77-716: This is a list of conference champions in sports sponsored by the Pac–12 Conference . Through May 25, 2024 No school has left the Pac–12 since its founding as the AAWU in 1959. Two members of the PCC never joined the AAWU. Bold text indicates National Champion * Pacific Coast Conference playoff champion ** North–South playoff champion † California won the CIBA Division 1 and USC won Division 2. Cal defeated USC in
154-475: 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
231-535: A competition in that sport (e.g. Pac-12 in soccer and women's gymnastics). All MPSF members have a primary conference affiliation. All Big West Conference members house at least one sport in the MPSF. The West Coast Conference is represented by six schools (Pacific, Pepperdine, Portland, Saint Mary's, San Diego, San Francisco). The Pac-12 Conference was represented by five (Arizona State, California, Stanford, UCLA, USC). Three conferences are represented by 2 schools:
308-629: A full member. (Fall 2023) (millions) The Pac-12 has two affiliate member institutions in California and one in Arkansas. All three participate in the Pac-12 for wrestling. 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. The Pac-12 claims
385-647: A playoff for the CIBA title. ‡ Won the tiebreaker and the automatic post–season bid Arizona State won the 1969 and 1977 National Championships as a member of the Western Athletic Conference . The Sun Devils' first baseball season in the Pac–12 was 1979. Arizona won the 1976 National Championship as a member of the WAC. The Wildcats also joined the Pac–10 for the 1979 baseball season. Arizona won
462-510: A sponsored sport beginning in the 2000 academic year. Prior to then, most members who fielded a men's collegiate soccer team competed in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation . Note: Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Oregon, USC, Utah & Washington State do not field a men's soccer team. Bold text indicates National Champion The conference established women's soccer as a sponsored sport beginning in
539-760: A two-member conference at least for [2024–25]" and would be recognized under a two-year grace period , until 2026, to meet conference requirements in the NCAA bylaws. On December 5, 2023, Oregon State and Washington State announced that had entered into a football alliance with the Mountain West Conference (MWC) for the 2024 season. With the alliance, both programs will play three home games and three away games against MWC opponents. The West Coast Conference (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
616-618: 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 Apple TV+ 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
693-679: Is a collegiate athletic conference in the Western United States . It participates at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level for all sports, and its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest level of NCAA football competition. The conference currently comprises two members, Oregon State and Washington State . The modern Pac-12 Conference formed after
770-800: The Big 12 Conference (BYU, Oklahoma), the Mountain West Conference (Air Force and San Jose State), and the Western Athletic Conference (Grand Canyon and Southern Utah). Twelve conferences are represented by one school each – the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (Penn State Behrend), the Big Sky Conference (Sacramento State), the Big Ten Conference (Indiana), the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (Augustana (IL)),
847-535: The Big 12 Conference , which announced it would start sponsoring beach volleyball in 2024–25. The other six, which joined either the Atlantic Coast Conference or the Big Ten Conference , made up almost all of the inaugural MPSF beach volleyball membership. California, Stanford, UCLA, and USC were already MPSF members in other sports, and Oregon and Washington were returning MPSF members. The only inaugural beach volleyball member not arriving from
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#1732787872820924-938: The Great Northwest Athletic Conference (Alaska Anchorage), the Lone Star Conference (Texas Woman's), the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (Wheaton (MA)), the Pacific West Conference (Concordia–Irvine), the Presidents' Athletic Conference (Washington & Jefferson), the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (Austin), and the Southland Conference (Incarnate Word). All of
1001-599: 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
1078-416: The NCAA 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
1155-500: The Pac-12 and Big West , many of whose members participate in MPSF competition in at least one of its sports). The MPSF was founded in 1992 to provide an outlet for competition in non-revenue-producing Olympic sports . The MPSF conducts championships in men's volleyball , as well as indoor track , gymnastics , and water polo for both men and women. In 2010 the MPSF added women's swimming and diving, and added those sports for men in
1232-530: The Pac-12 Conference , which sponsors beach volleyball, after 2023–24: California, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, and Washington. The only member not coming from the Pac-12 is Grand Canyon. The following month, the MPSF announced that Saint Mary's, which had been an MPSF member in women's lacrosse before the school dropped the sport in 2017, had returned to the conference in women's indoor track & field. There are three sports that are sponsored under
1309-518: 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. Despite the alliance, on June 30, 2022, UCLA and USC announced their departure for the Big Ten Conference beginning in the 2024–25 academic year. As a result of losing two of
