By David K.

Well, it certainly wasn’t a pretty opening week for the Pac-12, with struggles against FCS opponents and a lackluster performance by Oregon in the weekend’s marquee matchup of top 5 programs. Still, it wasn’t all bad, with some impressive individual performances, and solid wins by the Bay Area teams. As I’ll be ranking teams based on performance so far, the first few weeks are likely to see much greater change than later weeks, when we will have a more complete picture of each team (and more head-to-head matchups to consider).

NORTH
1. Stanford (1-0, 0-0 Pac-12)
LW 2
An easy win against a weak opponent. Doesn’t tell us much about the Cardinal, whose game against Duke next week will likely be just as unrevealing. November date with Oregon may be first (and only) real test. Moved up a spot largely due to Oregon’s loss.

2. Oregon (0-1, 0-0)
LW 1
It should have been a clash of titans, instead it was a one-sided win for the LSU Tigers. Oregon didn’t help itself much either, losing the ball four times. Heisman hopeful LaMichael James had one of his weakest performances as a Duck. A close loss would have been enough to keep Oregon on top, but this one wasn’t close.

3. Cal (1-0, 0-0)
LW 5
The Bears looked shaky to start, but recovered quickly to take control of the game against Fresno State. Transfer QB Zach Maynard performed well for Cal. This win, plus weak performances by the rest of the Pac-12 North, helped boost the Bears into 3rd for now.

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By David K.

With the first Pac-12 team, new member Utah, set to kick off in under two hours [FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE: The Utes notched the first ever win by a Pac-12 team, 27-10 over Montana State], it’s time for some last-minute Pac-12 power rankings. I’ll be breaking teams down by division this season, like most other bloggers and pundits are doing. I’ll give a brief explanation for each slot. Feel free to agree or criticize in the comments.

NORTH
1. Oregon
The final Pac-10 champion and loser of last year’s BCS title game, the Ducks return 13 starters including QB Darron Thomas and Heisman hopeful RB LaMichael James. If they can avoid distraction from the off-field troubles of the season, particularly those involving agent Willie Lyles, the Ducks look to repeat much of their success from last season, assuming of course they aren’t sidelined by NCAA sanctions before season’s end.

2. Stanford
The other juggernaut of the Pac-12, Stanford’s only blemish last season was a loss in Eugene to the Ducks. The good news is the Cardinal get Oregon at home this season, and face a slate of teams that are unlikely to challenge them, aside from USC and perhaps Notre Dame. A key to the Cardinal’s success will be the performance of Heisman Trophy hopeful QB Andrew Luck, but they are also breaking in a new head coach this season after Jim Harbaugh left for the NFL. [P.S. BY BRENDAN: Stanford is also breaking in three new offensive linesmen.]

3. Washington
The Huskies rallied from a 3-6 season start to win their final 4 games of last season, including a rematch upset of Nebraska in the Dawgs’ first bowl game since 2002. The question is whether 3rd year coach Steve Sarkisian can continue to positive direction for the Huskies against another tough slate of opponents, 6 of whom had 10+ wins last season. The Huskies are breaking in a new QB, but a much improved O-Line and defense could help make up for the inexperience there. The return visit to Nebraska looms large, and the Huskies will face four of the strongest teams in the conference down the stretch (Utah, Stanford, Oregon and USC). There is little margin for error for the Huskies team hoping to return to its position as a power team in the conference and avoid a slide back into the mediocrity of the past decade.

4. Oregon State
The Beavers are one of the hardest teams to predict each year. One game they shine, the next they fizzle. They have produced some stunning upsets (just ask USC) and some inexplicable losses (just ask Washington State). Returning QB Ryan Katz and WR James Rogers will be the players to watch on an offense that returns 8 starters. On the other hand, Rogers’ past problems with injuries may limit his potential impact, and the defense is much shakier. Inexperience and size could be issues for the Beavers.

5. California
Will Jeff Tedford and the Cal bears continue to disappoint, or rebound after last year’s bowl-less season? I’m leaning towards the former. The Bears will be led by new QB Zach Maynard, who transfered from Buffalo after the 2009 season. On top of that, some changes in the offensive staff and playbook could limit the Bears versatility. Adding to the difficulty is a season played, not at home Memorial Stadium which is being renovated this year, but in San Francisco at AT&T Park, a facility they won’t even be practicing in during the week. The Bears could very likely end up in last place in the Pac-12 North by the end of the season.

