Big Ten & Pac-12 enter multi-sport strategic collaboration
December 28, 2011 11:28 PM
Starting in 2017, each team from the Pac-12 and the Big Ten will play a team from the other league in football each season, and the conferences will also begin to play each other extensively in other sports starting as soon as next season.
Delany said the idea stemmed from a discussion he had with the former Illinois athletic director Ron Guenther during the realignment chaos last summer. The agreement will also help fortify quality programming for the Big Ten Network and the Pac-12 Network, which is scheduled to debut in the summer.
One significant adjustment the Big Ten will make is that it will not be going to a nine-game league schedule, as it had planned to do in 2017.
Pete Thamel
Delany said the idea stemmed from a discussion he had with the former Illinois athletic director Ron Guenther during the realignment chaos last summer. The agreement will also help fortify quality programming for the Big Ten Network and the Pac-12 Network, which is scheduled to debut in the summer.
One significant adjustment the Big Ten will make is that it will not be going to a nine-game league schedule, as it had planned to do in 2017.
Pete Thamel
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