Dec. 15—Welcome to the Mountain-Pac-West.
Washington State released its 2024 football schedule Thursday with a heavy slate of Mountain West Conference competition in store for the Cougars.
The scheduling partnership between Washington State, Oregon State and the Mountain West has come to fruition after 10 teams announced they will leave the Pac-12 Conference next year, leaving just the Cougars and Beavers remaining in the league.
WSU will face eight Mountain West foes, Portland State, Texas Tech, Washington and Oregon State with many of the dates and all the times yet to be announced.
Here’s how it breaks down:
MWC agreement
The partnership between the WSU, OSU and the MWC calls for six games — three home, three away — between the conference’s schools and the “Pac-2” schools.
WSU already contracted games against San Jose State (Sept. 21) and San Diego State (TBA), bringing its total MWC opponents to eight — nearly a full Mountain West schedule.
The other six are home games against Utah State, Wyoming and Hawaii and road contests at Boise State, New Mexico and Fresno State. Dates and times for those games will be announced by the Mountain West in the coming months.
The scheduling alliance had previously been announced earlier this month.
WSU and OSU will pay approximately $14 million to the MWC next year as part of the deal, per multiple reports, including word from WSU athletic director Pat Chun.
Since the Cougars and Beavers are not official members of the MWC, they will not be eligible for the conference championship.
WSU and OSU are still hopeful they can rebuild the Pac-12. They have two years to function as a two-team conference while they conduct an ongoing legal battle against the conference’s 10 departing teams over conference funds and control of the Pac-12’s assets.
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Author : Lewiston Tribune, Idaho
Publish date : 2023-12-15 13:16:00
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