The Pac-12 dissolved in 2024, but one vestige of the former conference remains relevant to the college football season unfolding this fall: the bowl lineup. The legacy teams are locked into the postseason arrangement that existed prior to collapse.

Each week, the Hotline will project and assess the postseason status for all 12 teams. Last week’s projections can be found here.

The makeshift arrangement in which Pac-12 legacy schools remain tied to their previous bowl partners was supposed to expire after the 2025 postseason.

But you know what they say about best-laid plans: They crumble under the weight of college football dysfunction.

Every aspect of the sport’s postseason is on pause while the conference commissioners determine whether to expand the College Football Playoff in time fo

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