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The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate
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in the
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. It participates at the
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(NCAA) Division I level for all sports, and its
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teams compete in the
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(FBS), the highest level of NCAA football competition. The conference currently comprises two members,
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and
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. The modern Pac-12 Conference formed after the disbanding of the
Pacific Coast Conference The Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) was a collegiate athletic conference in the United States which existed from 1915 to 1959. Though the Pac-12 Conference claims the PCC's history as part of its own, with eight of the ten PCC members (includin ...
(PCC), the principal members of which founded the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) in 1959. The conference previously went by the names Big Five, Big Six, Pacific-8, and Pacific-10. The Pac-12 moniker was adopted in 2011 with the addition of
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and
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. Nicknamed the "Conference of Champions", the Pac-12 has won more NCAA national championships in team sports than any other conference in history.
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's national title in women's rowing in 2017 was the 500th NCAA championship won by a Pac-12 school. The Pac-12 holds a 200-plus championship lead over the second-place conference. On August 2, 2024, 10 of 12 members departed from the conference. The Pac-12 is operating as a two-team conference through the 2025–26 academic year, sponsoring five sports—football, men's and women's track and field, women's gymnastics and men's wrestling. In 2026, the Pac-12 will expand to eight members with the addition of five schools from the
Mountain West Conference The Mountain West Conference (MW) is a collegiate athletic conference in the Western United States, participating in NCAA Division I. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The MW officially began operations on Ja ...
and one from the
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.


Member universities


Full members

The Pac-12 currently has two full-member institutions. The conference was previously split into two divisions, the North Division and the South Division, for football only.


Membership map


Future members

On September 12, 2024, the conference announced it would be adding four new members, Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State and San Diego State, on July 1, 2026. However, the conference needed to add at least two more members to be recognized by the
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as an FBS conference. On September 23, 2024, Utah State accepted an offer to join the league as its seventh member. This gave the Pac-12 the seven members needed to preserve its official "multisport" status, though one more football-sponsoring full member will be needed to preserve FBS status. On September 30, 2024, the conference announced that Gonzaga, a non-football college, would be joining as a full member.


Affiliate members

The Pac-12 has two affiliate member institutions in California and one in Arkansas. All three participate in the Pac-12 for wrestling. ;Notes:


Former full members

No school had left the Pac-12 from its founding as the AAWU in 1959 until 2024, when 10 of its 12 schools left. Two members of the PCC, Idaho and Montana, were not invited to join the AAWU or its successors.


Former affiliate members

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Membership timeline

The Pac-12 claims the PCC's history as its own. Not only did it maintain the automatic bid from the Rose Bowl inherited from the PCC, but the eight largest schools in the old PCC all eventually joined the new league. However, the old PCC operated under a separate charter. The Pac-12 is one of the founding members of the
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) is a college athletic conference with members located mostly in the Western United States, although it has added members as far east as Massachusetts. The conference participates at the NCAA Divisio ...
(MPSF), a conference organized to provide competition in non-revenue Olympic sports. All-Pac-12 members participate in at least one MPSF sport (men's and women's indoor track and field both actually have enough participating Pac-12 schools for the conference to sponsor a championship, but the Pac-12 has opted not to do so). For certain sports, the Pac-12 admits certain schools as associate members. DateFormat = mm/dd/yyyy ImageSize = width:1100 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:12/02/1915 till:06/30/2045 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:5 left:5 bottom:50 top:5 #> to display a count on left side of graph, use "left:20" to suppress the count, use "left:20"<# Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:line value:black id:bg value:white id:Full value:rgb(0.742,0.727,0.852) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports id:FullxF value:rgb(0.551,0.824,0.777) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports except for football id:AssocF value:rgb(0.98,0.5,0.445) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member for football only id:AssocOS value:rgb(0.5,0.691,0.824) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in some sports, but not all (consider identifying in legend or a footnote) id:OtherC1 value:rgb(0.996,0.996,0.699) # Use this color to denote a team that has moved to another conference id:OtherC2 value:rgb(0.988,0.703,0.383) # Use this color to denote a team that has moved to another conference where OtherC1 has already been used, to distinguish the two id:Bar1 value:rgb(0.8,0.8,0.7) id:Bar2 value:rgb(0.9,0.9,0.6) id:Ind value:rgb(0.83,0.83,0.83) PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:s bar:1 color:Full from:12/02/1915 till:end text:
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Big West The Big West Conference (BWC) is an American collegiate athletic conference whose member institutions participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The conference was originally formed on July 1, 1969, as the Pacific ...
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Fresno State California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) is a public university in Fresno, California, United States. It is part of the California State University system. The university had a fall 2020 enrollment of 25,341 students. It offers 60 ba ...
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SCIAC The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference that operates in NCAA Division III. The conference was founded in 1915 and it consists of twelve small private schools that are locat ...
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PCAA PCAA, or 5- 'N''-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)aminoentanoic acid, is a metabolite of phencyclidine (PCP). It can be detected in the urine of PCP users by mass spectrometry Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique that is used to measure the ma ...
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San Diego State San Diego State University (SDSU) is a public research university in San Diego, California, United States. Founded in 1897, it is the third-oldest university and southernmost in the 23-member California State University (CSU) system. SDSU is ...
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History


Pacific Coast Conference

The roots of the Pac-12 Conference go back to December 2, 1915, when the
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(PCC) was founded at the Imperial Hotel in
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, during the annual meeting of the
Northwest Conference The Northwest Conference (NWC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member teams are located in the states of Oregon and Washington. It was known as the Pacific Northwest Conference from 1926 t ...
schools.Four Colleges Form Coast Conference at Very Secret Session
. ''Oregon Daily Journal'' (Portland, Oregon). December 3, 1915.
Charter members were the University of California (now University of California, Berkeley), University of Washington, University of Oregon, and Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University). An official of Stanford University also attended the meeting but declined to join right away because, unlike the other schools, it was not going to sponsor a football team in the coming year and it was not willing to prohibit freshmen from competing in sports. The PCC began play in 1916. One year later, Washington State College (now Washington State University) joined the league, followed by Stanford University in 1918. In 1922, the PCC expanded to eight teams with the admission of
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and
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.
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joined the Conference in 1924, and in 1928, the PCC grew to 10 members with the addition of
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. For many years, the conference split into two divisions for basketball and baseball—a Southern Division comprising the four California schools and a Northern Division comprising the six schools in the
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. In
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, Montana departed to join the
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. The PCC continued as a nine-team league through June 1959.


