The brand new Pac-12 has landed CBS Sports activities as its main media associate, resulting in extra questions on how the redeveloping convention will proceed to broaden after poaching 5 groups from the Mountain West.
In a deal introduced Monday that extends the partnership between the 2, CBS’ foremost community will broadcast a minimal of 4 soccer and males’s basketball video games per season along with offering viewing choices by way of streaming and cable when the Pac-12 formally debuts as a league within the 2026-27 season.
Monetary particulars weren’t disclosed, however commissioner Teresa Gould referred to as the settlement, which can final till 2031, a “transformational partnership” aimed to assist the league develop.
The Pac-12 wants so as to add an eighth football-playing member as required by the NCAA of all Soccer Bowl Subdivision conferences. Regardless of early indications that UNLV may fill that spot, these rumors have cooled. The Pac-12 has pivoted to poaching Texas State from the Solar Belt, in keeping with a report from Yahoo Sports activities.
This growth comes because the Pac-12 and Mountain West stay enveloped in a lawsuit over penalty and exit charges associated to Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Utah State and San Diego State leaving the Mountain West to affix the Pac-12. There have been no updates within the authorized dispute, which may yield the Mountain West greater than $145 million, because the conferences started mediation weeks in the past.
The Pac-12 was pressured right into a rebuild after failing to safe a media deal in 2023, dropping each staff however Oregon State and Washington State to the Huge 12, Atlantic Coast and Huge Ten conferences. The 2 remaining groups’ soccer video games shall be broadcast on the CW, ESPN and CBS this season.
To interchange the departing faculties, the Mountain West added Hawaii and UTEP as full members, Northern Illinois for soccer solely, and Grand Canyon and UC Davis for all sports activities besides soccer.
It’s unclear whether or not the increasing Pac-12 will lengthen an invite to a program along with Texas State. However UNLV’s candidacy turned difficult after the college signed a binding grant of rights to stay within the Mountain West and preserve the league viable.
UNLV, together with six different faculties, signed commitments to the convention in September that may run by June 30, 2032, and all indications reaffirmed a plan to stay within the Mountain West as just lately as final month.
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