2015 Pac-12 Conference football season

2015 Pac-12 Conference football season
2015 Pac-12 Conference football season
League	NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision)
Sport	American football
Number of teams	12
TV partner(s)	Fox Sports Media Group (Fox, FS1), ESPN Family (ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU), and Pac-12 Networks
2016 NFL Draft
Top draft pick	QB Jared Goff, California
Picked by	Los Angeles Rams, 1st overall
Regular season
North champions	Stanford Cardinal
North runners-up	Oregon Ducks
South champions	USC Trojans ; Utah Utes
South runners-up	UCLA Bruins
Pac-12 Championship
Champions	Stanford Cardinal
Runners-up	USC Trojans
Finals MVP	Christian McCaffrey, RB
Football seasons
	← 2014 2016 →

Last updated November 30, 2024

2015 Pac-12 Conference football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
North Division
No. 3 Stanford x$	8	–	1	12	–	2
No. 19 Oregon	7	–	2	9	–	4
Washington State	6	–	3	9	–	4
California	4	–	5	8	–	5
Washington	4	–	5	7	–	6
Oregon State	0	–	9	2	–	10
South Division
USC xy	6	–	3	8	–	6
No. 17 Utah x	6	–	3	10	–	3
UCLA	5	–	4	8	–	5
Arizona State	4	–	5	6	–	7
Arizona	3	–	6	7	–	6
Colorado	1	–	8	4	–	9
Championship: Stanford 41, USC 22
$ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions y – Championship game participant Rankings from AP Poll

The 2015 Pac-12 Conference football season was the fifth season for the conference as a twelve-team league. The season began on September 3, 2015 with a trio of games, Arizona hosting UTSA, Utah hosting Michigan, and Hawaii hosting Colorado. The final game was the Pac-12 Championship Game at Levi's Stadium on December 5, 2015, with ESPN televising the game.

Previous season

Oregon, the North Division Champions, defeated Arizona, the South Division Champions, 51–13 to claim their second conference title and the chance to play in the College Football Playoff (CFP) semifinal game at the Rose Bowl, where they defeated Florida State 59–20, advancing to their second-ever national championship game (the first-ever CFP National Championship Game), where they were defeated by the Ohio Buckeyes, 42–20.

A record nine conference teams played in a post-season bowl game, with six winning. Arizona, the South Division Champion, was also a bowl game loser, losing to Boise State 38–30 in the Fiesta Bowl. Bowl game winners were: Arizona State defeated Duke 36–31 in the Sun Bowl, Stanford defeated Maryland 45–21 in the Foster Farms Bowl, UCLA defeated Kansas State 40–35 in the Alamo Bowl, USC defeated Nebraska 45–42 in the Holiday Bowl, and Utah defeated Colorado State 45–10 in the Las Vegas Bowl.

Pre-season

2015 Pac-12 Spring Football and number of signees on signing day:

North Division

California: March 9 – April 18 with 24 signees
Oregon: March 31 – May 2 with 22 signees
Oregon State: March 3 – April 18 with 22 signees
Stanford: February 23 – April 11 with 22 signees
Washington: March 30 – April 25 with 24 signees
Washington State: March 12 – April 28 with 24 signees

South Division

Arizona: March 4 – April 10 with 25 signees
Arizona State: March 16 – April 10 with 22 signees
Colorado: February 13 – March 15 with 19 signees
UCLA: March 31 – April 25, 2015 with 18 signees
USC: March 3 – April 11 with 24 signees
Utah: March 24 – April 25 with 20 signees

Pac-12 Media

2015 Pac-12 Media Day was held at Warner Bros. in Burbank, California on July 30–31, 2015.

Preseason polls

North Division

1. Oregon (37), 262 pts
2. Stanford (8), 232 pts
3. California, 174 pts
4. Washington, 129 pts
5. Washington State, 89 pts
6. Oregon State, 60 pts

South Division

1. USC (32), 254 pts
2. Arizona State (7), 200 pts
3. UCLA (6), 180 pts
4. Arizona, 155 pts
5. Utah, 105 pts
6. Colorado, 46 pts

Predicted Pac-12 Championship Game Winner: USC (21) was picked to win the Pac-12 Championship over Oregon (17) for the first time since 2012. Others receiving votes were ASU (3), UCLA (2), and Stanford (1).

