Pac-12 Conference

Pac-12 Conference

Formerly	Pacific Coast Conference (PCC, 1915–1959) Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU, 1959–1968) Pacific-8 (1968–1978) Pacific-10 (1978–2011)
Association	NCAA
Founded	1915 (1915) (as Pacific Coast Conference) 1959 (1959) (as AAWU)
Commissioner	George Kliavkoff (since July 1, 2021)
Sports fielded	24 men's: 11 women's: 13
Division	Division I
Subdivision	FBS
No. of teams	12 (10 in 2024)
Headquarters	San Francisco, California
Region	West Pacific Mountain Southwest
Official website	pac-12.com
Locations

The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference, that operates in the Western United States, participating in 24 sports at the NCAA Division I level. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A), the highest level of college football in the nation.

The conference's 12 members are located in the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. They include each state's flagship public university, four additional public universities, and two private research universities.

The modern Pac-12 conference formed after the disbanding of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), whose principal members 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 Colorado and Utah.

Nicknamed the "Conference of Champions", the Pac-12 has won more NCAA national championships in team sports than any other conference in history. The top three schools with the most NCAA team championships are members of the Pac-12: Stanford, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of Southern California (USC), respectively. Washington's national title in women's rowing in 2017 was the 500th NCAA championship won by a Pac-12 school.

On June 30, 2022, amid the broader 2021–22 NCAA conference realignment, UCLA and USC announced plans to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten Conference starting in 2024.

Member schools

Cal

UCLA

USC

Stanford

Oregon

Oregon State

Washington

Washington State

Arizona State

Arizona

Utah

Colorado

San Diego State

Little Rock

CS Bakersfield

Cal Poly

UC Davis

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Pac-12 Conference Member Locations
– Full members
– Full members, departing
– Associate members (Not shown: Little Rock)
– Future Associate Members

Full members

The Pac-12 has twelve full member institutions. Football used to be the only sport where the conference is split into two divisions, the North Division and the South Division.

The Pac-12's members are spread evenly between 3 regions, with 4 schools each in California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Four Corners region.

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Type	Enrollment	Endowment	Nickname	Colors
University of Arizona	Tucson, Arizona	1885	1978	Public	43,625	$1.26 billion	Wildcats
Arizona State University	Tempe, Arizona	1885	1978		71,946	$1.25 billion	Sun Devils
University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley, California	1868	1915		41,910	$2.92 billion	Golden Bears
University of California, Los Angeles	Los Angeles, California	1919	1928	Public	45,428	$3.89 billion	Bruins
University of Colorado, Boulder	Boulder, Colorado	1876	2011	Public	33,246	$2.12 billion	Buffaloes
University of Oregon	Eugene, Oregon	1876	1915		22,980	$1.19 billion	Ducks
Oregon State University	Corvallis, Oregon	1868	1915		31,904	$0.83 billion	Beavers
University of Southern California	Los Angeles, California	1880	1922	Private	49,500	$8 billion	Trojans
Stanford University	Stanford, California	1891	1918	Private	16,336	$37.80 billion	Cardinal
University of Utah	Salt Lake City, Utah	1850	2011	Public	33,000	$1.32 billion	Utes
University of Washington	Seattle, Washington	1861	1915		46,081	$4.07 billion	Huskies
Washington State University	Pullman, Washington	1890	1917		30,614	$1.28 billion	Cougars

Notes

Affiliate members

The Pac-12 has three affiliate member institutions in California and one in Arkansas.

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Type	Enrollment	Nickname	Colors	Pac-12 sport(s)	Primary conference
California Polytechnic State University	San Luis Obispo, California	1901	1986–87	Public	19,777	Mustangs		Wrestling	Big West
California State University, Bakersfield	Bakersfield, California	1965	1987–88	8,002	Roadrunners
University of Arkansas at Little Rock	Little Rock, Arkansas	1927	2019–20	11,845	Trojans		OVC
San Diego State University	San Diego, California	1897	2005–06	35,578	Aztecs		Men's soccer	Mountain West

Notes

Future affiliate members

The Pac-12 women's lacrosse league will add two affiliate members, both from California, in the 2024 season (2023–24 school year). San Diego State, already a men's soccer member, will add women's lacrosse to its Pac-12 membership.

