Editing Pac-12 Conference (section)

===Pac-12===
{{Main|2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment}}

In early June 2010, there were reports that the Pac-10 was considering adding up to six teams to the conference: the University of Texas, [[Texas A&M University]], [[Texas Tech University]], the [[University of Oklahoma]], [[Oklahoma State University–Stillwater|Oklahoma State University]], and the University of Colorado.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/03/SPQN1DPK0U.DTL | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | title=The Pac-10's meet market | first=Ray | last=Ratto | date=August 8, 2010}}</ref>

On June 10, 2010, the University of Colorado Boulder accepted an invitation to join the Pac-10 Conference, effective starting with the 2012–2013 academic year.<ref name="utahpressrelease">{{Cite web |date=2010-06-17 |title=University of Utah Joins Pac-10 |url=https://utahutes.com/news/2010/6/17/University_of_Utah_Joins_Pac_10.aspx |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=University of Utah Athletics |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pac-10.org/genrel/061010aaa.html |title=University of Colorado Joins Pac-10 |access-date=June 10, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612014215/http://www.pac-10.org/genrel/061010aaa.html |archive-date=June 12, 2010 }}</ref> The school later announced it would join the conference a year earlier than previously announced, in the 2011–2012 academic year.

On June 15, 2010, a deal was reached between [[University of Texas at Austin|Texas]] and the [[Big 12 Conference]] to keep Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State in the Big 12. Following Texas' decision, the other Big 12 schools that had been rumored candidates to join the Pac-10 announced they would remain in the Big 12. This deal effectively ended the Pac-10's ambition to potentially become a sixteen-team conference.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/college-sports/news/story?id=5286672|title=Texas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State stay put in Big 12 Conference|date=June 14, 2010|publisher=ESPN|access-date=September 20, 2015}}</ref>

On June 17, 2010, the [[University of Utah]] accepted an invitation to join the Pac-10 Conference, effective starting July 2011.<ref name="utahpressrelease"/> Utah was a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) with Arizona and Arizona State before those two left for the Pac-10 in 1978. The Utes left an expanded WAC with seven other schools in 1999 to form the new [[Mountain West Conference]]. Utah became the first "[[BCS Buster]]" to join a BCS conference, having played in (and won) two BCS games beforehand.

On July 27, 2010, the conference unveiled a new logo and announced that the Pac-10 would be renamed the Pac-12 when Utah and Colorado formally joined in July 2011. On October 21, the Pac-12 announced that its football competition would be split into [[#Divisions|two divisions]]—a North Division comprising the Pacific Northwest and Bay Area schools, and a South Division comprising the [[Mountain Time Zone]] and Southern California schools. On July 1, 2011, the Pac-12 assumed its 12-team alignment when both Colorado and Utah officially joined as full members.

On August 15, 2012, the conference debuted the [[Pac-12 Network]]. It was the third college sports conference to launch a dedicated network, and the first to completely fund and own their own network outright.

The conference had been based in [[Walnut Creek, California|Walnut Creek]]<!-- 800 S. Broadway--> since the late 1970s until August 2014.<ref name="mvghq">{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Michael |date=August 19, 2013 |title=Pac-12 moving its headquarters to San Francisco |url=https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2013/08/19/Colleges/Pac-12-move.aspx |access-date=November 22, 2021 |publisher=Sports Business Journal}}</ref> Since 2014, the conference was headquartered in [[San Francisco, California]]<!-- 360 Third St.-->, with the conference moving to working remotely once the lease expires in June 2023.<ref>{{cite news |title=Going remote: Pac-12 moving out of San Francisco office |url=https://apnews.com/article/sports-business-basketball-las-vegas-mens-2bd0634980bbf7b4e4d19318852b8ce1 |access-date=March 30, 2022 |work=Associated Press |date=March 29, 2022 |language=en}}</ref> The Pac-12 Network and meeting space for headquarters employees are now located at [[Bishop Ranch]] in [[San Ramon, California|San Ramon]], an [[East Bay]] suburb.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Moore |first=Sam |title=Pac-12 relocating San Francisco headquarters to East Bay |url=https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/pac-12-relocating-sf-headquarters-17716485.php |access-date=2024-03-16 |work=SFGATE |language=en}}</ref>