Pacific-10 Conference

Pacific-10 Conference
(Pac-10)
Pacific-10 Conference logo
Established 1915
Association NCAA
Division Division I FBS
Members 10 (expansion to 12 announced)
Sports fielded 22 (men's: 11; women's: 11)
Region Western United States
Former names Pacific-8 (1968–78)
Pacific-8 (1964–68) - unofficial
Big Six (1962–64) - unofficial
Big Five (1959–62) - unofficial
AAWU - (1959–68)
PCC - (1915-59) - predecessor
Headquarters Walnut Creek, California
Commissioner Larry Scott (since 2009)
Website www.pac-10.org
Locations
Pacific-10 Conference locations

The Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A), the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition. The conference's 10 members (which are primarily flagship research universities in their respective regions, well-regarded academically, and with relatively large student enrollment) compete in 22 NCAA sports. It was founded as the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) in 1959, and went by the names Big Five, Big Six, and Pacific-8, becoming the Pacific-10 in 1978.

On July 27, 2010, the Conference announced it would rename itself as the Pacific-12 Conference (Pac-12), upon addition of both Colorado and Utah.[1]

The self-proclaimed "Conference of Champions," the Pac-10 has won more NCAA National Team Championships than any other conference in history. In fact, the top three schools with the most NCAA championships belong to the Pac-10 (UCLA, Stanford and the University of Southern California); while UCLA holds the most, winning a combined 106 team championships in men's and women's sports.

During the 2008-09 school year, the Pac-10 conference captured 11 NCAA titles, outstripping any other conference. It was followed by the ACC and Big Ten with five championships each, and by the Big 12 and SEC conferences with four each.

The current commissioner of the conference is Larry Scott who replaced Thomas C. Hansen, who retired in July 2009 after 26 years in that position.[2] Prior to joining the Pac-10, Scott was Chairman and CEO of the Women's Tennis Association.[3]

Contents

Membership

Full members

Institution Location Founded Affiliation Enrollment Nickname NCAA Championships
(through June 8, 2010)[4]
University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona
(541,811)		 1885 Public (Arizona Board of Regents) 38,057 [5] Wildcats 17
Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona
(169,712)		 1885 Public (Arizona Board of Regents) 68,064 [6] Sun Devils 22
University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California
(102,743)		 1868 Public (University of California system) 35,843 [7] Golden Bears 28
University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
(153,690)		 1876 Public (Oregon University System) 22,386 [8] Ducks 17
Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon
(53,900)		 1868 Public (Oregon University System) 21,969 [9] Beavers 3
Stanford University Stanford, California
(13,315)		 1891 Private/Non-sectarian 15,140 [10] Cardinal 99
University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California
(3,849,378)		 1919 Public (University of California system) 39,984 [11] Bruins 106
University of Southern California Los Angeles, California
(3,849,378)		 1880 Private/Non-sectarian 33,747 [12] Trojans 91
University of Washington Seattle, Washington
(602,000)		 1861 Public 47,361[13] Huskies 6
Washington State University Pullman, Washington
(27,150)		 1890 Public 26,101[14] Cougars 2

Future members

Institution Location Founded Affiliation Enrollment Nickname NCAA Championships
(through June 8, 2010)[15]
University of Colorado at Boulder
(starting in the 2012–13 school year)[16]		 Boulder, Colorado
(94,171)		 1876 Public (University of Colorado System) 29,709 [17] Buffaloes 22
University of Utah
(starting in the 2011–12 school year)[18]		 Salt Lake City, Utah
(181,698)		 1850 Public (Utah System of Higher Education) 29,284[19] Utes 21

Former members

Institution Location Founded Affiliation Enrollment Nickname Current Conference
University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho
(23,131)		 1889 Public 11,957 Vandals WAC
University of Montana Missoula, Montana
(68,202)		 1893 Public (University of Montana System) 14,921 Grizzlies Big Sky

Associate members

Men's Soccer

Institution Location Founded Affiliation Enrollment Nickname Current Conference
San Diego State University San Diego, California 1897 Public (California State University system) 34,500 Aztecs MWC

Wrestling

Institution Location Founded Affiliation Enrollment Nickname Current Conference
Boise State University Boise, Idaho 1932 Public 19,667 Broncos WAC (-2010)
MWC (2011+)
California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) San Luis Obispo, California 1901 Public (California State University) 19,777 Mustangs Big West
California State University, Bakersfield Bakersfield, California 1965 Public (California State University) 7,493 Roadrunners Big Sky
California State University, Fullerton Fullerton, California 1957 Public (California State University) 36,996 Titans Big West
University of California, Davis Davis, California 1908 Public (University of California) 31,426 Aggies Big West