6. Washington State
Cougar coach Paul Wulff may be on the hottest seat in the conference right now with an abysmal 5-32 record over the last three seasons at WSU. Anything less than a bowl berth is likely going to be the end of the line for the coach, but this could be the Cougar team to save him. QB Jeff Tuel is experienced and skilled and he has some good receivers to help him out. Washington State is helped out by a very winnable slate of games to start the season and a few more down the stretch that gives them plenty of opportunities to get the needed six wins, despite facing both Stanford and Oregon, along with newcomer Utah. It wouldn’t surprise me to see the Cougs reach 6 wins and a bowl by season’s end, likely finishing above both Oregon State and Cal in the process. But until they’ve proven it on the field, they get the #6 spot.

SOUTH
1. USC
Regardless of where the Trojans finish, they are still bowl-ineligible (and ineligible to compete in the inaugural Pac-12 title game) thanks to the idiocracy that is the NCAA, but USC is, as usual, loaded with talent. Games against Utah in week 2 and at Arizona State in week 4 could have huge impacts on the race for the title, even if the Trojan’s can’t officially win it. More good news is that the Trojans will skip regular thorn in the side Oregon State this season. The bad news is they face Oregon and Washington, two teams that they have had little success against in recent years, before closing out the season against UCLA.

2. Utah
Newcomer Utah will get its chance to prove it belongs and has, in my opinion, a legitimate shot at representing the Pac-12 South in the inaugural Pac-12 championship game. An ineligible USC and an ASU team being hampered by injuries provides a key opportunity for the Utes to establish a name for themselves. Getting to miss games against both Pac-12 North contenders Oregon and Stanford also plays to Utah’s advantage. A win in week two against USC in the Pac-12 opener could set the stage for a dominant season and silence Utah’s critics once and for all.

3. ASU
An early presumptive favorite to win the Pac-12 South crown, ASU has been hampered by a number of injuries to key players (QB Steven Threet is out for multiple concussions) and some distractions off the field, particularly those involving the always controversial Vontaze Burfict. However, all may not be lost for the Sun Devils. With USC out of the race, and UCLA and Colorado unlikely to pose a real threat, ASU need only finish ahead of Utah and Arizona to win the division crown, and could do so without a stellar record.

4. Arizona
The Wildcats have never been to the Rose Bowl, and the road to Pasadena has gotten just a bit harder with the switch to divisions and a championship game. While they won’t have to deal with USC as a contender for the top spot this season, they do face the Trojans early on. In fact, after their cupcake opener against Northern Arizona, the Wildcats head to Oklahoma State before returning home to host Stanford and Oregon. A 1-4 start for Mike Stoops and co. is a very real, very likely possibility. The good news is it would mean very little in terms of the race for the division championship, and even with that slow a start, if the Wildcats can keep themselves motivated, can play out down the stretch against a much more winnable slate, much like the one that allowed them to climb into the top tier of the rankings last season. An experienced QB in Nick Foles is a benefit, but the offense is overall very new, especially on the line, which could limit his ability to make plays. Really, it could go any direction for the Wildcats.

5. UCLA
Facing a seemingly do-or-die season for Slick Rick, the Bruins shook things up in the offseason with some coaching changes, including Neuheisel taking over as QB coach and hiring two new coordinators. Recently QB Kevin Prince was named the starter, a move which was not exactly met with enthusiasm, as many were hoping for star recruit Brett Hundley to take the spot. Talent-wise, the Bruins have the pieces, but it remains to be seen whether the coaching staff can inspire and utilize them to actually win games.

6. Colorado
Good news Buffs, the Dan Hawkins era is officially over and you are no longer stuck with Texas calling all the shots. Bad news Buffs, your team is breaking in a new coach, facing a whole new slate of conference foes, and looking at a big shift in offensive style. The Buffaloes return a lot of experienced players and have a chance to prove themselves in their new conference. I’m picking them for last now as a bit of an unknown quantity with a lot of question marks, but Colorado could surprise and move up the ranks. I’d be very surprised, however to see them compete for the top of the division. Simply earning a bowl berth would be a big step in the right direction.

