The most anticipated weekend of the college football season is fast approaching, with Championship Saturday followed by Selection Sunday.

The College Football Playoff field will be revealed at 9 a.m. (Pacific), followed hours later by a steady stream of bowl announcements that cannot become official until the conferences and bowls know which teams are available.

By mid-afternoon, we should have a solid grasp on the destinations for the eight Pac-12 legacy teams that have qualified for the postseason.

Here’s a primer on the process, for the uninitiated:

— Although the conference dissolved in 2024, bowl officials and remaining Pac-12 executives determined it would be far less complicated to maintain the Pac-12 tie-ins than to reconfigure bowl arrangements based on the post-realignment co

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