Pacific Ten Conference

Data

Established

1915

Members

Sports fielded

22 (11 men's, 11 women's)

Region

West Coast of the United States

States

4 - Arizona, California, Oregon,
Washington

Past names

Pacific Coast Conference,
Athletic Association of Western Universities,
Pacific-8 Conference

Headquarters

Walnut Creek, California

The Pacific Ten Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I (Division I-A for football).

Membership

Institution	Location	Founded	Affiliation	Enrollment	Team Nickname
University of Arizona	Tucson, Arizona	1885	Public	37,036	Wildcats
Arizona State University	Tempe, Arizona	1885	Public	61,033	Sun Devils
University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley, California	1868	Public (University of California)	33,000	Golden Bears
University of Oregon	Eugene, Oregon	1876	Public (Oregon University System)	20,339	Ducks
Oregon State University	Corvallis, Oregon	1858	Public (Oregon University System)	18,979	Beavers
Stanford University	Stanford, California	1891	Private/Non-sectarian	14,654	Cardinal
University of California, Los Angeles	Los Angeles, California	1919	Public (University of California)	38,000	Bruins
University of Southern California	Los Angeles, California	1880	Private/Non-sectarian	32,160	Trojans
University of Washington	Seattle, Washington	1861	Public	42,708	Huskies
Washington State University	Pullman, Washington	1890	Public	23,121	Cougars

The roots of the Pacific-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. Original membership consisted of four schools: the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and Oregon State College (now Oregon State University).

The Pacific Coast Conference play began in 1916. One year later, Washington State College (now Washington State University), was accepted into the Conference, and Stanford University joined in 1918.

In 1922, the PCC expanded to eight teams with the admission of the University of Southern California and the University of Idaho. The University of Montana joined the Conference in 1924, and in 1928, the PCC grew to 10 members with the addition of UCLA.

The Pacific Coast Conference competed as a 10-team league until 1950, with the exception of 1943-45, when World War II curtailed intercollegiate athletic competition to a minimum. In 1950, Montana resigned from the Conference and joined the Mountain States Conference. The PCC continued as a nine-team Conference through 1958.

Following a "pay-for-play" scandal at several PCC institutions, the PCC was dissolved and the Pac-10 was founded on July 1, 1959 as the Athletic Association of Western Universities, with Cal, Stanford, UCLA, USC and Washington as charter members. Washington State joined in 1962; Oregon and Oregon State joined in 1964. In 1968, the name Pacific-8 Conference was adopted. In 1978, Arizona and Arizona State joined, creating the Pac-10 in its current form. Of Division I conferences, only the Ivy League has maintained its current membership for a longer time.

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, 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).

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, and another is within the same metropolitan area. These rivalries (and the name given to the football forms) are:
*Arizona-Arizona State (winner gets the Territorial Cup)
*Washington-Washington State (winner gets the Apple Cup)
*Oregon-Oregon State (The Civil War)
*Cal-Stanford (The Big Game, winner gets the Stanford Axe)
*UCLA-USC (winner gets the Victory Bell)

USC also has a long-standing rivalry with Notre Dame, meeting 75 times in the battle for the Jeweled Shillelagh. The Irish war club is decorated with rubies for Trojan victories and emeralds for Irish wins. The rivalry initially started in the Knute Rockne era when a USC alumn bragged about the cold climate of Notre Dame's schedule compared to USC's. The record stands at 42-30-5 in favor of Notre Dame. USC and Stanford have also had a long-standing football grudge: they are the two private schools in the league and early on Stanford was the traditional football powerhouse on the West CoastBeano Cook, Longstanding West Coast rivalry, ESPN Classic.com, Sept. 26, 2001, Accessed June 14, 2006.

Stanford University also holds a rivalry game with Notre Dame.

Oregon has a long standing heated rivalry with Washington in which fans from both sides have stated that they dislike each other, sometimes more than that of their geographical rivals.

Washington State also has a rivalry with the University of Idaho, due to the fact that they are located a mere eight miles away from each other. This rivalry is much less fiercely contested than the intra-state rivalry with Washington, and is generally considered to be more important to Idaho's fans than to WSU's.

With the NCAA permanently approving 12-game schedules in college football, the Pac-10 will go to nine conference games starting in 2006, marking the first time the league has featured true round-robin play since Arizona and Arizona State joined the conference in 1978.

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 had 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 2001 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 an independent in sports other than football.

In recent years, Washington and Washington State have developed a major in-state rivalry in men's basketball with Gonzaga. Gonzaga has largely dominated against Washington State, while the Washington-Gonzaga matchup has been highly competitive.

Cal and UCLA also share a rivalry (albeit it is not as heated as those with their local counterparts). Their rivalry is rooted in their shared history as elite campuses within the University of California system (UCLA was once considered a southern extension of the Cal Berkeley campus), the culture clash between Northern and Southern California, and the controversy over UCLA's "theft" of Cal's fight song.

