By Josh Green
The division details for next year’s Pac-12 football conference are official. Commissioner Larry Scott announced today that the conference, which has had 10 teams since 1978, will break up into two divisions, the North and South, effective next season.
The South division will feature USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, and the two newest schools to the conference– Utah and Colorado.
The North division will have Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State, California and Stanford.
Each school will have five games in their own division, as well as four games in the cross-division.
Scott also announced that the league will have its first conference championship game in December of 2011, at the home-field of the division champion with the best record.
A big question coming into the announcement was how rivalry games would be affected. A relief for the California schools is that the LA schools will continue to play the Bay Area schools on a yearly basis, meaning USC and UCLA will only have two cross-division games against teams not named California or Stanford, and vice-versa.
The divisional breakdown also benefits Arizona State, who recruit in the Southern California area, as they will continue to face UCLA and USC every year.
Divisions will not be used in any sport other than football.
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