LAS VEGAS — With its membership set and media rights deals in place, the rebuilt Pac-12 finally has clarity on the proper timing to announce its 2026 schedule, bowl affiliations and format for the conference championship game.

Those essential details will be revealed … sometime after Jan. 23.

Settle in, folks. The conference plans to wait for College Football Playoff executives to establish a format for the 2026 season, and their Dec. 1 deadline was recently pushed back eight weeks.

“We’re trying to be really deliberate around what we’re trying to accomplish,” Pac-12 commissioner Teresa Gould told the Hotline this week at the Sports Business Journal’s forum on college sports at the Aria Resort and Casino.

“Getting our champion into the CFP, which is where we think we should be every ye

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