San Marcos, Texas – Texas State joins the PAC -12, giving the reconstruction conference of the eighth football school he needed to maintain his status as a FBS conference.
The PAC-12 and the state of Texas announced on Monday that the bobcats of the Sun Belt conference would join the remains of Oregon State and the state of Washington, as well as the Gonzaga private school and Mountain department schools Boisse State, Colorado State, Fresno State San Diego State and Utah State as nine fundamental members of the new PAC-12. The official launch of the reconfigured league is scheduled for July 1, 2026.
From Gonzaga Do not put a football team, the CAP-12 needed one more to stay eligible as a football bowl subdivision league. Only the state of Oregon and the state of Washington had remained in the PAC-12 after the departures of 10 teams to the other three conferences of power: ACC, Big Ten and Big 12.
The Texas State will be a member of the sports entirely in the PAC-12 after having been in Sun Belt since 2013. Bobcats, one of the 14 football teams of the sun belt, made their FBS debut with a season in WAC in 2012.
The bobcats were 8-5 each of the last two seasons since Gj Kinne took office as a coach and won the first Bowl stakeholders in the two years. Before that, they never went to a bowl match and had only one winning season from their previous one playing FBS Football, a 7-5 file in 2014 under the trainer Dennis Franchione.
With the Texas State campus in San Marcos, just 35 miles south of the University of Texas in Austin, it will be the most distant from the west coast, the PAC-12 has had a member of the whole sport. Arkansas-Little Rock is now a affiliate member of the struggle.
When the 10 old PAC-12 teams officially died last year, which created conferences from one ocean to another. Oregon and Washington went to Big Ten; Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah joined the Big 12; And Stanford and California have become members of ACC.
“We are extremely happy to welcome Texas State as a fundamental member of the new PAC-12,” said Commissioner Teresa Gould. “It’s a new day in university sports and the most appropriate moment to launch a new league which is positioned to succeed in today’s landscape with students in mind.
PAC-12 last week has concluded an agreement with the rights of the media with CBS This sets up the network to broadcast a minimum of four football and male basketball basketball games per season on its main network and provide a cable and streaming presence for the 2026-31 League.
Sun Belt’s commissioner, Keith Gill, in a press release, thanked the staff of the State of Texas for his “collaboration and leadership through a transformative era in university athletics” of the Pandemic Covid-19 in Nile and the most recent series of realignment. He also praised the recent success of the League football, including the bobcats among the 12 SBC teams during the Bowl matches in 2023, and one of the seven last year.
“I will continue to update our stakeholders on developments as much as possible while we are working to ensure the sustained climb of the Sun Belt conference, a collection of regional rivals with similar views with winning football traditions, passionate fans and sustainable commitments to excellence in all sports,” said Gill. “The Sun Belt conference is increasing and our best days are ahead.”
Texas State is a national research university with more than 40,000 students and is one of the 25 largest undergraduate inscriptions among public universities in the United States. Kelly Damphousse, the president of the state of Texas, described as a historic PAC-12 to join a historic moment.
“Joining PAC-12 is more than an athletic decision. This is a declaration of our growing national profile, our commitment to excellence and our desire to compete and collaborate with some of the most respected institutions in the country,” said Damphousse. “Our acceptance in PAC-12 affirms the strength of our academic vision, our commitment to give access to a state diploma in Texas, the momentum of our sports programs and the ambition that defines this institution.”
