Pacific-12 Conference
The Pacific -12 Conference, Pac -12 short- term, is a string of twelve universities regional league in college sports in the United States, which is organized in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA). In college football, it is one for the Football Bowl Subdivision and is one of the six Conferences with a guaranteed right to participate in a game of the Bowl Championship Series, in which the winner of the Pac -12 participates in the Rose Bowl.
The Pacific -12 Conference was founded in 1959 as the Athletic Association of Western Universities, and after appropriate extensions repeatedly renamed ( from 1968 to 1978: Pacific -8 Conference, 1978-2011: Pacific -10 Conference), before, after recording the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Utah in July 2011 received its current name. Forerunner of the Pac -12 was the existing 1916-1959 Pacific Coast Conference, which also included the five founding members of the Pac -12.
The member institutions of the Pac -12 in particular is home to the West Coast of the United States and the Mountain States. The Pac -12 markets itself as the " Conference of Champions " because its members have won together more NCAA championships in team sports than any other Conference in the American high school sports. The Conference, which has its headquarters in the California city of Walnut Creek, organizes competitions in each of eleven different sports in the men's and the women's area.