AAWU (Big Five and Big Six)

Following "pay-for-play"
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at California, USC, UCLA, and Washington, the PCC disbanded in June 1959. Ten months earlier in August 1958, these four schools agreed to form a new conference that would take effect the following summer. When the four schools and Stanford began discussions for a new conference in 1959, retired admiral Thomas J. Hamilton interceded and suggested the schools consider creating a national "power conference" (Hamilton had been a key player, head coach, and athletic director at
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, and was the current athletic director at
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). Nicknamed the " Airplane Conference", the five former PCC schools would have played with other major academically oriented schools, including
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,
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,
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, Notre Dame, Pitt,
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, and
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. The effort fell through when a
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official vetoed the idea and the service academies backed out. On July 1, 1959, the new Athletic Association of Western Universities was launched, with California, UCLA, USC, and Washington as the four charter members. Stanford joined during the first month. Hamilton left Pittsburgh to become the first commissioner of the AAWU, and remained for twelve years. The conference also was popularly known as the Big Five from 1960 to 1962.NCAA Men's Basketball Records – Division I conference alignment history (PDF copy available at NCAA.org) When
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joined in 1962, the conference became informally known as the Big Six. The new league inherited the PCC's berth in the Rose Bowl; since 1947, the PCC champion had received an automatic bid to the bowl.
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was never invited to join the AAWU; the Vandals were independent for four years until the formation of the
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in 1963, and were independent in football until
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.


Pacific-8

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and
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joined in the summer of 1964. With their addition, the conference was known unofficially as the Pacific Athletic and then the Pacific-8. In 1968, the AAWU formally renamed itself the Pacific-8 Conference, or Pac-8 for short. The Pac-8 did not allow a second
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team from the conference until the 1975 season; in basketball, participation in the
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(NIT) was not allowed until
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.


Pacific-10

In
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, the conference added
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and
Arizona State Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in Tempe, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 as Territorial Normal School by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, the university is one of the largest ...
from the
Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the Western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, Texas, Utah and Washington (state), Washington. Due to ...
, becoming the Pacific-10 Conference or Pac-10. The invitations to the schools were extended in December 1976, and the expansion formally announced in May 1977. In the mid-1980s, three of the northwest schools (Oregon, Oregon State, Washington State) were having financial difficulties in athletics, primarily with revenue from football, and their long-term membership in the conference was in question. The Pac-10 began sponsoring women's athletics in the fall of 1986. Women's teams previously competed with other large universities on the
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in either the
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or the
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. In the mid-1990s, the conference expressed interest in admitting the University of Colorado and the
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after the collapse of the
Southwest Conference The Southwest Conference (SWC) was an NCAA Division I college athletic conference in the United States that existed from 1914 to 1996. Composed primarily of schools from Texas, at various times the conference also included schools from Oklaho ...
. Texas expressed an interest in joining a strong academic conference, but joined three fellow Southwest Conference schools (
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,
Texas Tech Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the flagship institution of the five- ...
, and Baylor) to merge with the
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to form the
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in
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
. Colorado elected to remain in the newly formed Big 12. Before the addition of Colorado and Utah in 2011, only the
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had maintained its membership for a longer time than the Pac-10 among Division I conferences. Commissioner Larry Scott said on February 9, 2010, that the window for expansion was open for the next year as the conference began negotiations for a new television deal. Speaking on a conference call to introduce former Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg as his new deputy, Scott talked about possibly adding new teams to the conference and launching a new television network. Scott, the former head of the Women's Tennis Association, took over the conference in July 2009. In his first eight months on the job, he saw growing interest from the membership over the possibility of adding teams for the first time since Arizona and Arizona State joined the conference in 1978.


Pac-12

In early June 2010, there were reports that the Pac-10 was considering adding up to six teams to the conference: the University of Texas,
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,
Texas Tech University Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public university, public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the flagship instit ...
, the
University of Oklahoma The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a Public university, public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, United States. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two territories became the ...
,
Oklahoma State University Oklahoma State University (informally Oklahoma State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States. The university was established in 1890 under the legislation of the Morrill Act. Originally known ...
, and the University of Colorado. On June 10, 2010, the University of Colorado Boulder accepted an invitation to join the Pac-10 Conference, effective starting with the 2012–2013 academic year. The school later announced it would join the conference a year earlier than previously announced, in the 2011–2012 academic year. On June 15, 2010, a deal was reached between
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and the
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to keep Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State in the Big 12. Following Texas' decision, the other Big 12 schools that had been rumored candidates to join the Pac-10 announced they would remain in the Big 12. This deal effectively ended the Pac-10's ambition to potentially become a sixteen-team conference. On June 17, 2010, the
University of Utah The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public university, public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret (Book of Mormon), Deseret by the General A ...
accepted an invitation to join the Pac-10 Conference, effective starting July 2011. Utah was a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) with Arizona and Arizona State before those two left for the Pac-10 in 1978. The Utes left an expanded WAC with seven other schools in 1999 to form the new
Mountain West Conference The Mountain West Conference (MW) is a collegiate athletic conference in the Western United States, participating in NCAA Division I. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The MW officially began operations on Ja ...
. Utah became the first " BCS Buster" to join a BCS conference, having played in (and won) two BCS games beforehand. On July 27, 2010, the conference unveiled a new logo and announced that the Pac-10 would be renamed the Pac-12 when Utah and Colorado formally joined in July 2011. On October 21, the Pac-12 announced that its football competition would be split into two divisions—a North Division comprising the Pacific Northwest and Bay Area schools, and a South Division comprising the
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and Southern California schools. On July 1, 2011, the Pac-12 assumed its 12-team alignment when both Colorado and Utah officially joined as full members. On August 15, 2012, the conference debuted the
Pac-12 Network The Pac-12 Network (P12N), sometimes referred to as Pac-12 Networks, was an American sports-oriented digital cable and satellite television network owned by the Pac-12 Conference. The network's studio and production facilities were headquartere ...
. It was the third college sports conference to launch a dedicated network, and the first to completely fund and own their own network outright. The conference had been based in Walnut Creek since the late 1970s until August 2014. Since 2014, the conference was headquartered in
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, with the conference moving to working remotely once the lease expires in June 2023. The Pac-12 Network and meeting space for headquarters employees are now located at Bishop Ranch in San Ramon, an
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suburb.