Recruiting classes

Rankings
Team	ESPN^[1]	Rivals^[2]	Scout^[3]	24/7^[4]	Signees
Arizona	39	41	41	42	25
Arizona State	26	20	17	19	22
California	-	29	36	34	24
Colorado	-	71	75	69	19
Oregon	15	17	21	16	22
Oregon State	-	71	63	60	22
Stanford	27	18	25	24	22
UCLA	11	13	9	12	18
USC	3	1	1	2	26
Utah	-	41	53	45	20
Washington	28	30	23	27	24
Washington State	-	55	38	41	24

Head coaches

Coaching changes

There were one coaching change following the 2015 season including Gary Andersen with Oregon State.

Coaches

Team	Head coach	Years at school	Overall record	Record at school	Pac-12 record
Arizona	Rich Rodriguez	4	146–98–2	26–14	15–12
Arizona State	Todd Graham	4	77–41	28–12	19–8
California	Sonny Dykes	3	28–33	6–18	3–15
Colorado	Mike MacIntyre	3	22–39	6–18	1–17
Oregon	Mark Helfrich	3	24–4	24–4	15–3
Oregon State	Gary Andersen	1	49–38	0–0	0–0
Stanford	David Shaw	5	42–12	42–12	28–8
UCLA	Jim L. Mora	4	29–11	29–11	18–9
USC	Steve Sarkisian	2	43–33	9–4	30–24
Utah	Kyle Whittingham	11	85–33	85–33	14–22
Washington	Chris Petersen	2	100–18	8–6	4–5
Washington State	Mike Leach	3	96–68	12–20	7–20

Note: Stats shown are before the beginning of the season

Rankings

		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week
		Selected for College Football Playoff
(Italics)		Number of first place votes
т		Tied with team above or below also with this symbol

		Pre	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	Wk 14	Final
Arizona Wildcats	AP	22	22	20	16	RV		RV
	C	22	20	19	16	RV	RV	RV	RV
	CFP	Not released

Arizona State Sun Devils	AP	15	RV	RV	RV		RV		RV
	C	16	RV	RV	RV		RV	RV
	CFP	Not released

California Golden Bears	AP	RV	RV	RV	RV	24	23	23	20	RV	RV
	C		RV	RV	RV	24	22	23	19	RV
	CFP	Not released

Colorado Buffaloes	AP
	C
	CFP	Not released

Oregon Ducks	AP	7	7	12	13	RV	RV						23	18	15	19
	C	5	5	13	13	24	RV			RV	RV	RV	22	18	16	20
	CFP	Not released											23	17	15

Oregon State Beavers	AP
	C
	CFP	Not released

Stanford Cardinal	AP	21	RV	RV	21	18	16	15	10	8	9	7	15	13	7	3
	C	21	RV		24	20	18	16	11	8	8	7	15	12	7	3
	CFP	Not released									11	7	11	9	6

UCLA Bruins	AP	13	13	10	9	7	20	18	RV	24	22	18	RV	22	RV
	C	14	13	12	11	10	20	18	RV	25	22	18	RV	23	RV
	CFP	Not released									23	19		22

USC Trojans	AP	8	8	6	19	17	17	RV		RV	RV	RV	22	RV	24	RV
	C	10	10	7	18	16	17	RV		RV	RV	RV	24	RV	24	RV
	CFP	Not released											24	20	25

Utah Utes	AP	RV	24	21	18	10	5	4	3	13	13	10	18	RV	21	17
	C	RV	25	21	17	12	7	7	7	14	14	13	18	25	20	16
	CFP	Not released									12	10	13	23	22

Washington Huskies	AP
	C	RV						RV
	CFP	Not released

Washington State Cougars	AP									RV	RV	RV	24	20	RV	RV
	C								RV	RV	RV	RV	23	20	RV	RV
	CFP	Not released												20

Schedule

Index to colors and formatting
Pac-12 member won
Pac-12 member lost
Pac-12 teams in bold

All times Mountain time. Pac-12 teams in bold.

Rankings reflect those of the AP poll for that week.

