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Big Ten/Pac-12 alliance on hold
Lee Barfknecht
Posted:  07/13/2012 12:14 PM
  

That future Nebraska vs. Oregon football game you were lusting after? Forget it.

The scheduling alliance in all sports between the Big Ten and the Pac-12 Conferences — ballyhooed as a brilliant move when announced last December — isn’t going to happen.

The commissioners of the two leagues revealed Friday that football scheduling had become too complicated for the alliance to work.

The Pac-12 wants to maintain a nine-game conference schedule. The Big Ten plays eight. With fewer nonconference scheduling windows, the Pac-12 decided the cooperative agreement was too limiting.

Regular-season football games between the leagues were to begin in 2017, but matchups in other sports were possible as early as the coming season.

  
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