Realignment news: Texas State, cryptic posts and the Pac-12's next move

June 15, 2025

By Pete Thamel and Kyle Bonagura, ESPN: In the cloak-and-dagger world of conference realignment, clues to potential moves can manifest in strange places.

One emerged last week via an X account with 313 followers promoting Texas State tailback Lincoln Pare for the Heisman Trophy.

The account included a picture, cribbed from the Instagram story of the Texas State president, of two beavers floating in the San Marcos River. And it noted the potential realignment ramifications — “Beavers in the San Marcos River” — by including a scratching chin emoji that hinted at the possibility of Texas State joining Oregon State in the Pac-12. (OSU’s nickname is, of course, the Beavers, and the San Marcos River runs through the bustling town south of Austin where Texas State resides.)

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College realignment intel: Texas State, cryptic posts and the Pac-12's next move

Texas State looms as the favorite to join the Pac-12. Why could that happen? What would come next? And what about Memphis?

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