While decisions about what to do once schools actually depart some conferences in a year’s time can be put off for now, there may be value for both conference and university sponsors to go all out for this coming football and basketball seasons, celebrating what essentially will be the last year of college sports as we have come to know it.Ĭontent highlighting landmark moments and tapping into fans’ fond memories should resonate and keep the focus off an uncertain future. So we are again in a position where the rough seas of realignment make things at best unpredictable (in the case of expanding conferences such as the Big Ten and SEC) and at worst practically impossible (in the case of the currently four-member Pac-12) for conference sponsors. Indeed it was, as the new commissioner’s move to jump the line and extend his conference’s ESPN and Fox contracts with two years to go on its existing media rights deal sealed the Pac-12’s fate. Little did we know what was in store, even if the post hinted at the disruption to come with this observation: “The Big 12’s move the day before the Pac-12 shakeup to hire Brett Yormark, an experienced sports industry leader and previously an accomplished sponsorship sales executive, could prove remarkably prescient.”
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You can read our full preview of Saturday’s game here.When two Pac-12 stalwarts announced they were decamping to the Big Ten last summer, I wrote a blog post headlined: “ What Happens to Conference Partnerships in the Wake of UCLA and USC Move?”
Conference schedule before heading to Columbia, Missouri. The Wildcats take on the Troy Trojans in Week 2 of the 2023 college football season, and while some fans are thinking about future Big 12 matchups, the Wildcats return to the Bill Snyder Family for the second straight game of the non-football season stage back. While the game could be somewhat disappointing for fans of both Wildcats teams if they do not play their conference opponent as part of the season schedule, the non-conference game will most likely eliminate any possibility of the teams meeting during the regular season until at least 2026.
While the Wildcats are not the first Big 12 team to face the dilemma with Houston and Kansas in the 2022-23 season, the possibility of signing a new opponent at this point in the season is slim at best. Kansas State was originally scheduled to welcome Arizona to Bill Snyder Family Stadium on September 14, 2024, before traveling to Tucson to face the Wildcats at Arizona Stadium on September 13, 2025, as a home game between non-conference opponents.
Because the matchup between the Wildcats was scheduled to take place before the decision was made to join the Four Corner schools in the Big 12, the games are currently scheduled for non-conference play in the 20 seasons, respectively. The Arizona Wildcats are completing their final season as members of the Pac-12 Conference before moving up to the Big 12 for the 2024 season along with Arizona State, Colorado and Utah.
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Kansas State athletic director Gene Taylor was asked on a recent episode of Ask the AD for his stance on the home series with Arizona in 2024-25, confirming that the series will remain listed as a non-conference game despite the match being between two Big 12 teams. While conference realignment has brought a lot of benefits to the Big 12 Conference this offseason, one detail of the realignment has raised some important questions about previously scheduled games on the non-conference slate for the Kansas State Wildcats.
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