It has been fascinating to see the realignment wheel spin in the summer of 2023 for all sorts of reasons here at Trojans Wire. One is that when we Google search certain topics such as “Pac-12 ACC merger,” we have seen our stories from July of 2022 emerge in those searches. The things we wrote 13 months ago still apply in many ways.
What has changed is the Pac-12 has run out of time and has even less leverage. On its face, a Pac-12 merger with the ACC seems like a great idea, but the Pac-12 has been so painfully slow to act that it doesn’t have the time or the leverage to create an 11th-hour rescue plan for the conference.
Ducks Wire joined us in discussing this point, as you’ll see below: