Colorado to join Pac-10 Conference

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Colorado to join Pac-10 Conference

WALNUT CREEK, Calif., (UPI) -- University of Colorado officials said Thursday the school would join the Pac-10 Conference, leaving the Big 12.

Colorado is the second school said to be leaving the Big 12. Nebraska was reported Wednesday to be leaving for the Big Ten

and a formal announcement could be made Friday. The changes would take effect in the 2012-13 academic year.

Those may not be the last teams to bolt the Big 12, either, as the Pac-10 is said to be interested in taking five members of the conference's southern division.

"This is a historic moment for the conference, as the Pac-10 is poised for tremendous growth," said Pac-10 Commissioner Larry Scott in a release Thursday. "The University of Colorado is a great fit for the conference both academically and athletically and we are incredibly excited to welcome Colorado to the Pac-10."

Colorado had been part of the Big 12 since its inception in 1996. The Big 12 grew out of the Big Six, which Colorado joined in 1947 to make the Big Seven. The conference became the Big Eight in 1958 and kept that alignment until four members of the former Southwest Conference joined to make the Big 12.
 
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