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The 2014 Pac-12 Conference football season was the fourth season of college football for the Pac-12 Conference as a 12-team league. The season began on Thursday, August 28, 2014, and the first conference game was on Saturday, September 6, 2014, when USC played at Stanford. The final game was the Pac-12 Championship Game at Levi's Stadium on December 5, 2014, with FOX televising the game. The Oregon Ducks defeated the Arizona Wildcats, 51–13 for the conference championship and went on to play in the College Football Playoff. The Ducks defeated the Florida State Seminoles 59–20 in the semifinal game in the Rose Bowl, but lost to the Ohio State Buckeyes 42–20 in the championship game.

Previous season

Stanford, the North Division Champions, defeated Arizona State, the South Division Champions, 38–14 to claim their fourteenth conference title and the chance to play in the Rose Bowl again.

A record nine conference teams played in a post-season bowl game, with six teams winning. Stanford was defeated in the Rose Bowl game by Michigan State 24–20 before 95,173 fans. Arizona State, the South Division champions, was also a bowl game loser, losing to Texas Tech 37–23 in the Holiday Bowl. The only other loser in a bowl game was Washington State, losing by a slim margin to Colorado State 48–45.

Bowl game winners were: UCLA defeated Virginia Tech 42-12 in the Hyundai Sun Bowl, Arizona defeated Boston College 42–19 in the AdvoCare V100 Bowl, Oregon defeated Texas 42–7 in the Valero Alamo Bowl, Washington defeated BYU 31–16 in the Fight Hunger Bowl, Oregon State defeated Boise State 38–23 in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl, and USC defeated Fresno State 45–20 in the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl.

Pre-season

Pac-12 Media poll

2014 Pac-12 Media Day was held at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, CA on July 23–24, 2014.

Head coaches

Coaching changes

There were two coaching changes following the 2014 season including Steve Sarkisian with USC and Chris Petersen with Washington.

Coaches

Rankings

Schedule

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Championship game

The championship game will be played on December 5, 2014. It will feature the highest ranked teams from two division championships.

Week 15 (Pac-12 Championship Game)

Postseason games

Following the 2014 regular season the Pac-12 had all eight of its bowl eligible teams selected to play in a post-season bowl game. The two marque match ups will be the Rose Bowl, in which the Oregon Ducks will face off against the Florida State Seminoles in the semi-finals of the College Football Playoff and the Fiesta Bowl, in which the Arizona Wildcats will face off against Mountain West Conference champions, Boise State. Overall, the Pac-12 will see two bowl games each against the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and Mountain West Conferences.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Pac-12, often considered to be the second best Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A) football conference, will not play a bowl game against what many consider to be the best conference, the SEC. The last time that teams from the Pac-12 and SEC met in the post-season was the 2011 BCS National Championship Game when Auburn defeated Oregon for the national championship. The only hope for a Pac-12 v. SEC match-up was for Oregon to win the Rose Bowl, and SEC Conference Champions Alabama to win the Sugar Bowl, in which case both teams would have squared off in the inaugural College Football Championship Game. Because Alabama lost the Sugar Bowl and Oregon won the Rose Bowl, the Ducks played the Big Ten Conference Champion Ohio State Buckeyes in a re-match of the 2010 Rose Bowl.

Records against other conferences

Players of the week and honors

Following each week's games, Pac-12 conference officials select the players of the week from the conference's teams.

Position key

Awards and honors

All-Americans

All-Conference teams

All-Academic

Home game attendance

During the 2014 season the members of the Pac-12 Conference saw nearly four million spectators attend football games at their home stadiums. UCLA led the conference with 459,901 total spectators attending the six games held at the Rose Bowl, taking the title back from cross-town rivals USC.^[4] Despite selling out their stadium in half of their games, Washington State recorded the lowest overall attendance with 184,762 total spectators attending the six games held at Martin Stadium.^[5]

Oregon and Utah both continued their respective sellout streaks as well as their statuses as the only two programs in the conference and in their respective divisions to sell out each game or record a total season average of over 100% capacity. The Ducks led the conference in sellout percentage for the fourth consecutive year,^[6] filling Autzen Stadium to an average of 106% capacity throughout the season. The only teams aside from the Ducks and the Utes to achieve sellout attendance for a game were the Arizona Wildcats and the Stanford Cardinal in their losses to USC, and the Washington State Cougars, in their losses to eventual division champions Arizona and Oregon and hated rivals Washington in the Apple Cup.

