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Texas State is successful the last steps of accepting an invitation to the Pac-12, arsenic it has initiated the process of calling a Board of Regents gathering for Monday to implicit the move, sources confirmed to ESPN.
Texas State officials began alerting Sun Belt officials of its ceremonial connection to the Pac-12 and plans to accept, sources said. The Pac-12 and Texas State are expected to finalize the process soon, and the determination volition hap for the 2026-27 schoolhouse twelvemonth for each sports, according to sources. An announcement of the determination isn't expected earlier Monday.
It takes 72 hours to telephone a Board of Regents gathering successful the Texas system, according to authorities of Texas unfastened gathering laws. By calling the gathering officially connected Friday, it allows Texas State to person the last gathering connected Monday.
This volition people the last steps successful courtship of Texas State to the Pac-12. The Bobcats person loomed arsenic the dense favourite to articulation the league for months arsenic the eighth shot playing member. (Gonzaga is the league's ninth subordinate but doesn't person football.)
The determination came down to the last days of a cardinal unit constituent for Texas State, arsenic the school's exit interest to articulation Pac-12 for 2026 doubles from $5 cardinal to $10 cardinal connected July 1. With ceremonial committee support needed to wage the exit interest and to debar the increase, Texas State's invitation needed to travel astatine immoderate constituent this week.
The Pac-12 needed an eighth shot subordinate to run arsenic an FBS league successful 2026. The Bobcats volition articulation Oregon State, Washington State, Boise State, San Diego State, Colorado State, Utah State and Fresno State.
Texas State's summation hints astatine the school's diversion imaginable and besides gives the Pac-12 a niche successful the football-rich authorities of Texas. The schoolhouse has much than 40,000 students and is situated betwixt Austin and San Antonio.
The Bobcats are coming disconnected back-to-back 8-5 shot seasons, which included a brace of vessel wins nether caput manager G.J. Kinne. Texas State opens the 2025 play against Eastern Michigan, and its archetypal crippled arsenic a Pac-12 subordinate volition beryllium astatine Texas successful 2026.
The Austin Sports Journal was archetypal to study the quality of Texas State initiating the last steps for its determination to the Pac-12.
