Just one year after being picked apart, the two-member Pac-12 came roaring back to life Thursday with the announcement that it would add four FBS football schools in 2026: Boise State, SDSU, Fresno State, and Colorado State.

Going forward, the conference will look to sign a media deal and finalize a revenue distribution structure with its incoming members. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg if the Pac-12 wants to maintain FBS status, or perhaps regain power conference status.

To keep its bowl-division designation, the Pac-12 needs eight total football-playing members, per NCAA rules. The hunt is on for two more programs, which the conference said the incoming members will help choose.

In media releases, the Pac-12 and schools noted they’re looking at geography as a major factor—suggesting the future members likely won’t come from the East Coast. UNLV, for example, could be a good fit, but poaching more Mountain West schools would be expensive. The Pac-12 is already set to pay $43 million for poaching four schools, as mandated by its scheduling partnership with the Mountain West, and will have to shell out tens of millions more for each additional Mountain West school.

The Pac-12’s next two members probably won’t come from the ACC, either. Despite suggestions that Stanford and Cal scrap their plans of flying cross-country for minimal revenue distributions in the ACC, the two are highly unlikely to return to the Pac-12 at this point.