1386-673: The United States Department of Education 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 Knight Commission for the 2021–22 academic year. Since restarting in 1959 as the AAWU, the Pac-12 has had six commissioners: Commissioners of
1463-490: 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. 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
1540-640: The 1986 National Championship but did not win the South Division Stanford won the 1988 National Championship but did not win the South Division. The Cardinal defeated South Division champion Arizona State in the final USC won the 1998 National Championship, defeating Arizona State in the final. Neither won the South Division Oregon State won the 2007 and 2018 National Championships but did not win
1617-488: The 1987 season. Prior to the Pac–10 fielding gymnastics championships, Jackie Brummer from Arizona State won the NCAA gymnastics championship. Note: The following gymnasts won the NCAA all–around title without winning the Pac–10 all–around title: 2001: Onnie Willis, UCLA; 2002: Jamie Dantzscher, UCLA; 2008: Tasha Schwikert, UCLA; 2015: Samantha Peszek , UCLA Note: Bold denotes NCAA team champion. Note: The 2020 Season
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#17327878728201694-437: The 1995 academic year. Bold text indicates National Champion Note: UCLA won the 1992, 1995 ( vacated ), 2003, 2004 and 2010 National Championship but did not win the conference championship Note: Arizona won the 1991, 1993, and 1996 National Championship but did not win the conference championship Note: California won the 2002 National Championship but did not win the conference championship Note: Washington won
1771-724: The 2009 National Championship but did not win the conference championship Note: Washington State, Colorado, and USC do not field softball teams Bold text indicates National Champion Note: Pac–12 started the Conference Tournament in 2023 USC (14) – South USC (15) – South USC (16) – South Stanford (4) 6–0 6–1 USC (3) – South 6–0 8–0 California (4) – South 6–0 8–0 USC (4) – South 6–0 6–0 USC (5) – South 8–0 7–0 Stanford (6) – South 0–0 6–0 USC (6) – South 4–0 9–0 USC (8) – South 6–0 11–0 UCLA (3) & USC (9) – South Pac-12 Conference The Pac-12 Conference
1848-411: The 2011–12 season. The 2012–13 school year was the last for MPSF competition in men's soccer , and the 2020–21 school year was the last for MPSF women's lacrosse . The conference membership varies by sport; 39 schools are MPSF members in at least one of its sponsored sports. Schools are not required to participate in MPSF competition for a sponsored sport if their primary conference affiliation sponsors
1925-413: The 2012 season due to a near-complete membership turnover , it needed to add another men's sport to maintain its Division I status. To that end, it invited the four remaining MPSF soccer schools to join them; all accepted, and the WAC began sponsoring men's soccer in 2013–14. In October 2015, Arizona State announced that it would elevate its club team in women's lacrosse to full varsity status starting in
2002-483: The 2012 season. The moves of Denver (all sports) and New Mexico (soccer only) to other conferences left the MPSF with six soccer members, but all six would soon leave due to moves by the Western Athletic Conference. MPSF soccer member Seattle was already in the WAC, and another MPSF soccer school, CSU Bakersfield, was already committed to join the WAC in 2013. Because the WAC dropped football after
2079-575: The 2016–17 season. The GCC took six of the 10 members of the MPSF men's water polo league, leaving the MPSF with only the four Pac-12 members that sponsor the sport. On May 31, 2016, the Big West Conference announced that it would begin sponsoring men's volleyball in the 2017–18 school year (2018 season). The Big West men's volleyball league launched with full members Long Beach State, Cal State Northridge, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara and Hawai'i, plus associate member UC San Diego (which joined
2156-408: The 2017–18 school year (2018 season), which will give the Pac-12 six women's lacrosse schools. This number is required by league bylaws for official sponsorship of a sport, and is also the number of teams required for a conference to be an automatic NCAA tournament qualifier. This led the Pac-12 to announce that all of its women's lacrosse teams would leave the MPSF for the new Pac-12 lacrosse league for
2233-533: The 2018 season. MPSF women's lacrosse continued to operate through the 2021 season, though it would lose its automatic NCAA tournament bid after the 2019 season. The next major change in conference membership came in January 2016, when the Golden Coast Conference , a water polo-only league that previously operated only a women's competition, announced it would add a men's division effective with
2310-535: 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, Yahoo! Sports reported that the Pac-12 is "expected to operate as
2387-589: The Big West full-time in July 2020). UC San Diego left the federation with the launch of Big West men's volleyball, but the other Big West members remain in the MPSF in other sports. California Baptist also exited the MPSF after dropping its only conference sport of men's volleyball shortly after the 2017 season, and Cal State Bakersfield (now being rebranded athletically as Bakersfield) left the MPSF after dropping its last remaining conference sport of women's water polo at
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2464-462: The MPSF members from the Pac-12 left at the end of the 2023–24 school year, at which time the Big Ten is represented by three schools (adding UCLA and USC), and the Atlantic Coast Conference and Big 12 are each be represented by two (ACC: California and Stanford; Big 12: adding Arizona State but losing Oklahoma). Also in 2024–25, the Pacific West representation will increase to four schools with
