June 13, 2026
By David Cobb, CBS Sports: After a two-year absence from the national picture, the Pac-12 is officially back for the 2026 college football season. Just two of the league’s eight teams — Oregon State and Washington State — are holdovers from the conference’s previous iteration, as five schools enter from the Mountain West and Texas State arrives from the Sun Belt.
The league cannot realistically be considered a “power” conference as it was before a disruptive wave of conference realignment, which splintered the majority of its membership in various directions. But the new Pac-12 features an intriguing collection of programs that can realistically aspire to be college football’s best non-power conference.
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