New conference schedule models under evaluation with decision expected soon

The new nine-game schedule won’t place an emphasis on division opponents

Jon Wilner The San Jose Mercury News Six weeks after revamping the process for determining which teams play for its championship, the Pac-12 is nearing another major change to its football model.

The division format has provided a backbone for the nine-game conference schedule since expansion in 2011, with teams playing each of their five division opponents annually and rotating through the other six at varying intervals. "For the next four years, we have to think about how the schedule can better the student-athlete experience,’’ Kliavkoff said."There are kids who have gone through their careers and not played one of the other teams in the conference.

Another option would be to create one annual opponent — the natural rival — but that would prevent the California schools from meeting every year and disrupt the consequential Oregon-Washington rivalry.

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