2015 Pac-12 Football Championship Game

2015 Pac-12 football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
North Division
#3 Stanford x$		8	–	1		12	–	2
#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
#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 As of January 12, 2016; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2015 Pac-12 Football Championship Game was played on Saturday, December 5, 2015 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. It was the fifth championship game in the history of the Pac-12 Conference. The game featured the South Division champion USC Trojans against the North Division champion Stanford Cardinal. with Stanford defeating USC 41–22.

History

The game was the fifth football conference championship for the Pac-12 Conference (or any of its predecessors). Last season, the Oregon Ducks defeated the Arizona Wildcats 51–13 for the conference championship and represented the conference in the 2015 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The Ducks then advanced to play in the first CFP National Championship on January 12, 2015 against the Ohio State Buckeyes for the national championship.

Teams

The Stanford Cardinal battled the USC Trojans for the second time this season, having defeated them 41–31 earlier this season at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Stanford

Main article: 2015 Stanford Cardinal football team

Stanford returned to the Pac-12 Championship for the third time since its inception. Stanford is led by fifth-year head coach, David Shaw, QB Kevin Hogan, and RB Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey is averaging 255.18 all purposes yards per game.

USC

Main article: 2015 USC Trojans football team

USC competed in the championship game for the first time since the conference expanded to 12 teams. USC and Utah are tied for first place in the South Division, with the tiebreaker going to USC, who won the game against the Utes earlier this season. Leading the team are senior QB Cody Kessler, freshman TB Ronald Jones II, sophomore WR JuJu Smith-Schuster, sophomore CB-WR-RET Adoree’ Jackson.

Game summary

Statistics

Statistics
First downs
Plays–yards
Rushes–yards
Passing yards
Passing: Comp–Att–Int
Time of possession

Notes

John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting performed during the game.

References

Pac-12 Football Championship Game

Years	2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Venues	Autzen Stadium (2011) Stanford Stadium (2012) Sun Devil Stadium (2013) Levi's Stadium (2014–present)

Champions	List of Pac-12 Conference football champions

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