2022 Pac-12 Conference football season

2022 Pac-12 Conference football season
LeagueNCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
SportFootball
DurationSeptember 1, 2022
January 9, 2023
Number of teams12
Total attendance3,506,889
TV partner(s)Fox Sports Media Group, (Fox, FS1), ESPN Family, (ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU), and Pac-12 Networks
2023 NFL draft
Top draft pickCB Christian Gonzalez, Oregon
Picked byNew England Patriots, 16th overall
Regular season
Season championsUSC
Season MVPCaleb Williams, QB, USC
Top scorerDenis Lynch, K, USC (110 points)
Pac-12 Championship
ChampionsUtah
  Runners-upUSC
Finals MVPCameron Rising, QB, Utah
Football seasons
← 2021
2023 →
2022 Pac-12 Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
No. 12 USC y   8 1     11 3  
No. 10 Utah y$   7 2     10 4  
No. 8 Washington   7 2     11 2  
No. 15 Oregon   7 2     10 3  
No. 17 Oregon State   6 3     10 3  
No. 21 UCLA   6 3     9 4  
Washington State   4 5     7 6  
Arizona   3 6     5 7  
California   2 7     4 8  
Arizona State†   1 7     1 9  
Stanford   1 8     3 9  
Colorado   1 8     1 11  
Championship: Utah 47, USC 24
  • $ – Conference champion
  • y – Championship game participant
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2022 Pac-12 Conference football season was the 44th edition of Pac-12 football during the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season began on September 1, 2022, and ended with the 2022 Pac-12 Championship Game on December 2, 2022, at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada.

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 2022 season was the first since the conference expanded to 12 teams in 2011 in which Pac-12 teams are not split into divisions. On May 18, 2022, the NCAA Division I Council approved a rule change that gave conferences complete freedom in choosing the participants in their championship games.[1] On that same day, the Pac-12 announced that effective immediately, the championship game would feature the top two teams in the conference standings. The 2022 schedule, which was based on the conference's former North–South divisional model, did not change; the Pac-12 stated that it was reviewing multiple scheduling models for future seasons.[2]

The Utah Utes’ participation in the 2022 Pac-12 Championship was decided by strength-of-schedule tiebreaker.[3] Oregon, Utah, and Washington finished the regular season in a 3-way tie for 2nd place.[4] Each team has a tied common opponent record and there was a tie for the next highest seed common opponent.

  1. ^ "DI Council lifts football signing, initial counter limits for two years" (Press release). NCAA. May 18, 2022. Retrieved May 19, 2022.
  2. ^ "Pac-12 announces change to Football Championship Game format" (Press release). Pac-12 Conference. May 18, 2022. Retrieved May 19, 2022.
  3. ^ "How Oregon, Utah or Washington can clinch date with USC in 2022 Pac-12 Football Championship Game". pac-12.com. Archived from the original on November 25, 2022. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
  4. ^ "Football Standings". pac-12.com. Archived from the original on August 1, 2015. Retrieved January 8, 2023.