Overview of Pac 10 Football

College football is one of the most tradition-based sports in all of the United States. Some teams and rivalries go back almost 150 years. College football is made up of a couple of powerhouse conferences, where teams are geographically similar and often times, traditional rivalries have been built for many years. The Pacific 10 conference, or Pac 10 as it is commonly known, is one of them. In fact, Pac 10 football is some of the top competition in the country.

Here are the ten schools with their team names and locations that make up Pac 10 Football: Arizona State University Sun Devils located in Tempe, Arizona. University of Arizona Wildcats in Tempe, Arizona. University of California, Berkeley Golden Bears in Berkeley, California. University of Southern California (USC) Trojans, located in Los Angeles, California. University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins. Stanford University Cardinal in Palo Alto, California. University of Oregon Ducks in Eugene, Oregon. Oregon State Beavers in Corvallis, Oregon. University of Washington Huskies in Seattle, Washington. Washington State University Cougars in Pullman, Washington.

The first team you have to bring up when you talk about Pac 10 football is USC. This school has produced the most Heisman trophy winners (awarded to the top player each year) out of all the colleges in the country. They have been particularly good as of late, winning several national championships over the past decade.

Traditionally, the top Pac 10 football team and the top team from the Big-10 conference (located primarily among schools in states near or bordering the Great Lakes) face off in one of the biggest games of the year. The college football season ends with the "bowl" season; a series of special exhibition games meant to cap off the year. One of the biggest is the Rose Bowl; where the top Big 10 and Pac 10 football teams face off. This is a classic matchup that is one of the oldest inter-divisional exhibition bowl games and is one of the reasons why watching college bowl games on New Year's Day became a popular tradition. In fact, the Rose Bowl is only part of that day's festivities in Pasadena, California, the culmination of the Parade of Roses.

Pac 10 football is full of history, tradition, and excellence. Many people seem to think the best college football is played in the South, but there is certainly many things to be said about Pac 10 football.