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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 ten members compete in 22 NCAA sports. It was founded as the Athletic Association of Western Universities or AAWU in 1959, and went by the names Big Five, Big Six, and Pacific 8 before becoming the Pacific 10 in 1978.

Membership

Full members

Institution	Location	Founded	Affiliation	Enrollment	Nickname	NCAA Championships
University of Arizona	Tucson, Arizona	1885	Public	37,036	Wildcats	19
Arizona State University	Tempe, Arizona	1885	Public	64,394	Sun Devils	17
University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley, California	1868	Public (University of California system)	33,000	Golden Bears	47
University of Oregon	Eugene, Oregon	1876	Public (Oregon University System)	20,339	Ducks	14
Oregon State University	Corvallis, Oregon	1868	Public (Oregon University System)	19,276	Beavers	3
Stanford University	Palo Alto, California	1891	Private/Non-sectarian	14,654	Cardinal	94
University of California, Los Angeles	Los Angeles, California	1919	Public (University of California system)	38,000	Bruins	102
University of Southern California	Los Angeles, California	1880	Private/Non-sectarian	32,160	Trojans	84
University of Washington	Seattle, Washington	1861	Public	42,708	Huskies	26
Washington State University	Pullman, Washington	1890	Public	23,121	Cougars	2

Associate members (men's soccer)

San Diego State University Aztecs

Associate members (wrestling)

Boise State Broncos

Cal Poly Mustangs

Cal State Fullerton Titans

Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners

Portland State Vikings

UC Davis Aggies

History

Pacific Coast Conference

The roots of the Pac-10 Conference go back to December 15, 1915, when the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) was founded at a meeting at the Oregon Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Charter members were the University of California (now University of California, Berkeley), the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and Oregon State 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 Cal, Stanford, UCLA, USC, and Washington 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've 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 member of the Pentagon vetoed the idea and the service academies backed out.
On July 1, 1959 the 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 1960-1962 Washington State University joined in 1962. The conference was then known as the Big Six.
Of Division I conferences, only the Ivy League has maintained its current membership for a longer time than the Pac-10.

Pac-10 football rivalries

The Pac-10 is an anomaly in college sports, in that 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:

Cal-Stanford (The Big Game, winner gets the Stanford Axe). Notable history include The Play

Arizona-Arizona State (The Duel in the Desert, winner gets the Territorial Cup)

Washington-Washington State (winner gets the Apple Cup), notable history includes the Snow Bowl

Oregon-Oregon State rivalry (The Civil War, winner gets the Platypus Trophy).

UCLA-USC rivalry (winner gets the Victory Bell) There 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. USC and Stanford have long-standing football grudge as the only two private institutions in the conference . Cal and UCLA have a rivalry rooted in their shared history as the top programs within the University of California system. 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") as the two most prominent schools in the Northwest. All of the Northwest schools consider each other as rivals due to the proximity and long history.
   Arizona and New Mexico had a rivalry game played for the Kit Carson Rifle trophy.
   USC and Notre Dame have an intersectional rivalry (See Notre Dame-USC rivalry). The games in Indiana are played in mid-October, while the games in Los Angeles are usually played in late November.
   With the NCAA permanently approving 12-game schedules in college football in 2006, the Pac-10 — alone among major conferences in doing so — went to a nine-game conference schedule in which member schools now play each conference opponent every year. Previously, the schools didn't play one non-rival opponent, resulting in an eight-game conference schedule (4 home games and 4 away).

Rivalries in other sports

All of the intra-conference rivalries in football are carried over into other sports. However, over the years UCLA and Arizona have developed a primarily basketball rivalry between the two schools due to the fact that both teams have historically dominated the conference. In the last few years, Stanford's success has also led to a rivalry with Arizona, which peaked in 2000 with both receiving #1 seeds in the NCAA tournament. In addition, certain nonconference rivalries have developed in other sports.
   During the 1970s, UCLA and Notre Dame had an intense men's basketball rivalry. For several years, it was the only nonconference 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.
   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 #97 USC and #95 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.
   The campuses of Washington State University and the University of Idaho are eight miles apart, creating a natural border war. Recently, the football rivalry has been dubbed Battle of the Palouse.
   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.