NCAA conference realignment (2021–present)

On August 24, 2021, the Pac-12, ACC, and
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announced the formation of a "historic alliance" that would bring their member institutions "together on a collaborative approach surrounding the future evolution of college athletics and scheduling." The formation of this alliance between three of the
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was in response to
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and
Texas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...
announcing plans to leave the
Big 12 The Big 12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States. It consists of 16 full-member universities (3 private universities and 13 public universities) in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Okla ...
and join the SEC. The alliance included an inter-conference scheduling component for football and men's and women's basketball. In 2021, the Pac-12 paid $19.8 million to each of its member schools, the lowest distribution in the Power Five. Despite the alliance, on June 30, 2022,
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and
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announced their departure for the
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beginning in the 2024–25 academic year. As a result of losing two of the conference's tentpole programs (and the entirety of the
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television market), the conference's ongoing media rights negotiations became much more complicated. ESPN reportedly had made an offer in which the ten remaining schools would receive around $30 million per year. This was rejected by member schools, who countered with a demand for $50 million per school per year. ESPN responded by walking away from the negotiating table. Reports began circulating that Commissioner Kliavkoff had been to the
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and SMU campuses for tours. This was allegedly part of the conference's vetting process for expansion. San Diego State sent the
Mountain West Conference The Mountain West Conference (MW) is a collegiate athletic conference in the Western United States, participating in NCAA Division I. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The MW officially began operations on Ja ...
a letter notifying it of the school's impending departure. The Pac-12, however, was adamant about securing a media rights deal before expanding. Without an incoming offer before a June 30, 2023, deadline, San Diego State had to rescind its notice of intention to leave the Mountain West. At the start of Pac-12 Media Days on July 21, 2023, Commissioner Kliavkoff was asked about the status of the media rights deal and conference expansion, deflecting most questions on the matter. Having heard enough, Colorado president Rick George left Media Days early to return to Boulder. Less than a week later on July 27, 2023, Colorado announced it would return to the Big 12 as of the 2024–25 school year. The nine remaining Pac-12 members then demanded an update on the negotiations, including numbers on expected payouts. Kliavkoff came back with a deal from the
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streaming service that paid member institutions in the low-to-mid-$20 million range, albeit with escalators for meeting subscriber quotas. On August 4, 2023, Oregon and Washington announced they would be following UCLA and USC to the Big Ten conference for the 2024 season. Later on that same day, Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah announced that they would follow Colorado to the Big 12 Conference starting in 2024. On September 1, 2023, California and Stanford announced their departure for the Atlantic Coast Conference starting in 2024. In September 2023,
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reported that the Pac-12 is "expected to operate as a two-member conference at least for 024–25 and would be recognized under a two-year
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, until 2026, to meet conference requirements in the
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bylaws. On December 5, 2023, Oregon State and Washington State announced that had entered into a football alliance with the
Mountain West Conference The Mountain West Conference (MW) is a collegiate athletic conference in the Western United States, participating in NCAA Division I. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The MW officially began operations on Ja ...
(MW) for the 2024 season. With the alliance, both programs will play three home games and three away games against MW opponents. The
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(WCC) has invited both schools to join as affiliate members for basketball and most other non-football sports. Both partnerships are expected to last from the fall of 2024 to the spring of 2026. Washington State will also participate in the Mountain West for baseball, but Oregon State, a three-time
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champion, will become a baseball independent. After the ten schools departed, the conference continued using the Pac-12 name and branding for at least the 2024–25 academic year. Oregon State and Washington State were nicknamed the "Pac-2" by media outlets, to the point that a game between the two teams during the 2023 football season was jokingly dubbed the "Pac-2 Championship Game" by fans.


Oregon State and Washington State lawsuit

On September 8, 2023, Oregon State and Washington State filed a lawsuit against the Pac-12 and Commissioner George Kliavkoff in Washington State Superior Court for control of the conference and its assets. They contended that the departing schools, under the conference constitution, forfeited their right to participate in governing the conference by publicly declaring their intention to leave, and that if they retain control they might use it to dissolve the league and drain its millions of dollars in assets. On November 14, 2023, Judge Gary Libey of the
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, Superior Court ruled in favor of the two schools. The
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(UW) filed an emergency motion to keep the two schools from gaining full control of the conference for the 2023–24 academic year; a Washington Supreme Court commissioner granted UW's motion on November 28, 2023. However, this was overturned on December 15, 2023, by the Washington State Supreme Court, giving Oregon State and Washington State sole control of the Pac-12, meaning the departing schools will no longer be able to vote on conference decisions.


Athletic department revenue by school

Total revenue includes ticket sales, contributions and donations, rights and licensing, student fees, school funds and all other sources including TV income, camp income, concessions, and novelties. Total expenses includes coach and staff salaries, scholarships, buildings and grounds, maintenance, utilities and rental fees, recruiting, team travel, equipment and uniforms, conference dues, and insurance. The following table shows institutional reporting to the
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as shown on the DOE Equity in Athletics website for the 2021–22 academic year. The following table shows revenue specifically from NCAA / Conference Distributions, Media Rights, and Post-Season Football reported by the
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for the 2021–22 academic year.


Apparel


Commissioners

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PCC

Commissioners of the forerunner PCC * Herb Dana (193x–40) * Edwin N. Atherton (1940–44) * Victor O. Schmidt (1944–59)


