Time is steadily ticking away on Pac-12 conference expansion.
It has been 247 days since the conference last expanded, adding Gonzaga as a member in every sport except football.
Not much has happened since then as it relates to expansion, not much definitive at least.
There is ongoing mediation between the Pac-12 and the Mountain West conferences, at issue are the exit fees required to be paid by the five schools that are slated to depart from the MW for the Pac-12 in 2026, as well as poaching penalties being required by the MW of those same schools. All told, the MW wants nearly $150 million from the Pac-12 and its MW schools — fees that the Pac-12 and the schools don’t want to pay.
The five departing MW schools — Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State and Utah State — all officially gave notice to the MW on Sunday that they are indeed leaving the conference.
Aside from that, expansion has been mostly rumors upon rumors, with Texas State being the most frequently mentioned option for the Pac-12 to get to the needed eight football-sponsoring member schools. UNLV, Memphis and Tulane have frequently been floated around as well.
An expansion announcement should be coming soon, as well as soon as a settlement is reached between the Pac-12 and the MW, John Canzano reported.
“First, the settlement gets done with the Mountain West,” Canzano writes. “Then, the announcement of the next expansion bite, and the signing of a media rights deal. I suspect the final two pieces of this are mostly done and awaiting the outcome of the settlement. Saint Mary’s is also sitting on the sidelines from a basketball standpoint, waiting to see what happens after the football piece is done.”
Canzano wouldn’t go so far as to say whether Texas State is the next addition for the Pac-12, noting only that nothing…
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