Pac-12 football strategy: With playoff expansion secure, conference to revisit divisions, champ game format and schedule model

The Pac-12’s moves to eliminate football divisions and change the championship game qualification process,  implemented prior to the 2022 season, could be reversed to account for the expansion of the College Football Playoff.

“Whether to play eight or nine (conference games), changing the championship game and the divisions — we’ll look at all that,” commissioner George Kliavkoff told the Hotline recently.

“The goal is the same: to optimize for playoff berths and championships.”

While the goal is the same, the target has most definitely moved.

Starting in 2024, the Pac-12 will be pursuing berths in a 12-team playoff — not the four-team event that has proved so elusive for

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