Former Pac-12 Teams Will Still Get Pac-12 Bowl Bids For 2024 & 2025 Seasons

Joe Londergan | Jul 10, 2024

Dec 1, 2023; Las Vegas, NV, USA; The Pac-12 Conference logo at midfield at Allegiant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports / Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

On Tuesday, Action Network's Brett McMurphy posted a report confirming that the 10 departing Pac-12 schools will still be eligible for the Pac-12's affiliated bowls over the 2024 and 2025 college football seasons. Those ten schools will not play in bowls affiliated with their new conferences.

Oregon State and Washington State are the only two schools remaining with Pac-12 designation. Oregon, Washington, UCLA, and USC are now members of the Big Ten Conference. Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah are now members of the Big 12. Stanford and Cal are now members of the ACC.

The six current Pac-12 affiliated bowl games are the Alamo, Holiday, Las Vegas, Sun, Los Angeles, and Independence bowls. The Rose Bowl is no longer a Pac-12 affiliated game due to it's place in the College Football Playoff rotation of semi-final and final locations.

The Alamo Bowl will have first pick of Pac-12 affiliated/former schools who do not reach the College Football Playoff. Exact method for choosing where the other bowl eligible teams will go is not yet known.

Oregon State and Washington State will play a schedule filled in with Mountain West Conference teams, per an agreement reached between the two schools and the league earlier this offseason.

Published Jul 10, 2024

JOE LONDERGAN

Joe Londergan joined the SI brand in 2023 with G5 Football Daily. With over 15 years of experience in covering and working directly in college and pro sports, Joe's expertise has been featured in Front Office Sports, SB Nation, and XRAY.FM. He is a member of both the Football Writers' Association of America and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers' Association. Joe holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Louisville and a master's degree in sports administration from Seattle University. Outside of his writing career, Joe enjoys golfing, although he admits that while he hits driver decently, his short game is a liability.