Pac-12 Conference

While the Pac-12 will soon be able to rapidly test athletes, hopes that a fall football season might be salvaged remain premature. Navigating the coronavirus has been uneven among the league’s athletic programs, often because of a patchwork of local regulations. There is also disagreement about whether test results among student-athletes should be made public. The argument is that...

The Pac-12 Conference announced a partnership with a diagnostic firm Thursday aimed at providing possibly daily coronavirus testing for student-athletes in contact sports.

A group of Pac-12 football players with the #WeAreUnited movement met with officials from the California governor’s office Tuesday to discuss concerns about their schools’ COVID-19 protocols and protecting their college eligibility. Meanwhile, the NCAA’s highest governing body put off a decision on whether to conduct fall championship events, and is moving toward passing on making that call altogether....

The Pac-12 has become the second major conference to shift to a conference-only fall schedule amid growing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came after a meeting of the Pac-12 CEO Group on Friday and a day after the Big Ten opted to eliminate nonconference games for all fall sports. “The health and safety of our student-athletes and all those...

In less than four months, the University of Southern California Trojans Football Team are scheduled to open their 2020 season against 17-time National Champion Alabama. As of today, USC is a 14-point underdog, and many believe it should be higher than that. In 2016, when the two teams met to open the season, the Crimson Tide rolled over the Trojans…

The Pac-12 has discussed an 11-game regular season played solely against conference opponents as one possibility for keeping college football going this year amid the coronavirus pandemic. Southern California coach Clay Helton confirmed the all-conference idea Monday as one of several scenarios being evaluated by the Pac-12’s coaches and administrators. “It’s been discussed in our Pac-12 meetings, and it’s...

Five of the 12 schools in the Pac-12 expect to reopen their campuses this fall, a key step to the return of college sports. Many more steps still need to be taken before football or any other sport is going to played in 2020 as the world copes with the coronavirus pandemic. The football season begins Aug. 29 with a…

USC Athletic Director Mike Bohn spoke to NBC LA Sports Anchor Fred Roggin about the return of the College Football season, the disappointment in the cancelling of the NCAA Tournament, and the new NCAA rule to pay student athletes.