Institution	Location	Founded	Joining	Type	Enrollment	Nickname	Colors	Pac-12 sport(s)	Primary conference
San Diego State University	San Diego, California	1897	2023–24	Public	35,578	Aztecs		Women's lacrosse	Mountain West
University of California, Davis (UC Davis)	Davis, California	1908			40,031	Aggies		Women's lacrosse	Big West

Former members

No school has left the Pac-12 since its founding as the AAWU in 1959. Two members of the PCC were not invited to join the AAWU or its successors.

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Left	Type	Nickname	Colors	Current conference
University of Idaho	Moscow, Idaho	1889	1922	1959	Public	Vandals		Big Sky
University of Montana	Missoula, Montana	1893	1924	1950		Grizzlies

Former affiliate members

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Left	Type	Nickname	Colors	Pac-12 sport	Primary conference
Boise State University	Boise, Idaho	1932	1987	2017	Public	Broncos		Wrestling	Mountain West
University of California, Davis	Davis, California	1905	1992	2010		Aggies			Big West
University of California, Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara, California	1909	2010	2015		Gauchos		Men's swimming & diving
California Polytechnic State University	San Luis Obispo, California	1901				Mustangs
California State University, Fresno	Fresno, California	1911	1986	1991		Bulldogs		Wrestling	Mountain West
California State University, Fullerton	Fullerton, California	1957		2011		Titans			Big West
Eastern Washington University	Cheney, Washington	1882	1982	1990		Eagles		Baseball	Big Sky
Gonzaga University	Spokane, Washington	1887		1995	Private	Bulldogs			West Coast
Portland State University	Portland, Oregon	1946	1983	1998	Public	Vikings		Wrestling	Big Sky
			1998	2009
University of Portland	Portland, Oregon	1901	1982	1995	Private	Pilots		Baseball	West Coast
San Jose State University	San Jose, California	1857	1986	1988	Public	Spartans		Wrestling	Mountain West
Utah State University	Logan, Utah	1888		1989		Aggies

Notes

Facilities

School	Football stadium	Capacity	Basketball arena	Capacity	Baseball stadium	Capacity
Arizona	Arizona Stadium	50,782	McKale Center	14,655	Hi Corbett Field	9,500
Arizona State	Sun Devil Stadium	53,599	Desert Financial Arena	14,198	Phoenix Municipal Stadium	8,775
California	California Memorial Stadium	62,467	Haas Pavilion	11,877	Evans Diamond	2,500
Colorado	Folsom Field	50,183	CU Events Center	11,064	No team, dropped in 1980
Oregon	Autzen Stadium	54,000	Matthew Knight Arena	12,346	PK Park	3,600
Oregon State	Reser Stadium	26,407	Gill Coliseum	9,604	Goss Stadium at Coleman Field	3,248
Stanford	Stanford Stadium	50,424	Maples Pavilion	7,233	Klein Field at Sunken Diamond	4,000
UCLA	Rose Bowl	92,542	Pauley Pavilion	13,800	Jackie Robinson Stadium	1,820
USC	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	77,500	Galen Center	10,258	Dedeaux Field	2,500
Utah	Rice-Eccles Stadium	51,444	Jon M. Huntsman Center	15,000	Smith's Ballpark	15,411
Washington	Husky Stadium	70,083	Hec Edmundson Pavilion	10,000	Husky Ballpark	2,212
Washington State	Martin Stadium	32,952	Beasley Coliseum	11,671	Bailey-Brayton Field	3,500

