It is very debatable that Arizona could have ever went to the Big 12 without Arizona State. Michael Crow who is the President of Arizona State rebelled against leaving the PAC in a Board of Regents meeting on Thursday night. Crow rebelling effectively ended that Board of Regents meeting with no resolution made about leaving the PAC. That Board of Regents governs both Arizona & Arizona State. Utah would have never made the jump to be #14 in the Big 12. Crow was demanding a Friday morning PAC meeting to sign a new GOR along with his Big 12 refusals at the Regents meeting. Crow had previously acted as if he was ready to head off to the Big 12. So it all was a sneaky act by Crow that literally derailed the Big 12 move and replaced it with a GOR signing event the next Friday morning. That PAC zoom meeting began Friday morning with the GOR being presented. Oregon immediately interrupted and declared they were signing no GOR. Washington immediately echoed what Oregon had said. They declared they had B1G offers. That ended the GOR signing event right there and the rest is history.