A new media rights deal would be announced “in the near future,” he said at the conference’s football media day. Kliavkoff waved off concerns about the Big 12 poaching his schools. By the end of Friday, the Pac-12 was cooked. A week after Colorado jumped to the Big 12, two of the conference’s remaining cornerstones, Oregon and Washington, refused to agree to a proposed television contract they deemed insufficient and instead headed to the Big Ten. Later, Arizona leapt to the Big 12, taking Arizona State and Utah with them.

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Persons: George Kliavkoff, —, ”, Kliavkoff, ” Kliavkoff Organizations: University of Southern, Big, Colorado, Arizona State Locations: Las Vegas, University of Southern California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Arizona State and Utah