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The PAC-10 will be officially renamed the PAC-12 at a press conference today, according to a report by Peter Schwartz for Forbes SportsMoney. Commissioner Larry Scott has told Forbes and will make it official at the news conference. The "Big" question is, when?

When will the name change take effect? Ironically, you'll have to ask the Big XII. That's because the Pac-10 isn't sure when the University of Colorado, one of the two schools that agreed to join the conference in recent months, will officially come aboard. Colorado planned to make the transition in 2012, but the Big XII, its current conference, wants the school to leave sooner. The University of Utah, the other incoming Pac-10 member, is still on track to join the conference next year. Scott says that the name change will be made official only after the two schools make the switch.

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