The Pac-12 could be long past, nevertheless it gained’t be forgotten all the way through bowl season. In line with Motion Community’s Brett McMurphy, the ten colleges that left the Pac-12 this season will nonetheless play in Pac-12 affiliated bowl video games as a substitute in their new convention’s bowl tie-in.
Contracts between meetings and bowls don’t finish till the 2025 season. With Oregon State and Washington State as the one two last Pac-12 colleges in 2024, the Pac-12’s six bowl affiliations can’t be met with out participation from the outdated colleges.
2023 noticed the near-complete dismantling of the Pac-12 because of convention realignment. USC and UCLA brokered an settlement to go away for the Giant Ten, with Oregon and Washington following them in a while thereafter. Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, and Colorado all left for the Giant 12, whilst Stanford and Cal left for the ACC.
These days, the very best resolution could be to have the ten absconded colleges fill in the rest spots.
“Out of a chain of not-great choices, probably the most workable — in need of blowing up the bowl device and the (35 non-playoff) bowl contracts — is to have the previous Pac-12 colleges despatched to Pac-12 bowls for 2 extra years,” an nameless supply informed Motion Community.
Some stakeholders, alternatively, aren’t as prepared at the concept. The inclusion of more than one meetings most probably signifies that bowl variety for those would no longer be capable of be made up our minds by way of convention document the way in which they most often would. One exchange resolution could be permitting the bowls to hand-pick their taking part Pac-12 group, permitting a bowl to select a 7-5 group over a 10-2 group. Present bowl contracts with meetings forbid groups from skipping over groups with a minimum of two fewer wins
The Pac-12’s present last bowl affiliations are the Alamo, Vacation, Las Vegas, Solar, and Los Angeles for the following two years, with the addition of the Independence Bowl in 2024 and an ESPN-affiliated bowl in 2025.
These types of bowls function Energy 5 meetings that simply took on former Pac-12 groups, throwing any other wrinkle into bowl making plans. The Vacation and Solar Bowls each function ACC groups reverse the Pac-12, that means their planners would most probably no longer need to have Cal or Stanford because the Pac-12 consultant. The 2025 Las Vegas Bowl is towards the Giant Ten, which might most probably no longer function USC, UCLA, Oregon, or Washington within the Pac-12 slot.
The Alamo Bowl — a Pac-12 vs. Giant 12 matchup — is particularly distinctive from a matchup viewpoint. In line with the Motion Community, the uncertainty across the Pac-12’s bowl standing has resulted in Alamo Bowl officers in need of to fasten in Oklahoma and Texas because the Giant 12 representatives for the 2024 and 2025 seasons. The one downside is each groups simply left the Giant 12 for the SEC. Each the SEC and Giant 12 recently oppose this proposal, however there’s a small chance we get convention expats on each side of the bowl. Enthusiasts will sadly be robbed of the danger to peer an all-Giant-Ten Rose Bowl since the sport is now a part of the Faculty Soccer Playoff.
