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| Formerly | Pacific Coast Conference (PCC, 1915–1959) Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU, 1959–1968) Pacific-8 (1968–1978) Pacific-10 (1978–2011) |
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| Association | NCAA |
| Founded | 1915 (as Pacific Coast Conference) 1959 (as AAWU) |
| Commissioner | Teresa Gould (since March 1, 2024) |
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| Division | Division I |
| Subdivision | FBS |
| No. of teams | 2 |
| Headquarters | San Ramon, California |
| Region | Pacific Northwest |
| Official website | pac-12 |
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The Pac-12 Conference (Pacific-12) is a collegiate athletic conference that operates in the Western United States. The Pac-12 participates at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level for all sports, and its football teams competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A), the highest level of NCAA football competition. Its two members are Oregon State and Washington State.
The modern Pac-12 Conference formed after 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.[1] Washington's national title in women's rowing in 2017 was the 500th NCAA championship won by a Pac-12 school.[2]
On August 2, 2024, 10 of the 12 members departed from the conference. The Pac-12 will continue to operate as a two-team conference for at least the 2024–25 academic year, sponsoring five sports – baseball, football, track & field, women's gymnastics and wrestling.[3]
Member universities
Full members
The Pac-12 currently has two full-member institutions. The conference was previously split into two divisions, the North Division and the South Division, for football only.
| Institution | Location | Founded | Joined | Type | Enrollment (Fall 2023)[4] |
Endowment (billions)[5] |
Nickname | Colors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon State University | Corvallis, Oregon | 1868 | 1915 | Public | 36,636 | $0.830 | Beavers | |
| Washington State University | Pullman, Washington | 1890 | 1917 | Public | 26,490 | $1.267 | Cougars |
Membership map
Affiliate members
The Pac-12 has two affiliate member institutions in California and one in Arkansas.
| Institution | Location | Founded | Joined | Type | Enrollment | Nickname | Colors | Pac-12 sport(s) |
Primary conference |
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| California Polytechnic State University | San Luis Obispo, California | 1901 | 1986–87 | Public | 21,812[6] | Mustangs | Wrestling | Big West | |
| California State University, Bakersfield[a] | Bakersfield, California | 1965 | 1987–88 | 11,206[9] | Roadrunners | ||||
| University of Arkansas at Little Rock | Little Rock, Arkansas | 1927 | 2019–20 | 8,197[10] | Trojans | OVC |
- Notes
- ^ Cal State–Bakersfield initially announced it would become a men's soccer affiliate starting in 2013,[7] but never went through with those plans, accepting an invitation to become an all-sports member of the Western Athletic Conference, which sponsors men's soccer, also in 2013; it would move to the Big West Conference, which also sponsors men's soccer, in 2020. The school maintains its Pac-12 affiliation in wrestling, which neither the WAC nor the Big West sponsors.[8]
Former full members
No school had left the Pac-12 from its founding as the AAWU in 1959 until 2024, when 10 of its 12 schools left. Two members of the PCC, Idaho and Montana, were not invited to join the AAWU or its successors.