Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel gets naming rights to LA Bowl, to be played Dec. 18
"Never before has a bowl game been named after a human being. And Papa John doesn't count. He's barely human."
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2020 Pac-12 season will kickoff with Arizona State vs. USC at 9:00 a.m. local time
You’ve heard people talk about “Pac-12 After Dark,” but are you ready for “Pac-12 Just After Dawn?” The...
Twitter again got the NCAA football schedule wrong, citing Arizona State and Minnesota games (both not happening) as “live”
The Big Ten, Pac-12 and Big Sky are all currently not planning to play football until 2021, but Twitter's events approach missed that information.
The Pac-12’s biggest issue is a lack of recent football success, and that’s hard to fix with a consultant or a commissioner
While the Pac-12's move to look at bringing in an external consultant feels logical and may fix some of the conference's issues, its biggest problem is its football struggles. And those can't be fixed by the central league office.
Pac-12 CEOs may hire a consultant reporting to them, not Larry Scott, and that could lead to a structural overhaul
Some changes could be ahead at the Pac-12.
Pac-12 examines conference-wide loan for athletic departments, through The Raine Group, which led their private equity proposal
A loan against future media rights might make some sense for some Pac-12 members, but there are some questions remaining here.
Pac-12 eyes mid-September start for football, 10 games per team, several possible conference championship game dates
Under this proposed schedule, the Pac-12 conference championship game could be held Dec. 4, or on either of the following two weekends.
Pac-12 Networks’ Mark Shuken says Apple may bid for primary rights, tech firms “told us they want to be in this space”
Apple is reportedly only interested in primary rights, not lower digital rights.
Pac-12 Networks to reduce workforce by eight percent amidst COVID-19 crisis, implement hiring freeze and executive paycuts
Pac-12 cuts include laying off around 12 full-time Pac-12 Networks staffers, implementing a hiring freeze at both the networks and the conference, and reducing the salaries of commissioner Larry Scott and senior staffers by 20 and 10 percent respectively.
Pac-12 Networks to drop to one on-site produced event this spring: “The vision for the network has slowly died.”
“A lot of people behind the scenes believed in the conference’s message four years ago and we’ve watched as the vision for the network has slowly died.”
Fox’s Mark Silverman expects a Pac-12 noon ET kickoff in the next few years, but there are still lots of hurdles there
An occasional noon ET kickoff could maybe help a Pac-12 school's national exposure, and that may be why some schools are considering it. But will any of the schools interested be worth a featured slot in Fox's noon window?
Oregon’s 37-15 win over Utah was the most-watched Pac-12 Championship since 2014
This Pac-12 championship was up 44 percent over last year's.
Pac-12 late kickoffs could be one hour later if California adopts permanent Daylight Saving Time
Pac-12 kickoffs may now shift back an hour later.
