2013 Pac-12 Conference football season

The 2013 Pac-12 Conference football season began on August 29, 2013 with USC at Hawaii. The conference's first game was played on September 7, 2013 with Washington State winning over USC, and the final game was the Pac-12 Championship Game on December 7, 2013. This is the third season for the conference as a 12-team league. The Sagarin Ratings had the Pac-12 as the best conference in the nation top to bottom in the final rating of the season.

Previous season
The Second Pac-12 Championship Game was held on Friday, November 20, 2012. Stanford, the North Division Champions, defeated UCLA, the South Division Champions, to claim their thirteenth conference title.

The Stanford Cardinal ended the regular season with an 11–2 record which earned the team a berth in the Rose Bowl, where they defeated Wisconsin for their first Rose Bowl win since 1972. Oregon won eleven games and lost to Stanford and earned an at-large BCS berth. The Ducks defeated the Big 12 co-champion Kansas State in the Fiesta Bowl. Arizona beat Nevada and Arizona State beat Navy while Washington was defeated by Boise State, UCLA was defeated by Baylor, Oregon State was defeated by Texas, and USC was defeated by Georgia Tech in non-BCS bowls. The Pac-12 went 4–4 in all bowls, with a 2–0 mark in BCS bowls and 2–4 in non-BCS bowls.

Preseason
2013 Pac-12 Spring Football:

North Division
 * California – Mon., Feb 25 to Sat., March 23
 * Oregon – Tue., April 2 to Sat., April 27
 * Oregon State – Mon., March 13 to Fri., April 26
 * Stanford – Mon., Feb. 25 to Sat., April 13
 * Washington – Tue., April 2 to Sat., April 20
 * Washington State – Thu., March 21 to Sat., April 20

South Division
 * Arizona – Mon., March 4 to Sat., April 13
 * Arizona State – Tue., March 19 to Thu., April 18
 * Colorado – Thu., March 7 to Tue., April 16
 * UCLA – Tue., April 2 to Sat., April 27
 * USC – Tue., March 5 to Sat., April 13
 * Utah – Tue., March 19 to Sat., April 20


 * July 26, 2013 – 2013 Media Day was held at Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, California
 * August 1, 2013 – Washington State started the Pac-12 pre-season practices

Head coaches

 * Rich Rodriguez, Arizona – 2nd year
 * Todd Graham, Arizona State – 2nd year
 * Sonny Dykes, California – 1st year
 * Mike MacIntyre, Colorado – 1st year
 * Mark Helfrich, Oregon – 1st year
 * Mike Riley, Oregon State – 12th year


 * David Shaw, Stanford – 3rd year
 * Jim L. Mora, UCLA – 2nd year
 * Lane Kiffin, USC – 4th year, Ed Orgeron – Interim
 * Kyle Whittingham, Utah – 9th year
 * Steve Sarkisian, Washington – 5th year
 * Mike Leach, Washington State – 2nd year

Players of the week
Following each week's games, Pac-12 conference officials select the players of the week from the conference's teams.

Home game attendance
Sellout Game played at CenturyLink Field in Seattle. Pac-12 Championship Game

Awards and honors
Doak Walker Award

Maxwell Award

Walter Camp Player of the Year Award

Pac-12 Morris Trophy (top lineman)
 * Xavier Su'a-Filo, UCLA; Will Sutton, ASU

All-Americans
Academic All-America Team Member of the Year (CoSIDA)

AFCA Coaches' All-Americans First Team:

All-Pac-12 teams

 * Offensive Player of the Year: Ka'Deem Carey, RB, Arizona
 * Pat Tillman Defensive Player of the Year: Will Sutton, DE, Arizona State
 * Offensive Freshman of the Year: Myles Jack, RB, UCLA
 * Defensive Freshman of the Year: Myles Jack, LB, UCLA
 * Coach of the Year: Todd Graham, Arizona State

Offense:

Defense:

Specialists:

All-Academic
First team

Drafted Players
2014 NFL Draft