Pac-12 Football Schedule 2020: Dates, Matchups and Championship Game Details

The Pac-12 announced Saturday its seven-game, conference-only football schedule, which will kick off Nov. 7 after being delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. It will conclude with the conference's championship game Dec. 18.

Weekly Schedule 

Team Schedules

Arizona

Arizona State 

California

Colorado 

Oregon 

Oregon State

Stanford

UCLA

USC

Utah

Washington

Washington State 

Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott told Alan Blinder of the New York Times the availability of daily rapid-result testing allowed the conference to reverse course and play football in the fall.

"I personally believe it is the wave of the future and that others will migrate to it," Scott said Wednesday. "All of the models we see suggest that the only way to stop the spread amongst a team is to be able to detect and catch early someone's potential infectiousness."

Odds to win the Pac-12 title were quite close at the top before the COVID-19 pandemic caused the delay.

Oregon (+240) was the slightest of favorites over USC (+250) followed by Washington (+350) to create a virtual toss-up atop the conference, per 247Sports' Nick Kosko. Utah (+600) and Arizona State (+1000) rounded out the top five in the betting lines.

The Ducks and Huskies will face each other in the final game of the regular season in what could become a battle for the North Division crown. Neither team drew the Trojans as their only cross-division opponent, which makes the path to that head-to-head battle a little more clear.

USC will be tested right out of the gate in a game against the Sun Devils. Utah plays both USC and ASU in back-to-back weeks in late November, which will likely make or break the Utes' chances of winning the South Division.

Although Pac-12 teams were forced to wait a couple of extra months to learn the fate of the 2020 campaign, Trojans head coach Clay Helton said in September it provided the coaching staff with an opportunity to provide more direct teaching.

"I'll tell you, the two weeks we've had of that, it's been a joy," Helton told reporters. "It took us back to the grassroots of football. Six to 12 kids out there at a time, you're literally going back to the basics, fundamentals, techniques, it was awesome."

Now coaches and players have just over a month to ramp up their preparations before the season kicks off.

The Dec. 18 date for the title game puts the Pac-12 on schedule to complete its entire shortened slate before the College Football Playoff selection committee makes its choices Dec. 20, so an undefeated team out of the conference should be a strong playoff contender.