WASHINGTON HUSKIES PARTING THE DYING PAC-12 WILL BE SUCH SWEET SORROW AFTER CFP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
HOUSTON – “This is The End,” Jim Morrison of The Doors sang in a classic song from 1967.
He was singing about an ex-girlfriend, not the Pacific-12 Conference. But tonight is The End for the Pac-12 as we know it.
Charter member Washington in 1915 – when the league was called the Pacific Coast Conference – will try to give a frequent glitz and glamour league one final, classic Hollywood happy ending Monday night.
The No. 2, wholesome Huskies (14-0) and their good guy coach Kalen DeBoer will not be wearing white on the field, rather purple and gold. But they will try to upset the No. 1, and villainous, Michigan Wolverines (14-0) with outlaw coach Jim Harbaugh and their multiple NCAA recruiting and spying investigations in the College Football Playoff national championship game.
Washington Coach Kalen DeBoer Carries Final Pac-12 Flag
It’s not at High Noon, rather 7:30 p.m. on ESPN.
“There’s certainly a piece of that where you’re sensitive to it, and it’s very unfortunate,” DeBoer said Saturday of the Pac-12 quaking from a dozen teams to just two over the last two summers. “We need to make sure we never forget those great moments.”
The earthquakes started in the summer of 2022 when charter members USC and UCLA announced they would be leaving for the Big Ten in 2024. Then last July, Colorado said goodbye for the Big 12 in 2024. In August, Oregon and Washington announced their departures to the Big Ten. Then Arizona, Arizona State and Utah abandoned ship for the Big 12. And by Labor Day, Stanford and California switched oceans to the Atlantic Coast Conference.
And then there were two with Oregon State and Washington State remaining as the Pac-12 for 2024. There are likely plans to merge with the Mountain West as a new and not improved Pac-12 by 2025 or ’26.
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