
Pac-12 Conference Logo.
The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the Western United States. It participates at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level for all sports, and its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest level of NCAA football competition. The conference currently comprises two members, Oregon State and Washington State.
The modern Pac-12 Conference formed after the disbanding of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), the principal members of which founded the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) 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 the 12 members departed from the conference. The Pac-12 is operating as a two-team conference through the 2025–26 academic year, sponsoring five sports—baseball, football, track and field, women's gymnastics, and wrestling. In 2026, the Pac-12 will expand to eight members with the addition of five schools from the Mountain West Conference and one from the West Coast Conference.
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
(Fall 2023) |
Endowment
(millions) |
Nickname | Colors |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oregon State University | Corvallis, Oregon | 1868 | 1915 | Public | 36,636 | $830 | Beavers | |
Washington State University | Pullman, Washington | 1890 | 1917 | Public | 26,490 | $1,267 | Cougars |
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. The conference needs to add at least two more members before that date 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 will be needed to preserve FBS status. On September 30, 2024, the conference announced that Gonzaga would be joining as a full member.
Institution | Location | Founded | Joining | Type | Enrollment
(Fall 2023) |
Endowment
(millions) |
Nickname | Colors | Current conference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boise State University | Boise, Idaho | 1932 | July 1, 2026 | Public | 26,155 | $143 | Broncos | Mountain West | |
California State University, Fresno | Fresno, California | 1911 | 25,047 | $229 | Bulldogs | ||||
Colorado State University | Fort Collins, Colorado | 1870 | 33,648 | $580 | Rams | ||||
Gonzaga University | Spokane, Washington | 1887 | Private(Jesuit) | 7,421 | $399.6 | Bulldogs | West Coast | ||
San Diego State University | San Diego, California | 1897 | Public | 32,599 | $415 | Aztecs | Mountain West | ||
Utah State University | Logan, Utah | 1888 | 28,063 | $538 | Aggies |