Pac-12 Championship Game
| Pac-12 Conference Football Championship Game | |
|---|---|
| Conference Football Championship | |
| Sport | Football |
| Conference | Pac-12 Conference |
| Played | 2011–present |
| Last contest | 2016 |
| Current champion | Washington |
| Most championships | Stanford (3) |
| TV partner(s) |
Fox (2011, even years) ESPN/ABC (odd years) |
| Sponsors | |
| 76 (2016–) | |
| Host stadiums | |
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The Pac-12 Football Championship Game is an annual college football game held by the Pac-12 Conference to determine the season's conference champion. The inaugural game was held on December 2, 2011.
The game pits the champion of the Pac-12 North Division against the champion of the Pac-12 South Division. Since 2014, the game has been played at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The first three games were held at the home stadium of the division winner with the better conference record: Autzen Stadium in 2011, Stanford Stadium in 2012, and Sun Devil Stadium in 2013.
Television broadcast rights to the game are shared by Fox Sports and ESPN/ABC. ESPN Radio holds the radio rights.
In 2011, the Pacific-10 Conference added Colorado and Utah, bringing the membership total to 12 teams and becoming the Pacific-12. Consequently, the conference split into two six-team divisions and created an annual conference championship game.
In the first season of the newly expanded Pac-12 in 2011, USC finished first in the South Division with a 7-2 conference record but was ineligible to play in postseason games due to NCAA sanctions. UCLA (5-4) represented the South Division in the Pac-12 Championship Game as its second-place team.
Broadcast rights to the game are held by ESPN and Fox Sports on a 12-year deal that began in 2012, where the rights alternate between the two networks on a year-by-year cycle. Fox broadcast the inaugural game in 2011.
Division standings are based on each team's overall conference record. In the event that two teams finish in a tie for first place, the championship game berth goes to the winner of the season's head-to-head contest between the two teams. If three or more teams are tied, the following tiebreakers are used to determine the division champion:
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