How the Pac-12 Enterprises rose from the ashes and helped convince Boise State, San Diego State to join the conference

The rebirth of the Pac-12 began with the death of its football scheduling partnership with the Mountain West. At least, that’s how Boise State athletic director Jeramiah Dickey described the sequence that propelled the Broncos and four other Mountain West schools into the Pac-12 beginning in the summer of 2026.

When negotiations dissolved over an extension of the partnership, the realignment “conversation really started to escalate,” Dickey explained during a September news conference.