This time, the Pac-12 should take the lifeline tossed by the CFP presidents and adopt a more Machiavellian approach.
Jon Wilner The San Jose Mercury News Fighting for survival as vultures circle, the Pac-12 received a lifeline last week from an unlikely source: The SEC.
But expansion also lends desperately needed viability to the Pac-12’s regular season by granting automatic bids to the six highest-ranked conference champions. Meanwhile, the Pac-12’s existential crisis has entered its third month. Until the Big Ten definitively ends its predation phase, the Pac-12 remains vulnerable to losing at least two and possibly four members to the league that was once its peer and partner.
The conference was passive last summer, opting against expansion as the Big 12 teetered following the loss of Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC. The school is No. 68 in the U.S. News and World Report rankings — ahead of every continuing Pac-12 university except Stanford, Cal and Washington — and owns a substantial endowment .No, they weren’t invited to the Big 12 — we presume Baylor and TCU blocked the move, wanting no part of an enhanced competitor in Dallas — but institutionally, the school fits better into the Pac-12 than it does the Big 12.
With 12 or 14 teams in football, the Pac-12 could play late games on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
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