It was a crazy season for the Pac-12 in 2015, where the conference will send ten teams to a bowl game. This year, we saw Oregon stumble out the gates, and bounce back tremendously. Utah looked like a playoff-caliber team and then slowly ran off track down the home stretch, and the Golden Bears of California even saw some struggles as well in that same span.
Stanford ultimately emerged, and gives the Pac-12 one last gleam of hope of making the College Football Playoff. But they have to take on the USC Trojans in the Pac-12 Championship Game, with the winner automatically getting a bid for the Rose Bowl.