By David K.

Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of the company he founded 35 years ago, and saved from the brink of collapse when he returned in 1997 with Apple’s aquisition of NeXT. No specific reason was given for the resignation, but Jobs had been on a partial medical leave for a while now. He has has bouts of pancreatic cancer and related health complications from it.

Jobs will continue to be employed by Apple and will serve as chairman of the board. Current COO Tim Cook, who in Steve’s absence both now and in the past has assumed the CEO duties, will be the new CEO of the company.

By David K.

Last week, dissatisfaction with a plan to air high school games on the Longhorn Network led to reports that Texas A&M and Oklahoma were pondering moves to the SEC. That talk has died down for the moment. But if such moves ever do happen, they would certainly doom the Big 12, and likely lead to further shifts. The Pac-12 would be left in a bit of a bind under such circumstances, however, assuming the creation of an SEC-16 makes expansion to 16-team superconferences feel like an imperative for everyone. Larry Scott’s grand gamble of last summer to expand to 16 schools involved both Oklahoma and Texas A&M. Without both schools, the options for Pac-12 expansion are more limited. Even more so if Oklahoma State is taken along with Oklahoma.

Texas is the obvious target for any expansion scenario, but the Longhorns might be just as willing to strike out on their own. Texas Tech is also an option, and the last remaining of the three major Texas schools. Baylor is less likely given its religious affiliation, something that was presumed to be a large part of the reason BYU wasn’t offered a spot in the Pac-12.

The next likely set of schools would be the remaining members of the Big 12: Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri and Iowa State. All four schools are research universities like the rest of the Pac-12, ranked in the highest category of the Carnegie Classification system, and ranked at the same level as many of the existing Pac-12 schools by US News and World. Kansas and Missouri are also members of the Association of American Universities, a prestigious collection of major research universities which 8 of the 12 current Pac members also belong to.

What would the downside of such additions be? The obvious one would be the lack of presence in Texas, a major television market with a huge recruiting base to draw from. But outside of the Big 12 Texas schools, what other options are there? SMU and TCU both have the same problem Baylor and BYU have, they are both religious schools. UTEP, North Texas and Houston aren’t even close to academically or athletically on par with even the lower end of the Pac 12. Rice perhaps is an option, as an academically highly ranked, non religious school. Perhaps, despite their lack of prowess in athletics, they could be worth considering for academic and media-market reasons. But I think it’s unlikely.

Who else is there? The WAC schools are certainly out–neither academically or athletically appealing and largely overlapping with existing Pac-12 media markets. Outside of Colorado State and Hawaii, none of the Mountain West schools are academically strong either. Obvious football powers like Boise State and Fresno State aren’t even research universities.

If Larry Scott is unable to convince Texas or Oklahoma to join the Pac-12, I think the likely alternatives would involve the Kansas schools, Texas Tech, and one other. Perhaps Baylor or Rice for a second Texas school, Perhaps Missouri if they don’t go to the SEC. Certainly the Pac-12 won’t be without options for further expansion, but it won’t be the home run that many of us expected last summer.

By David K.

Thought all the conference change drama had finally hit the back burner for awhile? Think again! According to Sporting News, Texas A&M and Oklahoma are so pissed off at the prospect of Texas’s Longhorn Network airing live high school games of potential recruits, they are threatening to jumping ship to the SEC, a move that would all but sink the numerically challenged Big 12.

My first reaction: Um, Aggies and Sooners? What the hell did you expect when you agreed to the sweetheart deal for the Longhorns in not only the TV network, but also getting a larger portion of the conference’s money pie? Of course they are going to want more and more. You all had the chance to call the shots last summer, but you turned down the Pac-12 and SEC, and went crawling back to the Texas-and-the-nine-dwarves conference otherwise known as the Big 12.

Apparently Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe is paying attention, though, and has said that any plans to allow Texas such an advantageous move are off the table. After all his last-minute machinations to save his conference that was on the brink of dissolution last summer, I’m not surprised he took this step, even if it risks upsetting the big dog in the room.

I hope the NCAA is paying attention too, because if what Texas was planning wasn’t a recruiting violation, it sure as heck should be. Boise State is in trouble because they let prospective recruits sleep on players’ couches, but it would have been okay for Texas to showcase potential recruits on their TV network? Really?