Facilities

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, 36,387 ,
ExtraMile Arena ExtraMile Arena (formerly BSU Pavilion and Taco Bell Arena) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the western United States, on the campus of Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. It is located on the east end of campus, between West Campus L ...
, 12,480 , colspan=2 align=center, ''Non-baseball school'' , -bgcolor=lightgray , style="", , Canvas Stadium , 41,000 , Moby Arena , 8,745 , colspan=2 align=center, ''Non-baseball school'' , -bgcolor=lightgray , style="", ,
Valley Children's Stadium Valley Children's Stadium, also known as Jim Sweeney Field at Bulldog Stadium, is an outdoor college football stadium in the Western United States, located on the campus of California State University, Fresno, in Fresno, California. It is the ho ...
, 40,727 ,
Save Mart Center Save Mart Center at Fresno State is a multi-purpose arena, on the campus of California State University, Fresno (Fresno State), located in Fresno, California. An open house was held for the community on November 5, 2003, with the official ribbon ...
, 15,544 , Pete Beiden Field , 5,757 , - , -bgcolor=lightgray , style="", , colspan=2 align=center, ''Non-football school'' ,
McCarthey Athletic Center McCarthey Athletic Center (MAC) is a 6,000-seat indoor arena in the Northwestern United States, located on the campus of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Opened in November 2004, it is home to the university's Bulldog basketball programs ...
, 6,000 , Patterson Baseball Complex , 1,300 , - , style=" ", Oregon State ,
Reser Stadium Reser Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. The home of the Oregon State Beavers of the Pac-12 Conference, it opened in 1953 as Parker Stadium and was renamed in 1999. ...
, 35,548 ,
Gill Coliseum Gill Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Corvallis, Oregon, located on the campus of Oregon State University. Opened in December 1949,Heartwell, James C. ''The History of Oregon State College Basketball, 1901/02–1952/53.'' Corvallis, OR: ...
, 9,604 ,
Goss Stadium at Coleman Field Goss Stadium at Coleman Field is a college baseball park in the northwest United States, on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. It is home to the Oregon State Beavers of the Pac-12 Conference. History The field wa ...
, 3,587 , -bgcolor=lightgray , style="", ,
Snapdragon Stadium Snapdragon Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in San Diego, California, located on the campus of San Diego State University (SDSU). It is the home of the San Diego State Aztecs football team of the Mountain West Conference (MW), San Diego FC o ...
, 35,000 ,
Viejas Arena Viejas Arena is an indoor arena in San Diego, California, located on the campus of San Diego State University (SDSU). Opened in 1997 on the site of the historic Aztec Bowl, it is the home of the San Diego State Aztecs men's and women's basketba ...
, 12,414 ,
Tony Gwynn Stadium Tony Gwynn Stadium is a ballpark in San Diego, California, located on the campus of San Diego State University (SDSU). Opened in 1997, it is the home of the San Diego State Aztecs baseball team. The Aztecs compete in NCAA Division I as a member ...
, 3,000 , -bgcolor=lightgray , style="", ,
Maverik Stadium Maverik Stadium, also known as Merlin Olsen Field at Maverik Stadium, is an outdoor college football stadium in Logan, Utah, located on the campus of Utah State University. It is the home of the Utah State Aggies of the Mountain West Conference ...
, 25,513 , Dee Glen Smith Spectrum , 10,270 , colspan=2 align=center, ''Non-baseball school'' , - , style=" ", Washington State ,
Martin Stadium Martin Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium in the Northwestern United States, on the campus of Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. It is the home field of the Washington State Cougars of the Pac-12 Conference. Its full n ...
, 32,952 ,
Beasley Coliseum Beasley Coliseum is a general-purpose indoor arena in the northwest United States, located on the campus of Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. The home venue for the Cougars men's and women's basketball teams of the Pac-12 Confe ...
, 11,671 , Bailey-Brayton Field , 3,500


Key personnel

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Oregon State Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate degree programs and a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees through all 11 of the universit ...
, , Scott Barnes , , Trent Bray, , $2,000,000, ,
Wayne Tinkle Wayne Francis Tinkle II (born January 26, 1966) is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach of the Oregon State Beavers men's basketball, Oregon State Beavers men's team of the West Coast Conference. Prior to his arrival in Corv ...
, , $2,674,012 , ,
Scott Rueck Scott Michael Rueck (born July 18, 1969) is the head coach of the Oregon State University women's basketball team. Early life Rueck grew up in Hillsboro, Oregon, where he graduated from Glencoe High School. His father had been the first boys' ...
, ,
Mitch Canham Mitchell Dean Canham (born September 25, 1984) is an American baseball coach and former catcher, who is the current head baseball coach of the Oregon State Beavers. He previously served as manager for the Clinton LumberKings, Modesto Nuts, and A ...
, , Laura Berg, , Mark Barnard , - , Washington State Cougars, Washington State , , Anne McCoy, , Jimmy Rogers (American football coach), Jimmy Rogers , , TBA , , David Riley (basketball), David Riley, , TBA, , Kamie Ethridge , , Nathan Choate, , ''No team'', , Korey Schroeder Salaries based on 2022–23 academic year


Championships


National championships

Team titles through the June 10, 2024; individual titles through July 1, 2016 {, class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" , - !rowspan=2, School !colspan=4, Team !colspan=4, Individual , - !width=45, Men !width=45, Women !width=45, Co-ed !width=45, Total !width=45, Men !width=45, Women !width=45, Co-ed !width=45, Total , - !style="" , Oregon State , 4 , 0 , 0 , Oregon State Beavers#Championships, 4 , 32 , 7 , 0 , 39 , - !style="" , Washington State , 2 , 0 , 0 , Washington State Cougars#Championships, 2 , 79 , 6 , 1 , 86 , - !Conference total !6 !0 !0 !6 !111 !13 !1 !125 These totals do not include College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS, football national championships, which the NCAA does not officially award at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, FBS level. Various polls, formulas, and other third-party systems have been used to determine national championships, not all of which are universally accepted. These totals also do not include championships prior to the inception of the NCAA.


Conference champions

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Current champions

''Source'': {, class="wikitable" style = "text-align: center" , - ! Season !! Sport !! Men's
champion !! Women's
champion , - , rowspan="4" , Fall 2023 , Cross Country , , Stanford Cardinal, Stanford , , Washington Huskies, Washington , - , Volleyball , , – , , Stanford Cardinal women's volleyball, Stanford , - , Soccer , , UCLA Bruins men's soccer, UCLA , , UCLA Bruins women's soccer, UCLA , - , Football , , Washington Huskies football, Washington , , – , - , rowspan="4" , Winter 2023–24 , Swimming & Diving , , Arizona State Sun Devils, Arizona State , , California Golden Bears, California , - , Basketball , , 2023–24 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team, Oregon , , 2023–24 USC Trojans women's basketball team, USC , - , Wrestling , , Arizona State , , – , - , Gymnastics , , –, , Utah Red Rocks, Utah , - , rowspan="8" , Spring 2024 , Golf, , Arizona State , , Stanford , - , Tennis , , Arizona Wildcats, Arizona , , Stanford , - , Beach Volleyball , , – , ,
USC USC may refer to: Education United States * Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, Santurce, Puerto Rico * University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina ** University of South Carolina System, a state university system of South Carolina * ...
, - , Lacrosse , , – , , Stanford , - , Track & Field , , Washington , , Oregon Ducks track and field, Oregon , - , Rowing , , Washington , , Stanford , - , Softball , , – , , UCLA Bruins softball, UCLA , - , Baseball , , 2024 Arizona Wildcats baseball team, Arizona , , –


