Arizona Football: Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott update

The Pac-12 is busy taking on head injury research, new sports, new social media platforms, and globalization.

Thirty-five football games will be aired on the Pac-12 Network, and now in HD, more Comcast, Frontier (formerly Verizon) and Cox viewers can now watch Pac-12 Network channels. But if you are a DIRECTV customer you are out of luck still, much to our dismay. The Pac-12 will “continue to work with DIRECTV.”

The Pac-12 Network has been in existence for five years, and the conference will be the first college platform to use their Twitter to live stream game day content According to Scott.

"“Twitter will be its premier streaming partner for Pac-12 Plus, a broadband network of live events produced by the conference’s 12 universities, with at least 150 games over the 2016-2017 academic year live streamed to fans on Twitter.” – Pac-12"

For more exposure, the Pac-12 will include all twelve schools video channels combining into one on YouTube, another popular social media platform.

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Pac-12 was live streaming Larry Scott and the entire conference throughout the two days of Football Media Days.

eSports is expected to be a very successful sport this year. Wonder why is eSports a NCAA Sport? We think that the money is too good to pass up because at least at Arizona, there are teams which could be added and backed by the school, namely Rugby or Lacrosse.

We spoke to Brian Jeffries on announcing the games for eSports while catching a Pokemon in the third row in the ballroom, his exact quote on whether he was planning on taking on eSports, “Not at the moment.”

Pac-12 was the first conference to hold an international basketball tournament in China, and this year, Stanford will face Harvard in the same country this year.

Volleyball just got back from a China trip, and as we know, the Pac-12 All-Star Basketball team is participating in Australia. Cal is going to play the University of Hawaii internationally this year in football.

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Finally, Scott spoke about football, about 15 minutes into his speech.

Ten out of twelve teams went to a bowl game last season, and five Pac-12 teams were ranked in the top 10 last season, looking for more this season. Scott is looking forward to an exciting 2016 year.

For the first time in the 56 years in the Pac-12, Stanford was voted the team to win the 2016 Pac–12 Conference football title in a 33 media member preseason poll. The media who voted, cover Pac–12 football. Poll results are as follows:

North Division                    South Division

Stanford (24)1861             UCLA (19)1802

Washington (8)1632         USC (12)1733

Oregon (1)1323                  Utah (2)1274

Washington State 1124   Arizona 875

California 675                   Arizona State 856

Oregon State 336              Colorado 63

Arizona is projected to be No. 4 in the Pac-12 South, but that didn’t bother Coach Rod or Nate Phillips, who have always been seen as underdogs in the Pac-12. Scott believes the Pac-12 has the most competitive football conference in the nation.

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The winner of each division will play a championship game which will take pace in Levi® Stadium in Santa Clara, California on Friday, Dec. 2 at 6 p.m. PT and will be telecast to a national audience on FOX. More to come! Rich Rod told us he wants to get rid of ‘signing day.’