SALT LAKE CITY — The Pac-12 as a conference is serious trouble financially and not doing much better on the football field.
The conference failed again to get a team in the four-team college playoff, further pushing it into irrelevance nationally. To make matters worse, Washington State was passed over for one of the New Year’s Six bowls, drastically reducing the conference’s stature and financial payout.
In terms of money, the Pac-12 lags far behind what the other Power Five conferences receive from their annual television deals. Speaking of television, the Pac-12 Network still is not on DirecTV and has not come close to generating the money university administrators expected.