Week 1

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
Thursday, September 3	5:30 p.m.	Michigan	Utah	Rice-Eccles Stadium • Salt Lake City, UT	FS1	W 24–17	47,825
Thursday, September 3	7:00 p.m.	UTSA	No. 22 Arizona	Arizona Stadium • Tucson, AZ	P12N	W 42–32	51,111
Thursday, September 3	10:00 p.m.	Colorado	Hawaii	Aloha Stadium • Honolulu, HI	CBSSN	L 20–28	24,255
Friday, September 4	5:00 p.m.	Weber State	Oregon State	Reser Stadium • Corvallis, OR	P12N	W 26–7	35,160
Friday, September 4	7:15 p.m.	Washington	No. 23 Boise State	Albertsons Stadium • Boise, ID	ESPN	L 13–16	36,836
Saturday, September 5	9:00 a.m.	No. 21 Stanford	Northwestern	Ryan Field • Evanston, IL	ESPN	L 6–16	36,024
Saturday, September 5	11:00 a.m.	Portland State	Washington State	Martin Stadium • Pullman, WA	P12N	L 17–24	24,302
Saturday, September 5	12:30 p.m.	Virginia	No. 13 UCLA	Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA	FOX	W 34–16	68,615
Saturday, September 5	2:00 p.m.	Grambling State	California	California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA	P12N	W 73–14	60,606
Saturday, September 5	4:00 p.m.	No. 15 Arizona State	Texas A&M	Reliant Stadium • Houston, TX	ESPN	L 17–38	66,308
Saturday, September 5	5:00 p.m.	Eastern Washington	No. 7 Oregon	Autzen Stadium • Eugene, OR	P12N	W 61–42	58,128
Saturday, September 5	8:00 p.m.	Arkansas State	No. 8 USC	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	P12N	W 55–6	79,809
^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Pacific Time.

Players of the Week - September 7

Offensive		Defensive		Special teams
Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team
Josh Rosen	UCLA	Justin Thomas	Utah	Dante Pettis	Washington
Reference:^[5]

Week 2

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
Friday, September 11	6:00 p.m.	Utah State	No. 24 Utah	Rice-Eccles Stadium • Salt Lake City, UT	ESPN2	W 24–14	46,011
Saturday, September 12	9:00 a.m.	Oregon State	Michigan	Michigan Stadium • Ann Arbor, MI	ABC	L 7–35	109,651
Saturday, September 12	11:00 a.m.	Sacramento State	Washington	Husky Stadium • Seattle, WA	P12N	W 49–0	55,010
Saturday, September 12	11:00 a.m.	UMass	Colorado	Folsom Field • Boulder, CO	P12N	W 48–14	35,094
Saturday, September 12	12:30 p.m.	Washington State	Rutgers	High Point Solutions Stadium • Piscataway, NJ	ESPNU	W 37–34	46,536
Saturday, September 12	2:00 p.m.	San Diego State	California	California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA	P12N	W 35–7	50,830
Saturday, September 12	4:00 p.m.	No. 22 Arizona	Nevada	Mackay Stadium • Reno, NV	CBSSN	W 44–20	24,355
Saturday, September 12	5:00 p.m.	Idaho	No. 8 USC	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	P12N	W 59–9	72,422
Saturday, September 12	5:00 p.m.	No. 7 Oregon	No. 5 Michigan State	Spartan Stadium • East Lansing, MI	ABC	L 28–31	76,526
Saturday, September 12	7:30 p.m.	UCF	Stanford	Stanford Stadium • Stanford	FS1	W 31–0	50,420
Saturday, September 12	7:30 p.m.	No. 13 UCLA	UNLV	Sam Boyd Stadium • Las Vegas, NV	CBSSN	W 37–3	31,262
Saturday, September 12	8:00 p.m.	Cal Poly	Arizona State	Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ	P12N	W 35–21	46,500
^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Pacific Time.

Players of the Week- September 14

Offensive		Defensive		Special teams
Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team
Luke Falk	Washington State	Gionni Paul	Utah	Bralon Addison	Oregon
Reference:^[6]

Week 3

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
Friday, September 18	7:00 p.m.	New Mexico	Arizona State	Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ	P12N	W 34–10	43,310
Saturday, September 19	11:00 a.m.	Georgia State	No. 12 Oregon	Autzen Stadium • Eugene, OR	P12N	W 61–28	56,859
Saturday, September 19	2:00 p.m.	Utah State	Washington	Husky Stadium • Seattle, WA	P12N	W 31–17	59,464
Saturday, September 19	4:00 p.m.	Colorado	Colorado State	Sports Authority Field at Mile High • Denver, CO	CBSSN	W 27–24 ^OT	76,125
Saturday, September 19	4:30 p.m.	California	Texas	Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX	FOX	W 45–44	91,568
Saturday, September 19	5:00 p.m.	Stanford	No. 6 USC	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	ABC	STAN 41–31	78,306
Saturday, September 19	5:00 p.m.	San Jose State	Oregon State	Reser Stadium • Corvallis, OR	P12N	W 35–21	34,573
Saturday, September 19	5:30 p.m.	Wyoming	Washington State	Martin Stadium • Pullman, WA	P12N	W 31–14	31,105
Saturday, September 19	7:30 p.m.	No. 21 Utah	Fresno State	Bulldog Stadium • Fresno, CA	CBSSN	W 45–24	33,675
Saturday, September 19	7:30 p.m.	No. 19 BYU	No. 10 UCLA	Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA	FS1	W 24–23	67,612
Saturday, September 19	8:00 p.m.	Northern Arizona	No. 20 Arizona	Arizona Stadium • Tucson, AZ	P12N	W 77–13	51,494
^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Pacific Time.

