{"id":440400,"date":"2026-01-31T07:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/440400\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T07:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:08:09","slug":"pac-12-and-mw-turf-war-is-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/440400\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-12 and MW turf war is ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!zSmv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b456546-64cd-403b-8552-5bdb0c184d86_1456x1092.heic\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/4b456546-64cd-403b-8552-5bdb0c184d86_1456.jpeg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/4b456546-64cd-403b-8552-5bdb0c184d86_1456x1092.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:1092,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:348917,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.johncanzano.com\/i\/186327910?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b456546-64cd-403b-8552-5bdb0c184d86_1456x1092.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-large\"\/><\/a>The Pac-12 starts officially in July. <\/p>\n<p>Mountain West Conference Commissioner Gloria Nevarez and Pac-12 Commissioner Teresa Gould found themselves in Miami recently for meetings and festivities involving the College Football Playoff championship game. <\/p>\n<p>Their respective conferences remain in a college athletics turf war. The Pac-12\u2019s media rights deal is mostly done, and the league is set to reopen for business on July 1. The MW\u2019s media-rights negotiations are ongoing. It\u2019s been in survival mode and looking for traction. <\/p>\n<p>Gould\u2019s league would love to grow and add another football-playing member before the 2027 season. UNLV \u2014 anchored in Nevarez\u2019s most attractive remaining TV market \u2014 still makes the most sense. But the Rebels are currently committed to the MW, which must soon deliver on some financial promises.<\/p>\n<p>Why didn\u2019t the two conferences merge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pac-12 starts officially in July. Mountain West Conference Commissioner Gloria Nevarez and Pac-12 Commissioner Teresa Gould found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-440400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}