Paul Finebaum predicts Pac-12 will collapse by 2026
On Tuesday morning, the SEC Network’s Paul Finebaum touted the inevitable demise of another power conference: the Pac-12. The league just had its two Los Angeles schools (UCLA and USC) poached by a conference on the opposite side of the country and have more members attracting attention from other leagues. According to Finebaum, this version of the Pac-12 won’t last very long and he predicts the conference will be completely dismembered in the next few years.
Finebaum went on to say the bigger conferences may not even want to expand but may be forced to go ahead and stake their claim with the Pac-12 conference schools since they could be available.
“And ultimately, as much as big conferences don’t really want to expand at the moment, I think they’ll be forced to take the cream of the crop out there, whether it’s the Big Ten going after the northwest schools, whether it’s Colorado or Arizona or somebody else just deciding to go to the Big 12 — I do not believe the Pac-12 can exist.”
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