US college sports’ Pac-12 conference has agreed new media rights deals with national networks ESPN, CBS Sports, and The CW Network covering American football games for the 2025 season.
Under the agreements, the broadcasters will combine to show the 13 home football games involving Oregon State University (OSU) and Washington State University (WSU).
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The breakdown will see two games air on CBS (and streaming on Paramount+), nine on The CW, and two on ESPN.
Like 2024, Pac-12 Enterprises, the conference's broadcast production arm, will produce all nine broadcasts for The CW. Last season, it had the rights to all the home games for OSU and WSU.
The Pac-12 was supported in the rights process by Octagon after it appointed the international sports marketing agency as its exclusive media rights advisor last November.
The conference chose to bring in Octagon as an advisor following its last set of media rights negotiations, which took close to two years and almost led to the conference dissolving completely.
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By GlobalDataTeresa Gould, Pac-12 Commissioner, said: “Having Pac-12 football featured across three leading broadcasters in CBS, The CW, and ESPN in 2025 will provide tremendous exposure to showcase Oregon State, Washington State, and our brand in the Pac-12's final season before expansion.
“We are thrilled to continue our partnership with The CW, to welcome a new partner in CBS Sports, and to see a return of Pac-12 football on ESPN.”
At present, eight colleges are signed up to be involved with the Pac-12 across the 2026-27 season as the conference prepares for expansion.
The Pac-12 has been rebuilt over the past year after 10 of its 12 members left to join the ACC, Big Ten, and Big 12 in recent years. Now, Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Utah State, and Gonzaga have joined or are preparing to join the two remaining schools, Oregon State and Washington State.
Before the 2026 season, the Pac-12 also needs to add at least one more football-playing member to fulfill NCAA requirements.
The departure of those 10 members came following a series of botched Pac-12 media rights agreements across 2022 and 2023 (meant to kick off during the 2024 season) – with the ACC, Big Ten, and Big 12 all, therefore, able to offer member colleges more lucrative deals than the Pac-12 that year.
The Big 12, for example, has a $2 billion deal with Fox and ESPN in place through 2036.
A tie-up covering the 2024 Pac-12 season (such as it was, with theoretically only two member schools) was finally unveiled in mid-May last year, with games covered across The CW and Fox Sports.