Key personnel

School	Athletic director	Football coach	Salary	Men's basketball coach	Salary	Women's basketball coach	Baseball coach	Softball coach	Volleyball coach (women, men)
Arizona	Dave Heeke	Jedd Fisch	$2,683,449	Tommy Lloyd	$2,900,000	Adia Barnes	Chip Hale	Caitlin Lowe	David Rubio
Arizona State	Ray Anderson	Shaun Aguano(interim)	$225,000	Bobby Hurley	$2,555,000	Natasha Adair	Willie Bloomquist	Tricia Ford	Sanja Tomasevic
California	Jim Knowlton	Justin Wilcox	$4,750,000	Mark Fox	$1,575,000	Charmin Smith	Mike Neu	Chelsea Spencer	Sam Crosson
Colorado	Rick George	Mike Sanford Jr.(interim)	$650,000	Tad Boyle	$1,800,000	JR Payne	No team	No team	Jesse Mahoney
Oregon	Rob Mullens	Dan Lanning	$4,850,000	Dana Altman	$3,325,000	Kelly Graves	Mark Wasikowski	Melyssa Lombardi	Matt Ulmer
Oregon State	Scott Barnes	Jonathan Smith	$3,250,000	Wayne Tinkle	$2,500,672	Scott Rueck	Mitch Canham	Laura Berg	Mark Barnard
Stanford	Bernard Muir	David Shaw	NA†	Jerod Haase	NA†	Tara VanDerveer	David Esquer	Jessica Allister	Kevin Hambly
UCLA	Martin Jarmond	Chip Kelly	$4,600,000	Mick Cronin	$3,600,000	Cori Close	John Savage	Kelly Inouye-Perez	Michael Sealy, John Speraw
USC	Mike Bohn	Lincoln Riley	NA†	Andy Enfield	NA†	Lindsay Gottlieb	Jason Gill	No team	Brad Keller
Utah	Mark Harlan	Kyle Whittingham	$6,000,000	Craig Smith	$1,850,000	Lynne Roberts	Gary Henderson	Amy Hogue	Beth Launiere
Washington	Jennifer Cohen	Kalen DeBoer	$3,100,000	Mike Hopkins	$2,800,004	Tina Langley	Jason Kelly	Heather Tarr	Keegan Cook
Washington State	Pat Chun	Jake Dickert	$2,700,000	Kyle Smith	$1,400,000	Kamie Ethridge	Brian Green	No team	Jen Greeny

†Private institution not required to release coaching salaries •Salaries based on 2021–2022 academic year

Academics

Nine of the twelve member schools are members of the Association of American Universities (AAU) as of 2019, including all four California-based schools, as well as at least one university in each state that has a Pac-12 member university. This is the second-highest number of AAU universities among FBS conferences (behind only the Big Ten Conference).

• University of Arizona
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of Colorado Boulder
• University of Oregon
• University of Southern California
• Stanford University
• University of Washington
• University of Utah

Additionally, these member schools are also highly ranked nationally and globally by various groups, including the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) and Times Higher Education World University Rankings (Times).

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 is updated to show institutional reporting to the Department of Education as shown on the DOE Equity in Athletics website for the 2013–14 academic year. The national ranking of revenue is based on 2075 institutions reporting to the Department of Education that year.

Conf rank (2013–14)	National rank (2013–14)	Institution	2013–14 Total revenue from athletics	2013–14 Total expenses on athletics
1	12	Stanford University	$110,240,490	$110,240,490
2	13	University of Southern California	$106,528,649	$106,528,649
3	19	University of Washington	$100,275,186	$86,097,136
4	22	University of Arizona	$97,630,769	$93,273,995
5	27	University of California, Berkeley	$90,262,140	$76,446,272
6	33	University of California, Los Angeles	$86,426,780	$86,426,780
7	35	University of Oregon	$81,546,443	$79,961,755
8	45	Arizona State University	$72,775,808	$72,599,644
9	55	Oregon State University	$67,033,751	$67,033,751
10	60	University of Colorado	$64,303,098	$64,303,098
11	62	Washington State University	$60,727,273	$60,727,273
12	65	University of Utah	$59,005,590	$57,819,434

Apparel

School	Provider
Arizona	Nike
Arizona State	Adidas
California	Under Armour
Colorado	Nike
Oregon	Nike
Oregon State	Nike, Asics (volleyball only)
Stanford	Nike
UCLA	Jordan
USC	Nike
Utah	Under Armour
Washington	Adidas
Washington State	Nike

History

Pacific Coast Conference

Main article: Pacific Coast Conference

The roots of the Pac-12 Conference go back to December 2, 1915, when the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) was founded at a meeting at the Imperial Hotel in Portland, Oregon. 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). 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 USC and Idaho. Montana joined the Conference in 1924, and in 1928, the PCC grew to 10 members with the addition of UCLA.