2541-403: The MPSF. All aquatic sports Men's & women's swimming & diving Women's swimming & diving Men's swimming & diving Artistic swimming Fencing was introduced as an MPSF sport in the 2021-22 season. The MPSF currently has three members that participate in fencing. Fencing members Men's gymnastics was introduced as an MPSF sport with the formation of
2618-563: The MPSF. Al Beaird was the first Executive Director of the MPSF for 24 years, from 1998 to 2021. Foti Mellis became the second executive director on June 1, 2021. Mellis was a Senior Associate Athletic Director at the University of California. Source: The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation sponsors championship competition in five men's and five women's NCAA sanctioned sports The MPSF dropped men's soccer after
2695-442: The PCC basketball champion. If two division teams tied, they would have a one–game playoff to produce the division representative. Starting with the first NCAA Men's Basketball Championship in 1939, the winner of the PCC divisional playoff was given the automatic berth in the NCAA tournament. Oregon, the 1939 PCC champion, won the championship game in the 1939 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament . The last divisional playoff
2772-555: 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
2849-636: 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. Following "pay-for-play" scandals at California, USC, UCLA, and Washington,
2926-643: 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 (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
3003-569: 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 accepted an invitation to join the Pac-10 Conference, effective starting with the 2012–2013 academic year. The school later announced it would join
3080-408: The Pac-10's ambition to potentially become a sixteen-team conference. On June 17, 2010, the University of Utah 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
3157-714: The Pac-12 is Grand Canyon. Men's & women's (beach) volleyball Women's (beach) volleyball Men's volleyball All national champions are in men's volleyball. † — Vacated due to NCAA violations Source: The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation has won 100 NCAA titles in seven sports. UCLA has won 25 national titles. Stanford has won 20 titles. USC has won 16 titles. Oregon has won 12 titles. Oklahoma has won nine titles. California has won six titles. UC Irvine has won four titles. Arizona State and Brigham Young have won three titles. Pepperdine has won two titles. The MPSF has won every men's and women's water polo NCAA title since
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3234-461: 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 three of the Power Five conferences was in response to Oklahoma and Texas announcing plans to leave the Big 12 and join
3311-598: 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 12-team 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
3388-411: The Pac–10 would usually place at least one other at–large team in the tournament. By the 1985–86 season, the Pac–10 was one of three remaining conferences that gave their automatic NCAA tournament bid to the regular season round–robin champion. The other two conferences were the Ivy League and the Big Ten Conference . The modern Pac–12 Conference men's basketball tournament format began in 1987. It
3465-439: The Pac–12, the conference "did not record official league standings during the inaugural season of Beach Volleyball." To this day, the conference has never recorded official league standings in the sport. The regular season is followed by a conference tournament, with championships held both for pairs and teams (consisting of five pairs). Note: Bold denotes NCAA team or all–around champion. Note: The Pac–10 added gymnastics in
3542-679: The addition of five schools from the Mountain West Conference and one from the West Coast Conference . 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. 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. The conference needs to add at least two more members before that date to be recognized by
3619-544: The aquatics section. Men's and women's swimming and diving were launched in the 2010-11 season. Artistic swimming was later added in the 2021-22 season. In June 2023, the Big West announced the addition of men's and women's swimming and diving as a sponsored sport beginning in the 2024-25 school year. As a result, six Big West members will move their aquatics programs to their primary conference, including three members (Bakersfield, Cal Poly, and UC Santa Barbara) who were only MPSF members in aquatics and will thus effectively leave
3696-568: The arrival of Jessup University Jessup , Menlo , and Vanguard while the Southeastern Conference will be represented by Oklahoma. Due to the Big West addition of men's and women's swimming and diving as a sponsored sport beginning in the 2024-25 school year, six Big West members will move their aquatics programs to their primary conference, including three members (Bakersfield, Cal Poly, and UC Santa Barbara) who were only MPSF members in aquatics and will thus effectively leave
3773-550: 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
3850-432: 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
3927-451: 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. In early June 2010, there were reports that
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#17327878728204004-649: 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. 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
4081-401: The conference championships for those years. UCLA won the 2013 National Championship but did not win the conference championship. The Pacific Coast Conference began playing basketball in the 1915–16 season. The PCC was split into North and South Divisions for basketball beginning with the 1922–23 season. The winners of the two divisions would play a best of three series of games to determine
