Pac-12 hires media rights consultant, looks towards ‘non-traditional days’ for football games
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Thom Brennaman returns to national broadcasting with CFB games on The CW
TV and Streaming Viewing Picks for December 1, 2023: how to watch the very last Pac-12 Football Championship
The final Pac-12 Football Championship Game airs on ABC tonight
Brian Custer blasted for calling Oregon State ‘the Ducks’ several times
Several times during No. 11 Oregon State's loss to Arizona, ESPN play-by-play voice Brian Custer called the Beavers "the Ducks."
In his prime: How Deion Sanders became the face of college football
Twitter’s David Herman talks Opendorse highlights deal: ‘We’re in the business of supporting student-athletes.’
"Twitter's your microphone; let the world know what you're thinking, what you care about, what you want to say. And then let the world take the conversation from there."
The three-year timeslot viewership high for Washington State-Oregon adds to criticism of ESPN’s production truck there
Washington State-Oregon drew the highest viewership for a 10:30 p.m. ET start on any network in three years. So why did ESPN send a subpar "E" production truck there, and provide the world with an opportunity to complain about the picture quality?
USC-Cal game postponed over Bears’ positive COVID tests, the first FBS game so affected this season
This postponement has several Cal players upset. The game has now reportedly been rescheduled for Dec. 4.
Arizona-Utah has been canceled, the second Pac-12 opening week game to go down
The Pac-12 has now had two games canceled before it even kicked off its season.
One of the Pac-12’s first games, Washington-Cal, has been canceled, adding to the Week 10 cancellations and postponements
The game was canceled after the Bears had a positive COVID-19 test and then a number of players isolated. That meant that they had less scholarship players available than the Pac-12 threshold, and thus could call off the game as per conference protocols.
Big Ten, Pac-12 to reportedly cancel 2020 college football season Tuesday; SEC intends to move forward
The SEC is hoping to get the ACC and Big 12 to partner up for an exclusive TV deal.
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.
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.
The Pac-12 Network is still a beautiful disaster, blowing way too much money on rent and Larry Scott
Pac-12 Network is still struggling, and behind the scenes, some of the network's expenditures are not helping matters at all.
Pac-12 commish Larry Scott defends conference’s late night games in spite of much consternation
"We give them a whole other window of high-quality, highly rated games. ... Playing more night games than we did in the past unlocked the kind of value our schools were looking for."
ESPN VP Nick Dawson called Mark Jones’ Washington tweet “childish,” “frustrating” in e-mail to Washington AD
Dawson called Jones' tweet "childish behavior that is unacceptable" and "frustrating and disappointing to us on many levels."
ESPN will not assign Mark Jones to Washington Huskies games for the foreseeable future
Mark Jones tweaked Washington in a tweet over the weekend, angering the school and the Pac-12.
Pac-12 overflow will now go to Fox Business, not FS2, but that was far from the league’s biggest issue
Future Pac-12 overflow will wind up on Fox Business, which is good news for how many people will be able to watch it. But overflow really isn't a key issue in the conference lagging behind its competitors; lagging TV revenue and significant league network challenges are much larger problems.
ESPN hits back at Chris Petersen following his complaints about late-night Pac-12 games
In a rare act of defiance, ESPN replied on air to Chris Petersen’s sentiments about playing games at 7:30/7:45 p.m. local time
Texas-USC featured two crazy touchdowns to end the first half, and two crazy Gus Johnson calls
What a sequence, and the perfect play-by-play man was on the call for it.
