2020 Pac-12 Conference football season

2020 Pac-12 Conference football season
LeagueNCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
SportFootball
DurationNovember 7, 2020
January 2, 2021
Number of teams12
TV partner(s)Fox Sports Media Group, (Fox, FS1), ESPN Family, (ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU), and Pac-12 Networks
2021 NFL Draft
Top draft pickOT Penei Sewell, Oregon
Picked byDetroit Lions, 7th overall
Regular season
North championsWashington
  North runners-upOregon
South championsUSC
  South runners-upColorado
Pac-12 Championship
ChampionsOregon
  Runners-upUSC
Finals MVPKayvon Thibodeaux, Oregon
Football seasons
← 2019
2021 →
2020 Pac-12 Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
North Division
Washington x   3 1     3 1  
Oregon y$   4 2     4 3  
Stanford   4 2     4 2  
California   1 3     1 3  
Washington State   1 3     1 3  
Oregon State   2 5     2 5  
South Division
No. 21 USC xy   5 0     5 1  
Colorado   3 1     4 2  
Utah   3 2     3 2  
Arizona State   2 2     2 2  
UCLA   3 4     3 4  
Arizona   0 5     0 5  
Championship: Oregon 31, USC 24
  • $ – Conference champion
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
  • y – Championship game participant
  • Note: Due to COVID-19, the Pac-12 suspended the season on August 11, but later decided to begin play on November 6. In addition to the title game on December 18, the conference seeded all remaining teams for a game during that weekend.[1]
Rankings from AP Poll.

The 2020 Pac-12 Conference football season was the 42nd season of Pac-12 football taking place during the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season was originally scheduled to begin on September 26, 2020, and end with the 2020 Pac-12 Championship Game on December 18–19, 2020, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. On July 10, 2020, the Pac-12 announced that all competition in fall sports, including football, will be played exclusively in-conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] On August 11, 2020, the Pac-12 Conference suspended all fall sports competitions due to the ongoing pandemic.[3] On September 24, 2020 the Pac-12 Conference announced that the postponement of fall sports was to be ended and teams will return to play with a six-game Conference-only season to begin on November 6, and the Pac-12 Championship Game on December 18 with the rest of the conference seeded for a seventh game.[4]

The Pac-12 is a Power Five Conference under the College Football Playoff format along with the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big 12 Conference, Big Ten Conference, and the Southeastern Conference. The 2020 season is the tenth for the twelve Pac-12 teams to be divided into two divisions of six teams each, named North and South.

  1. ^ Pac-12 Conference. "Pac-12 announces resumption of football, basketball & winter sports seasons". Pac-12 Conference. Retrieved September 24, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Pac-12 CEO Group announces decision to schedule conference-only play for several Fall sports & to delay move toward mandatory athletics activities". Archived from the original on July 11, 2020.
  3. ^ "Pac-12 Conference postpones all sport competitions through end of calendar year". pac-12.com. August 11, 2020. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  4. ^ "Pac-12 announces resumption of football, basketball & winter sports seasons". pac-12.com. September 24, 2020. Retrieved September 24, 2020.