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Pac-12 Conference

Pac-12 Conference
FormerlyPacific Coast Conference
(PCC, 1915–1959)
Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU, 1959–1968)
Pacific-8 (1968–1978)
Pacific-10 (1978–2011)
AssociationNCAA
Founded1915 (1915)
(as Pacific Coast Conference)
1959 (1959)
(as AAWU)
CommissionerTeresa Gould (since February 29, 2024)
Sports fielded
  • 24
    • men's: 11
    • women's: 13
DivisionDivision I
SubdivisionFBS
No. of teams12 (2 in 2024)
HeadquartersSan Ramon, California
Region
Official websitepac-12.com
Locations
Location of teams in

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.

Ten of the twelve members have announced their intention to leave the conference in 2024, and the conference is expected to operate as a two-team conference at least in 2024.

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] 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.[2]

  1. ^ "Conference of Champions". Pac-12. Retrieved June 1, 2023.
  2. ^ "Washington's NCAA Championship makes Pac-12 the first to 500 NCAA titles". Pac-12. Retrieved July 9, 2017.