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The Pac-12 and the Price of Resurrection

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The college football landscape, once the bedrock of tradition in sports, now seems to shock us every few months with more changes and teams on the move. And with the transfer portal, NIL and this year’s expanded college football playoff, just about anything and anyone is up for grabs. Which brings to our latest storm on the college football radar: The Pac-12.  Left for dead only a year ago, this once-mighty brand is looking to make a comeback by reclaiming their Power 5 status one school at a time. Today Kyle Bonagura joins us to try and tame this Wild West story and bring some order to all this conference chaos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Kyle, there's so much to choose from, but let me ask you, what is your favorite

0:06.7

Pack 12 memory?

0:08.0

Yeah, that's a tough question because I mean I grew up in the Bay Area watching pack 10 football.

0:14.0

That was my window into the sport my introduction to with Cal and Stanford.

0:20.0

And then I went to Washington State, you know, primarily, you know, because it was a pack 10 school,

0:24.0

and I've spent most of my professional career covering the league as well.

0:28.0

So I've certainly, you know, been a part of it from several different angles there and you know sitting here today just

0:34.1

listen to you you know ask that question the first memory that comes to mind for me is and I don't even

0:39.2

know what year it was it was it was a big game between Cow and Stanford. And I just remember going to that game.

0:45.2

I don't even remember any of the players or the score,

0:47.4

anything like that.

0:48.5

But just the vibe in Berkeley that day.

0:51.6

From Memorial Stadium at the University of California Sports Channel presents the 95th edition of the big game.

0:58.7

The first one was played in 1892 in San Francisco.

1:02.5

Since then, the Cal Stanford series has become the embodiment

1:05.8

of what college football is all about.

1:09.1

Having this rivalry game and seeing just the buzz in the community that a college football game could create.

1:15.0

You know, for me that was when I fell in love with college football and that's something that's never gone away.

1:20.0

Yeah, I think for me it's got to be packed 12 after dark.

1:22.9

I mean, that was just such a movement in terms of when everything was done on a Saturday,

1:27.1

you turn on that network.

1:28.8

Next thing, you know, you got wacky games, the players that,

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