Yeah; too many teams. I liked the Pac10, or the PCC, even.
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Was the AAWU-Pac 8 when I went to school, '62-66.
You know how it goes; first you let in somebody from Ore, and then Arizona, and, B4 you know it, Colorado and Utah are on the Pacific Coast.
Nothing helps; I haven't gone to the Rose Bowl since '59.
On July 1, 1959 the new Athletic Association of Western Universities was formed, with California, Stanford, UCLA, USC, and Washington as charter members. The conference also was popularly known as the Big Five from 1960 to 1962; [83] when Washington State joined in 1962, the conference was then informally known as the Big Six. [83]
Pacific-8[ edit] Oregon and Oregon State rejoined in 1964. With the addition of the two Oregon schools, the conference became known unofficially as the Pacific-8 (as there already was a Big Eight Conference). Idaho was never invited to join the AAWU; the Vandals were independent for four years until the formation of the Big Sky Conference in 1963.
In 1968, the AAWU formally renamed itself the Pacific-8 Conference, or Pac-8 for short. The Pac-8 did not allow a second bowl team from the conference until 1975. [
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