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The website below shows the USC at Utah game listed at 1:00 PM. The only other USC games with times listed are the first few weeks and a Friday night game. Has this game already been picked up by Fox or another network?
Last June, less than a month before his first official day as Pac-12 commissioner, George Kliavkoff was shadowing outgoing commissioner Larry Scott at the Big Ten offices in Chicago during one of the most significant discussions about expanding the College Football Playoff.
The former media guru with no prior collegiate experience posed for a photo with the 10 acting FBS commissioners — what he later called the #CFPClassPhoto. Scott was the only person in the picture he had met before. Optimism ran high.
It would be his first real exposure to the inner workings of the sport.
One year and over a dozen CFP meetings later, playoff expansion remains on hold, leaving the Pac-12 in an all-too-familiar place as it braces for four more years in a four-team field. But under Kliavkoff’s leadership, decision-makers throughout the Pac-12 are bullish about the future of their conference. A new and improved television deal looms, a critical component as the Big Ten and SEC take steps that are sure to separate them as the wealthiest in all of college athletics.
Earning more CFP berths and attracting the most lucrative television contract possible are the long-term goals, but Kliavkoff’s first year has been focused on how the conference office can better position its teams more immediately. The Pac-12 is scrapping divisions and building new scheduling models that reinforce traditional rivalries and ensure all players face every team in the league — home and away — with more frequency.
Kliavkoff has also made a public and private push for university presidents to invest in their football programs — as USC did when it ponied up to hire Lincoln Riley from Oklahoma in late November. And behind the scenes, Kliavkoff is working to find more ways beyond the media rights deal to generate revenue while also trimming millions in expenses at league headquarters.
And of course, there’s the matter of making the CFP. The Pac-12 champion has been excluded from the playoff six times in eight seasons, posting a 1-2 record and no national titles.
Kliavkoff, a longtime media executive who had no college sports experience when he was hired, inherited a mediocre league as college athletics faced unprecedented change. His approach is often blunt, and his business savvy stands in stark contrast to Scott, who was criticized not just for the underwhelming performance of the Pac-12 Network, but also for his exorbitant salary and corporate expenses as the competitive gap between the Pac-12 and the college football elite grew.
Ultimately, Kliavkoff will be judged on how lucrative a television deal he can secure and if he can keep the Pac-12 with a respectable range to the Big Ten and SEC. As he approaches his first anniversary as commissioner on July 1, ESPN spoke to university presidents, athletic directors and coaches about the past year and the most critical goals remaining for the Pac-12 — including, quite simply, increasing winning.
Entire generations of sports fans here had and have looked forward to that game, the mixing of the red and the blue on the green expanse, not just to see who was and is the better of the two in that given year, but rather to have the privilege of holding that inferiority or superiority over the heads of the other folks.
While that privilege at times had or has blown past the boundaries of common sense…it is mostly a healthy exercise in rivalry that makes any season a whole lot more interesting.
I’m on the record, always have been, that the two headlining college football teams in Utah should play each other as often as possible. I get it, they no longer must meet up, there is no conference title on the line, there’s other business for these programs to concern themselves with.
All you have to do is look at the interest created by the BYU-Utah game, feel the emotion stirred in your place of employment or your church or your grocery store or, as mentioned, around your own dinner table. It’s not just the media that benefits from the game, it’s everyone in Utah that cares about sports.
It’s been said those thousands of times, and it should go on being said: The Utah-BYU game should not only be preserved, it should be honored and revered. Come what may in the ever-evolving landscape of college football, regardless of what conference calls what school its own, BYU and Utah will always be a mere 45 miles apart. Their fans will always live next door to each other, will always be friends every other week of the year, will always talk smack at each other.
AUSTIN, Texas – Utah cross country and track & field standout Cara Woolnough continues to cement her legacy on The Hill and named CoSIDA First Team Academic All-America on Tuesday by the national organization.
Woolnough, who recently graduated with a perfect 4.0 GPA in biomedical engineering, becomes the fifth Woman of Utah to earn this distinction and just the second time someone from the cross country and track & field team has earned first-team honors. She is also the only Utah student-athlete to earn First Team Academic All-America honors this academic year.UTAH WOMEN’S XC/TF COSIDA ALL-AMERICANS
YEAR NAME (TEAM)
2003 Brooke LoBue (3rd)
2008 Lauren Enderson (3rd)
2009 Lauren Enderson (1st)
2014 Rosalie Waller (3rd)
2022 Cara Woolnough (1st)
