The Pac-12 came out in favor of CFP expansion after voting against it: Our search to explain the apparent confusion

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The Pac-12 came out in favor of CFP expansion after voting against it: Our search to explain the apparent confusion
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Our attempt to explain the apparent contradiction between its vote and the public statement of support it released hours later.

On Jan. 10, hours after news broke that College Football Playoff expansion likely would be delayed for years, the Pac-12 released a statement that said, effectively: Don’t blame us., “and we support all of the six most-discussed expansion models that would allow for expansion to occur in time for the final two years of the current CFP agreement.”

The three leagues that drove the spike, Keenum explained, were the ACC, the Big Ten … and the Pac-12. Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff declined to comment on any details and instead offered the following statement: tells Tommy Lee Jones on the phone after discovering the picture in the one-armed man’s apartment: “IBoth issues, the Rose Bowl and the revenue distribution, were discussed at length on Jan. 21, during an interview on the ‘Paul Finebaum Show’ on ESPN.The expansion proposal called for each of the six major New Year’s bowls to host quarterfinal matchups two out of every three years, on or around Jan. 1. In the third year, each bowl would serve as a semifinal game the following week.

“If they do,” Kliavkoff explained, “the value of that Rose Bowl would be significantly decreased, because if you put 12 teams into the playoff, they don’t get our best against the best team from the Big Ten …

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