PAC switching to division play in 2025-26
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By The Observer-Reporter
With the addition of a 12th football program in 2025-26, the Presidents’ Athletic Conference has announced that it will begin football divisional play and hold a PAC Championship Game to conclude the regular season starting in the fall of 2025.
Last month, the PAC announced Hiram would return to the PAC and begin full athletic competition in the 2025-26 school year, giving the conference 12 football-playing members. This will allow the league to form six-team North and South Divisions with crossover games beginning in 2025.
In addition, a PAC Football Championship Game will begin in 2025 with the North and South Division winners facing off in Week 11 every season. The winner of the PAC Football Championship Game will receive the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Playoffs.
The division format for football is as follows:
North Division: Allegheny, Hiram, Geneva, Grove City, Thiel, Westminster.
South Division: Bethany, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western Reservfe, Saint Vincent, Washington & Jefferson, Waynesburg.
The PAC also announced that division play will be used in women’s volleyball and basketball, also starting in the 2025-26 school year. The division breakdown for those sports will be as follows:
North Division: Allegheny, Geneva, Grove City, Hiram, Thiel, Westminster.
South Division: Bethany, Chatham, Franciscan, Saint Vincent, Washington & Jefferson, Waynesburg.
Each sport will have a two-division, 16-game conference schedule that has teams playing two matches/games (home-and-home) with the other five teams in their division (10 total contests) and one against each of the six teams (three home/three away) in the other division (six contests). All matches/games will count in the league standings.
There will continue to be PAC tournaments following the regular season in all three sports to determine the conference champion and recipient of the PAC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The new conference playoff format will be finalized during the 2024-25 academic year.