Pac-12 (or Pac-2) now has a TV deal

The Pac-12 conference now has its own football deal with a broadcast network.
It’s not a big network, but then again, it’s not a big conference. It only has two teams, Oregon State (shown here) and Washington State.
We’ll pause here, for the benefit of idealists who assumed the Pac-12 has 12 teams. These are the same people who think the Big Ten has 10.
(It has 14 now, but in August will have 18, none of them specializing in math.)
Now the CW network will carry 11 games Pac-12 games, spread over three months, mostly on Saturday evenings or afternoons.
The situation started when Pac-12 teams kept exiting. Four went to the Big Ten, four to the Big 12 and two to the ACC. That means two California schools are joining the Atlantic Coast Conference; this may be why our kids are failing geography.
That left two schools – Oregon State and Washington State – that stayed. They won two court rulings, banning the others from dismantling the Big-12 or taking its money.
They had a conference rich in tradition – the leader, with more than 500 national titles in team sports. But they had no schedule and no TV deal.
That’s where CW – also adrift – comes in. Once owned by CBS and Warner Brothers, the network was sold to a group that has nudged it into sports. It signed the LIV golf tournaments, cut a five-year, multi-sport deal with the ACC and added NASCAR.
Meanwhile,.the Pac-12 cut a deal with the Mountain West Conference, giving both of its teams three home games and three road games gainst MWC teams.
That makes up much of the CW coverage, which sticks to home games of the two schools. It starts with a doubleheader Aug. 31 (bringing in Portland State and Idaho State) and later has games involving Purdue and Hawaii. The rest are the six home games against MWC teams, plus the Washington State-Oregon State game, Nov. 23, presumably for the conference championship.