The cause and effect of Colorado preparing to sign up with the Huge

• Pete Thamel, ESPNJul 27, 2023, 09:00 AM ET

With Colorado initiating the procedure to leave the Pac-12 and join the Big 12 for the 2024-25 season, it marks a considerable ripple in college athletics as the next stage in realignment.Here’s a take a look at the

greatest concerns for both leagues and what’s next on the landscape in the wake of Colorado’s looming departure.Jump to: Next steps for the Pac-12 What

‘s next for the Huge 12

? The league is now slated to have 13 groups for 2024-25, and it would make good sense to add another in time for the 2024 football season. Where will that team originated from? And could more than one be added?The choice of the Big 12 would be among the Pac-12’s other so-called Four Corners schools– Arizona, Arizona State or Utah. According to sources, Arizona has been the most engaged among those three schools. However practically every school in the league has actually had some type of contact with the Huge 12, as the Pac-12 has actually spun its wheels on landing a television deal for almost a year. It would be fiduciary carelessness to not check out other options.Arizona’s decision-making will be made more through the prism of basketball than a lot of power conference schools, which would make a relocation to

the Big 12 more attractive. Pac-12 basketball has actually been significantly deteriorated with the loss of USC and UCLA, and the Big 12 has actually been the nation’s top basketball conference in recent years. Arizona president Bobby Robbins has maintained publicly that no choices will be made up until there’s clarity on the Pac-12’s television offer. That will be tested after Colorado’s choice.