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PULLMAN — The final blow to the PAC-12 conference hit Friday, Sept. 1, as two of the remaining four PAC-12 schools announced departures from the conference to head to the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).

Stanford and The University of California, Berkeley (Cal) have departed for the ACC, a conference which now will have 18 members, including 17 for football after Southern Methodist University (SMU) was also added to the conference along with the Cardinal and Golden Bears, staring in the 2024-25 season.

With the departure, Washington State University (WSU), and Oregon State University (OS...