The Pacific-12 Conference announced its official breakdown for football Thursday. For the full story with OSU reaction, read my Friday story.  Here’s the basics of the new conference that begins July 1, 2011.

Pac-12 North: Oregon State, Oregon, Washington, Washington State, California, Stanford.

Pac-12 South: USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, Colorado.

There will be nine conference games, five vs. division opponents. The other four will rotate. The only thing is the NorCal and SoCal schools play every year. That means the Northwest schools play an L.A. school once every other year.

OSU AD Bob De Carolis was not in favor of this, and voted against it early. However, his many goal was equal revenue sharing. And he got it.

“With the zipper plan on the table we changed the revenue sharing to be equal,” De Carolis said. “That mitigated the other things.”

Revenue sharing will be equal in the 2012-13 year when the TV deal reworked. That way USC and UCLA gets extra money until then.

As for the recruiting issue of not being in L.A. annually, De Carolis said it’s not as big of deal as it was in the 1970s and 80s. Video technology allows coaches to see players and athletes can still play in their home area every other year.

The championship game will be at site of No. 1 seed. If tied, there will be a tie breaker – head-to-head and possibly the BCS standings down the road.

“I thing it’s great,” De Carolis said. “You want a festive atmosphere. You want to sell out the stadium. It’s just a nightmare for the schools. We have to figure out. You have to reseat the stadium. It will be like a now game with sponsors taking up the best seats.”

Basketball has 18-game schedule. The rivals play a home-and-away schedule annually. There will be six rotating home-and-way games with four rotating single-games with the other four teams.

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