Oh, and Larry Scott? You should be burning down the telephone wires with calls to Norman, OK and College Station, TX to give the Pac-12 the best chance possible of landing some, if not all, of those teams should Texas drive them away [or decide to go independent, a la Notre Dame and BYU, which would just as surely end the Big 12 -Brendan]. The alternatives, even if it means no Texas in the Pac-12, are not promising if Oklahoma and A&M both go elsewhere.

P.S. (by Brendan) The Big Lead had a post from back in January, shortly after the Longhorn Network was announced, discussing the likely domino effect if A&M were to join the SEC’s perpetual war. Excerpt:

Pretend [Texas A&M to the SEC] happens. The SEC then would need at least a 14th and potentially a 15th and 16th team to complete that deal. Looking for natural targets, the big Florida schools, Georgia Tech or Clemson, could be tough politically. Raiding the Big 12 for further targets would be more palatable.

Oklahoma and Oklahoma State would make sense geographically, financially and competitively. They could easily pry away one more team, say Missouri, which would have leapt for the Big Ten if offered, to provide the 16th team. Sweetened with improved TV contracts, that would make an even more fearsome, geographically congruent conference that would look like this.

SEC West: Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, Arkansas, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri

SEC East: Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida

That would leave the “Big 12″ with Texas, Texas Tech, Baylor, Kansas State, Kansas and Iowa State.

Texas fulfills its destiny under this scenario and becomes an independent… The Big East possibly jumps for Kansas in this scenario. It makes about as much sense as TCU, it is not a terrible option for football and a great basketball move.

That would leave Texas Tech, Baylor, Kansas State, and Iowa State. Four teams that could slide into a 16-team Mountain West Conference. The BCS gives that conference an automatic bid, thus embracing every team beating down the door from outside and pacifying the Big 12′s discarded children. It will be a while before another Boise State emerges from the MAC, the Sun Belt or Conference USA.

Note how the WAC, alone among the Division I-A conferences, isn’t even mentioned as a possible source for the emergence of “another Boise State” — notwithstanding that the original Boise State came from the WAC. Heh. Even the Sun Belt gets mentioned, yet the WAC doesn’t! I guess The Big Lead has limited faith in the ability of schools like New Mexico State or Texas State–San Marcos to follow in the Broncos’ reverse-lateraling, fake-punting footsteps. I wonder if Karl Benson wrote an angry letter? Or, alternatively, invited The Big Lead’s editorial staff to join the conference as its eighth football member?

By David K.

Today, the Pac-10 officially welcomes the University of Utah and the University of Colorado to the Conference of Champions, and becomes the Pac-12.

Utah will be the first Pac-12 team to open play when it takes on Montana State in 62 days, on Thursday, September 1st. Arizona State plays a game later the same evening.

USC and Utah will face each other 9 days later, on Saturday September 10th, in the first Pac-12 conference game.

Colorado’s first game as a Pac-12 member will be at Hawaii on September 3rd. On the 10th, they’ll face Cal in a non-conference conference game. Their first actual conference game will be on October 1st, when they take on the Washington State Cougars (in what could be a battle for the bottom of the Pac-12).

You can view the full Pac-12 schedule here.

UPDATE BY BRENDAN: Here in Colorado, Governor Hickenlooper has declared today “Pac-12 Day.”

By David K.

With less than 12 hours to go before the dawn of the Pac-12, ESPN Pac-10/Pac-12 blogger Ted Miller’s latest post ranks the best teams of the Pac-10 era. Who’s number one? I’ll give you a hint: Woof woof woof.

By dcl

This is just the latest in a string of Federal, State, and Local government incursion into the fourth Amendment. Note taking data unrelated to your warrant is theft not executing a warrant.

As a subscriber to Instapaper (great product, by the way) This really pisses me off. The FBI is now in possession of my data without warrant or cause just because some goons don’t know how technology works.

By David K.

Apple products often look like they are from the future, and Steve Jobs is going to take that same design approach to the design of Apple’s new campus in Cupertino.

The massive new building (roughly as large as the pentagon, although only consisting of a single ring) would house up to 13,000 employees in a four story structure featuring curved glass windows around the entire building. Existing surface parking would be moved underground allowing for an increase the amount of green space on the 150 acre plot of land from 20% to 80%. Thats one way to think different.