Players of the Week - September 21

Offensive		Defensive		Special teams
Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team
Kevin Hogan	Stanford	Kenneth Olugbode	Colorado	Cory Butler-Byrd	Utah
Reference:

Week 4

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
Friday, September 25	7:00 p.m.	No. 21 Stanford	Oregon State	Reser Stadium • Corvallis, OR	FS1	STAN 42–24	37,302
Saturday, September 26	11:00 am	Nicholls State	Colorado	Folsom Field • Boulder, CO	P12N	W 48–0	37,302
Saturday, September 26	3:00 pm	California	Washington	Husky Stadium • Seattle, WA	P12N	CAL 30–24	61,066
Saturday, September 26	8:00 pm	No. 9 UCLA	No. 16 Arizona	Arizona Stadium • Tucson, AZ	ABC	UCLA 56–30	56,004
Saturday, September 26	10:30 pm	No. 18 Utah	No. 13 Oregon	Autzen Stadium • Eugene, OR	FOX	UTAH 62–20	57,145
Saturday, September 26	11:30 pm	No. 19 USC	Arizona State	Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ	ESPN	USC 42–14	61,904
^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Pacific Time.

Players of the Week - September 28

Offensive		Defensive		Special teams
Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team
Travis Wilson	Utah	Kyle Kragen	California	Tom Hackett	Utah
Reference:

Week 5

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
Saturday, October 3	1:00 p.m.	Washington State	No. 24 California	California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA	P12N	CAL 34–28	42,042
Saturday, October 3	4:30 p.m.	Arizona State	No. 7 UCLA	Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA	FOX	ASU 38–23	80,113
Saturday, October 3	7:00 p.m.	Oregon	Colorado	Folsom Field • Boulder, CO	ESPN	ORE 41–24	46,222
Saturday, October 3	7:30 p.m.	Arizona	No. 18 Stanford	Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA	P12N	STAN 55–17	46,628
^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Pacific Time.

Players of the Week - October 5

Offensive		Defensive		Special teams
Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team
Mike Bercovici	Arizona State	Stefan McClure	California	Matt Haack	Arizona State
Reference:

Week 6

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
Thursday, October 8	6:00 p.m.	Washington	No. 17 USC	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	ESPN	WASH 17–12	63,623
Saturday, October 10	1:00 p.m.	Oregon State	Arizona	Arizona Stadium • Tucson, AZ	FS1	ARZ 44–7	52,987
Saturday, October 10	3:00 p.m.	Washington State	Oregon	Autzen Stadium • Eugene, OR	P12N	WSU 45–38 ^2OT	57,775
Saturday, October 10	7:00 p.m.	No. 23 California	No. 5 Utah	Rice-Eccles Stadium • Salt Lake City, UT	ESPN	UTAH 30–24	47,798
Saturday, October 10	7:00 p.m.	Colorado	Arizona State	Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ	P12N	ASU 48–23	44,157
^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Pacific Time.

Players of the Week - October 12

Offensive		Defensive		Special teams
Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team
Devontae Booker	Utah	Travis Feeney	Washington	Tom Hackett	Utah
Reference:

Week 7

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
Thursday, October 15	7:30 p.m.	No. 18 UCLA	No. 15 Stanford	Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA	ESPN	STAN 56–35	50,464
Saturday, October 17	1:00 p.m.	Oregon State	Washington State	Martin Stadium • Pullman, WA	P12N	WSU 52–31	32,952
Saturday, October 17	4:30 p.m.	USC	No. 14 Notre Dame	Notre Dame Stadium • South Bend, IN (Jeweled Shillelagh)	NBC	L 31–41	80,795
Saturday, October 17	6:00 p.m.	Arizona	Colorado	Folsom Field • Boulder, CO	FS1	ARZ 38–31	39,666
Saturday, October 17	7:00 p.m.	Arizona State	No. 4 Utah	Rice-Eccles Stadium • Salt Lake City, UT	ESPN	UTAH 34–18	46,192
Saturday, October 17	7:30 p.m.	Oregon	Washington	Husky Stadium • Seattle, WA	ESPN2	ORE 26–20	69,285
^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Pacific Time.