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 Pacific Northwest.

In 1950, Montana departed to join the Mountain States Conference. The PCC continued as a nine-team league through June 1959.

AAWU (Big Five and Big Six)

Following "pay-for-play" scandals 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 Navy, and was the current athletic director at Pittsburgh). Nicknamed the "Airplane Conference," the five former PCC schools would have played with other major academically-oriented schools, including Army, Navy, Air Force, Notre Dame, Pitt, Penn State, and Syracuse. The effort fell through when a Pentagon 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. When Washington State 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.

Pacific-8

Oregon and Oregon State joined in the summer of 1964. With their addition, the conference was known unofficially as the Pacific Athletic Conference, and then the Pacific-8 (as there already was a major conference called the Big Eight). In 1968, the AAWU formally renamed itself the Pacific-8 Conference, or Pac-8 for short. The Pac-8 did not allow a second bowl team from the conference until the 1975 season; in basketball, participation in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) was not allowed until 1973.

Idaho was never invited to join the AAWU; the Vandals were independent for four years until the formation of the Big Sky Conference in 1963, and were independent in football until 1965.

Pacific-10

Final Pac-10 Conference logo

In 1978, the conference added Arizona and Arizona State from the Western Athletic Conference, 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 1986, the Pac-10 began sponsoring women's athletics. Prior to this time members' women's teams competed with other large universities on the Pacific coast in either the Northern Pacific Conference or the Western Collegiate Athletic Association.

In the mid-1990s the conference expressed interest in admitting the University of Colorado and the University of Texas after the collapse of the Southwest Conference. Texas expressed an interest in joining a strong academic conference, but joined three fellow Southwest Conference schools (Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and Baylor) to merge with the Big Eight Conference to form the Big 12 Conference in 1996. Colorado elected to remain in the newly formed Big 12.

Before the addition of Colorado and Utah in 2011, only the Ivy League 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

Main article: 2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment

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, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, and the University of Colorado.

On June 10, 2010, the University of Colorado Boulder officially 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 Texas and the Big 12 Conference 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 officially 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. 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 Mountain Time Zone and Southern California schools. On July 1, 2011, the Pac-12 assumed its current alignment when both Colorado and Utah officially joined as full members.

On August 15, 2012, the conference debuted the Pac-12 Network. It was the third college sports conference to launch a dedicated network, and the first to completely fund and own their own network outright. Since 2014, the conference has been headquartered in San Francisco, California, with the conference moving to working remotely once the lease expires in June 2023. It had been based in the nearby East Bay suburb of Walnut Creek since the late 1970s.

NCAA conference realignment (2021-present)

Further information: 2021–22 NCAA conference realignment

On August 24, 2021, the Pac-12, ACC, and Big Ten 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 3 of the Power Five conferences was in response to Oklahoma and Texas announcing plans to leave the Big-12 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 its member schools, the lowest distribution in the Power Five.

On June 30, 2022, UCLA and USC announced their departure to the Big Ten Conference beginning in the 2024–25 academic year.

Membership timeline

The Pac-12 claims the PCC's history as its own. Not only does 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 (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.

 Full members 

Sponsored sports

The Pac-12 Conference sponsors championship competition in 10 men's and 13 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.

The newest sport to be sponsored by the Pac-12 is women's lacrosse, which began play in spring 2018 following the elevation of Arizona State's club team to full varsity status.

