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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). This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... NCAA conferences Division I Division I-A football Bowl Championship Series conferences Atlantic Coast Conference Big Ten Conference Big Twelve Conference Big East Conference Pacific Ten Conference Southeastern Conference Non BCS conferences Conference USA Mid-American Conference Mountain West Conference The University of Utah participated in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ...

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Associate Members

History

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). Jump to: navigation, search December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search The Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) was a college athletic conference in the United States, now defunct. ... Jump to: navigation, search Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon, and county seat of Multnomah County. ...

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. Jump to: navigation, search The University of Idaho is a land-grant university formed by the Territorial Legislature of Idaho in 1889, located in Moscow, Idaho. ... University of Montana The University of Montana campus, 1999. ...

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.

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. Jump to: navigation, search July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...

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 University for men's soccer, and University of California, Davis and Boise State University for wrestling). The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation is a College Athletic Conference whose member teams are located in the western United States. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Olympic Games, or Olympics, is an international multi-sport event taking place every two years and alternating between Summer and Winter Games. ... Jump to: navigation, search A landmark architecture featured in the school logo. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Jump to: navigation, search The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten University of California campuses. ... Jump to: navigation, search Boise State University is a state university located near downtown Boise, the capital city of Idaho. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

College Football Rivalries involving Pac-10 Teams

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. In fact, the 10 teams that make up the Pac-10 can be divided into five major rivalries. Those are:

USC also has a long-standing rivalry with Notre Dame, meeting 75 times in the battle for the Jewelled Shillelagh. The Irish war club is decorated with rubies for Trojan victories and emeralds for Irish wins. The record stands at 42-30-5 in favor of Notre Dame. The Territorial Cup is the trophy which is annually awarded to the winner of the college football game between the Arizona State University and the University of Arizona. ... The Apple Cup is an annual college American football game between cross_state rivals the University of Washington (UW) and Washington State University (WSU), the two largest universities in Washington State. ... The Civil War is the colloquial name for the annual college football game in the U.S. state of Oregon between cross-state rivals Oregon State University (the OSU Beavers) and the University of Oregon (the U of O Ducks). ... Jump to: navigation, search Rally Committee running Cal flags across the field at the 2002 Big Game. ... The Stanford Axe is granted custody to the winner of the annual Big Game of American football between the University of California, Berkeley (Cal) and Stanford University. ... The Victory Bell is awarded to the winner of the annual football game between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Southern California (USC). ... Jump to: navigation, search Not to be confused with the University of Notre Dame Australia The University of Notre Dame is a leading Roman Catholic institution of higher learning, named for and consecrated under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary. ... The shillelagh is a traveling trophy passed between the University of Southern California and the University of Notre Dame, being held by the winner of the annual football match. ...

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 rivarly 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. Jump to: navigation, search The University of Idaho is a land-grant university formed by the Territorial Legislature of Idaho in 1889, located in Moscow, Idaho. ...

Year-by-Year Conference Football Champs, with Conference Record

Pac-10 Rumors

Some rumors have circulated among sports columnists and fans that the Pac-10 may one day look to add two more teams to its conference. The addition of two teams would create two divisions within the conference, similar to that of the Big-12, MAC, and the SEC. It has been speculated that the addition of two teams could lead to a season end football game to determine conference champion. Among some of the schools rumored to be sought after by the Pac-10 would be Utah & BYU. A more persistent rumor involves San Diego State University (SDSU) but a partner for SDSU never seems to materialize. This of course would require a major realignment and would hurt the Mountain West Conference by removing one or more of its top schools. With the Pac-10 currently (2005) planning a nine game conference schedule for football (as opposed to the current eight game schedule), this makes such rumors less likely to materialize. Never-the-less, these types of rumors still manage to make the rounds of college football circles. Categories: College athletics conferences ... The Mid-American Conference is a College Athletic Conference whose members are located mainly in the Midwestern United States; nine of the schools are in Ohio and Michigan alone. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a college athletic conference which operates in the southeastern United States. ... The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U) was established by Mormon leader Brigham Young. ... BYU can refer to: Bangladesh Youth Union Brigham Young University. ... Jump to: navigation, search A landmark architecture featured in the school logo. ... SDSU can be one of two schools: San Diego State University in San Diego, California [1] South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota [2] This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... SDSU can be one of two schools: San Diego State University in San Diego, California [1] South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota [2] This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Mountain West Conference (or MWC), the youngest of the College Athletic Conferences affiliated with the NCAA’s Division I-A, officially began operations in July 1999. ...

PCC Commissioners

Pac-10/Pac-8/AAWU Commissioners

External link

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