NACDA Learfield Sports Directors' Cup rankings

The NACDA Directors' Cup, NACDA Learfield Sports Directors' Cup is an annual award given by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the U.S. colleges and universities with the most success in collegiate athletics. {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;" ! scope="col" , Institution !2023–
24 !2022–
23 ! scope="col" , 2021–
22 ! scope="col" , 2020–
21 ! scope="col" , 2019–
20 ! scope="col" , 2018–
19 ! scope="col" , 2017–
18 ! scope="col" , 2016–
17 ! scope="col" , 2015–
16 ! scope="col" , 2014–
15 ! scope="col" , 2013–
14 ! scope="col" , 10-yr
Average , - !style="" , Oregon State Beavers , 58 , 58 , 51 , 55 , N/A , 65 , 60 , 69 , 81 , 65 , 75 , 64 , - !style="" , Washington State Cougars , 92 , 166 , 90 , 90 , N/A , 88 , 80 , 101 , 100 , 170 , 149 , 114


Capital One Cup rankings

The Capital One Cup is an annual award given by ESPN. Universities compete against each other by acquiring points throughout the school year based on how each individual sport teams finish in their respective sport. The sports are divided into two separate groups based on the popularity of the sport and the number of teams competing in the sport, with the group B sports group counting for 3 times the amount of points as group A. There are two separate cups for both the men & women. The winning schools receive $200,000 to their student athlete scholarship fund. Men's {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;" ! scope="col" , Institution !2023–
24 !2022–
23 ! scope="col" , 2021–
22 ! scope="col" , 2020–
21 ! scope="col" , 2019–
20 ! scope="col" , 2018–
19 ! scope="col" , 2017–
18 ! scope="col" , 2016–
17 ! scope="col" , 2015–
16 ! scope="col" , 2014–
15 ! scope="col" , 2013–
14 ! scope="col" , 2012–
13 ! scope="col" , 2011–
12 !2010–
11 , - !style="", Oregon State Beavers , 22 , – , 38 , – , N/A , – , 8 , 22 , – , – , – , 31 , 96 , 5 , - !style="", Washington State Cougars , – , – , – , – , N/A , 88 , – , – , – , – , – , – , – , – Women's {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;" ! scope="col" , Institution !2023–
24 !2022–
23 ! scope="col" , 2021–
22 ! scope="col" , 2020–
21 ! scope="col" , 2019–
20 ! scope="col" , 2018–
19 ! scope="col" , 2017–
18 ! scope="col" , 2016–
17 ! scope="col" , 2015–
16 ! scope="col" , 2014–
15 ! scope="col" , 2013–
14 ! scope="col" , 2012–
13 ! scope="col" , 2011–
12 !2010–
11 , - !style="", Oregon State Beavers , 60 , – , 56 , – , N/A , 55 , 49 , 55 , 24 , – , – , – , – , – , - !style="", Washington State Cougars , – , – , – , – , N/A , – , – , – , – , 71 , – , – , – , –


Sports

The Pac-12 Conference sponsors championship competition in three men's and two women's NCAA-sanctioned sports, plus one men's sport that is not sanctioned by the NCAA. Four schools are associate members, each in a single men's sport. {, class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" , + Pac-12 teams in conference competition !Sport, , width=65px, Men's, , Women's , - , align=left, college baseball, Baseball , , 1 , , – , - , align=left, College football, Football , , 2 , , – , - , align=left, Artistic gymnastics, Gymnastics , , – , , 1 , - , align=left, Track and field, Track & Field Outdoor , , 1 , , 2 , - , align=left, Collegiate wrestling, Wrestling , , 1 , , –


Men's sponsored sports by Pac-12 schools

Member-by-member sponsorship of men's sports sponsored by Pac-12 Schools. It has not been announced which sports will be sponsored by the Pac-12 when the conference expands its football membership to eight or more teams. The current conference affiliation is listed for each sport. {, class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" , - ! School!! Baseball !! Basketball !! Cross
Country !! Football !! Golf !! Rowing !! Soccer !! Track
& field
indoor !! Track
& field
outdoor !! Wrestling !! Total Pac-12
sports , - !colspan=12, Full members , - ! Oregon State , Pac-12 , , WCC , , , , Pac-12 , , WCC , , Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, MPSF , , WCC , , , , , , Pac-12 , , 3 , - ! Washington State , Mountain West Conference, MW , , WCC , , WCC , , Pac-12 , , WCC , , , , , , Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, MPSF , , Pac-12 , , , , 3 , - ! Current Totals , , 2 , , 2 , , 1 , , 2 , , 2 , , 1 , , 1 , , 1 , , 1 , , 4 , , 17 , - !colspan=12, Future members , - ! Boise State , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , 2 , - ! Colorado State , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , 2 , - ! Fresno State , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , 3 , - ! Gonzaga , WCC , , WCC , , WCC , , , , WCC , , Intercollegiate Rowing Association, IRA , , WCC , , Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, MPSF , , Independent , , , , 2 , - ! San Diego State , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , WAC , , , , , , , , 2 , - ! Utah State , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , 2 , - !colspan=12, Affiliate members , - ! Cal Poly , , , , , , , , , , , 1 , - ! CSU Bakersfield , , , , , , , , , , , 1 , - ! Little Rock , , , , , , , , , , , 1 , - ! Current Totals , , 5 , , 8 , , 6 , , 7 , , 8 , , 2 , , 3 , , 6 , , 6 , , 4 , , 54 ;Notes


Women's sponsored sports by Pac-12 schools

Member-by-member sponsorship of the 13 women's Pac-12 sports. It has not been announced which sports will be sponsored by the Pac-12 when the conference expands beyond the eight confirmed members in 2026–27. The current conference affiliation is listed for each sport. {, class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" , - ! School !! Basketball!! Cross
country!! Equestrian !! Golf !! Gymnastics !! Lacrosse !! Rowing!! Soccer !! Softball!! Swimming
& diving !! Tennis !!Track
& field
indoor !! Track
& field
outdoor !! Volleyball
(beach) !! Volleyball
(indoor) !! Water
polo!! Total
sports , - ! colspan=18 align=center , Full members , - ! Oregon State , WCC, , WCC , , , , WCC , , Pac-12 , , , , WCC , , WCC, , WCC , , , , , , Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, MPSF , , Pac-12 , , , , WCC , , , , 10 , - ! Washington State , WCC , , WCC , , , , WCC , , , , , , WCC, , WCC , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , WCC , , Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, MPSF , , Pac-12 , , , , WCC , , , , 10 , - ! Current totals , , 2, , 2 , , 0 , , 2 , , 1 , , 0 , , 2, , 2 , , 1 , , 1 , , 1 , , 2, , 2 , , 0, , 2 , , 0 , , 20 , - ! colspan=18 align=center , Future members , - ! Boise State , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Southland Conference, Southland, , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , 9 , - ! Colorado State , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , 9 , - ! Fresno State , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , ,
Big 12 The Big 12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States. It consists of 16 full-member universities (3 private universities and 13 public universities) in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Okla ...
, , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Golden Coast Conference, GCC , , 11 , - ! Gonzaga , WCC, , WCC, , , , WCC, , , , , , WCC, , WCC, , , , , , WCC, , Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, MPSF, , Independent , , , , WCC, , , , 8 , - ! San Diego State , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , ,
Big 12 The Big 12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States. It consists of 16 full-member universities (3 private universities and 13 public universities) in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Okla ...
, , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Golden Coast Conference, GCC , , 11 , - ! Utah State , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , Mountain West Conference, MW , , , , 7 , - ! 2026-27 Totals , , 8 , , 8 , , 1 , , 7 , , 3 , , 1 , , 3 , , 8 , , 6 , , 4 , , 7 , , 8 , , 8 , , 1 , , 8 , , 2 , , 83 ;Notes


