Pacific-10 Conference

Pacific-10 Conference

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      West Coast American collegiate athletic association that grew out of several earlier versions, the first of which, the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), was founded in 1915. The original members were the University of California (California, University of) (Berkeley), the University of Washington (Washington, University of), the University of Oregon (Oregon, University of), and Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University). State College of Washington (now Washington State University) joined in 1916, Stanford University in 1918, the University of Southern California (Southern California, University of) (USC) and the University of Idaho in 1922, the University of Montana in 1924, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1928. Montana dropped out in 1950, and the conference itself was dissolved in 1959, after three years of acrimony over penalties assessed on member institutions for operating “slush funds.”

      California, Stanford, USC, UCLA, and Washington formed the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU); after Washington State joined the new conference in 1962 and Oregon and Oregon State in 1964, the name was changed to the Pacific-8 Conference. The University of Arizona (Arizona, University of) and Arizona State University were admitted in 1978, completing the renamed Pacific-10 Conference that continues today.

      Beginning in 1916 (with one earlier contest in 1902), the conference hosted the annual Rose Bowl, usually held on New Year's Day. From 1947 the opponent was the champion of the Big Ten (Big Ten Conference). In resistance to the overcommercialization of college gridiron football, the conference permitted only one team to play in a postseason bowl game until that restriction was dropped in 1975. The conference's exclusive arrangement with the Rose Bowl ended in January 2002, when the game first took its turn hosting the national championship game in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). The Pac-10 remains the Rose Bowl host in years in which the game is not the site of the national championship game.

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