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Texas State has loomed for months as the favorite to join the revamped Pac-12 and was prominently discussed in the league's virtual meeting earlier this week. It has been the league's top target for months and is expected to have voting support, as the league's presidents are enamored with a foothold in the state.

Texas State is booming as a university with an enrollment of more than 40,000, and it boasts a lot of tenets of football potential, with a rich local talent base and a rising young coach, G.J. Kinne, at the helm.

  The University of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit Friday claiming that the Miami football team broke the law by tampering with a Badgers player, a first-of-its-kind legal attempt to enforce the terms of a financial contract between a football player and his school.

In the complaint filed Friday, Wisconsin claims that a Miami staff member and a prominent alumnus met with Lucas and his family at a relative's home in Florida and offered him money to transfer shortly after Lucas signed a two-year contract with the Badgers in December.

The lawsuit refers to the athlete in question as "Student Athlete A," but details from the complaint line up with the offseason transfer of freshman defensive back Xavier Lucas. Lucas left Wisconsin and enrolled at Miami in January

The lawsuit states that Miami committed tortious interference by knowingly compelling a player to break the terms of his deal with Wisconsin. 

"While we reluctantly bring this case, we stand by our position that respecting and enforcing contractual obligations is essential to maintaining a level playing field," the school said in a statement provided to ESPN on Friday.

According to the complaint, Wisconsin decided to file suit in hopes that "during this watershed time for college athletics, this case will advance the overall integrity of the game by holding programs legally accountable when they wrongfully interfere with contractual commitments."

The pending case promises to be an interesting test of whether schools can use name, image and likeness deals to keep athletes from transferring even though the players aren't technically employees.

   The Big 12 and ACC have pushed a playoff model, which would award automatic bids to the five highest-rated conference champions, plus 11 at-large bids determined by the CFP selection committee.

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Interesting, clearly they feel behind SEC and BIG 10. 

   Starting QB Jake Retzlaff announced on Friday that he's withdrawing from BYU, formally initiating his transfer process from the school.

Retzlaff's departure comes in the wake of BYU's planned seven-game suspension of him for violating the school's honor code.

That suspension arose after he was accused in a lawsuit of raping a woman in 2023.