A dozen years passed before the Pac-12 considered another Texas school — but it wasn’t the Longhorns or Aggies. During the purgatory period of 2022-23, after USC and UCLA announced their move to the Big Ten, then-commissioner George Kliavkoff put SMU in the crosshairs, along with San Diego State.

It took 35 years, five swings and a near-death experience, but the Pac-12 finally is planting its flag in Texas with the addition of Texas State.

The countdown is on for the return of the Pac-12 as we are exactly one year away from the rebuilt conference. A book reveals new details from the attack in Butler, Pennsylvania, almost a year on The journalist,