2011 Pac-12 Conference football season

2011 Pac-12 Conference football season
LeagueNCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision)
SportAmerican football
DurationSeptember 2011
through January 2012
Number of teams12
2012 NFL Draft
Top draft pickQB Andrew Luck, Stanford
Picked byIndianapolis Colts, 1st overall
Regular season
North championsOregon Ducks
Stanford Cardinal
  North runners-upWashington Huskies
South championsUCLA Bruins
  South runners-upUtah Utes
Arizona State Sun Devils
Pac-12 Championship Game
ChampionsOregon Ducks
  Runners-upUCLA Bruins
Finals MVPLaMichael James (RB)
Football seasons
← 2010
2012 →
2011 Pac-12 Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
North Division
No. 4 Oregon xy$   8 1     12 2  
No. 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
No. 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
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2011 Pac-12 Conference football season began on September 1, 2011 with Montana State at Utah and UC Davis at Arizona State. The conference's first game was played on September 10 with Utah at USC, and the final game played was the Pac-12 Championship Game on Friday, December 2. Oregon defeated UCLA[1] to claim their third straight conference title. This is the first season for the conference as a 12-team league. In July 2011, Colorado and Utah joined the conference, at which time the league's name changed from the Pacific-10 Conference.

Seven teams accepted bowl bids, an improvement from four the previous season. The BCS bowls featured Oregon in the Rose Bowl against Big Ten champion Wisconsin and Stanford facing Big 12 champion Oklahoma State in the Fiesta Bowl. The Ducks claimed their first Rose Bowl victory since 1917, while the Cardinal fell to the Cowboys in overtime. Of the non-BCS bowl participants, only Utah won their matchup against Georgia Tech in the Sun Bowl.

Four teams changed head coaches. Arizona head coach Mike Stoops was fired midseason, while UCLA's Rick Neuheisel, Arizona State's Dennis Erickson, and Washington State's Paul Wulff were let go at the end of the season.

  1. ^ "Additional Pac-12 2011 Football Telecast Windows Announced". Pacific-10 Conference. Archived from the original on June 21, 2011. Retrieved June 10, 2011.