Players of the Week - October 19

Offensive		Defensive		Special teams
Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team
Christian McCaffrey	Stanford	Shalom Luani	Washington State	Tim White	Arizona State
Reference:

Week 8

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
Thursday, October 22	6:00 p.m.	No. 20 California	UCLA	Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA	ESPN	UCLA 40–24	57,046
Saturday, October 24	1:00 p.m.	Washington State	Arizona	Arizona Stadium • Tucson, AZ	P12N	WSU 45–42	47,847
Saturday, October 24	4:30 p.m.	No. 3 Utah	USC	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	FOX	USC 42–24	73,435
Saturday, October 24	7:30 p.m.	Colorado	Oregon State	Reser Stadium • Corvallis, OR	P12N	COL 17–13	36,977
Saturday, October 24	7:30 p.m.	Washington	No. 10 Stanford	Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA	ESPN	STAN 31–14	50,424
^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Pacific Time.

Players of the Week - October 26

Offensive		Defensive		Special teams
Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team
Luke Falk	Washington State	Cameron Smith	USC	Ka'imi Fairbairn	UCLA
Reference:

Week 9

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
Thursday, October 29	7:30 p.m.	Oregon	Arizona State	Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ	ESPN	ORE 61–55 ^3OT	56,534
Saturday, October 31	12:00 p.m.	Colorado	No. 24 UCLA	Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA	P12N	UCLA 35–31	51,508
Saturday, October 31	12:00 p.m.	USC	California	California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA	FOX	USC 27–21	52,060
Saturday, October 31	4:00 p.m.	Oregon State	Utah	Rice-Eccles Stadium • Salt Lake City, UT	P12N	UTAH 27–12	45,853
Saturday, October 31	7:30 p.m.	No. 8 Stanford	Washington State	Martin Stadium • Pullman, WA	ESPN	STAN 30–28	30,012
Saturday, October 31	8:00 p.m.	Arizona	Washington	Husky Stadium • Seattle, WA	FS1	WASH 49–3	56,749
^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Pacific Time.

Players of the Week - November 2

Offensive		Defensive		Special teams
Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team
Vernon Adams	Oregon	Travis Feeney	Washington	Charles Nelson	Oregon
Reference:

Week 10

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
Saturday, November 7	10:00 a.m.	No. 9 Stanford	Colorado	Folsom Field • Boulder, CO	P12N	STAN 42–10	40,142
Saturday, November 7	12:30 p.m.	Arizona State	Washington State	Martin Stadium • Pullman, WA	FS1	WSU 38–24	32,952
Saturday, November 7	1:30 p.m.	No. 22 UCLA	Oregon State	Reser Stadium • Corvallis, OR	P12N	UCLA 41–0	38,074
Saturday, November 7	4:30 p.m.	No. 13 Utah	Washington	Husky Stadium • Seattle, WA	FOX	UTAH 34–23	61,420
Saturday, November 7	7:30 p.m.	Arizona	USC	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	ESPN	USC 38–30	76,309
Saturday, November 7	7:30 p.m.	California	Oregon	Autzen Stadium • Eugene, OR	ESPN2	ORE 44–28	56,604
^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Pacific Time.

Players of the Week - November 9

Offensive		Defensive		Special teams
Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team
Luke Falk	Washington State	Gionni Paul	Utah	Raymond Hudson	California
Reference:

Week 11

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
Friday, November 13	6:00 p.m.	USC	Colorado	Folsom Field • Boulder, CO	ESPN2	USC 27–24	37,905
Saturday, November 14	12:00 p.m.	Washington	Arizona State	Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ	P12N	ASU 27–17	51,695
Saturday, November 14	4:30 p.m.	Oregon	No. 7 Stanford	Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA	FOX	ORE 38–36	48,633
Saturday, November 14	7:00 p.m.	No. 10 Utah	Arizona	Arizona Stadium • Tucson, AZ	FS1	ARI 37–30 ^2OT	48,912
Saturday, November 14	7:30 p.m.	Oregon State	California	California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA	P12N	CAL 54–24	41,874
Saturday, November 14	7:45 p.m.	Washington State	No. 18 UCLA	Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA	ESPN	WSU 31–27	76,255
^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Pacific Time.

Players of the Week - November 16

Offensive		Defensive		Special teams
Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team
Jared Goff	California	Antonio Longino	Arizona State	Casey Skowron	Arizona
Reference:

Week 12

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
Saturday, November 21	12:30 p.m.	UCLA	No. 18 Utah	Rice-Eccles Stadium • Salt Lake City, UT	FOX	UCLA 17–9	46,230
Saturday, November 21	12:30 p.m.	Arizona	Arizona State	Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ (Territorial Cup)	FS1	ASU 52–37	64,885
Saturday, November 21	12:30 p.m.	No. 22 USC	No. 23 Oregon	Autzen Stadium • Eugene, OR	ESPN	ORE 48–28	59,094
Saturday, November 21	3:00 p.m.	Washington	Oregon State	Reser Stadium • Corvallis, OR	P12N	WASH 52–7	34,390
Saturday, November 21	7:30 p.m.	California	No. 15 Stanford	Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA (Big Game)	ESPN	STAN 35–22	51,424
Saturday, November 21	7:45 p.m.	Colorado	No. 24 Washington State	Martin Stadium • Pullman, WA	ESPN2	WSU 27–3	25,121
^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Pacific Time.

