The Pac-12 is walking wounded after losing both UCLA and USC to the Big Ten, but it is still (trying) to throw haymakers to stay afloat. The latest such swing appears to be a quasi alliance with the ACC. According to multiple reports — first from John Canzano and confirmed by CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd — the league is discussing with the ACC a kind of “loose partnership” that could “end the season with the conferences playing a championship game.”
So why would two separate conferences play a championship game when the two leagues have their own separate conference play?