Flexibility is essential as college football waits for the SEC and Big Ten to chart a course forward. With eight schools, the Pac-12 would have the option to play just seven conference games.

That said, the SEC, ACC and Big 12 have good reason to support the so-called 5+11 format in which there would be five berths for conference champions and 11 at-large slots. (In our view, the ACC and Big 12 don’t have a choice .)

Pac-12 commissioner Teresa Gould revealed the conference’s stand on the College Football Playoff and its inevitable expansion. The Pac-12 itself expanded, or well, expanded from two teams to its new group of schools.

The main criticism of jumping from a 68-team field to a 72- or 76-team field is that power conferences would get the new spots over mid-majors.

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall discuss the latest news on Pac-12 expansion, Jake Retzlaff's uncertain future at BYU, and rank the best quarterbacks for 2025 on this week’s episode of “Athlon U: The College Football Podcast.

Texas State president Kelly Damphousse brings a passion and vision to Bobcats ahead of next year's move to Pac-12.

It was just about three years ago, June 30, 2022, when the shocking news broke that both UCLA and USC were leaving the Pac-12 conference for the Big Ten conference. That event led to the collapse of the Pac-12 conference,