Players of the Week - November 23

Offensive		Defensive		Special teams
Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team
Vernon Adams, Jr.	Oregon	Antonio Longino	Arizona State	Christian McCaffrey	Stanford
Reference:

Week 13

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
Friday, November 27	12:30 p.m.	No. 20 Washington State	Washington	Husky Stadium • Seattle, WA (Apple Cup)	FOX	WASH 45–10	70,438
Friday, November 27	1:00 p.m.	Oregon State	No. 18 Oregon	Autzen Stadium • Eugene, OR (Civil War)	FS1	ORE 52–42	57,814
Saturday, November 28	11:30 a.m.	Colorado	Utah	Rice-Eccles Stadium • Salt Lake City, UT (Rumble in the Rockies)	P12N	UTAH 20–14	45,823
Saturday, November 28	12:30 p.m.	No. 22 UCLA	USC	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA (Victory Bell)	ABC/ESPN2	USC 40–21	83,602
Saturday, November 28	4:30 p.m.	No. 4 Notre Dame	No. 13 Stanford	Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA (Legends Trophy)	FOX	W 38–36	51,424
Saturday, November 28	7:00 p.m.	Arizona State	California	California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA	FS1	CAL 48–46	45,385
^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Pacific Time.

Players of the Week - November 28

Offensive		Defensive		Special teams
Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team
Jared Goff	California	Iman Marshall	USC	Conrad Ukropina	Stanford
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Championship game

The championship game was played on December 5, 2015. It featured the teams with the best conference records from each division, Stanford from the North and USC from the South. This was the fifth championship game (and the fifth win for the North), with Stanford appearing for the third time (and winning for the third time) and USC appearing for the first time.

Week 14 (Pac-12 Championship Game)

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Ref.
December 5	4:45 p.m.	No. 24 USC	No. 7 Stanford	Levi's Stadium • Santa Clara, CA (Pac-12 Championship)	ESPN	STAN 41–22	58,476
^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Pacific Time.

Bowl games

Pac-12 team is bolded.

Bowl Game	Date	Stadium	City	TV	Time (PST)	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
New Mexico Bowl	Saturday, December 19, 2015	University Stadium	Albuquerque, New Mexico	ESPN	12:00 p.m.	Arizona	45	New Mexico	37
Las Vegas Bowl	Saturday, December 19, 2015	Sam Boyd Stadium	Whitney, Nevada	ABC	1:30 p.m.	#20 Utah	35	BYU	28
Sun Bowl	Saturday, December 26, 2015	Sun Bowl Stadium	El Paso, Texas	CBS	11:00 a.m.	Washington State	20	Miami (FL)	14
Heart of Dallas Bowl	Saturday, December 26, 2015	Cotton Bowl	Dallas, Texas	ESPN	11:20 a.m.	Washington	44	Southern Miss	31
Foster Farms Bowl	Monday, December 28, 2015	Levi's Stadium	Santa Clara, California	ESPN	6:15 p.m.	Nebraska	37	UCLA	29
Armed Forces Bowl	Tuesday, December 29, 2015	Amon G. Carter Stadium	Fort Worth, Texas	ESPN	11:00 a.m.	California	55	Air Force	36
Holiday Bowl	Wednesday, December 30, 2015	Qualcomm Stadium	San Diego, California	ESPN	7:30 p.m.	#23 Wisconsin	23	USC	21
Rose Bowl	Friday, January 1, 2016	Rose Bowl	Pasadena, California	ESPN	2:10 p.m.	#5 Stanford	45	#6 Iowa	16
Alamo Bowl	Saturday, January 2, 2016	Alamodome	San Antonio, Texas	ESPN	3:45 p.m.	#11 TCU	47	#15 Oregon	41^3OT
Cactus Bowl	Saturday, January 2, 2016	Chase Field	Phoenix, Arizona	ESPN	8:15 p.m.	West Virginia	43	Arizona State	42

Pac-12 vs Power Conference matchups

This is a list of the power conference teams (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC) the Pac-12 plays in the non-conference (Rankings from the AP Poll):

