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2011 Pacific-12 Football Championship Game

2011 Pac-12 Football Championship Game
Conference Championship
Pac-12 Football Championship 2011 logo.jpg
1 2 3 4 Total
UCLA 7 10 7 7 31
Oregon 21 14 14 0 49
Date December 2, 2011
Season 2011
Stadium Autzen Stadium
Location Eugene, Oregon
MVP RB LaMichael James, Oregon
Favorite Oregon by 31
National anthem Elijah Kelley
Referee Land Clark
Attendance 59,376
United States TV coverage
Network Fox Sports
Announcers Gus Johnson play-by-play
Charles Davis color
Tim Brewster sideline
Pac-12 Football Championship Game
  2012
2011 Pac-12 football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
North Division
#4 Oregon xy$   8 1         12 2  
#7 Stanford x%   8 1         11 2  
Washington   5 4         7 6  
California   4 5         7 6  
Oregon State   3 6         3 9  
Washington State   2 7         4 8  
South Division
#6 USC *   7 2         10 2  
UCLA xy   5 4         6 8  
Utah   4 5         8 5  
Arizona State   4 5         6 7  
Arizona   2 7         4 8  
Colorado   2 7         3 10  
Championship: Oregon 49, UCLA 31
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • % – BCS at-large representative
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
  • y – Championship game participant
  • * – USC ineligible for championship and post-season due to NCAA sanctions
As of January 10, 2012; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2011 Pac-12 Football Championship Game was played on Friday, December 2, 2011 at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon to determine the 2011 football champion of the Pac-12 Conference. The game featured the UCLA Bruins of the South Division against the Oregon Ducks of the North Division. It was the first football conference championship for the Pac-12 Conference, or any of its predecessors. The game took place at Oregon's Autzen Stadium, as the Ducks' conference record of 8–1 was better than UCLA's record of 5–4. The Ducks defeated the Bruins 49-31, and would earn a berth in the 2012 Rose Bowl. At the Rose Bowl Game, the Ducks defeated the Wisconsin Badgers 45–38 for the Rose Bowl Championship trophy.

UCLA was named South Division Champions and earned a berth in the game even though it only had the second best record in the South Division; while the South Division's best record belonged to USC (7–2), the Trojans were ineligible to participate in the game due to NCAA sanctions. Both Oregon and Stanford finished with identical 8-1 conference records in the North Division; however Oregon defeated Stanford during the season, giving them the berth in the championship game.

The three-hour-27-minute game started at 5:20 p.m. PST/6:20 p.m. MST and televised by Fox Sports. Oregon running back LaMichael James was the game MVP.


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