Endowments

Locations of current Pacific-10 Conference full member institutions.
  1. Stanford University - $12.62 billion [20]
  2. University of Southern California - $2.67 billion [20]
  3. University of California, Berkeley - $2.34 billion [20][21]
  4. University of California, Los Angeles - $1.88 billion [20][21]
  5. University of Washington - $1.65 billion [20]
  6. Washington State University - $619.7 million [20]
  7. University of Colorado at Boulder - $593.3 million [20]
  8. University of Arizona - $519.7 million[22]
  9. University of Utah - $513.4 million
  10. Arizona State University - $407.8 million [20]
  11. University of Oregon - $386.5 million [20]
  12. Oregon State University - $329.1 million [20]

History

Pacific Coast Conference

The roots of the Pac-10 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.[23] Charter members were the University of California (now University of California, Berkeley), the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University). The conference 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—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 1958.

AAWU (Big Five and Big Six)

Following a "pay-for-play" scandal at several PCC institutions (specifically Cal, USC, UCLA and Washington), the PCC disbanded in 1959. When those four and Stanford started talking about forming a new conference, retired Admiral Thomas J. Hamilton interceded and suggested the schools consider creating a "power conference." Nicknamed the "Airplane Conference", the five PCC schools would have played with other big schools including Army, Navy, Air Force, Notre Dame, Penn, Penn State, Duke, and Georgia Tech among others. The effort fell through when a Pentagon official vetoed the idea and the service academies backed out.[24]

On July 1, 1959 the new Athletic Association of Western Universities was formed, with Cal, Stanford, UCLA, USC, and Washington as charter members. The conference also was popularly known as the Big Five from 1960 to 62;[25] when Washington State joined in 1962, the conference was then informally known as the Big Six.[25]

Pacific-8

Oregon and Oregon State joined in 1964, the term "Pacific-8" became informally used (as there already was a Big Eight Conference). 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.

In 1968, the AAWU formally renamed itself the Pacific-8 Conference, or Pac-8 for short.

Pacific-10

In 1978, the conference added WAC schools Arizona and Arizona State, to create the Pacific-10 Conference or Pac-10 in its current form.

The Pac-10 claims the PCC's history as its own. It inherited the PCC's berth in the Rose Bowl, and the eight largest schools in the old PCC all eventually joined the new league. However, the older league had a separate charter.

The Pac-10 is one of the founding members of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, a conference organized to provide competition in non-revenue Olympic sports. All Pac-10 members participate in at least one MPSF sport (men's and women's indoor track and field both actually have enough participating Pac-10 schools for the conference to sponsor a championship, but the Pac-10 has opted not to do so), and for certain sports, the Pac-10 admits certain schools as Associate Members (which currently are San Diego State for men's soccer, and UC Davis, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Boise State, Cal State Fullerton, Portland State, and Cal State Bakersfield for wrestling).

The conference expressed interest in admitting Texas after the collapse of the Southwest Conference. Texas expressed an interest in joining a strong academic conference, but joined three fellow SWC schools to combine with the Big Eight Conference to form the Big 12 Conference in 1996.[26]

Of Division I conferences, only the Ivy League has maintained its current membership for a longer time than the Pac-10. Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott said on February 9, 2010, that the window for expansion by the conference is open for the next year as the conference begins 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 last July. In his less than eight months on the job, he has seen 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.

2010 expansion

In early June 2010, there were reports that the Pac-10 would be considering adding up to six teams to the conference, including Texas Tech University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, University of Colorado at Boulder, and possibly Texas A&M University.[27][28]

On June 10, 2010, the University of Colorado at Boulder officially accepted an invitation to join the Pac-10 Conference, effective in the 2012–2013 school year.[18][29]

On June 15, 2010, a deal was reached between Texas and the Big 12 Conference to keep Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, 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.[30]

On June 17, 2010, the University of Utah officially accepted an invitation to join the Pac-10 Conference, effective in the 2011–2012 school year.[18] This will make the Pac-10 conference a twelve-team conference when the Utah Utes and Colorado Buffaloes memberships become effective, immediately preceded by a likely one-year period as an eleven-team conference.

Utah will be the third former WAC member to join the Pac-10, after the Arizona schools. Their rivalry with Colorado will be renewed once that school joins - 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 continued their football rivalry for over a decade before ending it after the 1962 season.

On July 27, 2010, the conference unveiled a new logo and announced that the Pac-10 will be renamed to the Pac-12 once the two new universities join the conference.

