The Pac-12 has a media-rights deal with CBS that sets up the network to broadcast a minimum of four football and men’s basketball games per season on its main network.
CBS also will provide a cable and streaming presence for the reconfigured league – to include San Diego State – from 2026-31.
The new deal with what the league calls its “primary long-term media partner” kicks in next year, when SDSU, Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State and Utah State will join the Pac-12 in all sports, with Gonzaga joining in everything but football.
Financial details of the new deal were not disclosed. Conference Commissioner Teresa Gould called it a “transformational partnership” that allows the Pac-12 to grow when it starts as a remodeled league in 2026-27.
“Extending this partnership strengthens our multi-platform college football and basketball schedule and, at a pivotal moment for the new Pac-12, allows us to collaborate, grow the conference and expand its reach,” said said Dan Weinberg, executive vice president, programming for CBS Sports.
An inability to secure a media deal is what nearly cratered the league in 2023, with all but Oregon State and Washington State departing for the Big 12, Atlantic Coast and Big Ten Conferences.
The Pac-12 already had deals in place to put all of the two remaining teams’ football games on the CW, ESPN and CBS for the upcoming season.
The Pac-12 needs to add another football program to reach the minimum eight teams necessary to be in the Football Bowl Subdivision and, thus, the College Football Playoff.
Multiple reports say Texas State has emerged as the top candidate.
Under the new deal, CBS will broadcast at least three regular-season football and men’s basketball games per season, along with the championship games for both sports.
The league also will have what it called a “consistent regular-season presence” on the cable CBS Sports Network, which has for years broadcast several SDSU games, along with other Mountain West contests.
Details are still being finalized as Pac-12 media negotiator, Octagon, works on finding additional media partners for the league.
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