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Pac-12, Big-10, ACC Announces Historic College Sports Alliance
The move comes less than a month after the Southeastern Conference invited Texas and Oklahoma to create a 16-school league by 2025.
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From CBS San Francisco:
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/AP) — In response to the expansion of the SEC Conference, the heads of the Pac-12, Big-10 and ACC conferences unveiled a historic sports alliance Tuesday including a commitment to schedule high profile matchups between football and men’s and women’s basketball teams.
Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff said the alliance will help the conferences navigate through the rapidly changing environment surrounding the business of big time college sports.
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The move comes less than a month after the Southeastern Conference invited Texas and Oklahoma to join the league and create a 16-school league by 2025. The move sent shockwaves through college athletics and will leave the Big 12 without its two premier schools in the paydirt sport of football.
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