History
The original members of the CCP were the Washington UniversityTHE University of OregonOregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University), and the University of California,, Berkeley. State College of Washington (now Washington State University) joined in 1916, University of Stanford In 1918, the University of South California (USC) and the Idaho University In 1922, the University of Montana in 1924, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1928. Montana abandoned in 1950, and the conference itself was dissolved in 1959, after three years of acrimony On the penalties evaluated on member institutions for the operation of “founding snow funds”.
Evolution of the name of PAC-12
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1915-1959: Conference of the Pacific Coast
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1959–68: Sports Association of Western Universities
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1968–78: Pacific conference-8
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1978-2011: Pacific-10 conference
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From 2011: Pacific conference-12
CaliforniaStanford, USC, UCLA and Washington have formed the Sports Association of Western Universities (AAWU). After the state of Washington joined the new conference in 1962 and Oregon and Oregon State in 1964, the name was changed for the Pacific-8 conference. THE University of Arizona And Arizona State University were admitted in 1978, completing the renowned conference of the Pacific -10 – which was unchanged for more than three decades until the University of Colorado and the University of Utah became the 11th and 12th members of the conference in July 2011.
At the beginning of 2024, ten of the PAC-12 schools had announced its intention to leave for others conferences. What remained of the PAC-12, composed of the state of Oregon and the state of Washington, was declared “non-autonomous” by the Ncaa in his soccer Governance structure. Later in 2024, however, the conference announced that six schools would join 2026: Wood state university,, California State UniversityFresno (better known as Fresno State), Colorado State University,, University of GonzagaSan Diego State University, and Utah State University.
PAC-12 and Bowl pink
From 1916 (with a previous competition in 1902), the conference hosted the Rose bowlusually held on New Years Day. From 1947, the opponent was the champion of Big Dix conference. In resistance to the overcompage of university football, the conference allowed a single team to play in an post-season bowl match until this restriction was abandoned in 1975.
PAC-12 exclusive The arrangement with Rose Bowl ended in January 2002, when the match took its turn by organizing the national championship match in the Bowl championship series (Bcs).
