Sources: Pac-12, MWC do not reach offer for 2025

Kyle Bonagura, ESPN Staff WriterSep 2, 2024, 07:48 PM ET

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• West and Pac-12 conferences did not come to an arrangement

before Sunday’s due date to extend their football scheduling beyond the 2024 season, sources verified to ESPN.While it’s in theory possible to circle back, the most likely scenario will be for Oregon State

and Washington State to build fully independent schedules for the 2025 season.”There’s too big a space [between the parties],”a source told ESPN.The lack of an arrangement stems mostly from the Pac-12’s top priority to be versatile for more transformation in college sports over the next year. Monetary factors also played a role, sources informed ESPN.There is not believed to have actually been any considerable talks for either Oregon State or Washington State to sign up with one of the remaining four power conferences, sources said.This year, all 12 Mountain West schools will play 7 conference games, plus either OSU or WSU as part of a contract that was struck in December, following the collapse of the Pac-12 that left it with simply 2 members. As part of that deal, the Pac-12 paid the MWC approximately$14 million.OSU and WSU will take part as affiliate members of the West Coast Conference in most of their staying sports– consisting of basketball– for the next 2 years.The conferences ‘failure to reach an offer was initially reported by the San Jose Mercury News.