A Little History on the Pac-10

The Pac-10 Conference goes back to December 15, 1915. This is when the Pacific Coast Conference began a year ago and was founded at a meeting in Portland, Oregon. The charter members of the PCC were the University of California, the University of Washington, the University of Oregon and Oregon State College. Washington State College and Standfor University joined the league just two years later. By 1928, the Pacific Coast Conference had all10 teams (hence the Pac-10).

In 1959, there were scandals going on with a few of the colleges and the PCC was split up. That July, the Athletic Association of Western Universites was formed with a few of the original PCC's as the charter members. The AAWU was also known as the Big Six. Finally, by 1978, the conference added two more schools to create its Pacific -10 Conference once more. Since then, there have been few changes with random teams joining and leaving, but the conference is going stronger than ever.