Pac-12 media day is Wednesday and only Wednesday. Alone among the Power Five, its showcase preseason gathering is but a single day.

Hotline coverage of the event, however, will last four days.

That coverage starts now, here, with a look at the likely topics and potential news from commissioner Larry Scott’s state-of-the-conference address Wednesday morning in Hollywood.

*** The future of the FCG

The Pac-12 football championship game is heading to Las Vegas in 2020, after one more year at Levi’s Stadium, and the Hotline expects Scott to make the move official Wednesday morning.

He likes to offer a prime cut of news at the midsummer media event. Relocating the title game to the Raiders’ new stadium just off The Strip would certainly qualify.

The Levi’s experience has run its course, and the parties agreed to separate last winter.

The conference could move the game to the Rams’ facility in Hollywood Park.

It could return to the home-host model.

It could rotate locations.

But it won’t.

It’s taking the championship to Vegas, just as it moved the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments there. And that should become official Wednesday morning.

*** Football officiating review

The conference retained Sibson Consulting last winter to undertake a thorough examination of the football officiating process following the Third Party scandal.

As the Hotline wrote in February:

The Sibson review will focus on every aspect of officiating, from recruitment and training to evaluating, grading and incentivizing. The replay process will also be examined fully. Current Pac-12 officials and supervisors will be interviewed, along with head coaches and athletic directors. Everything will be compared to processes in other conferences.

The original timeframe, according to Arizona State athletic director Ray Anderson, called for Sibson to conclude its work prior to training camp.

The Pac-12 is expected to make a summary of Sibson’s findings available to the media. That summary could come Wednesday, courtesy of the commissioner.

And if it does …

Will the conference also unveil a means of providing transparency to the officiating process?

The Hotline suggested last fall that the Pac-12 create its own version of the Twitter feed run by the NHL’s Department of Player Safety, which explains controversial calls and disciplinary decisions.

Last week, the SEC took the plunge: @SECOfficiating is billed as a “source for rules, videos, statistics and activities inside the SEC Video Center.”

Within minutes, fans were responding to the account with complaints about blown calls from years past. But the SEC has it right: Transparency is paramount, and some transparency is better than no transparency when it comes to football officiating.

The Pac-12 needs an infusion.

*** Future bowl partnerships

The 2019 season will be the last in the current postseason contract cycle.

We already know the Alamo Bowl will retain its place of prominence in the upcoming Pac-12 pecking order. Under an extension signed in 2016, it’s locked into the No. 2 position (behind the Rose Bowl) through 2025.

We know the Las Vegas Bowl will share the No. 3 spot with the Holiday Bowl. (The SEC and Big Ten will provide the opponent in the LVB in alternating years.)

And we know, thanks to reporting by Stadium’s Brett McMurphy, that the Los Angeles Bowl will enter the Pac-12 lineup starting in 2020 (with an opponent from the Mountain West).

But what of the other bowls? Where do the Sun and Redbox fit? Will the Cactus remain involved? And will any new partnerships be formed?

News on this front is possible Wednesday. But in our view, Scott is more likely — far more likely — to announce the FCG’s move to Las Vegas and provide a summary of the Sibson report than he is to unveil a completed bowl lineup for 2020 and beyond.

*** On the other hand …

We do not expect news from the Pac-12 on the following topics:

— The search for a strategic partner/equity sale.

The process is expected to play out through the summer and into the fall. The presidents/chancellors must approve a deal and typically address matters of supreme consequence at their semi-annual meetings.

They’re expected to convene in late October/early November and could reach a determination to sell ownership in the conference’s media rights (or not) at that point.

— Pac-12 Networks distribution.

The pursuit of Over-The-Top partners (i.e., YouTube, Hulu) is ongoing, but any developments in the short term are expected to come on the margins of carriage deals.

— Scott’s contract.

His current deal, agreed to in 2017, runs through the spring of 2022.

Colorado chancellor Phil DiStefano, head of the Pac-12 board of directors, told the Hotline that any discussion of Scott’s future will come after the conference explores options for a strategic partner/equity sale.

The Hotline believes resolution won’t come until the first half of 2020.

*** The preseason media poll

It’s meaningless, except for the not-insignificant matter of establishing expectations for teams and coaches.

Those expectations help drive (for better or worse) fan engagement, ticket sales, media attention and recruiting momentum.

They fuel the coaching carousel, leading to firings, hirings and extensions.

The Hotline expects Utah to be the media’s choice in the South and Oregon to be favored in the North, although Washington will undoubtedly receive significant support.

In the interest of transparency, here’s my preseason ballot.

NORTH

1. Oregon

2. Stanford

3. Washington

4. Washington State

5. Cal

6. Oregon State

SOUTH

1. Utah

2. USC

3. UCLA

4. Arizona State

5. Arizona

6. Colorado

Please note: The Hotline’s final/official projections for 2019 will be published in late August, after we take a deep dive into the schedules, depth charts and training camp developments.

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