Membership timeline

University of Colorado at Boulder University of Utah Arizona State University University of Arizona University of California, Los Angeles University of Montana University of Idaho University of Southern California Stanford University Washington State University Washington State University Oregon State University Oregon State University University of Oregon University of Oregon University of Washington University of California, Berkeley

NCAA national titles

NCAA National Championship trophies, rings, watches won by UCLA teams
School Team Individual
Men Women Total Men Women Total
Arizona 6 11 17 59 80 141
Arizona State 11 11 22 55 43 99
California 24 4 28 127 55 182
Oregon 13 4 17 74 16 90
Oregon State 3 0 3 32 7 39
Stanford 60 39 99 253 177 432
UCLA 71 35 106 162 99 261
USC 77 14 91 302 56 358
Washington 0 6 6 53 15 68
Washington State 2 0 2 79 6 85
Conference total 267 124 391 1196 554 1755

These totals do not include football national championships, which the NCAA does not officially declare. Various polls, formulas, and other third-party systems have been used to determine national championships, not all of which are universally accepted.

Southern California claims 11 national championships,[33] California claims 5,[34][35] Washington claims 4,[36] and Stanford and UCLA both claim 1.[37][38][39][40]

Conference champions

Football

Big Game, 2004 between Cal and Stanford

Each school within the conference has its own in-state, conference rivalry. One is an intracity rivalry (UCLA-USC), and another is within the same metropolitan area (Cal-Stanford). These rivalries (and the name given to the football forms) are:

There are other notable football rivalries within the Pac-10 conference.

All of the California schools consider each other major rivals, due to the culture clash between Northern and Southern California. For USC, the big game is UCLA. For Stanford, their big game is Cal. But for both Stanford and Cal, their second biggest game is USC.[41] Cal 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-10. Cal and USC also have a long history, having played each other every year in football since 1916.

Oregon and Washington also have an unofficial rivalry (despite recent efforts to give it the name "The Cascade Clash" or "The Columbia River Shootout"). All of the Northwest schools consider each other as rivals due to the proximity and long history.

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.[42][43]

USC and Notre Dame have an intersectional rivalry (See Notre Dame – USC rivalry). The games in odd-numbered years in Indiana are played in mid-October, while the games in even-numbered years in Los Angeles are usually played 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. Idaho rejoined FBS in 1996; the football rivalry has been dubbed Battle of the Palouse.

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 (4 home games and 4 away). This round-robin schedule is only shared by the Big East among BCS conferences. The schedule consists of one home and away game against the two schools in each region, plus the game against the primary rival.

Bowl games

The following is the current bowl selection order and the teams involved in each bowl:

Pick Name Location Opposing Conference Opposing Pick
1 Rose Bowl Pasadena, California Big Ten or BCS -
2 Alamo Bowl San Antonio, Texas Big 12 3
3 Holiday Bowl San Diego, California Big 12 5
4 Sun Bowl El Paso, Texas ACC 4
5 Maaco Bowl Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada MWC 1
6 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl San Francisco, California WAC (2010, 2013), Army (2011), Navy (2012) 1/2/3, -, -

See also

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 the only non-conference game in Division I basketball that was played twice a season (home-and-home). Unquestionably, 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 (Big East).

In baseball, there are intense rivalries between the four southern schools. Arizona, Arizona State, USC, and UCLA 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-10 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 followed: USC and UCLA (the L.A. teams), Arizona and Arizona State (the Arizona teams), Cal and Stanford (the Bay Area teams), Washington and Washington State (the Washington teams), and Oregon and Oregon State (the Oregon 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 at to how successful a team is against, for example, "the Bay Area schools" at home or away. At any given week, four regions are playing against each other, while the remaining one has their rivalry game, usually on the weekend. Those teams get the Thursday off unless they schedule a non-conference game.