Pac-12 teams in conference competition

Sport	Men's	Women's
Baseball	11	–
Basketball	12	12
Beach volleyball ^	–	9
Cross country	9	12
Football	12	–
Golf	12	11
Gymnastics	–	8
Lacrosse	–	6
Rowing †	6	7
Soccer	6	12
Softball	–	9
Swimming & Diving	8	9
Tennis	8	11
Track & Field Outdoor	10	12
Volleyball	–	12
Wrestling	6	–

• ^ — Beach volleyball is a fully sanctioned NCAA sport which held its first national championship in the spring of 2016. The Pac-12 is the second conference (after the ASUN Conference) to sponsor a championship in the sport.
• † — Rowing (M) is sanctioned by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association, not by the NCAA; Rowing (W) is sanctioned by both.

Men's sponsored sports by school

Member-by-member sponsorship of the 11 men's Pac-12 sports.

School	Baseball	Basket­ball	Cross Country	Football	Golf	Rowing	Soccer	Swimming & Diving	Tennis	Track & Field Outdoor	Wrest­ling	Total Pac-12 Sports
Arizona	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	Y	Y	Y	N	8
Arizona State	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	9
California	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	10
Colorado	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	N	Y	N	5
Oregon	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	Y	Y	N	7
Oregon State	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	Y	7
Stanford	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	11
UCLA	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	N	Y	Y	N	8
USC	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	N	N	Y	Y	Y	N	7
Utah	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	N	N	Y	Y	N	N	6
Washington	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	N	9
Washington State	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	N	Y	N	6
Totals	11	12	9	12	12	4	5+1	6	9	10	3+3	93­+4
Affiliate Members
Cal Poly											Y	1
CSU Bakersfield											Y	1
Little Rock											Y	1
San Diego State							Y					1

Men's sports that are not sponsored by the Pac-12 but are fielded as a varsity sport at Pac-12 schools

School	Fencing	Gym­nastics	Ice Hockey	Lac­rosse	Rugby	Sailing	Skiing	Track & Field Indoor	Volley­ball	Water Polo	Total Sports
Arizona								MPSF			1
Arizona State			IND					MPSF			2
California		MPSF			PAC			MPSF		MPSF	4
Colorado							RMISA	MPSF			2
Oregon								MPSF			1
Oregon State											0
Stanford	IND	MPSF				PCCSC		MPSF	MPSF	MPSF	6
UCLA								MPSF	MPSF	MPSF	3
USC								MPSF	MPSF	MPSF	3
Utah				ASUN			RMISA				2
Washington								MPSF			1
Washington State								MPSF			1
Totals	1	2	1	1	1	1	2	10	3	4	26

Notes

Women's sponsored sports by school

Member-by-member sponsorship of the 13 women's Pac-12 sports.

School	Basketball	Beach Volleyball	Cross Country	Golf	Gymnastics	Lacrosse	Rowing	Soccer	Softball	Swimming & Diving	Tennis	Track & Field Outdoor	Volleyball	Total Sports
Arizona	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	11
Arizona State	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	12
California	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	13
Colorado	Y	N	Y	Y	N	Y	N	Y	N	N	Y	Y	Y	8
Oregon	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	N	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	10
Oregon State	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	N	N	Y	Y	9
Stanford	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	13
UCLA	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	12
USC	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	11
Utah	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	N	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	10
Washington	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	11
Washington State	Y	N	Y	Y	N	N	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	9
Totals	12	9	12	11	8	6	7	12	9	8	11	12	12	129
Future affiliate members
San Diego State						Y								1
UC Davis						Y								1

Women's sports that are not sponsored by the Pac-12 but are fielded as a varsity sport at Pac-12 schools

School	Acrobatics & Tumbling	Fencing	Field Hockey	Sailing	Skiing	Squash	Synchronized Swimming	Track & Field Indoor	Triathlon	Water Polo	Total Sports
Arizona								MPSF			1
Arizona State								MPSF	IND	MPSF	3
California			AmEast					MPSF		MPSF	3
Colorado					RMISA			MPSF			2
Oregon	NCATA							MPSF			2
Oregon State								MPSF			1
Stanford		IND	AmEast	PCCSC		IND	MPSF	MPSF		MPSF	7
UCLA								MPSF		MPSF	2
USC								MPSF		MPSF	2
Utah					RMISA			MPSF			2
Washington								MPSF			1
Washington State								MPSF			1
Totals	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	12	1	5	27