Conference facilities

School	Football stadium	Capacity	Basketball arena	Capacity	Baseball stadium	Capacity
Arizona	Arizona Stadium	57,803	McKale Center	14,545	Kindall Field	6,500
Arizona State	Sun Devil Stadium at Frank Kush Field	73,379	Wells Fargo Arena	14,198	Packard Stadium	7,785
California	California Memorial Stadium	72,516	Haas Pavilion	12,172	Evans Diamond	2,500
Oregon	Autzen Stadium at Rich Brooks Field	54,000	McArthur Court	9,087	Eugene Ballpark ** Resumes play in 2008-09	5,000
Oregon State	Reser Stadium	45,674	Gill Coliseum	10,400	Goss Stadium at Coleman Field	3,284
Stanford	Stanford Stadium	50,000	Maples Pavilion	7,392	Sunken Diamond	4,000
UCLA	Rose Bowl	92,542	Pauley Pavilion	12,829	Jackie Robinson Stadium	1,250
USC	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	92,000	Galen Center	10,258	Dedeaux Field	2,500
Washington	Husky Stadium	72,500	Bank of America Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion	10,000	Husky Ballpark	1,500
Washington State	Martin Stadium	35,117	Beasley Coliseum	12,058	Bailey-Brayton Field	3,500

Past Conference Champions

Men's Basketball

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 the PCC basketball champion. If two division teams tied, they'd 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 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, 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 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament format began in 1987. It was dropped after 1990 upon opposition from coaches and poor revenue and attendance.
   The tournament was restarted by a 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.

Season	Conference Champion (#)	Tournament Champion (#)
1915-16	California (1) Oregon State (1)
1916-17	Washington State (1)
1918-19	Oregon (1)
1919-20	Stanford (1)
1920-21	California (2) Stanford (2)
1921-22	Idaho (1)
1922-23	Idaho (2)
1923-24	California (3)
1924-25	California (4)
1925-26	California (5)
1926-27	California (6)
1927-28	USC (1)
1928-29	California (7)
1929-30	USC (2)
1930-31	Washington (1)
1931-32	California (8)
1932-33	Oregon State (2)
1933-34	Washington (2)
1934-35	USC (3)
1935-36	Stanford (3)
1936-37	Stanford (4)
1937-38	Stanford (5)
1938-39	Oregon (2)
1939-40	USC (4)
1940-41	Washington State (2)
1941-42	Stanford (6)
1942-43	Washington (3)
1943-44	California (9) Washington (4)
1944-45	Oregon (3) UCLA (1)
1945-46	California (10)
1946-47	Oregon State (3)
1947-48	Washington (5)
1948-49	Oregon State (4)
1949-50	UCLA (2)
1950-51	Washington (6)
1951-52	UCLA (3)
1952-53	Washington (7)
1953-54	USC (5)
1954-55	Oregon State (5)
1955-56	UCLA (4)
1956-57	California (11)
1957-58	California (12) Oregon State (6)
1958-59	California (13)
1959-60	California (14)
1960-61	USC (6)
1961-62	UCLA (5)
1962-63	Stanford (7) UCLA (6)
1963-64	UCLA (7)
1964-65	UCLA (8)
1965-66	Oregon State (7)
1966-67	UCLA (9)
1967-68	UCLA (10)
1968-69	UCLA (11)
1969-70	UCLA (12)
1970-71	UCLA (13)
1971-72	UCLA (14)
1972-73	UCLA (15)
1973-74	UCLA (16)
1974-75	UCLA (17)
1975-76	UCLA (18)
1976-77	UCLA (19)
1977-78	UCLA (20)
1978-79	UCLA (21)
1979-80	Oregon State (8)
1980-81	Oregon State (9)
1981-82	Oregon State (10)
1982-83	UCLA (22)
1983-84	Oregon State (11) Washington (8)
1984-85	USC (7) Washington (9)
1985-86	Arizona (1)
1986-87	UCLA (23)	UCLA (1)
1987-88	Arizona (2)	Arizona (1)
1988-89	Arizona (3)	Arizona (2)
1989-90	Arizona (4) Oregon State (12)	Arizona (3)
1990-91	Arizona (5)
1991-92	UCLA (24)
1992-93	Arizona (6)
1993-94	Arizona (7)
1994-95	UCLA (25)
1995-96	UCLA (26)
1996-97	UCLA (27)
1997-98	Arizona (8)
1998-99	Stanford (8)
1999-00	Arizona (9) Stanford (9)
2000-01	Stanford (10)
2001-02	Oregon (4)	Arizona (4)
2002-03	Arizona (10)	Oregon (1)
2003-04	Stanford (11)	Stanford (1)
2004-05	Arizona (11)	Washington (1)
2005-06	UCLA (28)	UCLA (2)
2006-07	UCLA (29)	Oregon (2)
2007-08	UCLA (30)	UCLA (3)

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