[SamuelMcF]

Interview with current P12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff. He takes a swipe or two at his predecessor. Talks about self-inflicted wounds related to the media rights deals. He says, "I have 30 months left on those contracts and I'm counting every hour. The Pac 12 fans have my commitment that we're going to fix that."

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/202...challenges

Love the idea of replacing game 9 with a PAC-12 vs Big 10 game.

My main concern here would be where that 9th game would come out of.  Assuming we don't abandon the current divisional alignment, it's almost certainly going to mean the end of the yearly series against the LA schools for Stanford. Because with only 3 interdivisional games I'm not sure we'd be able to continue using two to lock in the LA pair annually, leaving only one game to rotate through the rest of the South division.  

Much more likely would be an even rotation of the South teams, where we play one LA team, one AZ team, and one mountain team. 

And, personally, I would hate that. Our yearly matchup against UCLA is my most attended game in my time as a fan.  Both at the Farm and in Pasadena. I'd hate to give it up.

The SEC plays a 6-1-1 rotating model: 6 games against the rest of the division, 1 locked game against a "rival" team from the other division (Bama-Tennessee, Auburn-UGA, LSU-Florida...), and 1 rotating game against the other 6 teams in the other division. Bama has played Georgia in the regular season just TWICE in the last 13 years.

Given the above, I could easily see the PAC moving to a 5-2-1 rotating model: 5 games against the rest of the division; 2 locked games wherein the CA schools play each other, the OR schools play the AZ schools, and the WA schools play the mountain schools; and 1 rotating game against the other 4 cross-division schools. 4 years is better than 6 years and this would preserve the CA rivalries. The only downside would be not playing yearly in Utah or Colorado, both states we recruit frequently...but we do have a recurring series with BYU coming up, and I'd argue the benefits of an 8-game conference schedule outweigh that small cost.

[SamuelMcF]

Interview with current P12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff. He takes a swipe or two at his predecessor. Talks about self-inflicted wounds related to the media rights deals. He says, "I have 30 months left on those contracts and I'm counting every hour. The Pac 12 fans have my commitment that we're going to fix that."

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/202...challenges

Love the idea of replacing game 9 with a PAC-12 vs Big 10 game.

My main concern here would be where that 9th game would come out of.  Assuming we don't abandon the current divisional alignment, it's almost certainly going to mean the end of the yearly series against the LA schools for Stanford. Because with only 3 interdivisional games I'm not sure we'd be able to continue using two to lock in the LA pair annually, leaving only one game to rotate through the rest of the South division.  

Much more likely would be an even rotation of the South teams, where we play one LA team, one AZ team, and one mountain team. 

And, personally, I would hate that. Our yearly matchup against UCLA is my most attended game in my time as a fan.  Both at the Farm and in Pasadena. I'd hate to give it up.

The SEC plays a 6-1-1 rotating model: 6 games against the rest of the division, 1 locked game against a "rival" team from the other division (Bama-Tennessee, Auburn-UGA, LSU-Florida...), and 1 rotating game against the other 6 teams in the other division. Bama has played Georgia in the regular season just TWICE in the last 13 years.

Given the above, I could easily see the PAC moving to a 5-2-1 rotating model: 5 games against the rest of the division; 2 locked games wherein the CA schools play each other, the OR schools play the AZ schools, and the WA schools play the mountain schools; and 1 rotating game against the other 4 cross-division schools. 4 years is better than 6 years and this would preserve the CA rivalries. The only downside would be not playing yearly in Utah or Colorado, both states we recruit frequently...but we do have a recurring series with BYU coming up, and I'd argue the benefits of an 8-game conference schedule outweigh that small cost.