The Pac-12’s football schedule for 2026 is unique, flexible and designed with one goal in mind: The College Football Playoff

The rebuilt Pac-12’s football schedule for 2026, set for release today at 6:30 p.m. (Pacific), will include seven round-robin league games, intra-conference home-and-home matchups, a flex weekend in late November and a home-host model for the conference championship game.

While there’s no precedent in major college football for certain components, there is a backdrop to the whole shebang: The College Football Playoff loomed large over every aspect of the painstaking process that required many months and hundreds of iterations.