The Superior Court of Washington ruled in favor of Oregon State and Washington State Monday, granting a temporary emergency restraining order against the Pac-12 that will disable the conference from conducting formal board meetings until the court rules further. Judge Gary Libey, however, amended the order to allow the Pac-12 to conduct business regarding urgent matters for the 2023-24 academic year before 10 of its 12 members depart for other conferences next summer.

The hearing and subsequent ruling came less than one week after Oregon State and Washington State, which are the only continuing Pac-12 members beyond the 2023-24 academic year, filed a complaint against the conference and commissioner George Kliavkoff. The complaint seeks to prevent any votes on the Pac-12’s future from occurring until legal clarity is obtained on who controls what is left of the conference.

  • @smort@lemmy.world
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    41 year ago

    Unless it’s changed, the automatic playoff bids are for “top 6 ranked conference champions”

    So Pac-12 will just miss out on the playoffs and we’ll have two G5 conference champs in

    • Omega
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      51 year ago

      But then again, if the “champ” between them is ranked at all, they’d probably get in.