The Pac-12's coaches, players and commissioner met the media in Burbank this week, as you may or may not have heard, to kick off the 2015 football season. In addition to the new season, the conference is also trumpeting its 100th anniversary. Originally called the Pacific Coast Conference, the Pac-12's original members were Cal, UW, Oregon and Oregon State. WSU (then WSC) joined a year later, followed by Stanford in 1918.
After a few additions. including USC, UCLA, Idaho and Montana, the conference began to unravel in the 1950s. Montana departed to join the Mountain States Conference, which would turn out to be not such a great idea.