Texas State is supposedly slated to sign up with the meeting on a permanent basis for the 2026-27 school year.
AUSTIN, Texas– Texas State sports are relocating to a brand-new meeting.
The Bobcats are readied to sign up with the rebuilt Pac-12 adhering to an invite from the meeting. The Austin Sports Journal initially reported the action late Thursday evening, with ESPN validating the strategies very early Friday early morning.
The Texas State College Board of Regents called an unique conference for Monday to officially authorize the action.
According to the Austin Sports Journal’s record, Texas State authorities notified authorities with the Sunlight Belt Seminar– the college’s present sports meeting– of the strategies to relocate. Considered that the action will certainly occur before July 1, Texas State will just need to pay a $5 million leave charge to the Sunlight Belt, rather than $10 million had actually the action come later.
The brand-new collaboration would formally start for all sporting activities throughout the 2026-27 school year.
Texas State’s action appeared a certainty, as the Pac-12 has actually supposedly dated the San Marcos-based college to sign up with the changed meeting for a variety of weeks.
Texas State’s addition right into the Pac-12 is considerable, both for the institution and the meeting. Texas State boosted to the Sunlight Belt from the Western Athletic Seminar in 2013 and has actually been progressively effective in lots of sporting activities, yet especially football, where the program has actually experienced a renewal under head trainer G.J. Kinne. The Bobcats have actually gone 8-5 and won the First -responder Dish each of the last 2 periods.
The action will certainly likewise permit the Pac-12 to keep its standing as a Football Dish Class (FBS) meeting, as Texas State will certainly be the 8th institution with a football program to come to be a permanent participant.
Texas State’s very first football video game as a participant of the Pac-12 will certainly come versus Texas to open up the 2026 period.