Notes

NCAA national titles

Main article: List of Pac-12 Conference national championships

See also: List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I championships and List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships

NCAA National Championship trophies, rings, watches won by UCLA teams

Team titles through May 25, 2022; individual titles through July 1, 2016

School	Team				Individual
	Men	Women	Co-ed†	Total	Men	Women	Co-ed	Total
Arizona	7	12	0	19	81	115	0	196
Arizona State	11	13	0	24	66	46	0	112
California	31	9	0	40	155	86	0	241
UCLA	76	43	0	119	166	103	0	269
Colorado	16	3	8	27	23	15	90	128
Oregon	20	14	0	34	102	42	0	144
Oregon State	4	0	0	4	32	7	0	39
USC	85	25	0	111	319	72	0	391
Stanford	69	62	0	131	265	204	14	609
Utah	2	9	13	24	51	27	72	150
Washington	0	9	0	9	54	17	2	73
Washington State	2	0	0	2	79	6	1	86
Conference total	323	200	21	544	1349	716	179	2244

† Co-ed sports include fencing (since 1990), rifle, and skiing (since 1983). Team fencing championships before 1990 and team skiing championships before 1983 were awarded as men's or women's championships and are counted here as such.

These totals do not include football national championships, which the NCAA does not officially award at the 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.

USC claims 11 national football championships, California claims 5, Washington claims 2, Stanford claims 2, while Colorado and UCLA claim 1.

Conference champions

Main article: List of Pac-12 Conference champions

• Football
• Men's basketball
• Women's basketball
• Baseball
• Softball
• Gymnastics
• Men's soccer
• Women's soccer
• Women's volleyball

Football

See also: List of Pac-12 Conference football standings and List of Pac-12 Conference football champions

UCLA–USC rivalry football game at the Rose Bowl; the 2008 edition marked a return to the tradition of both teams wearing color jerseys.

Big Game, 2004 between California and Stanford

Rivalries

Each of the ten schools that were conference members before 2011 has its own in-state, conference rivalry. One is an intracity rivalry (UCLA-USC) and another is within the same metropolitan area (California-Stanford). Colorado and Utah, who joined in 2011, were historic rivals in the Rocky Mountain region prior to 1962 when they suspended the series. These rivalries (and the name given to the football forms) are:

• Arizona–Arizona State – The winner receives the Territorial Cup.
• California–Stanford – Known as the Big Game, the winner receives the Stanford Axe.
• Colorado–Utah – Known as the Rumble in the Rockies.
• Oregon–Oregon State – Though not officially recognized by the universities, the Platypus Trophy is awarded to the winning alumni association.
• UCLA–USC – The winner receives the Victory Bell. The two universities compete across all sports for the SoCal BMW Crosstown Cup.
• Washington–Washington State – Known as the Apple Cup, the winner receives Apple Cup trophy.

The most frequently played rivalries in the conference are between Oregon and Oregon State (124 meetings through 2020) and Big Game between Stanford and California (123 meetings). These rivalries are among the most played rivalries in college football.

The two newest members, Colorado and Utah, had a football rivalry that had been dormant since 1962 – both were conference rivals previously in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (now a Division II conference) and later the now-defunct Mountain States Conference (also known as the Skyline Conference). Even after Colorado joined what became the Big 12 in 1948 (the conference was then known popularly as the Big 7 Conference), the two schools continued their football rivalry for over a decade before ending it after the 1962 season. With the two schools being placed in the same division for football starting in 2011, the rivalry was revived with their 58th meeting during the 2011 season.

All of the California schools consider each other major rivals due to the culture clash between Northern and Southern California. California and UCLA have a rivalry rooted in their shared history as the top programs within the University of California system. Stanford and USC have a rivalry rooted in their shared history as the only private schools in the Pac-12. California and USC also have a long history, playing each other beginning in 1915.