Conference facilities

School Football stadium Capacity Basketball arena Capacity Baseball stadium Capacity
Arizona Arizona Stadium 57,803 McKale Center 14,545 [44] Kindall Field 6,500
Arizona State Sun Devil Stadium at Frank Kush Field 71,706 [45] Wells Fargo Arena 14,198 [46] Packard Stadium 7,875 [47]
California California Memorial Stadium 71,799 [48] Haas Pavilion 11,877 [49] Evans Diamond 2,500 [50]
Colorado Folsom Field 53,613[51] Coors Events Center 11,064[52] No baseball team
Oregon Autzen Stadium at Rich Brooks Field 54,000 [53] McArthur Court (start of 2010–11 season)
Matthew Knight Arena (opening January 2011)		 9,087 [54]
12,541		 PK Park 4,000
Oregon State Reser Stadium 45,674 [55] Gill Coliseum 10,400 [56] Goss Stadium at Coleman Field 3,248
Stanford Stanford Stadium 50,000 [57] Maples Pavilion 7,233 [58] Sunken Diamond 4,000 [59]
UCLA Rose Bowl 91,936 [60] Pauley Pavilion 12,819 [61] Jackie Robinson Stadium 2,000
USC Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 93,607 [62] Galen Center 10,258 [63] Dedeaux Field 2,500 [64]
Utah Rice-Eccles Stadium 45,017[65] Jon M. Huntsman Center 15,000[66] Spring Mobile Ballpark 15,500[67]
Washington Husky Stadium 72,500 [68] Bank of America Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion 10,000 [69] Husky Ballpark at Chaffey Field 1,500
Washington State Martin Stadium 35,117 Beasley Coliseum 12,058 [70] Bailey-Brayton Field 3,500 [71]

Note: future conference members shown in grey.

Commissioners

PCC

AAWU

Pacific-8

Pacific-10

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Colorado Buffaloes (2011) • Utah Utes (2011)
Football stadiums of the Pacific-10 Conference

Arizona Stadium (Arizona) • Autzen Stadium (Oregon) • Folsom Field (Colorado) (future member) • Husky Stadium (Washington) • Martin Stadium (Washington State) • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Southern California) • California Memorial Stadium/AT&T Park (California) • Reser Stadium (Oregon State) • Rice–Eccles Stadium (Utah) (future member)  • Rose Bowl (UCLA) • Stanford Stadium (Stanford) • Sun Devil Stadium (Arizona State)
Current basketball arenas in the Pacific-10 Conference

Beasley Coliseum (Washington State) • Haas Pavilion (California) • Hec Edmundson Pavilion (Washington) • Galen Center (USC) • Gill Coliseum (Oregon State) • Maples Pavilion (Stanford) • McArthur Court (Oregon) • McKale Center (Arizona) • Pauley Pavilion (UCLA) • Wells Fargo Arena (Arizona State)
Baseball parks of the Pacific-10 Conference
Kindall Field (Arizona)  · Packard Stadium (Arizona State)  · Evans Diamond (Cal)  · PK Park (Oregon) · Goss Stadium at Coleman Field (Oregon State)  · Sunken Diamond (Stanford) · Jackie Robinson Stadium (UCLA)  · Dedeaux Field (USC) · Husky Ballpark (Washington) · Bailey-Brayton Field (Washington State)
Current head men's basketball coaches of the Pacific-10 Conference

Sean Miller (Arizona) · Herb Sendek (Arizona State) · Mike Montgomery (California) · Dana Altman (Oregon) · Craig Robinson (Oregon State) · Johnny Dawkins (Stanford) · Ben Howland (UCLA) · Kevin O'Neill (USC) · Lorenzo Romar (Washington) · Ken Bone (Washington State)
Marching bands of the Pacific-10 Conference

Pride of Arizona (Arizona) • Arizona State University Sun Devil Marching Band (Arizona State) • University of California Marching Band (California) • Golden Buffalo Marching Band (Colorado) (future member) • Oregon Marching Band (Oregon) • Oregon State University Marching Band (Oregon State) • Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (Stanford) • UCLA Bruin Marching Band (UCLA) • Spirit of Troy (USC) • Pride of Utah (Utah) (future member) • University of Washington Husky Marching Band (Washington) • Washington State University Cougar Marching Band (Washington State)
Fight songs of the Pacific-10 Conference

Bear Down Arizona and Fight! Wildcats! Fight! (Arizona) • Maroon & Gold and Al Davis Fight Song (Arizona State) • Fight for California and Big C (California) • CU Fight Song (Colorado) (future member) • Mighty Oregon (Oregon) • Hail to Old OSU (Oregon State) • Come Join The Band and All Right Now (Stanford) • Sons of Westwood and Mighty Bruins (UCLA) • Fight On (Southern California) • Utah Man (Utah) (future member) • Bow Down to Washington (Washington) • WSU Fight Song (Washington State)
Mascots of the Pacific-10 Conference

Wilbur and Wilma Wildcat (Arizona) • Sparky the Sun Devil (Arizona State) • Stanford Tree (Stanford) (*unofficial) • Oski (California) • Ralphie / Chip (Colorado) (future member) • The Oregon Duck (Oregon) • Benny Beaver (Oregon State) • Joe and Josephine Bruin (UCLA) • Traveler (Southern California) • Swoop (Utah) (future member) • Dubs I and Harry the Husky(Washington) • Butch T. Cougar (Washington State)
Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
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