2015 Pac-12 Football Championship Game

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2015 Pac-12 Football Championship Game
Conference Championship
USC Trojans Stanford Cardinal
(8–4) (10–2)
22 41
Head coach: 
Clay Helton		 Head coach: 
David Shaw
AP Coaches CFP
24 24 20
AP Coaches CFP
7 7 7
1 2 3 4 Total
USC 0 3 13 6 22
Stanford 3 10 14 14 41
Date December 5, 2015
Season 2015
Stadium Levi's Stadium
Location Santa Clara, CA
MVP Christian McCaffrey, RB, Stanford
National anthem Brian McKnight
Halftime show John Ondrasik
Attendance 58,476
United States TV coverage
Network ESPN, ESPN Deportes
Announcers ESPN: Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge and Holly Rowe; ESPN Radio: Adam Amin, David Norrie and Olivia Harlan
Pac-12 Football Championship Game
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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

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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

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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

Scoring summary

Statistics

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

See also

Notes

References

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