At a distance of two months from the 2025 college football season kickoff, a conference that was dead for all intentions and objectives is now in the headlines. And Texas’s three -plus are near decades decades to thank for the return of the league in PAC -12.
The conference has long been rummed and finally confirmed invitations for the state of Texas, making PAC-8.5 ahead of 2026–27 educational years with an octate of football-promoting members. This is enough to gain recognition as an official FBS conference -110-year-old league that is coming out of life support.
This is also the first Four of the Champions in Lone Star State. The previous conference is-a long-specified east expansion was discussed in the early 1990s.
Interested in adding a Texas -based member about PAC -10/12 came out with the University of Houston over 30 years ago, such as the Old Southwest Conference was tearing in the seams. Timely report suggested one -sided; The idea of South Texas, representing the Pacific Conference, was already behind before the college league became national.
The joint of the state of Texas coincides with a broadcast deal announced this week, which expands the appearance of the original PAC -12 holdover Oregon State and Washington State and is on CBS, ESPN and CW.
A few weeks after the sudden flood of the promising promising of-field development, Oregon State traveled to the men’s college world series. Overall, summer 2025 is the best time for the conference since 2010. That offsen, PAC-10 expanded up to 12 with the additions of Colorado and Utah and finally what it was-the richest TV contract in the sports history of the college.
Of course, since 2010, its best offsen is a less frequent to explain. A new commissioner, since Larry Scott, went from the toast of 15 years, college athletics, perhaps the most criticized figure in space was marked and unfortunately marked, which expedited Pudus, which threatened the existence of PAC, came out for Big Ten in 2022 with UCLA and USC announcement.
Bruce and Trojans did not come under Scott’s tenure to resume college football in two formats in one power as part of Big Ten’s estimated step. George Claycoff succeeded Scott as a commissioner a year ago – after a long time a series of mistakes that made the poaching of Big Ten possible.
But it is not to suggest that the brief tenure of Clayiavakoff was not destructive. KLIAVKOFF can be best described as Herbert Hoover of the college athletics commissioners: Figures that inherited a mess and complicated it with their inactivity.
Both Scott and Cleevakoff have ties with rumors in Texas during their tenure. Scott is more famous, although it can be less realistic.
Texas in Texas for PAC -10 matched with the addition of the leagues of Colorado and Utah in 2010. Longhorn’s was mentioned as expansion candidates in a memorial step along with the red rivers Oklahoma, which is again again every few years, the college football media.
And just those talks remain a mystery today.
Whether or not Texas used PAC as a bargaining chip to strengthen the PAC-Longhorn’s left after 11 years anyway-Austin’s expansion failure is a repeatedly quoted knock in the scott era.
Cleivakoff-Yuga PAC-12, which connects SMU between the upheaval of 2023, looks like a more realistic forest in Texas. In doing so, the failure of the league is one of the several examples of Claycoff, which is caught flat-foot during its brief period on the hull.
Instead SMU landed in ACC -a strange geographical fit and, Mustangs, despite reaching the playoffs of college football in the league, perhaps a longer longer home than the PAC -12. Adding SMUs to the remaining core of Erizona, Arizona State, Cal, Oregon State, Stanford, Utah and Washington will be designed for a solid foundation after the departure of Big Ten goals.
The disappearance on SMU may have helped a version of PAC -12 in Doom, but eventually the conference spread in Texas is a poetic step towards its rebirth. Of the new-look league members for 2026–27, the state’s lowest influential football history is the state of Texas.
Bobcats won a Division II National Championship in 1982 and reached the peak in the former Division I-AA with a run for the semi-finals in 2005. His tenure in FBS-which began by coincidentally, as another Western conference as another Western Conference attempt (Old WAC)-is mostly uncontrolled.
However, San Marcos is a boom Texas with its location between Austin and San Antonio. Texas State Football is one of the sleeping-wisdom programs that you often hear, and the fast growing coaching star GJ Kinne is awakening that ability in the sun belt.
The school addition to the reconstruction PAC is a low-risk, high-appside move. And the conference is a long time in Texas.
