Canzano FS is saying the ball is in Oregon's court. UW wants out yesterday but the Ducks are waffling because they have nike money and see an easy path to the playoffs winning a zombie P12. If Oregon affirms their seat, Arizona, in his theory, would affirm theirs thus affirming the Sun Devils. Utah has desperately wanted the ZPac to work and the Bay Area schools don't even know there's a problem[/b]. He says UW won't go without Oregon. I hope he's wrong and if UW truly wants out of this mess and they want to be bad ass cutthroat TUFF they should be on the horn with Stanford about Oregons seat while looking Oregon straight in the eyes and saying they're staying. Then when everyone gets on board you jump off with the Silicon Valley nerds and high tail it east. Let the Ducks win the Mountain Pac on Apple+ in media darkness while UW gets reenergized in a conference thats serious about football and winning while dragging a ND bargaining chip along with them to the B1G. Fuck Oregon if this is even remotely true and fuck this conference.
I laffed. Also, not for saving the growing love fest here, but I highly doubt that Oregon and Washington are viewing this as a "just me" matter. They are PNW cfb and far and away the best two programs remaining, and better than one of those already gone. It's the best rivalry in the conference and has been for years. I don't see it. I see them as seeing themselves as something apart from OSU and WSU. And as you said, nobody has bothered to give Cal or Furd a courtesy wake-up call.
The odds of this not being Oregon/Washington! to the Big is seems small, though I agree with the other sentiment that they can't be getting a full share. At least not right away.
As for easy path to the playoffs, I don't think so. The economis of this is more than just playoffs. It's the whole TV deal which relies at least in part on the season and who you're playing and why that matters. Oregon / Washington would instantly be the second best rivalry in that super conference, behind only the Big Game, which only recently stopped being a snoozer. And as @haie said, the auto bid goes buh bye soon, and I think it's fair to assume Oregon, and Washington, know that.