Tag: Big-12 Conference

Report: Pac-12 and Big 12 won’t merge, which is great news for the Oregon Ducks

The Pac-12 and Big 12 are not going to merge. In the long run, that’s great news for the Ducks. Now you just wait for that Big Ten invite.

It’s been a quiet week or so on the conference realignment front, while schools in the Pac-12 and Big 12 discussed whether or not there was a deal on the table between any of the teams, or rather a potential merger between the two conferences.

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Apparently, they couldn’t see eye to eye in the end, and it resulted in a report that came out on Monday night from ESPN’s Pete Thamel that shows that no merger will take place.

Talks about a partnership between the Big 12 and the Pac-12, which had been discussed extensively the past two weeks, have officially ended, sources told ESPN.

Officials from the Big 12 told Pac-12 officials on Monday that they’re no longer interested in exploring the partnership, sources said.

A Big 12 source said that the deal didn’t work for the Big 12 for “a multitude of reasons,” which included the fact that any potential deal wouldn’t have driven much revenue for the league. “It just didn’t work,” the source said.

Obviously, this impacts the Oregon Ducks, but is it a good thing or a bad? Well, you can look at it both ways — in the immediate sense or in the long term — but from a bird’s eye view, this should be beneficial for Oregon down the road. In the most simple sense, the Ducks should not have wanted to join the Big 12. They are better than that. A perfect world seems them go to the Big Ten, where they can compete and likely hold their own with schools like Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State. Instead of settling for the Big 12

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and schools like Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, and Baylor, the Ducks will now get to enter wait-and-see mode while they continue to pursue those Big Ten dreams.

So when will we know about a potential expansion to the Big Ten that could include Oregon? That’s yet to be determined, but while we wait, the Ducks can continue to try and grow their brand with Dan Lanning on the helm and become an attractive expansion team.

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Predicting what an 18-team Pac-12/Big 12 merger might look like

The Pac-12 merging with the Big 12 seems like a potentially likely outcome in this conference realignment. Here’s what that might look like…

The ever-changing landscape of the college football world is changing more quickly than usual of late.

After USC and UCLA announced last week that they would leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten, the world of college athletics has been thrown into a tizzy, scrambling to figure out what conferences are going to look like in a matter of years, and which teams are going to be playing where.

At first, it looked as if the Oregon Ducks were going to be among the teams likely to leave the Pac-12 and follow the Los Angeles schools to the Big Ten. Over the past few days, though, it seems there’s a better chance the Ducks either stand pat in the Pac-12 or potentially merge with the ACC or Big 12. We will likely know more in the coming days or weeks.

One of the intriguing options that we’ve come across, though, is a merger between the Big 12 and the Pac-12. In this scenario, some of the top schools from the Pac-12 would join the Big-12 and form what would be a less powerful superconference, but a superconference nonetheless. This is what it would look like, in our minds:

Report: Big 12 may be more likely landing spot for Oregon than the Big Ten

The Big Ten waiting on Notre Dame may end up forcing the Ducks into a leap to the Big 12 rather than following USC and UCLA.

In today’s 24-hour media cycle, things change very quickly. When the potential demise of the college football world as we know it is taking place, things change in a matter of seconds.

According to Mercury News reporter Jon Wilner, who has been all over the Pac-12 news, it may be increasingly difficult for the Oregon Ducks and Washington Huskies to find a way into the Big Ten as we previously thought they would.

With everything hinging on the Big Ten waiting for Notre Dame to make a decision about whether or not they will join the conference, it appears that there could be a stalemate that might end up forcing the Ducks’ hand and pushing them towards either a jump to the Big 12, or standing pat in the Pac-12 and potentially merging with the Big 12.

This may be unfortunate news for fans of the Ducks who were excited at the thought of Oregon joining one of the super conferences and lining it up with the likes of Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, and others on a common basis and becoming one of the prime teams in the nation. Instead, it seems like it may be more likely that the Ducks become one of the pillar teams in a Big 12 conference that acts as a third super conference, though it may end up being a “semi-super conference” when all is said and done.

As I said at the top of this article, things move quickly, and could change in a matter of minutes or hours.

At the moment, though, it looks like the Big 12 is a more likely landing spot for the Ducks than the Big 10.

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