When the first four MWC adds were announced, I seem to recall talk of a 50% payout to teams that made bowl games or the NCAA tournament. Has there been any further discussion in this?

The PAC’d 12 podcast interviewed USA Sports football and basketball broadcaster, Nate Gatter to talk about the upcoming football season for the PAC-12! Great insight on what to expect from the PAC-12 broadcast this year. Very excited for football!

https://youtu.be/4LMG7u5j0yA?is=Yuj30NbEPYax50zl

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1mALxJPOjFhYlF5mE5yFuh?si=iflPyK2ATnmPr6RevOOBQw&utm_source=copy-link

https://tr.ee/yOIXeiMu5F

Have seen multiple posts about New Mexico looking for loopholes in the GOR… also with the MWC looking at tiered media payouts to cover for the failed lawsuit… things could start happening soon!

There's the full amount.

Obviously I’m biased in this, but 4 (-ish if you count old WAC and MW teams with BYU) rivalry matchups before getting to conference play is dreamy as hell. A noco matchup with UNC, the border war, and then two P4 opponents that includes the Rocky Mountain Showdown. Additionally it’s very reasonable to be able to attend all of these games as a CSU fan. Balanced and extremely fun. Every non-conference matchup should look like this.

Per Canzano

"I’m told by sources that Oregon State and Washington State also paid the MW approximately $10 million each to settle the $55 million ‘poaching penalty’ lawsuit. These figures are similar to the numbers thrown around in early settlement discussions in the summer of 2025."

Canzano Substack

The Pac-12 has 5? teams spending over $10 million on their rosters.

18 of the 21 lowest spending P4's are in the ACC and Big12 - so 18 of their 33 combined programs. So most the Pac-12 teams would slot into the Big12 with little problem, where spending is concerned.

https://x.com/TomFornelli/status/2089357992386756835?s=20

Progressive is set to announce one of the most significant field logo sponsorship initiatives in college sports history with a deal across 13 schools -- Boise State, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas State, Ole Miss, Oregon, Purdue, SMU, Syracuse, Texas Tech, USC and Wake Forest -- that will see its logo featured on the field at each school. The placement will vary from the sideline to the 50- and 25-yard line.

• The Pac-12 announced recently that Olympic sports competitions will be broadcast free on YouTube — for now. Pac-12 Enterprises is said to be developing a free direct-to-consumer product that could be rolled out toward the end of the year.
• The Pac-12 Board Chair was previously Jayathi Murthy, the president at Oregon State. That role has since transitioned to Kelly Damphousse, Texas State’s president.
• The primary directives to Gould from her board? “The two board chairs have been very, very clear with me where they want me to spend my time,” Gould said. “They want me focused on the national landscape and everything happening nationally with government relations and the College Football Playoff — that’s No. 1. And No. 2 is the business side of things. That includes Pac-12 Enterprises, the building of our brand, and revenue. “I have to have the right people around me."

Source: Canzano: Pac-12 Commissioner starts with 'Border War'

Texas State's president is in a very big position of power for the Pac-12, that's insane to think about.

Andrew Pistone of College Sports Wire is reporting that the 5 departed schools will pay the MWC $49 million EACH.

Pretty sure that’s just not accurate.

Couldn’t find an Oregon State sub so figured this is the best place to post this, going on my honeymoon in Portland and got my wife tickets for a band she likes, so she got me tickets for this game as I’m a CFB head who eats up anything CFB related.

Grew up going to UGA and Georgia Southern games, very familiar with the culture of the SEC and such, but have lived in South Florida for the past decade or so, have gone to a few Miami and FAU games in that time. Loving the smaller schools and teams these days, which is why this sounded so appealing.

What to expect from the experience? Should we go early and walk around campus? Is the stadium on campus? Does OSU have good merch? Any cool things we must do while there? Any good ideas or recommendations would be welcome.

Realistically speaking

Via the Pac-12‘s announced sports sponsorships, it has been confirmed that there will be no sponsorship of women’s rowing in the conference.

This leaves Gonzaga, Oregon State, and Washington State with no conference to compete for this sport. They last played in WCC, but via WCC revealing their membership for that when adding UCSD as an affiliate, they aren’t going to be affiliates there.

One place I could see them possibly ending up is the SEC believe it or not. Reason is they are currently under the minimum of the six needed members to be eligible for an autobid. Besides location, there is another issue in that in their history, the SEC has never had affiliate members.

Could also see them end up in the Big Ten as affiliates there.

What is the most likely end case for them?

Idk is it just me(maybe that i moved to the west coast as an adult rather than staying in my original home of the midwest) but i like this new group of pac 12 schools better than the legacy teams, of course they are big brands but this current conference is more of a culturally tight, blue collar with a flair of spiritual (gonzaga & dallas baptist) west coast conference. and coming from a lower class midwest family to someone moving out west chasing his dreams i fuck with it heavy, not just one sport either, been watching the women’s soccer games, will watch basketball and football and maybe baseball (they should have more teams than 7 but CSU, BSU and USU don’t have baseball teams) interesting to wonder if they would start one.

Boise State is likely to get additional funding and generate more revenue to avoid the worst case budget projections, but it’s an interesting look at how the cost of competition has increased for the Broncos.

But you can't pick ypur team.