If approved by the City of Cupertino (and it looks like it will be) they would break ground next year with completion scheduled for 2015.

By Joe Mama

Turns out our friends to the north can teach us a thing or two about budget surpluses and paying off debt. Canada has lowered its national debt from 67% to 29% of GDP since 1993 and run a budget surplus every year between 1997-2008. How? By cutting spending on many gov’t programs in absolute dollar terms (as opposed to cutting just the rate of spending growth). Specifically, about 85 cents of every dollar of deficit reduction was achieved with spending cuts. Did those spending cuts hurt the Canadian economy? David Henderson, author of the study, says no:

As the government cut its spending on programs from 14.9 percent of GDP in fiscal year 1996 to 12.1 percent in fiscal year 2000, more resources were available for people to use productively in the private sector. From 1997 to 2000, when government spending as a percent of GDP fell, Canada’s economy experienced a high rate of real growth of between four and five percent per year.

The Canadian experience appears to belie most Democrats’ view that cutting gov’t spending during an economic slowdown is bad, showing instead that cutting spending during low-growth years is good for the economy.

On a slightly different topic, did Canada’s single-payer health care system help, hinder, or play no part in this fiscal 180-degree turn?

By David K.

In case you missed it during your Memorial day celebrations, one of the biggest programs in college football lost its head coach this weekend amidst a growing scandal that makes what happened with Reggie Bush at USC look tame by comparison. Jim “Sweatervest” Tressel of “THE” Ohio State University resigned on Monday hours ahead of the release of a damning article from Sports Illustrated revealing that the Buckeyes improper benefits problems went far beyond last seasons Tatoo Six. We allready knew that The Vest lied to NCAA investigators (and possibly tOSU adminstrators) about his knowledge of the players violations, but now we know that at least 28 players (possibly many more) have been doing the same thing for years. This isn’t even the first time that Tressel, so often lauded for traits of integrity and honesty, has been involved in such a scandal. During his tenure at Youngstown State similar problems emmerged, and just like this time Tressel’s excuse was “he didn’t know”. Did he really not know? We may never find out for sure, but given the recent revelations about what he DID know, it certainly casts doubt on the former coach’s claims doesn’t it?

What happens now? Buckeye assistant coach Luke Fickell has been named interim coach for the next season and speculation has, of course, allready begun as to who will become the next permanent coach with well known names such as Urban Meyer and Bo Pelini rising to the top of the list. But will either coach, or many others want to take over a program that is almost certain to be weighed down by major penalties for the forseeable future? Given that the NCAA recently denied USC’s appeal for a reduction of its penalties, leveled against a program where one player recieved benefits and one assistant coach was alleged to have known about it (but the evidence for it was incredibly weak), what will they do to a program where such violations are not a single incident but commonplace and spread out over many years, and in whcih we have clear evidence that the head coach knew about at the very least SOME of the incidents and did nothing about it? In a just and logical world the penalties would need to be much harsher, but how harsh can they be? 4 year bowl ban? 5 year scholarship reduction? I’d be shocked if the NCAA went so far as to try and impose the “death penalty” aka the shutdown of the Ohio State football program for any length of time. Such a move against one of college footballs most powerful and storied programs would be met with heavy resistence from the school, the community and fan base, and the Big Ten conference. If they tried that tactic, it could very well serve as a catylst for the defection of major conferences away from the NCAA (in football at least).

How harsh the NCAA finally decides to be, and whether that punishment will be commensurate with the crime and proportional to those handed out against USC will be a hotly anticipated topic of debate for the coming months. Safe to say that the atmosphere in Columbus is going to be anything but jovial in the days ahead.

By David K.

Remember how much fun it was last year watching the shakeup of the college conferences? The anticipation of which teams would or wouldn’t move, and to where? The speculation on when it would all end? The talk of superconferences completely reshaping the landscape of major college football?

Well, EA Sports does, which is why the upcoming edition of NCAA Football will allow players to totally reshape conferences as they see fit during Dynasty mode. For those not familar, Dynasty mode allows the player (or players) to play the game over the course of multiple seasons, including recruiting and improving players, leading teams to bowls and championships, even advancing from one school to the next (riding the coaching carousel). Now, you’ll be able to not only manipulate the conference alignments, but also bowl setups as well, including BCS auto-qualifying status (for instance, as Kirk Herbstreit suggests, you could pull the Big Least’s AQ spot).

