2011 Pac-12 Football Championship Game

2011 Pac-12 Football Championship Game
Conference Championship
UCLA Bruins Oregon Ducks
(6–6) (10–2)
31 49
Head coach: 
Rick Neuheisel		 Head coach: 
Chip Kelly
APCoachesBCS
NRNRNR
APCoachesBCS
879
1234 Total
UCLA 71077 31
Oregon 2114140 49
DateDecember 2, 2011
Season2011
StadiumAutzen Stadium
LocationEugene, Oregon
MVPRB LaMichael James, Oregon
FavoriteOregon by 31
National anthemElijah Kelley
RefereeLand Clark
Attendance59,376
United States TV coverage
NetworkFOX
AnnouncersGus Johnson play-by-play
Charles Davis color
Tim Brewster sideline
Pac-12 Football Championship Game
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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 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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[1] Oregon running back LaMichael James was the game MVP.

  1. ^ a b "2011 Pac-12 Football Championship Game". Pac-12 Conference. Archived from the original on August 17, 2011. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
  2. ^ Ted Miller, What do we call UCLA?, ESPN, November 11, 2011