Former Pac-12 Schools Likely to Still Play in Bowls With Pac-12 Tie-Ins

[NJDuck]

 

The 10 schools leaving the Pac-12 likely will still play in Pac-12 affiliated bowls the next two seasons and not in bowl tie-ins with their new conferences, sources told Action Network.

 

The former Pac-12 schools are not expected to play in bowls with their new conferences for multiple reasons, conference and bowl sources told Action Network.

 

The contracts between the conferences and the bowls don’t end until after the 2025 season. With only Oregon State and Washington State remaining in the Pac-12 in 2024, the six bowls with Pac-12 ties could not be filled without drawing from other conferences.

 

Because of the mass exodus of Pac-12 schools, all the stakeholders involved are seeking a temporary solution until the new bowl contracts begin in 2026, sources said.

 

“Out of a series of not-great options, the most workable — short of blowing up the bowl system and the (35 non-playoff) bowl contracts — is to have the former Pac-12 schools sent to Pac-12 bowls for two more years,” a source said.

 

https://www.actionnetwork.com/ncaaf/former-pac-12-schools-bowl-tie-ins?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=BrettMcMurphy

[David Marsh]

On 2/14/2024 at 9:36 AM, NJDuck said:

“Out of a series of not-great options, the most workable — short of blowing up the bowl system and the (35 non-playoff) bowl contracts — is to have the former Pac-12 schools sent to Pac-12 bowls for two more years,” a source said.

The playoff, transfer portal and opt outs are killing the bowl season, outside of playoff games. I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing a drastic reduction in bowl games because they aren't drawing as much attention with all the rest of the off season shenanigans. 

[criticalduck]

Which means that the 10 schools, if they play in bowls, will make money for two schools...oh joy...

[Jon Joseph]

Huh? The 4 newbies finish up the B1G ladder and won't be playing on or close to New Year's Day in B1G bowls. 

 

I'm fine with keeping the Pac-12 bowls but not with an apartheid bowl system where the newbies start in 2nd place. I want SEC opponents and not B12 and MW opponents. 

[JabbaNoBargain]

Seems like Action Network speculation and this is “one of the options”. I won’t hold my breath on this one.

 

Really makes no sense at all that teams playing in 4 different conferences would somehow have a pecking order for a group of crappy bowls to select from.

Why would we, or our new conference agree to this? If the pac2 wants to pretend to still be a conference and can’t fulfill their contracts, that’s their problem, not ours.

 

Let’s play this out. UO and USC both go 10-2, one of us ends up #13 and doesn’t make the playoff. Everyone would be cool with UO or USC playing in the Holiday Bowl on behalf of the pac2? 

 

Edited February 14 by JabbaNoBargain

[Duckley Palace]

"Out of a series of bad options, this is the best". What?

 

Just stop with tie ins then. If the Outback Bowl, Capital One Bowl, Holiday Bowl, and Cactus Bowl are rated in that order..you can't have a seven win Minnesota play a nine win Ole Miss, over a nine win USC. Then have a nine win Washington play Boise State, while a six win Indiana plays a nine win LSU.

 

If there is no more Pac-12, those tie ins are null & void  Why is this so hard to comprehend. Just do what you did a decade ago with the Big East. The format is there. You can't let any baggage remain of the now dead carcass. It was mismanaged, no more of this nonsense. Won't this albatross be lifted?

 

Oregon is no longer a Pac-12 football member. The next time they line up for a game, the patch will say Big Ten. The field will have a Big Ten insignia on it.