Want Texas to go independent? You can do that. Want to see what the Pac-16 would be like? You can do that. Wish Notre Dame would finally join the Big Ten? You can do that. How about trying out the zipper divisions for the Pac-12? You can do that. Heck, you could even get really crazy and completely re-align everyone into geographical conferences that would pair Boise State with Oregon and Washington, or Ohio State with Marshall and Western Michigan.

Maybe the next version will include media rights negotiations!

By David K.

Brendan is probably too busy crying in a corner somewhere to post this update, so it’s left up to me to break the news that his favorite GOP Presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, has decided against a 2012 Presidential run. Reportedly, his wife and children were not in favor of the idea. No word on whether Daniels was simply too disappointed about not being raptured.

UPDATE BY BRENDAN: I am indeed disappointed. Here is Politico’s rundown on what happened. It’s really a shame that questions about Cheri Daniels’s fitness as a wife and mother, which — unlike issues in a candidate’s personal life that possibly reflect on his “character” or “judgment” — aren’t even arguably relevant to the candidate’s fitness for office, helped prevent this good man from seeking the presidency. But there it is.

In keeping with Nate Silver’s analysis, I’m now back to thinking that I’ll need to support either Generic Republican (Pawlenty) or the Republican John Kerry (Romney) in the primaries, in order to stop Palin/Bachmann from sniffing presidential power. Ugh. (Of course I’d love to see Huntsman get the nomination, but I can’t see that happening; unlike Daniels, he’s too much of a RINO.)

UPDATE #2 BY BRENDAN: On a related note, Tim Pawlenty is officially in the race (no longer just “exploring”), and he’s announced it with… a generic campaign video! Featuring generic uplifting music! Generic promises of straight talk and “courage”! Generic shots at Obama! Generic folksy dropping of the “g” at the end of the phrase “It’s not workin’!” A generic recounting of his generic blue-collar town background! And a climactic statement so generic — “I know the American dream, because I’ve lived it” — that I’m surprised it didn’t cause this ad to collapse on itself in some sort of quantum singularity of endless, inescapable genericness!

“I’m Tim Pawlenty, I’m the Generic Republican, and I’m running for president! Vote for me, because, meh!”

Actually, it’s a rather good video. But I can’t help making fun.

[Original timestamp 12:11 AM on 5/22. Bumped to top. -ed.]

By David K.

A group of Republican Senators and Representatives are putting forward an ammendment to the Constituion that would grant states the ability to veto federal laws. Thats right, the self proclaimed “Party of Lincoln”, founded to defend the Union and the federal government vs. the states rights advocated by southern states which eventually seceded and formed the confederacy is attempting to undermine federal authority in favor of the states. Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?

If this is the policy they want to pursue, thats fine, but its high time they stop invoking Lincoln given that he stood for the opposite of what they do today. Teddy Roosevelt would seem to be a bit of a mismatch too. Reagan is spot on though, they can still be the Party of Reagan.

By David K.

Earlier today the Pac-12 officially announced the media deal that was widely reported yesterday. In addition to confirming that ESPN and Fox will co-own the rights it confirmed the formation of a Pac-12 network with the creation of Pac-12 Media Enterprises. This will encompass both a television network (ala the Big Ten Network) and a digital network (ala ESPN3.com). The new group will manage and sell ALL sponsorship and licensing rights held by the conference as well as the football champion and basketball tournament rights. Previously these were managed by Fox Sports. No financial terms were publicly disclosed.

• The 12 year deal takes effect, appropriately enough, starting in 2012.
• 44 regular season football games will be split between ESPN and Fox and aired on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ABC, Fox, and FX (bye bye Fox College Sports!). 10 of those games will be broadcast nationally on ABC or Fox.
• The remaining games (about 3 per week) will be carried on the Pac-12 Network.
• 68 regular season mens basketball games will be shownon ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and Fox Sports
• The remaining games (120+) will be carried on the Pac-12 Network meaning ALL games will be televised one way or another
• The football championship game, and men’s basketball tournament startng from the quarter finals on will alternate between ESPN and Fox each year.

For more details check out the official press release.