Pacific

A former conference: 10 schools on file. Our membership records under this name start in 1915. 1964 champion: Oregon State.

1958 standings

TeamConf.OverallAPEloLast 5
California6–⁠17–⁠4161507LWWWL
Washington State6–⁠27–⁠31610LWWWW
USC4–⁠2–⁠14–⁠5–⁠11511WWWTL
Oregon State5–⁠36–⁠41540WWLWL
Oregon4–⁠44–⁠61528LWLWL
UCLA2–⁠4–⁠13–⁠6–⁠11504LLLWT
Stanford2–⁠52–⁠81376WLLLL
Washington1–⁠63–⁠71412LWLLL
Idaho0–⁠34–⁠51442LWLWW

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. AP: the AP poll, final (else the final AP rank). Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.

Against other conferences, 1958

Pacific teams are 10–⁠18 outside the conference.

The bar is the share of those games won. Games against teams from lower divisions count together.

All-Pacific Coast teams, 1958

First team 17

PositionPlayerSchool
QuarterbackJoe KappCaliforniaCalifornia
HalfbackJack HartCaliforniaCalifornia
Willie WestOregonOregon
FullbackCharles “Chuck” MorrellWashington StateWashington State
EndChris BurfordStanfordStanford
Marlin McKeeverUSCUSC
TackleTed BatesOregon StateOregon State
Bill LeekaUCLAUCLA
Dan FiccaUSCUSC
Troy BarbeeStanfordStanford
Jim LindenOregonOregon
GuardJim BrackinsOregon StateOregon State
Bob GrottkauOregonOregon
Frank FiorentinoUSCUSC
CenterBob PetersonOregonOregon
Terry JonesCaliforniaCalifornia
Marv NelsonWashington StateWashington State

Second team 11

PositionPlayerSchool
QuarterbackBob NewmanWashington StateWashington State
HalfbackDon BufordUSCUSC
Ray SmithUCLAUCLA
FullbackNub BeamerOregon StateOregon State
EndJim SteffenUCLAUCLA
Bill SteigerWashington StateWashington State
TackleKurt GegnerWashingtonWashington
Pete JohnsonIdahoIdaho
GuardPete DomotoCaliforniaCalifornia
Don ArmstrongWashingtonWashington
Sonny SanchezOregon StateOregon State

From Wikipedia’s 1958 all-conference team article (CC BY-SA): each player on the best team any selector named him to (the coaches’, the media’s or the AP’s), in the article’s order. Players link to their pages where we could match them.

Champions

Most titles

California14last 1958
USC12last 1952
Stanford9last 1951
UCLA6last 1955
Oregon State4last 1964
Oregon4last 1957
Washington4last 1936
Washington State2last 1930
Idaho1last 1927

By year

1964Oregon State
1958California
1957Oregon, Oregon State (shared)
1956Oregon State
1955UCLA
1954UCLA
1953UCLA
1952USC
1951Stanford
1950California
1949California
1948California, Oregon (shared)
32 earlier seasons, back to 1916
1947USC
1946UCLA
1945USC
1944USC
1943USC
1942UCLA
1941Oregon State
1940Stanford
1939USC
1938California, USC (shared)
1937California
1936Washington
1935California, Stanford, UCLA (shared)
1934Stanford
1933Oregon, Stanford (shared)
1932USC
1931USC
1930Washington State
1929California, Oregon, Stanford, USC (shared)
1928USC
1927Idaho, Stanford, USC (shared)
1926Stanford
1925Washington
1924California, Stanford (shared)
1923California
1922California
1921California
1920California
1919Washington
1918California
1917Washington State
1916Washington

Conference titles as each program’s Wikipedia infobox lists them (CC BY-SA), shared titles counted for every co-champion; the conference’s earlier names count as the same conference.

Schools

  1. Oregon State1915–⁠19421945–⁠1958
  2. California1916–⁠1958
  3. Oregon1916–⁠19421945–⁠1958
  4. Washington1916–⁠1958
  5. Washington State19171919–⁠19421945–⁠1958
  6. Stanford1919–⁠19421946–⁠1958
  7. Idaho1922–⁠19361938–⁠19401946–⁠1958
  8. USC1922–⁠1958
  9. Montana1924–⁠19361939–⁠19401946–⁠1949
  10. UCLA1928–⁠1958
Every school and its years (10)

Members

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1915; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Who came and went

SeasonSchoolMoveAnnounced
1959CaliforniaLeft for AAWUSource
1959IdahoLeft to play as an independentSource
1959OregonLeft to play as an independentSource
1959Oregon StateLeft to play as an independentSource
1959StanfordLeft for AAWUSource
1959UCLALeft for AAWUSource
1959USCLeft for AAWUSource
1959WashingtonLeft for AAWUSource
1959Washington StateLeft to play as an independentSource

Football moves from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the season is the first one played in the new conference, and the date the one the lists or their sources give for the announcement. SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in all 363 team-seasons from 1915. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.

Honors while members

Consensus All-Americans 57

Stanford16
USC15
California13
UCLA6
Washington5

NFL first-round picks 23

USC7
Stanford5
UCLA3
Washington3
Oregon2

Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1915); a draft pick counts for the season before the draft. Heisman and All-America lists from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), draft picks from CollegeFootballData.com.