Final Pac-12 Championship’s Incredible Ratings Were Announced, And They Just Made Fans Sad

The Pac-12 is dead; long live the Pac-12.

One of college football's most durable conferences passed (in its current state) into history Friday evening as Washington defeated Oregon 34–31 to win the league’s final championship game. The well-played contest was a fitting sendoff to the century-old hub for power-conference football on the West Coast.

It was also, a Saturday ESPN release revealed, destined to become a bitterly ironic trivia answer.

The network announced that the...