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USC fans and college football viewers bury Pac-12 Network in landmark broadcast

The Nevada game was the final #USC home football game on Pac-12 Network. Fans were angry, but also glad this is ending.

It is over. The last USC football home game to air on Pac-12 Network is over.

It has been oppressive and annoying and frustrating for the Trojan fan base over more than a decade. The visibility of USC football has been negatively affected by Pac-12 Network. Not being able to easily watch USC has been a constant and legitimate source of irritation. This year, not being able to see Caleb Williams play football has been infuriating for USC fans who live outside the Western United States and the Pac-12 geographical footprint. Larry Scott’s legacy, and the network he stood by in spite of its commercial failures, is forever connected to this network, even though Scott hasn’t officially led the Pac-12 Conference for two years.

Memories run deep, and the Pac-12 Network has made it harder for USC fans to cling to memories of the Trojans on the gridiron.

Here’s how USC fans and the larger football-viewing public reacted to the last USC home football game to air on Pac-12 Network. Early-game glitches did not improve anyone’s mood, but everyone is glad this association with the network is coming to an end:

USC vs Nevada likely to be Trojans’ last football game on Pac-12 Network

#USC fans are planning to celebrate the end of Pac-12 Network. That’s the big milestone attached to the Nevada game.

We know this for sure: Saturday’s USC football home game against the Nevada Wolf Pack will be the Trojans’ last home game ever shown on Pac-12 Network. We don’t yet know as an absolute certainty that it’s the last USC football game to be on Pac-12 Network, but it’s more likely than not. This probably will be the last time any USC fan will have to endure Pac-12 Network’s limited visibility and accessibility.

We want to be very clear: The problem with the network is the lack of distribution and accessibility. The actual on-air product of Pac-12 Network is and has been very good.

We wrote:

“One of the especially sad dimensions of the Pac-12 Network story is that the product itself — what you saw on the screen, getting beamed into your home, if you did have access to the P-12 Net — was really very good.

“The problem with Pac-12 Network was never the production quality of a game or studio broadcast. All the people who were responsible for putting a good product on the air did an absolutely fantastic job. The network’s daily work gained industry respect.”

It’s important to make that clear.

Having done that, we turn to the reality that this will be USC’s final home football game on Pac-12 Network. USC fans will be throwing a party to celebrate this occasion. No, really: Tim Prangley, co-host of Trojan Conquest Live and part of the USC postgame show at The Voice of College Football, told us earlier this summer he would be marking the occasion at the Nevada game. It’s a goodbye bash for USC’s liberation from this national burden which has limited the program’s exposure.

See how other USC fans are reacting to the end of the Pac-12 Network reign of error, which is in many ways one more step out of the shadows created by Larry Scott and the Pac-12 CEO Group: