We spoke with a dozen people involved in the discussions and no one sees an easy move, making it hard to predict realignment resolution.

The blueprint for the Pac-12's plan to add the top football programs from the Mountain West had been collecting dust in a filing cabinet.

Welcome to Until Saturday, the five-star college football newsletter: How the Pac-12 expansion came together and what’s next.

Cancel that bulk order of beet juice. San Diego State’s basketball team religiously drinks the nitrate-rich concoction in the days before games in high altitude, believing it enhances oxygen delivery to muscles that becomes more difficult for sea-level athletes venturing into the Rockies.