According to the Austin Sports Journal, the Pac-12 Conference formally extended a membership invitation to Texas State to begin competition in Fall 2026.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Conference realignment has made it to San Marcos, Texas. Texas State will join the rebuilt Pac-12 Conference to be its eighth football-sponsoring member starting in 2026, leaving ...

Texas State is expected to accept an offer from the Pac-12 to join the conference as the ninth member starting in 2026-27.

Texas State is located in San Marcos, between San Antonio and Austin. The Austin Sports Journal was the first to report the invitation. Monday is a critical day — the last of the fiscal year.

Texas State is in San Marcos, a booming college town nestled between Austin and San Antonio. Its football program moved up to FBS in 2012, and the Bobcats are coming off their first two bowl ...

The Pac-12 has extended an invitation to Texas State to join the conference as an all-sports member beginning in the summer of 2026.

Located in San Marcos, Texas, Texas State made the move from FCS to FBS in 2012 and experienced little success until head coach G.J. Kinne’s arrival.

The Pac-12 Conference is clawing back from near extinction, adding Texas State as its eighth football-playing member. Six other schools will join in 2026.

Texas State's move seemed an inevitability, as the Pac-12 has reportedly courted the San Marcos-based university to join the reformed conference for a number of weeks.

The argument in favor of Texas State is that there is untapped potential. Located in San Marcos, not far from San Antonio, the school has more than 40,000 students and is the seventh-largest ...

First reported by the Austin Sports Journal and confirmed by multiple reputable college football reporters, the Pac-12 conference has officially extended an invitation to the Texas State Bobcats.

Three years after USC and UCLA triggered a mass exodus by bolting for the Big Ten, the Pac-12 has extended an invitation to Texas State to give the conference eight football-playing members.