College Football - Pacific 10 Conference
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The Pacific-10 Conference was first known as the Pacific Coast Conference way back in December 15, 1915; then in 1959 the original conference was dissolved and the name was changed giving birth to the establishment of the Athletic Association of Western Universities or AAWU (July 1, 1959). At that moment, it was composed by four member states which were: Washington, Arizona, Oregon and California.
The original members of AWWU (also called the “Big Five”) were:
- University of California-Berkeley
- University of Washington
- Stanford University
- University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)
- University of Southern California (USC)
The conference was named later as the “Big Six” when the Washington State College (now the Washington State University) joined the group in 1962.
The University of Oregon and Oregon State University were added to the group in 1964. Four years later, the AWWU changed their name to Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8). The conference name finally became the Pacific-10 (Pac-10) when University of Arizona and Arizona State University joined the group.
Some of the most well-known rivalries within schools in the conferences are: UCLA-US and Cal-Stanford.
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