Date	Visitor	Home	Site	Significance	Score
September 3	Michigan	Utah	Rice-Eccles Stadium • Salt Lake City, Utah		UTAH W 24–17
September 5	Arizona State	Texas A&M	NRG Stadium • Houston, TX	Texas Kickoff	TAMU L 17–38
September 5	Stanford	Northwestern	Ryan Field • Evanston, IL		NW L 6–16
September 5	Virginia	UCLA	Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA		UCLA W 34–16
September 12	Oregon State	Michigan	Michigan Stadium • Ann Arbor, MI		MICH L 7–35
September 12	Washington State	Rutgers	High Point Solutions Stadium • Piscataway, NJ		WSU W 37–34
September 12	Oregon	Michigan State	Spartan Stadium • East Lansing, MI		MSU L 28–31
September 19	California	Texas	Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX		CAL W 45–44

Records against other conferences

2015 records against non-conference foes:

Regular Season

Power 5 Conferences	Record
ACC	1–0
Big Ten	2–3
Big 12	1–0
SEC	0–1
Notre Dame	1–1
Power 5 Total	5–5

Other FBS Conferences	Record
American	1–0
C-USA	1–0
MAC	1–0
Mountain West	11–2
Independents (Excluding Notre Dame)	1–0
Sun Belt	3-0
Other FBS Total	18–2

FCS Opponents	Record
Football Championship Subdivision	7–1

Total Non-Conference Record	30–8

Post Season

Power Conferences 5	Record
ACC	1–0
Big Ten	1–2
Big 12	0–2
Power 5 Total	2–4

Other FBS Conferences	Record
C–USA	1–0
Independents (Excluding Notre Dame)	1–0
Mountain West	2–0

Other FBS Total	4–0
Total Bowl Record	6–4

Awards and honors

AP College Football Player of the Year

Christian McCaffrey, Stanford

Lou Groza Award

Ka'imi Fairbairn, UCLA^[7]

All-Americans

The following Pac-12 players were named to the 2015 College Football All-America Team by the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WCFF), Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), Sporting News (SN), and American Football Coaches Association (AFCA):^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]

First team

Joshua Garnett, OL, Stanford (WCFF, AP, FWAA, SN, AFCA)
Christian McCaffrey, RB, Stanford (SN, AFCA)
Ka'imi Fairbairn, K, UCLA (WCFF, AP, FWAA, AFCA)
Tom Hackett, P, Utah (WCFF, AP, FWAA, SN, AFCA)
Christian McCaffrey, All-purpose, Stanford (AP)
Christian McCaffrey, KR, Stanford (FWAA)

Second team

Tyler Johnstone, OL, Oregon (FWAA)
Christian McCaffrey, RB, Stanford (WCFF)
Royce Freeman, RB, Oregon (FWAA)
JuJu Smith-Schuster, WR, USC (AP, FWAA, SN)
DeForest Buckner, DE, Oregon (AP, FWAA)
Ka'imi Fairbairn, K, UCLA (SN)
Christian McCaffrey, KR, Stanford (WCFF)
Dante Pettis, PR, Washington (SN)

Third team

Royce Freeman, RB, Oregon (AP)
Austin Hooper TE, Stanford (AP)
Kenny Clark, DT, UCLA (AP)
Su'a Cravens, LB, USC (AP)
Blake Martinez, LB, Stanford (AP)
Aidan Schneider, K, Oregon (AP)

Academic All-America Team Member of the Year (CoSIDA)

Conference awards

The following individuals won the conference's annual player and coach awards:^[13]

Offensive Player of the Year: Christian McCaffrey, Stanford
Pat Tillman Defensive Player of the Year: DeForest Buckner, Oregon
Offensive Freshman of the Year: Josh Rosen, UCLA
Defensive Freshman of the Year: Cameron Smith, USC
Coach of the Year: Mike Leach, Washington State; David Shaw, Stanford

All-Conference teams

The following players earned All-Pac-12 honors.^[14]

Offense:

First Team				Second Team
Pos.	Name	Yr.	School	Name	Yr.	School
QB	Luke Falk	So.	Washington State	Kevin Hogan	Sr.	Stanford
QB	Jared Goff	Jr.	California	N/A	N/A	N/A
RB	Royce Freeman	So.	Oregon	Devontae Booker	Sr.	Utah
RB	Christian McCaffrey	So.	Stanford	Paul Perkins	Jr.	UCLA
WR	Kenny Lawler	Jr.	California	Bralon Addison	Jr.	Oregon
WR	Gabe Marks	Jr.	Washington State	Darren Carrington	So.	Oregon
WR	JuJu Smith-Schuster	So.	USC	Nelson Spruce	Sr.	Colorado
TE	Austin Hooper	Jr.	Stanford	Thomas Duarte	Jr.	UCLA
OL	Zach Banner	Jr.	USC	Jake Brendel	Sr.	UCLA
OL	Joe Dahl	Sr.	Washington State	J. J. Dielman	Jr.	Utah
OL	Joshua Garnett	Sr.	Stanford	Conor McDermott	Jr.	UCLA
OL	Tyler Johnstone	Sr.	Oregon	Christian Westerman	Sr.	Arizona State
OL	Kyle Murphy	Sr.	Stanford	Chad Wheeler	Jr.	USC