The Pacific Northwest schools of Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, and Washington State all consider each other major rivals due to their proximity and long history; a sweep of the other 3 teams is known as the Northwest Championship. The Oregon–Washington rivalry is sometimes referred to as the Border War.

Arizona and New Mexico have a recently renewed rivalry game, based upon when they were both members of the WAC and both states were longtime territories before being admitted as states in 1912. They played for the Kit Carson Rifle trophy, which was no longer used starting with their meeting in the 1997 Insight Bowl.

USC and Notre Dame have an intersectional rivalry (See Notre Dame–USC rivalry). The games in odd-numbered years are played in South Bend in mid-October, while the games in even-numbered years are played in Los Angeles, usually in late November.

Stanford and Notre Dame also have an intersectional rivalry (See Notre Dame–Stanford football rivalry). The schedule of the Stanford–Notre Dame rivalry mirrors that of USC–Notre Dame. The games in even-numbered years are played at Notre Dame in mid-October, while the games in odd-numbered years are played at Stanford in late November.

The isolated rural campuses of Washington State and Idaho are eight miles (13 km) apart on the Palouse, creating a natural border war known as the Battle of the Palouse. Idaho rejoined FBS in 1996 and was a member until 2017.

Utah and BYU have a fierce rivalry nicknamed the Holy War that goes back to 1896.

Colorado also has a rivalry with in-state rival Colorado State called the Rocky Mountain Showdown.

With the NCAA permanently approving 12-game schedules in college football beginning in 2006, the Pac-10—alone among major conferences in doing so—went to a full nine-game conference schedule. Previously, the schools did not play one non-rival opponent, resulting in an eight-game conference schedule (four home games and four away). In 2010, the last season before the arrival of Colorado and Utah, the only other BCS conference that played a round-robin schedule was the Big East. The schedule consisted of one home and away game against the two schools in each region, plus the game against the primary in-state rival.

Divisions

See also: Pac-12 Football Championship Game

On October 21, 2010, the Pac-10 announced the creation of divisions and a championship game in football, to be used when Colorado and 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 Mountain Time Zone 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.

North Division	South Division
Oregon	Arizona
Oregon State	Arizona State
Washington	Colorado
Washington State	Utah
California	UCLA
Stanford	USC

Bowl games

As of the 2020 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.

Pick	Name	Location	Opposing conference	Opposing pick
1	Rose Bowl	Pasadena, California	Big Ten	1
2	Alamo Bowl	San Antonio, Texas	Big 12	2
3	Las Vegas Bowl	Las Vegas, Nevada	SEC or Big Ten	3(SEC)/4(Big Ten)
4	LA Bowl	Los Angeles, California	MWC	1
5	Holiday Bowl	San Diego, California	ACC	4
6	San Francisco Bowl	Santa Clara, California	Big Ten	7
7	Sun Bowl	El Paso, Texas	ACC	7
8 (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

See also: Pac-12 Conference football individual awards

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, 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, USC; Ed White, California
• Linebackers Junior Seau, USC; Jerry Robinson, UCLA; Ricky Hunley, Arizona; 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, USC
• Kicker: Jason Hanson, Washington State
• Punter: Tom Hackett, Utah
• Returner: Reggie Bush, USC
• Coach: 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

Main article: Pac-12 Conference men's basketball

As of 2023, Pac-12 schools have won 15 Division I national titles. This was tied with the Atlantic Coast Conference for the most of any conference. Oregon won the first NCAA tournament in 1939. UCLA has won 11 national titles, the most of any Division I team. Arizona has won the most recent national title, winning in 1997. Stanford in 1942, Utah in 1944 and California in 1959 are the other NCAA champions.

Rivalries in other sports

All of the intra-conference rivalries in football are carried over into other sports.

During the 1970s, UCLA and Notre Dame had an intense men's basketball rivalry. For several years, it was one of a small number of non-conference games in Division I basketball that was played twice a season (home-and-away). The most famous game in the rivalry was on January 19, 1974, when Notre Dame scored the last 12 points of the game to nip UCLA and end the Bruins' record 88-game winning streak. This rivalry is now dormant, partly because Notre Dame is no longer independent in sports other than football (now in the ACC).

