Pacific-12 Conference
The Pacific-12 Conference , abbreviated to Pac-12 , is a twelve-university regional league in college sports in the United States , which is organized in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). In college football, she is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision and was one of six conferences with a guaranteed right to participate in a game of the Bowl Championship Series , in which the winner of the Pac-12 participated in the Rose Bowl .
The Pacific-12 Conference was founded in 1959 as the Athletic Association of Western Universities and renamed several times after corresponding expansions (1968 to 1978: Pacific-8 Conference ; 1978 to 2011: Pacific-10 Conference ), before being admitted to the University of Colorado, Boulder and the University of Utah was given its current name in July 2011. The forerunner of the Pac-12 was the Pacific Coast Conference , which existed from 1916 to 1959, and which also included the five founding members of the Pac-12.
Pac-12 member colleges are particularly located on the west coast of the United States and in the Mountain States . The Pac-12 markets itself as the "Conference of Champions" because its members combined have won more NCAA championships in team sports than any other conference in American college sports . The conference, which is based in the Californian city of Walnut Creek , organizes competitions in eleven different sports for men and women.
Eight of the twelve member universities belong to the Association of American Universities , which means that they are among the sixty most research-intensive American universities. Only the Big Ten Conference has more, which means that they have to impose restrictions on the recruitment of top-class athletes and are only allowed to take the best in school .
Members
Associate members
university | place | Team name | founded | Sponsorship | joined | sport | Main Conference |
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California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) | San Luis Obispo , California | Mustangs | 1901 | state | 1986 | Wrestling | Big West Conference |
California State University, Bakersfield (CSU Bakersfield) | Bakersfield , California | Roadrunners | 1965 | state | 1986 | Wrestling | Big West Conference |
University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Little Rock) | Little Rock , Arkansas | Trojans | 1927 | state | 2019 | Wrestling | Sun Belt Conference |
San Diego State University | San Diego , California | Aztecs | 1897 | state | 2005 | Soccer (men) | Mountain West Conference |
Conference venues
university | Football stadium | capacity | Basketball stadium | capacity |
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Stanford | Stanford Stadium | 50,000 | Maples Pavilion | 7,392 |
California | California Memorial Stadium | 72,516 | Haas Pavilion | 12,172 |
UCLA | Rose Bowl Stadium | 92,542 | Pauley Pavilion | 12,829 |
USC | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | 93,607 | Galen Center | 10,258 |
Washington | Husky Stadium | 72,500 | Alaska Airlines Arena | 10,000 |
Washington State | Martin Stadium | 35,117 | Beasley Coliseum | 12,058 |
Oregon State | Reser Stadium | 45,674 | Gill Coliseum | 10,400 |
Oregon | Autzen stage | 54,000 | Matthew Knight Arena | 12,364 |
Arizona State | Sun Devil Stadium | 73,379 | Wells Fargo Arena | 14,198 |
Arizona | Arizona Stadium | 57,803 | McKale Center | 14,545 |
Colorado | Folsom Field | 53,750 | Coors Events Center | 11,064 |
Utah | Rice-Eccles Stadium | 45,017 | Jon M. Huntsman Center | 15,000 |
Web links
- Pac-12 Official Website
Individual evidence
- ^ Association of American Universities website. Retrieved July 17, 2017 (English).
- ^ Arnd Krüger : American sport between isolationism and internationalism. Competitive sport. 1988, 18: 1. pp. 43-47 ; 2. S. 47-50 . Retrieved June 7, 2016.