Football


All-time school records

This list goes through the 2023 season. {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! scope="col" , # ! scope="col" , Team ! scope="col" , Records ! scope="col" , Pct. ! scope="col" , Division
championships ! scope="col" , Pac-12
championships ! scope="col" , Claimed national
championships , - , 1 ! style="" , Washington State , 576–581–45 , , 1 , 4 , 0 , - , 2 ! style="" , Oregon State , 569–629–50 , , 0 , 6 , 0 Number of Claimed National Championships, as well as win–loss–tie records, include all seasons played, regardless of conference membership.


Rivalries

Each of the ten schools that were conference members before 2011 has its own in-state, conference rivalry. Although only two teams remain, Oregon State and Washington State still play their former conference rivals. These rivalries (and the name given to the football forms) are: * Oregon–Oregon State football rivalry, Oregon–Oregon State – Though not officially recognized by the universities, the Platypus Trophy is awarded to the winning alumni association. * Apple Cup, Washington–Washington State – Known as the Apple Cup, the winner receives the Apple Cup trophy.


Rivalry standings

{, class="wikitable" , - ! Rivalry name ! Standings , - , align="center", Civil War !style="" , Oregon leads, 69–49–10 , - , align="center", Apple Cup !style="" , Washington leads, 76–34–6 The most frequently played rivalry in the conference is between Oregon and Oregon State (126 meetings through 2022). These rivalries are among the List of most-played college football series in NCAA Division I, most-played rivalries in college football.


Divisions

On October 21, 2010, the Pac-10 announced the creation of divisions and a championship game in football, to be used when Colorado Buffaloes, Colorado and Utah Utes, Utah joined the conference effective July 1, 2011. The twelve members were split into two divisions for football only: a North Division comprising the Pacific Northwest and Bay Area schools, and a South Division comprising the
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and Los Angeles schools. A nine-game conference schedule was maintained, with five games within the assigned division and four games from the opposite division. The four California teams, noted in the table in gray, still played each other every season— consequently, the four non-California teams in each division will only play one of the two California teams from the opposite division each year. The Pac-12 Football Championship Game featured the North Division Champion against the South Division Champion for the first 11 years of its existence, with divisional champions determined based on record in all conference games (both divisional and cross-divisional). However, on May 18, 2022, the NCAA Division I Council announced that conferences would no longer be required to maintain divisions in order to hold a conference championship. As a result, later that same day, the Pac-12 announced that it would eliminate its divisions for the 2022 football season and beyond, with the championship game instead featuring the two Pac-12 teams with the highest winning percentage. It was the first FBS conference to scrap its divisions as a result of this change. {, class="wikitable" style="margin:auto; text-align:center;" , - ! North Division !! South Division , - , Oregon Ducks football, Oregon , , Arizona Wildcats football, Arizona , - , Oregon State Beavers football, Oregon State , , Arizona State Sun Devils football, Arizona State , - , Washington Huskies football, Washington , , Colorado Buffaloes football, Colorado , - , Washington State Cougars football, Washington State , , Utah Utes football, Utah , - style="background:#ddd;" , California Golden Bears football, California , , UCLA Bruins football, UCLA , - style="background:#ddd;" , Stanford Cardinal football, Stanford , , USC Trojans football, USC


Bowl games

As of the 2023 college football season, the following is the selection order of bowl games with Pac-12 tie-ins. If a Pac-12 team is selected to participate in the College Football Playoff, all other bowl-eligible teams move up one spot in the order. {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" , - ! width=50, Pick ! width=150, Name ! width=150, Location ! width=100, Opposing
conference ! width=50, Opposing
pick , - , 1 , Rose Bowl , Pasadena, California ,
Big Ten The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference, among others) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives in 1 ...
, 1 , - , 2 , Alamo Bowl , San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas ,
Big 12 The Big 12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States. It consists of 16 full-member universities (3 private universities and 13 public universities) in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Okla ...
, 2 , - , 3 , Holiday Bowl , San Diego, California , ACC , 3 , - , 4 , Las Vegas Bowl , Las Vegas Valley, Las Vegas, Nevada , SEC or
Big Ten The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference, among others) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives in 1 ...
, 3(SEC)/4(Big Ten) , - , 5 , LA Bowl , Los Angeles, California , Mountain West Conference, MWC , 1 , - , 6 , Sun Bowl , El Paso, Texas , ACC , 7 , - , 7 (2020, 2023, 2024) , Independence Bowl , Shreveport, Louisiana , NCAA Division I FBS independent schools , Army in 2020 and 2024, BYU in 2023


