Pac-12 lands CBS, ESPN and The CW to broadcast Oregon State and Wazzu's 2025 home games
The rebuilding Pac-12 Conference announced Friday that the 13 home games for Oregon State and Washington State in 2025 will be broadcast across a mix of three networks: CBS, ESPN and The CW.
It's the next step in a multi-step process to reconstruct the league. Although the deal is only for 2025 and nothing further has been finalized, the announcement indicates advanced talks with the same networks for the larger TV rights package covering 2026 and beyond, when the Pac-12 will add five Mountain West schools and at least one more school yet to be determined. Commissioner Teresa Gould has previously said the conference was looking for long-term partners in its 2025 talks.
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'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,' Gould said in a statement. '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.'
Two games in 2025 will be on the main CBS channel: Washington at Washington State on Sept. 20 and Oregon State vs. Washington State in Corvallis, Ore., on Nov. 1.
Two games will be on the main ESPN channel: Cal at Oregon State on Aug. 30 and Houston at Oregon State on Friday, Sept. 26.
The remaining nine games will air on The CW, which broadcast 11 Oregon State and Washington State games last season (Fox had the other two). The Oregon State-Washington State game drew the largest audience on The CW, which also airs ACC games.
Both Oregon State and Washington State worked quickly to cobble together 2025 football schedules after deciding last summer not to renew the 2024 football scheduling agreement with the Mountain West. The agreement provided the schools a scheduling lifeline after the Pac-12's collapse in 2023 saw 10 members depart for other leagues.
Washington State plays seven home games in 2025, while Oregon State plays six. The pair will play each other twice in November. It won't be the first double-dip in college football; some independent programs have played twice in the same season to fill out each other's schedules.
The Pac-12 in 2026 is set to add Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State and Utah State from the Mountain West, as well as Gonzaga from the West Coast Conference as a non-football school. The Pac-12 still must add at least one more football-playing full member to remain a Football Bowl Subdivision conference following the NCAA's two-year grace period below eight full members.
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Its attempts last fall to woo American Athletic Conference schools Memphis, Tulane, USF and UTSA fell short. The Pac-12 could only pitch projections related to its TV deal, and the AAC has a deal with ESPN through the early 2030s with a large conference buyout. With advanced talks on the next TV contract, the Pac-12 will have more firm numbers to take to potential targets, which could also include Texas State, UNLV and others.
Oregon State went 5-7 in its first season under head coach Trent Bray last fall but beat the Cougars. Washington State is entering its first season under head coach Jimmy Rogers, who came from South Dakota State to replace Jake Dickert, now the head coach at Wake Forest.
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