Pac-12 and The CW Announce New Deal Through Spring 2031

The new-look Pac-12 has a new television partner. 

It’s one of the conference’s current partners: The CW.

In a press release this morning, the conference announced an “extended partnership” airing games on The CW through the 2030-31 NCAA calendar. 

Following the success of The CW’s Oregon State & Washington State football broadcasts in 2024 - the schools were involved in the top three most watched games on the network last season - many outlets, including this one, floated The CW as a future broadcast partner. Smoke continued to rise after a column last week by Portland-based independent journalist John Canzano, who reported that the two sides were on the verge of an announcement.

Today’s announcement highlighted an extensive commitment: every season from 2026-27 through 2030-31, The CW will air 13 Pac-12 football games, 35 Pac-12 men’s basketball games, 15 Pac-12 women’s basketball games, and the Pac-12 women’s basketball tournament semifinals & championship game.

Following this deal, and the announcement of priority partner CBS/Paramount earlier this summer, it is believed that the Pac-12 has enough inventory for at least one other partial broadcast partner.