Past Conference Champions

Men's Basketball

PCC
*1915-16-Oregon State/California
*1916-17-Washington State
*1918-19-Oregon
*1919-20-Stanford
*1920-21-Stanford/California
*1921-22-Idaho
*1922-23-Idaho
*1923-24-California
*1924-25-California
*1925-26-California
*1926-27-California
*1927-28-USC
*1928-29-California
*1929-30-USC
*1930-31-Washington
*1931-32-California
*1932-33-Oregon State
*1933-34-Washington
*1934-35-USC
*1935-36-Stanford
*1936-37-Stanford
*1937-38-Stanford
*1938-39-Oregon
*1939-40-USC
*1940-41-Washington State
*1941-42-Stanford
*1942-43-Washington
*1943-44-Washington/California
*1944-45-Oregon/UCLA
*1945-46-California
*1946-47-Oregon State
*1947-48-Washington
*1948-49-Oregon State
*1949-50-UCLA
*1950-51-Washington
*1951-52-UCLA
*1952-53-Washington
*1953-54-USC
*1954-55-Oregon State
*1955-56-UCLA
*1956-57-California
*1957-58-Oregon State/California
*1958-59-California

AAWU/Pac-8/Pac-10
*1959-60-California
*1960-61-USC
*1961-62-UCLA
*1962-63-Stanford/UCLA
*1963-64-UCLA
*1964-65-UCLA
*1965-66-Oregon State
*1966-67-UCLA
*1967-68-UCLA
*1968-69-UCLA
*1969-70-UCLA
*1970-71-UCLA
*1971-72-UCLA
*1972-73-UCLA
*1973-74-UCLA
*1974-75-UCLA
*1975-76-UCLA
*1976-77-UCLA
*1977-78-UCLA
*1978-79-UCLA
*1979-80-Oregon State
*1980-81-Oregon State
*1981-82-Oregon State
*1982-83-UCLA
*1983-84-Oregon State/Washington
*1984-85-USC/Washington
*1985-86-Arizona
*1986-87-UCLA
*1987-88-Arizona
*1988-89-Arizona
*1989-90-Arizona/Oregon State
*1990-91-Arizona
*1991-92-UCLA
*1992-93-Arizona
*1993-94-Arizona
*1994-95-UCLA
*1995-96-UCLA
*1996-97-UCLA
*1997-98-Arizona
*1998-99-Stanford
*1999-00-Arizona/Stanford
*2000-01-Stanford
*2001-02-Oregon
*2002-03-Arizona
*2003-04-Stanford
*2004-05-Arizona
*2005-06-UCLA

Women's Basketball

*1985-86-USC
*1986-87-USC
*1987-88-Washington
*1988-89-Stanford
*1989-90-Stanford/Washington
*1990-91-Stanford
*1991-92-Stanford
*1992-93-Stanford
*1993-94-USC
*1994-95-Stanford
*1995-96-Stanford
*1996-97-Stanford
*1997-98-Stanford
*1998-99-UCLA/Oregon
*1999-00-Oregon
*2000-01-Arizona State/Stanford/Washington
*2001-02-Stanford
*2002-03-Stanford
*2003-04-Arizona/Stanford
*2004-05-Stanford
*2005-06-Stanford

Football

Season	Champion!Conference Record
1959	USC	3-1-0
	UCLA	3-1-0
	Washington	3-1-0
1960	Washington	4-0-0
1961	UCLA	3-1-0
1962	USC	4-0-0
1963	Washington	4-1-0
1964	Oregon State	3-1-0
1964	USC	3-1-0
1965	UCLA	4-0-0
1966	USC	4-1-0
1967	USC	6-1-0
1968	USC	6-0-0
1969	USC	6-0-0
1970	Stanford	6-1-0
1971	Stanford	6-1-0
1972	USC	7-0-0
1973	USC	7-0-0
1974	USC	6-0-1
1975	California	6-1-0
1975	UCLA	6-1-0
1976	USC	7-0-0
1977	Washington	6-1-0
1978	USC	6-1-0
1979	USC	6-0-1
1980	Washington	6-1-0
1981	Washington	6-2-0
1982	UCLA	5-1-1
1983	UCLA	6-1-1
1984	USC	7-1-0
1985	UCLA	6-2-0
1986	Arizona State	5-1-1
1987	USC	7-1-0
1987	UCLA	7-1-0
1988	USC	8-0-0
1989	USC	6-0-1
1990	Washington	7-0-1
1991	Washington	8-0-0
1992	Stanford	6-2-0
1992	Washington	6-2-0
1993	Arizona	6-2-0
	USC	6-2-0
	UCLA	6-2-0
1994	Oregon	7-1-0
1995	USC	6-1-1
1995	Washington	6-1-1
1996	Arizona State	8-0-0
1997	UCLA	7-1-0
1997	Washington State	7-1-0
1998	UCLA	8-0
1999	Stanford	7-1
2000	Oregon	7-1
	Oregon State	7-1
	Washington	7-1
2001	Oregon	7-1
2002	USC	7-1
2002	Washington State	7-1
2003	USC	7-1
2004	USC	8-0
2005	USC	8-0

Commissioners

PCC

*Edwin N. Atherton 1940-44
*Victor O. Schmidt 1944-59

AAWU

* Thomas J. Hamilton 1959-68

Pacific-8

* Thomas J. Hamilton 1968-71
* Wiles Hallock 1971-78

Pacific-10

* Wiles Hallock 1978-83
* Thomas C. Hansen 1983-

Conference facilities

School	Football stadium	Stadium capacity	Basketball arena!Arena capacity
Arizona	Arizona Stadium	56,000	McKale Center	14,545
Arizona State	Sun Devil Stadium	73,379	Wells Fargo Arena	14,198
California	California Memorial Stadium	72,662	Haas Pavilion	12,172
Oregon	Autzen Stadium	54,000	McArthur Court	9,087
Oregon State	Reser Stadium	43,300	Gill Coliseum	10,400
Stanford	Stanford Stadium	50,000	Maples Pavilion	7,392
UCLA	Rose Bowl	92,542	Pauley Pavilion	12,829
USC	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	92,516	Galen Center	10,258
Washington	Husky Stadium	72,500	Bank of America Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion	10,000
Washington State	Martin Stadium	37,600	Beasley Coliseum	12,058

Reference

External links

*Pacific Ten Conference Official Website

Pacific Ten Conference: Encyclopedia BETA

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