4158-553: 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 Full members (non-football) Other Conference Other Conference Associate members (non-football) The roots of the Pac-12 Conference go back to December 2, 1915, when the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC)
4235-642: 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 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
4312-539: The conference while women's gymnastics was initiated for the 2001-02 season. The MPSF currently has four members that participate in men's gymnastics and four for women's. Men's & women's gymnastics Women's gymnastics Men's gymnastics Men's and women's indoor track & field were introduced for the 1992–93 season as one of the conference's inaugural sports. Conference records before 1999 are incomplete. All national champions are in men's volleyball. Men's volleyball
4389-483: The conference's tentpole programs (and the entirety of the Los Angeles 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
4466-549: 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 Whitman County, Washington , Superior Court ruled in favor of the two schools. The University of Washington (UW) filed an emergency motion to keep
4543-620: The disbanding of the Pacific Coast Conference (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 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. Washington 's national title in women's rowing in 2017
4620-399: 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 College World Series 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
4697-654: 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 San Francisco, California , 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 East Bay suburb. On August 24, 2021,
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#17327878728204774-672: The forerunner PCC 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 Pennsylvania . The conference participates at the NCAA Division I level, primarily in Olympic sports that are not sponsored by a school's primary conference (such as
4851-756: The formation of the Big Sky Conference in 1963, and were independent in football until 1965 . 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 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
4928-460: The negotiating table. Reports began circulating that Commissioner Kliavkoff had been to the San Diego State University 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 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
5005-406: 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,
5082-447: 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
5159-514: The same time. It was announced in August 2021 that the MPSF would add men's and women's fencing to the conference as the tenth sport. It was announced in September 2021 that the MPSF would add women's artistic swimming to the conference as the eleventh sport. On November 9, 2023, the MPSF announced that it would add beach volleyball, a women-only sport at the NCAA level, for the 2025 season (2024–25 school year). The inaugural membership in that sport will consist mainly of schools that are leaving
5236-887: 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. 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
5313-433: 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
5390-428: Was dropped after 1990 upon opposition from coaches and poor revenue and attendance. The tournament was restarted by an 8–2 vote of the athletic directors of the conference in 2000 after determining that a tournament would help increase exposure of the conference and help the seeding of the schools in the NCAA tournament. The Pac–12 first sponsored beach volleyball in the 2016 season (2015–16 school year). According to
5467-407: 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). An official of Stanford University also attended the meeting but declined to join right away because, unlike the other schools, it
5544-446: Was in the 1954–55 season. After that, there was no divisional play and all teams played each other in a round robin competition. From the 1955–56 season through the 1958–59 season, the regular season conference champion was awarded the NCAA tournament berth from the PCC. In the case of a tie, a tie breaker rule was used to determine the NCAA tournament representative. Beginning with the 1975 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament ,
5621-426: Was introduced for the 1993 season (1992–93 school year) as one of the conference's inaugural sports. The MPSF will add beach volleyball in the 2025 season (2024–25 school year). The MPSF added the sport in the wake of the collapse of the Pac-12 Conference , which saw 10 of its 12 members leave for other conferences after the 2023–24 school year. Of the 10 departing schools, nine sponsor beach volleyball. Three left for
5698-492: 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 USC and Idaho . Montana joined the Conference in 1924, and in 1928,
5775-472: Was stopped due to the COVID–19 Pandemic. Note: Bold denotes NCAA team champion. Note: The 2020 Season was stopped due to the COVID–19 Pandemic. Note: Bold denotes NCAA team champion. Note: The 2020 Season was stopped due to the COVID–19 Pandemic. Note: California won the 2018 National Title. Stanford won the 2009 National Title. The conference established men's soccer as
5852-442: 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 the 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—baseball, football, track and field, women's gymnastics, and wrestling. In 2026, the Pac-12 will expand to eight members with
5929-405: 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,
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