In baseball, there are intense rivalries between the four southern schools. Arizona, Arizona State, and USC have long and successful histories in baseball and all have won national titles in the sport. The most intense series is widely regarded to be the "Basebrawl" series between USC and Arizona State in 1990. Arizona State swept the series and in the final game a bench clearing brawl spread quickly to the stands and made national headlines. Several were injured and riot police were called to end the fracas.

Washington and California have a longstanding rivalry in men's crew as the two traditionally dominant programs on the West Coast.

Due to the unique geographic nature of the Pac-12 teams, the teams travel in pairs for road basketball games. For example, on Thursday, February 28, 2008, USC played Arizona and UCLA played Arizona State. Two nights later the teams switched and USC played Arizona State and UCLA played Arizona. The teams are paired as follows: USC and UCLA (the L.A. teams), Arizona and Arizona State (the Arizona teams), California and Stanford (the Bay Area teams), Washington and Washington State (the Washington teams), Oregon and Oregon State (the Oregon teams), and Colorado and Utah (the Rocky Mountain teams). Usually, the games are played on Thursdays and Saturdays with a game or occasionally two on Sundays for television purposes. This pairing formula is also used in women's volleyball. To make scheduling simpler for men and women's basketball (a sport in which each conference member uses a single venue for both teams' home games), the schedule for women's basketball is the opposite of the men's schedule. For example, when the Oregon schools are hosting the men's teams from the Arizona schools, the Arizona schools host the women's teams from Oregon schools the same weekend.

This formula has made a tradition in conference play to keep track of how a team does against a particular region; and stats are kept as to how successful a team is against, for example, "the Bay Area schools" at home or away. Effective in the 2011–12 season, with the expansion into 12 teams, a 10-year rotation model has been developed to maintain the existing 18-game conference schedule. Teams remained paired with their regional rival. Each school plays its regional rival and six other teams both home and away, and the other four teams once – two at home and two away. The newest members, Colorado and Utah, are paired with each other. The single play opponents rotate every two years.

Recently, Cal Poly and UCLA has grown into a competitive Men's Soccer rivalry with Cal Poly hosting UCLA in a 0–0 tie in front of a crowd of 8,717 which at the time was the 9th largest regular season, on-campus attendance in the history of college soccer. The schools have played several times since however UCLA has not returned to San Luis Obispo for a Friday or Saturday game since tying Cal Poly in front of a record crowd. UCLA leads the series 6–2–2.

Olympians

While the PAC-12 is known as the "Conference of Champions," for having won the most collegiate Championships than any other Conference, it could also be considered the "Conference of Olympians" for having the most athletes and medal-winners of any conference in the history of the Olympic games.

In a 2017 study by OlympStats, USA Olympians and the medals they won were counted and sorted by their college affiliations. Stanford lead all schools with 289 athletes, 408 games, and 282 total medals won. UCLA was second, USC was third, Cal Berkeley was 4th, Harvard was 5th 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 number of athlete in each and every Summer Olympic Games to date (as of this study in 2017).

Commissioners

Since restarting in 1959 as the AAWU, the Pac-12 has had five commissioners:

Name	Years	Tenure	Conference name(s)
Thomas J. Hamilton	1959–1971	12 years	AAWU / Pacific-8
Wiles Hallock	1971–1983	12 years	Pacific-8 / Pacific-10
Thomas C. Hansen	1983–2009	26 years	Pacific-10
Larry Scott	2009–2021	12 years	Pacific-10 / Pac-12
George Kliavkoff	2021–present	3 years	Pac-12

PCC

Commissioners of the forerunner PCC

• Herb Dana (193x–40)
• Edwin N. Atherton (1940–44)
• Victor O. Schmidt (1944–59)

See also

• Pac-12 Network
• List of American collegiate athletic stadiums and arenas
• List of U.S. colleges and universities by endowment

External links

• Official website