned sport at conference offices. The Big 12 has moved to add schools such as Cincinnati and Central Florida. Many around the A.C.C., the only Power 5 conference whose membership has been unaffected by this round of realignment, hope to conjure a renegotiation of a television deal that […]

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U.C.L.A. and U.S.C. Are Expected to Leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten

In recent years, as the Pac-12’s fortunes have waned in football — and as the league was hamstrung by a television deal that pays its schools tens of millions of dollars less per year than the Big Ten’s contract — schools like Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia and Clemson have regularly mined Southern California for elite […]

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