The Pac-12 is officially down to just two remaining schools. The Oregon State Beavers and your WSU Cougars. 

Stanford University and California Berkeley are both now officially headed to the ACC, along with the Southern Methodist University Mustangs from the American Athletic Conference, per Pete Thamel, college football senior writer for ESPN.

The vote among ACC schools to allow the expansion took place weeks ago, requiring a 12-3 majority. This morning, NC State flipped their vote creating the majority and allowing the three new programs in, creating a new 18-team conference in 2024.

This ultimately appears to mean certain destruction of the Pac-12 as a rebuild would have to be made up almost entirely of previously non-Power Five schools. 

In more news according to Thamel on X, the AAC Conference, which just lost SMU, is no longer engaging in expansion talks with WSU and OSU. It appears now that the only potential new homes for the Cougs and Beavers would be the Mountain West or by some miracle the Big 12.

It also creates a big question mark as to what the College Football Playoff might look like after this season, with there seemingly now being only a Power Four of FBS football conferences. 

Aside from just football, it is certainly a major shakeup for athletes in all programs at Stanford and Cal as they now will have to travel cross-country to compete in conference affairs.

As for WSU, moving on from the Pac-12 will almost certainly have major financial implications. The exact numbers are not certain and would depend upon a hard move to the MWC or some form of merger.

Among all of the uncertainty, one thing is obvious: college sports are a mess right now, and no two schools in the country have a more harsh reality check in store than WSU and OSU.