Pac-12 All-Century Football Team

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the conference, an All-Century Team was unveiled on December 2, 2015, voted on by a panel of coaches, players, and the media. * Quarterbacks: ''John Elway, Stanford''; Marcus Mariota, Oregon; Jim Plunkett, Stanford; Andrew Luck, Stanford; Matt Leinart, USC * Running backs: Marcus Allen, USC; O. J. Simpson, USC; Charles White (American football), Charles White, USC; Reggie Bush, USC; Mike Garrett, USC * Wide receivers: Keyshawn Johnson, USC; Lynn Swann, USC; Marqise Lee, USC; J. J. Stokes, UCLA; Ken Margerum, Stanford * Tight ends: Tony Gonzalez, California; Charle Young, USC; * Offensive line: Jonathan Ogden, UCLA; Ron Yary, USC; Tony Boselli, USC; Anthony Muñoz, USC; Lincoln Kennedy, Washington; Brad Budde, USC; Randall McDaniel, Arizona State * Defensive ends: Tedy Bruschi, Arizona; Terrell Suggs, Arizona State; Willie McGinest, USC; Andre Carter, California; Jim Jeffcoat, Arizona State * Defensive tackles: Steve Emtman, Washington; Haloti Ngata, Oregon; Rob Waldrop, Arizona; Leonard Williams (defensive end), Leonard Williams, USC; Ed White (American football), Ed White, California * Linebackers Junior Seau, USC; Jerry Robinson (linebacker), Jerry Robinson, UCLA; Ricky Hunley, Arizona; Richard Wood (American football), Richard Wood, USC; Chris Claiborne, USC * Cornerbacks Joey Browner, USC; Mel Renfro, Oregon; Chris McAlister, Arizona; Antoine Cason, Arizona * Safeties: ''Ronnie Lott, USC''; Kenny Easley, UCLA; Troy Polamalu, USC; Mark Carrier (safety), Mark Carrier, USC * Kicker: Jason Hanson, Washington State * Punter: Tom Hackett, Utah * Returner: Reggie Bush, USC * Coach: ''John McKay (American football), John McKay, USC'' ''Note: Bold Italic notes Offensive, Defensive and Coach of the Century selections. The voting panel was made up of 119 former players, coaches and media.''


Men's basketball

''Source'': {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! scope="col" , # ! scope="col" , Pac-12 ! scope="col" , Overall
record ! scope="col" , Pct. ! scope="col" , Pac-12
regular-season
championships ! scope="col" , Pac-12
tournament
championships ! scope="col" , NCAA national
championships ! scope="col" , Claimed
pre-tournament
championships , - , 1 ! style="" , UCLA Bruins , 1986–888–0 , , 32 , 4 , 11 , 0 , - , 2 ! style="" , Arizona Wildcats , 1912–977–1 , , 17 , 9 , 1 , 0 , - , 3 ! style="" , Utah Utes , 1875–1067–0 , , 0 , 0 , 1 , 0 , - , 4 ! style="" , Washington Huskies , 1842–1253–0 , , 12 , 3 , 0 , 0 , - , 5 ! style="" , Oregon State Beavers , 1797–1417–0 , , 12 , 1 , 0 , 0 , - , 6 ! style="" , Oregon Ducks , 1754–1407–0 , , 8 , 5 , 1 , 0 , - , 7 ! style="" , USC Trojans , 1698–1243–2 , , 7 , 1 , 0 , 0 , - , 8 ! style="" , Washington State , 1665–1585–0 , , 2 , 0 , 0 , 1 , - , 9 ! style="" , California Golden Bears , 1626–1295–0 , , 15 , 0 , 1 , 1 , - , 10 ! style="" , Stanford Cardinal , 1596–1220–0 , , 11 , 1 , 1 , 1 , - , 11 ! style="" , Arizona State Sun Devils , 1454–1285–0 , , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , - , 12 ! style="" , Colorado Buffaloes , 1400–1244–0 , , 0 , 1 , 0 , 0 , -


National championships, Final Fours, and NCAA tournament appearances

Pac-12 Conference basketball programs have combined to win 15 NCAA men's basketball championships as Pac-12 members, with another member having won a national championship before joining the conference. UCLA has won 11 national championships with Arizona, California, Oregon, Stanford winning one each as Pac-12 members, Utah won one national championship as a member of the Mountain States Conference. Eleven of the twelve Pac-12 schools have advanced to at least 1 final four, with Arizona State the only school that has not made an appearance. Members departing for the Big Ten
Members departing for the Big 12
Members departing for the ACC {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;" ! scope="col" , School ! data-sort-type="number" scope="col" , ! data-sort-type="number" scope="col" , ! data-sort-type="number" scope="col" , ! data-sort-type="number" scope="col" , ! data-sort-type="number" scope="col" , , -bgcolor=#ffa0a0 ! style="" , Arizona Wildcats , 1
, 4
, 11
, 21
, 38
, -bgcolor=#ffa0a0 ! style="" , Arizona State Sun Devils , , , 3
, 5
, 17
, -bgcolor=#add8e6 ! style="" , California Golden Bears , 1
, 3
, 5
, 6
, 19
, -bgcolor=#ffa0a0 ! style="" , Colorado Buffaloes , , 2
, 6
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, 16
, -bgcolor=#90EE90 ! style="" , Oregon Ducks , 1
, 2
, 7
, 8
, 18
, - ! style="" , Oregon State , , 2
, 8
, 7
, 18
, -bgcolor=#add8e6 ! style="" , Stanford Cardinal , 1
, 2
, 3
, 5
, 17
, -bgcolor=#90EE90 ! style="" , UCLA Bruins , 11
, 19
, 23
, 37
, 46
, -bgcolor=#90EE90 ! style="" , USC Trojans , , 2
, 4
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, 21
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Seasons are listed by the calendar years in which they ended. ''Italics'' indicate honors earned before the school competed in the Pac-12.


