The Pac-12 Football Championship Game is an annual college football game held by the Pac-12 Conference to determine the season's conference champion. The inaugural game was held on December 2, 2011.
The game pits the champion of the Pac-12 North Division against the champion of the Pac-12 South Division. Since 2014, the game has been played at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The first three games were held at the home stadium of the division winner with the better conference record: Autzen Stadium in 2011, Stanford Stadium in 2012, and Sun Devil Stadium in 2013.
Television broadcast rights to the game are shared by Fox Sports and ESPN/ABC. ESPN Radio holds the radio rights.
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History
In 2011, the Pacific-10 Conference added Colorado and Utah, bringing the membership total to 12 teams and becoming the Pacific-12. Consequently, the conference split into two six-team divisions and created an annual conference championship game.
In the first season of the newly expanded Pac-12 in 2011, USC (7-2) finished first in the South Division but was ineligible to play in postseason games due to NCAA sanctions. UCLA (5-4) represented the South Division in the Pac-12 Championship Game as its second-place team.
Broadcast rights to the game are held by ESPN and Fox on a 12-year deal where with the rights alternating on a year-by-year cycle since 2012. Fox broadcast the inaugural game in 2011.
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Team selection criteria
Division standings are based on each team's overall conference record. In the event that two teams finish in a tie for first place, the championship game berth goes to the winner of the season's head-to-head contest between the two teams. If three or more teams are tied, the following tiebreakers are used to determine the division champion:
Results
The North Division representative has won every edition of the Pac-12 Championship Game since its inception in 2011. Rankings are from the AP Poll at time of the matchup.
Results by year
Results by team
- California, Oregon State, Utah and Washington State have yet to make an appearance in the Pac-12 Championship Game.
Site selection criteria
During its first three years, the site of the Pac-12 Championship Game was the home stadium of the division champion with the superior overall conference record. In the event that the two division champions were tied, the head-to-head record would be used as the tiebreaker. If the two teams did not meet during the season, a BCS component was to be used.
After three years of the home-hosting model, the Pac-12 announced a three-year deal to host the game at the neutral site of Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. In 2017, the Pac-12 announced it would keep the game at Levi's Stadium through 2019 with an option for 2020.
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