Pac-12 Conference
The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the Western United States. It participates at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I level for all sports, and its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the highest level of NCAA football competition. The conference currently has two members, Oregon State University and Washington State University.
The modern Pac-12 Conference formed after the disbanding of the Pacific Coast Conference, the principal members of which founded the Athletic Association of Western Universities in 1959. The conference previously went by the names Big Five, Big Six, Pacific-8, and Pacific-10. The Pac-12 moniker was adopted in 2011 with the addition of Colorado and Utah.
Nicknamed the "Conference of Champions", the Pac-12 has won more NCAA national championships in team sports than any other conference in history. Washington's national title in women's rowing in 2017 was the 500th NCAA championship won by a Pac-12 school. The Pac-12 holds a 200-plus championship lead over the second-place conference.
On August 2, 2024, 10 of 12 members departed from the conference. The Pac-12 is operating as a two-team conference through the 2025–26 academic year, sponsoring six sports: baseball, football, men's and women's track and field, women's gymnastics, and men's wrestling. In 2026, the Pac-12 will expand to nine members and nineteen sports with the addition of five schools from the Mountain West Conference, one from the Sun Belt Conference, and one from the West Coast Conference.
Member universities
Full members
The Pac-12 currently has two full-member institutions. The conference was previously split into [|two divisions], the North Division and the South Division, for football only.| Institution | Location | Founded | Joined | Type | Enrollment | Endowment | Nickname | Colors |
| Oregon State University | Corvallis, Oregon | 1868 | 1915, 1964 | Public | 35,622 | $896 | Beavers | |
| Washington State University | Pullman, Washington | 1890 | 1917, 1962 | Public | 26,490 | $1,383 | Cougars |
Membership map
Future members
On September 12, 2024, the conference announced it would be adding four new members, Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, and San Diego State, on July 1, 2026. However, the conference needed to add at least two more football-playing members to be recognized by the NCAA as an FBS conference. On September 23, 2024, Utah State accepted an offer to join the league as its seventh member. This gave the Pac-12 the seven members needed to preserve its official "multisport" status, though one more football-sponsoring full member was needed to preserve FBS status. On September 30, 2024, the conference announced that Gonzaga, a non-football college, would be joining as a full member. In June 2025, it was reported that Texas State would announce its move to the Pac-12 on June 30, 2025, the last day before that school's exit fee from the Sun Belt Conference would have doubled from $5 million to $10 million. Texas State's arrival, announced that same day, marked the ninth full-time member for the Pac-12 and also the eighth and final football member required to preserve FBS status.| Institution | Location | Founded | Joining | Type | Enrollment | Endowment | Nickname | Colors | Current conference |
| Boise State University | Boise, Idaho | 1932 | July 1, 2026 | Public | 26,670 | $162 | Broncos | Mountain West | |
| California State University, Fresno | Fresno, California | 1911 | July 1, 2026 | Public | 23,986 | $255 | Bulldogs | Mountain West | |
| Colorado State University | Fort Collins, Colorado | 1870 | July 1, 2026 | Public | 33,500 | $624 | Rams | Mountain West | |
| Gonzaga University | Spokane, Washington | 1887 | July 1, 2026 | Private | 7,306 | $452 | Bulldogs | West Coast | |
| San Diego State University | San Diego, California | 1897 | July 1, 2026 | Public | 39,241 | $460 | Aztecs | Mountain West | |
| Texas State University | San Marcos, Texas | 1899 | July 1, 2026 | Public | 40,678 | $393 | Bobcats | Sun Belt | |
| Utah State University | Logan, Utah | 1888 | July 1, 2026 | Public | 28,063 | $615 | Aggies | Mountain West |
Affiliate members
The Pac-12 has two affiliate member institutions in California and one in Arkansas. All three of them participate in the Pac-12 for men's wrestling.| Institution | Location | Founded | Joined | Type | Enrollment | Nickname | Colors | Pac-12 sport | Primary conference |
| California Polytechnic State University | San Luis Obispo, California | 1901 | 1986–87 | Public | 22,485 | Mustangs | Big West | ||
| California State University, Bakersfield | Bakersfield, California | 1965 | 1987–88 | Public | 9,787 | Roadrunners | Big West | ||
| Little Rock, Arkansas | 1927 | 2019–20 | Public | 8,158 | Trojans | OVC |
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Future affiliate members
Three schools will join as single-sport members in 2026—Dallas Baptist University in baseball, Northern Illinois University in men's wrestling, and Southern Utah University in women's gymnastics.| Institution | Location | Founded | Joining | Type | Enrollment | Nickname | Colors | Pac-12 sport | Primary conference |
| Dallas Baptist University | Dallas, Texas | 1898 | July 1, 2026 | Private | 4,201 | Patriots | Baseball | Lone Star | |
| Northern Illinois University | DeKalb, Illinois | 1895 | July 1, 2026 | Public | 15,504 | Huskies | MAC | ||
| Southern Utah University | Cedar City, Utah | 1897 | July 1, 2026 | Public | 15,033 | Thunderbirds | WAC |
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Former full members
No school had left the Pac-12 from its founding as the AAWU in 1959 until 2024, when 10 of its 12 schools left. Two members of the PCC, Idaho and Montana, were not invited to join the AAWU or its successors.| Institution | Location | Founded | Joined | Left | Type | Nickname | Colors | Current conference |
| Missoula, Montana | 1893 | 1924 | 1950 | Public | Grizzlies | Big Sky | ||
| Moscow, Idaho | 1889 | 1922 | 1959 | Public | Vandals | Big Sky | ||
| Eugene, Oregon | 1876 | 1915 | 1959 | Public | Ducks | Big Ten | ||
| Eugene, Oregon | 1876 | 1964 | 2024 | Public | Ducks | Big Ten | ||
| Seattle, Washington | 1861 | 1915 | 2024 | Public | Huskies | Big Ten | ||
| Los Angeles, California | 1880 | 1922 | 2024 | Private | Trojans | Big Ten | ||
| Los Angeles, California | 1919 | 1928 | 2024 | Public | Bruins | Big Ten | ||
| Tucson, Arizona | 1885 | 1978 | 2024 | Public | Wildcats | Big 12 | ||
| Tempe, Arizona | 1885 | 1978 | 2024 | Public | Sun Devils | Big 12 | ||
| Salt Lake City, Utah | 1850 | 2011 | 2024 | Public | Utes | Big 12 | ||
| Boulder, Colorado | 1876 | 2011 | 2024 | Public | Buffaloes | Big 12 | ||
| Berkeley, California | 1868 | 1915 | 2024 | Public | Golden Bears | ACC | ||
| Stanford, California | 1891 | 1918 | 2024 | Private | Cardinal | ACC | ||
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Former affiliate members
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The Pac-12 claims the PCC's history as its own. Not only did it maintain the automatic bid from the Rose Bowl inherited from the PCC, but the eight largest schools in the old PCC all eventually joined the new league. However, the old PCC operated under a separate charter.The Pac-12 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-12 members participate in at least one MPSF sport. For certain sports, the Pac-12 admits certain schools as associate members.
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