NCAA tournament champions, runners-up and locations

''† denotes overtime games. Multiple †'s indicate more than one overtime.'' {, class="wikitable" ! scope="col" , Year ! colspan="2" scope="col" , Champion ! colspan="2" scope="col" , Runner-up ! colspan="2" scope="col" , Venue and city , - , 1939 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 1939 , 1938–39 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team, ''Oregon'' , 46 , 1938–39 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team, Ohio State , 33 , Patten Gymnasium , Evanston, Illinois , - , 1941 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 1941 , 1940–41 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team, Wisconsin , 39 , Washington State Cougars men's basketball, ''Washington State'' , 34 , Municipal Auditorium (Kansas City, Missouri), Municipal Auditorium , Kansas City, Missouri , - , 1942 NCAA basketball tournament, 1942 , ''1941–42 Stanford Indians men's basketball team, Stanford'' , 53 , Dartmouth Big Green men's basketball, Dartmouth , 38 , Municipal Auditorium , Kansas City, Missouri , - , 1944 NCAA basketball tournament, 1944† , 1943–44 Utah Redskins men's basketball team, ''Utah'' , 42 , Dartmouth , 40 , Madison Square Garden (1925), Madison Square Garden , New York City, New York City, New York , - , 1959 NCAA University Division basketball tournament, 1959 , 1958–59 California Golden Bears men's basketball team, ''California'' , 71 , 1958–59 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team, West Virginia , 70 , Freedom Hall , Louisville, Kentucky , - , 1960 NCAA University Division basketball tournament, 1960 , 1959–60 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team, Ohio State , 75 , ''1959–60 California Golden Bears men's basketball team, California'' , 55 , Cow Palace , Daly City, California , - , 1964 NCAA University Division basketball tournament, 1964 , ''1963–64 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, UCLA'' , 76 , 1963–64 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team, Duke , 72 , Municipal Auditorium , Kansas City, Missouri , - , 1965 NCAA University Division basketball tournament, 1965 , 1964–65 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, ''UCLA'' , 91 , 1964–65 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Michigan , 80 , Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Portland, Oregon), Veterans Memorial Coliseum ,
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, - , 1967 NCAA University Division basketball tournament, 1967 , ''1966–67 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, UCLA'' , 79 , 1966–67 Dayton Flyers men's basketball team, Dayton , 64 , Freedom Hall , Louisville, Kentucky (2) , - , 1968 NCAA University Division basketball tournament, 1968 , ''1967–68 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, UCLA'' , 78 , 1967–68 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, North Carolina , 55 , Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena , Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California , - , 1969 NCAA University Division basketball tournament, 1969 , 1968–69 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, ''UCLA'' , 92 , 1968–69 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team, Purdue , 72 , Freedom Hall , Louisville, Kentucky (3) , - , 1970 NCAA University Division basketball tournament, 1970 , 1969–70 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, ''UCLA'' , 80 , 1969–70 Jacksonville Dolphins men's basketball team, Jacksonville , 69 , Cole Field House , College Park, Maryland , - , 1971 NCAA University Division basketball tournament, 1971 , ''1970–71 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, UCLA'' , 68 , 1970–71 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team, Villanova , 62 , Astrodome , Houston, Houston, Texas , - , 1972 NCAA University Division basketball tournament, 1972 , ''1971–72 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, UCLA'' , 81 , 1971–72 Florida State Seminoles men's basketball team, Florida State , 76 , Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena , Los Angeles, California (2) , - , 1973 NCAA University Division basketball tournament, 1973 , ''1972–73 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, UCLA'' , 87 , 1972–73 Memphis State Tigers men's basketball team, Memphis State , 66 , St. Louis Arena , St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri , - , 1975 NCAA Division I basketball tournament, 1975 , ''1974–75 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, UCLA'' , 92 , 1974–75 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team, Kentucky , 85 , Pechanga Arena, San Diego Sports Arena , San Diego, San Diego, California , - , 1980 NCAA Division I basketball tournament, 1980 , 1979–80 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team, Louisville , 59 , ''1979–80 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, UCLA'' , 54 , Market Square Arena , Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana , - , 1995 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 1995 , ''1994–95 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, UCLA'' , 89 , 1994–95 Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball team, Arkansas , 78 , Kingdome , Seattle, Seattle, Washington , - , 1997 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 1997 † , ''1996–97 Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team, Arizona'' , 84 , 1996–97 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team, Kentucky , 79 , RCA Dome , Indianapolis, Indiana (2) , - , 1998 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 1998 , 1997–98 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team, Kentucky , 78 , ''1997–98 Utah Utes men's basketball team, Utah'' , 69 , Alamodome , San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas , - , 2001 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 2001 , 2000–01 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team, Duke , 82 , ''2000–01 Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team, Arizona'' , 72 , Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, H.H.H. Metrodome , Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota , - , 2006 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 2006 , 2005–06 Florida Gators men's basketball team, Florida , 73 , ''2005–06 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, UCLA'' , 54 , RCA Dome , Indianapolis, Indiana (3) , -


Post-season NIT championships and runners-up

{, class="wikitable" ! scope="col" , Year ! colspan="2" scope="col" , Champion ! colspan="2" scope="col" , Runner-up ! scope="col" , MVP ! colspan="2" scope="col" , Venue and city , - , 1940 National Invitation Tournament, 1940 , ''Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball, Colorado'' , 51 , Duquesne University , 40 , Bob Doll, Colorado , Madison Square Garden , New York City , - , 1947 National Invitation Tournament, 1947 , ''Utah Utes men's basketball, Utah'' , 49 , Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball, Kentucky , 45 , Vern Gardner, Utah , Madison Square Garden , New York City , - , - , 1974 National Invitation Tournament, 1974 , Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball, Purdue , 87 , ''Utah Utes men's basketball, Utah'' , 81 , Mike Sojourner, Utah , Madison Square Garden , New York City , - , 1985 National Invitation Tournament, 1985 , ''1984–85 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, UCLA'' , 65 , 1984–85 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team, Indiana , 62 , Reggie Miller, UCLA , Madison Square Garden , New York City , - , 1991 National Invitation Tournament, 1991 , ''1990–91 Stanford Cardinal men's basketball team, Stanford'' , 78 , Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball, Oklahoma , 72 , Adam Keefe (basketball), Adam Keefe, Stanford , Madison Square Garden , New York City , - , 1999 National Invitation Tournament, 1999 , ''California Golden Bears men's basketball, California'' , 61 , Clemson Tigers men's basketball, 1990–1999, Clemson , 60 , Sean Lampley, California , Madison Square Garden , New York City , - , 2012 National Invitation Tournament, 2012 , ''2011–12 Stanford Cardinal men's basketball team, Stanford'' , 75 , 2011–12 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team, Minnesota , 51 , Aaron Bright, Stanford , Madison Square Garden , New York City , - , 2015 National Invitation Tournament, 2015 , ''2014–15 Stanford Cardinal men's basketball team, Stanford'' , 66OT , 2014–15 Miami Hurricanes men's basketball team, Miami (FL) , 64 , Chasson Randle, Stanford , Madison Square Garden , New York City , - , 2018 National Invitation Tournament, 2018 , 2017–18 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team, Penn State , 82 , 2017–18 Utah Utes men's basketball team, Utah , 66 , Lamar Stevens, Penn State , Madison Square Garden , New York City , -


Olympians

In a 2017 study by OlympStats, USA Olympians and the medals they won were counted and sorted by their college affiliations. Stanford led all schools with 289 athletes, 408 games, and 282 total medals won. UCLA was second, USC was third, California was fourth, Harvard was fifth in each category, respectively. Leading the country with the most participants in their respective events are, Colorado in alpine skiing and cycling, Arizona State in archery and badminton, Stanford in baseball, rugby, swimming, tennis and water polo, UCLA in basketball, beach volleyball, gymnastics and softball, USC in athletics and volleyball, and Utah in freestyle skiing. Since 1924, a Pac-12 school has led the country in the number of athletes in every Summer Olympic Games as of the 2017 study.


See also

* List of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment


References


External links

* {{Authority control Pac-12 Conference, Sports in the Western United States Articles which contain graphical timelines 1959 establishments in the United States Sports leagues established in 1959