Defense:

First Team				Second Team
Pos.	Name	Yr.	School	Name	Yr.	School
DL	DeForest Buckner	Sr.	Oregon	Darryl Paulo	Sr.	Washington State
DL	Kenny Clark	Jr.	UCLA	Delvon Simmons	Sr.	USC
DL	Lowell Lotulelei	So.	Utah	Taniela Tupou	Sr.	Washington
DL	Aziz Shittu	Sr.	Stanford	Destiny Vaeao	Sr.	Washington State
DL	Antwaun Woods	Sr.	USC	N/A	N/A	N/A
LB	Su'a Cravens	Jr.	USC	Travis Feeney	Sr.	Washington
LB	Blake Martinez	Sr.	Stanford	Deon Hollins	Jr.	UCLA
LB	Gionni Paul	Sr.	Utah	Jared Norris	Sr.	Utah
DB	Budda Baker	So.	Washington	Chidobe Awuzie	Jr.	Colorado
DB	Adoree’ Jackson	So.	USC	Randall Goforth	Jr.	UCLA
DB	Sidney Jones	So.	Washington	Ronnie Harris	Sr.	Stanford
DB	Marcus Williams	So.	Utah	Jaleel Wadood	So.	UCLA

Specialists:

First Team				Second Team
Pos.	Name	Yr.	School	Name	Yr.	School
PK	Aidan Schneider	So.	Oregon	Ka'imi Fairbairn	Sr.	UCLA
P	Tom Hackett	Sr.	Utah	Drew Riggleman	Sr.	Arizona
RS	Christian McCaffrey	So.	Stanford	Adoree’ Jackson	So.	USC
AP/ST	Charles Nelson	So.	Oregon	Soma Vainuku	Sr.	USC

All-Academic

First team

Pos.	Name	School	Yr.	GPA	Major

Home game attendance

Team	Stadium	Capacity	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Game 6	Game 7	Total	Average	% of Capacity
Arizona	Arizona Stadium	56,029	51,111	51,494	56,004	52,987	47,847	48,912	—	308,355	51,393	91.72%
Arizona State	Sun Devil Stadium	64,248	46,500	43,310	61,904	44,157	56,534	51,695	64,885	368,985	52,712	82.04%
California	California Memorial Stadium	62,467	60,606	50,830	42,042	52,060	41,874		—	247,412	49,482	79.21%
Colorado	Folsom Field	53,613	35,094	37,302	46,222	39,666	40,142		—	198,426	39,685	74.02%
Oregon	Autzen Stadium	54,000	58,128	56,859	57,145	57,775	56,604	59,094		345,605	57,601	106.67%
Oregon State	Reser Stadium	45,674	35,160	34,573	37,302	36,977	38,074	34,390	—	216,476	36,079	78.99%
Stanford	Stanford Stadium	50,424	50,420	46,628	50,464	50,424	48,633	51,424		297,993	49,666	98.50%
UCLA	Rose Bowl	91,136	68,615	67,612	80,113	57,046	51,508	76,255	—	401,149	66,858	73.36%
USC	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	93,607	79,809	72,422	78,306	63,623	73,435	76,309		443,904	73,984	79.04%
Utah	Rice-Eccles Stadium	45,807	47,825	46,011	47,798	46,192	45,853	46,230		279,909	46,652	101.84%
Washington	Husky Stadium	70,083	55,010	59,464	61,066	69,285	50,667	61,420		356,912	59,485	84.88%
Washington State	Martin Stadium	32,952	24,302	31,105	32,952	30,012	32,952	25,121	—	176,444	29,407	89.24%

^A Game played at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, CA.
^B Game played at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, WA.
Bold – Exceed capacity
†Season High

Notes

October 12, 2015 – USC terminated Steve Sarkisian as its head football coach^[15]^[16]
October 30, 2015 – USC Athletic Director Pat Haden resigned from the College Football Playoff Selection Committee
November 30, 2015 – Clay Helton was named USC's permanent head coach.

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