Pac-12 commissioner confident conference will flourish even after USC, UCLA leave
Associated PressThe AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The two schools in the nation’s second-largest metropolitan area officially depart next year, and the Pac-12 is still trying to cope with that in putting together a new media-rights deal while also considering potential expansion. He said a media-right’s package will be announced “in the near future” and that he was confident the 10 remaining schools plus any potential expansion teams will still be together in five years. “I think there’s been a lot of misreporting and specific targeted messages about the Pac-12 in the last year since we lost UCLA and USC,” Kliavkoff said. But I am very sentimental when it comes to this conference.” Trojans coach Lincoln Riley acknowledged he was looking forward to competing in the Big Ten, but called the Pac-12 “a tremendous conference,” and said it wasn’t “a battle between good and evil.” He already has noticed a difference when it comes to recruiting, saying USC has been able to expand its base as a result of joining what is mostly a Midwestern league.
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