When it came to conference rivalry games played at home, the advantage was nearly split, at 4–3^[7] (.571) with the higher-ranked team coming out on top in each case.

No Pac-12 team achieved a perfect record in their home stadium this year; the teams with the best home records were the division champions Arizona and Oregon, both going 6–1 (.857), followed by Arizona State and USC both of whom also suffered just one loss but playing one less overall game, posting records of 5–1 (.833). The single loss suffered at home by Arizona was delivered by USC; Oregon's sole defeat came from Arizona, as did the single home defeat of Arizona State, who was the only team to beat USC in the LA Coliseum.

As for non-conference opponents in Pac-12 arenas, several marque programs were defeated including the defending Big Ten and Rose Bowl champions, Michigan State, who lost to the Ducks in Autzen Stadium, along with two wins over Notre Dame, who were defeated in Sun Devil Stadium and the LA Coliseum. All in all, the Pac-12 went 23–2 (.920) in non-conference home match ups, with the sole losses coming from Rutgers^[13] and BYU.^[14]

The conference participated in two non-conference neutral site games and split their record at 1–1 (.500). UCLA defeated Texas at AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, in the Advocare Cowboys Showdown. AT&T Stadium is located in Arlington, Texas, a three-hour drive from the Longhorns campus in Austin. The other neutral-site game was the Rocky Mountain Showdown played at Mile High Stadium, home of the Denver Broncos, in Denver, Colorado^[15] in which Colorado lost to their in-state rivals Colorado State.

Notes

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.afca.com/article/article.php?id=1201 |title=AFCA Announces 2012 FBS Coaches' All-America Team |publisher=American Football Coaches Association |date=December 5, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111207035843/http://www.afca.com/article/article.php?id=1201 |archivedate=December 7, 2011 }}
2. ^{{cite press release|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/114526908/Pac-12-All-Confer-Ece |title=All-Pac-12 Conference Football Team |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6CcqVt0Sm?url=http://www.scribd.com/doc/114526908/Pac-12-All-Confer-Ece |archivedate=December 3, 2012 |deadurl=no |publisher=Pac-12 Conference |date=November 26, 2012 |df= }}
3. ^Pac-12 names football all-academic teams {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011020559/http://pac-12.com/article/2013/11/26/pac-12-names-football-all-academic-teams |date=2016-10-11 }}, Pac-12 Conference, November 26, 2013
4. ^The only other Pac-12 team with a stadium that exceeds 90,000 capacity
5. ^Even if one counts the attendance at the CenturyLink game in total attendance, WSU still comes in last.
6. ^The Ducks lead the Pac-10 conference in sellout percentage dating back to the 1998 season, however as Colorado and Utah were not members of the conference during those years, only Pac-12 seasons are referenced
7. ^1 - #11 Arizona over #13 Arizona State; 2 - #9 Oregon over Washington; 3 - #3 Oregon over Oregon State; 4 - Stanford over Cal; 5 - #9 UCLA over #19 USC; 6 - Utah over Colorado and 7 - Washington over Washington State
8. ^{{cite web |title=Pac-12 announces deal to host Football Championship Game at Levi's Stadium|url=http://pac-12.com/article/2014/05/15/pac-12-announces-deal-host-football-championship-game-levis-stadium|publisher=Pac-12 Conference|date=May 15, 2014|accessdate=November 29, 2014}}
9. ^40 miles
10. ^466 miles, the closest Pac-12 opponent outside of the Pacific Northwest
11. ^{{cite web |title=Marcus Mariota throws 5 TDs as Oregon trumps Cal in 100-point affair|url=http://espn.go.com/ncf/recap?id=400548289|publisher=ESPN|date=October 24, 2014|accessdate=November 29, 2014}}
12. ^{{cite web |title=Rutgers rallies in 4th to beat Cougars 41-38 |url=http://espn.go.com/ncf/recap?id=400547993 |publisher=ESPN |date=August 28, 2014 |access-date=November 29, 2014}}
13. ^Defeated Washington State at CenturyLink Field
14. ^Defeated California at California Memorial Stadium
15. ^Less than one hour from either campus
16. ^Gary Klein, USC's Pat Haden fined $25,000 for 'inappropriate' sideline conduct, Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2014
17. ^Scott Wolf, Hotel damaged by USC day of Arizona State game, Los Angeles Daily News, October 14, 2014
18. ^Kyle Bonagura, Connor Halliday sets passing record, ESPN.com, October 5, 2014