Colorado State University will leave the Mountain West Conference after 2025, electing to join the reformed PAC-12 instead.

Colorado State University helped form the Mountain West Conference that it's now leaving through secret meetings in 1998 with a handful of others.

The Pac-12 and the departing schools will likely be on the hook for about $110 million in exit fees and penalties to the Mountain West.

Here's a look at what happened to the Pac-12 and why it is now down to just two members in Oregon State and Washington State for the time being.

The Mountain West Conference took a big blow as they will lose four of their key members to the Pac-12, but it might not end there.

After negotiations with the Mountain West broke down, the Pac-12 found an opportunity to live to fight another day.

With the revival of the Pac-12 looking more and more likely, questions now turn to the MWC. Will the conference — currently considered one of the best in the Group of Five — survive with just eight members?

The Pac-12 is still two schools short of what it needs to be a recognized conference by the NCAA in two years.

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer After being poached almost into oblivion, the Pac-12 is fighting off extinction by plucking schools from the Mountain West. The Pac-12 announced Thursday that it in 2026 it will add Boise State,