The average length of a marriage in the United States is less than 20 years. Arizona and the Pac-12 made it 45 before the actions (or inactions) of the latter caused the former to look elsewhere.
The University of Arizona formally announced Friday it was leaving the Pac-12 and joining the Big 12 Conference beginning with the 2024-25 academic year. It will be the school’s first league move since departing the Western Athletic for the Pacific-10 in 1978.
Big 12 Conference Adds Arizona, Arizona State and Utah pic.twitter.com/Or4ypfW7d8
— Big 12 Conference (@Big12Conference) August 5, 2023
Also moving from the Pac-12 and Big 12 are ASU and Utah, as well as Colorado, who got the realignment ball rolling again last week.