@LousyLefty posted:Curious as to why? I don’t really follow this much. I still call it the PAC-10 half the time.
Yay, this is really inside baseball (figuratively) stuff. First, PAC12 puts a high emphasis on being research schools. BYU is not a R1 research institution which all PAC12 schools are. Second, BYU does not fit in culturally. At the start of this school year, BYU had a LDS apostle give a talk on campus stating that the BYU professors and faculty needed to “ pick up their muskets” and defend the church from the LGBT+ community. He said that if that BYU lost credentials from that, so be it. Many still remember Stanford (and maybe other PAC10 schools) refusing to play BYU due to their church stance on blacks up to 1978.
Which leads to any conference allowing BYU in. They will not play on Sunday. And that hurts scheduling and revenues. This is why Texas was against them joining the BIG12 several years ago.