The Pac-12 on Monday announced its policies for game cancellations and updated tiebreakers for its season, which begins on Nov. 7 and features a seven-game, conference-only schedule and conference championship game.
Teams will need at least 53 available scholarship players in order to play a game, including seven offensive linemen, one quarterback, and four defensive linemen. With a truncated schedule that is comprised of the fewest games of any of the Power 5 conferences, the Pac-12 tiebreakers factor in the number of games each team will play -- assuming there will be some pandemic-related disruptions and some teams will have unbalanced conference schedules.