2016 Pac-12 Conference football season

2016 Pac-12 Conference football season
2016 Pac-12 Conference football season
League	NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
Sport	American football
Number of teams	12
TV partner(s)	Fox Sports Media Group (Fox, FS1), ESPN Family (ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU), CBS (bowl game, and Pac-12 Networks
2017 NFL Draft
Top draft pick	DE Solomon Thomas, Stanford
Picked by	San Francisco 49ers, 3rd overall
Regular season
Top scorer	Cameron Van Winkle (123 points)
North champions	Washington Huskies
North runners-up	Washington State Cougars
South champions	Colorado Buffaloes
South runners-up	USC Trojans
Pac-12 Championship
Champions	Washington Huskies
Runners-up	Colorado Buffaloes
Finals MVP	Taylor Rapp, DB

2016 Pac-12 Conference football standings

Team	W		L	W		L
North Division
No. 4 Washington xy$^	8	–	1	12	–	2
Washington State	7	–	2	8	–	5
No. 12 Stanford	6	–	3	10	–	3
California	3	–	6	5	–	7
Oregon State	3	–	6	4	–	8
Oregon	2	–	7	4	–	8
South Division
No. 17 Colorado xy	8	–	1	10	–	4
No. 3 USC	7	–	2	10	–	3
No. 23 Utah	5	–	4	9	–	4
Arizona State	2	–	7	5	–	7
UCLA	2	–	7	4	–	8
Arizona	1	–	8	3	–	9
Championship: Washington 41, Colorado 10
^ – College Football Playoff participant $ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions y – Championship game participant Rankings from AP Poll

The 2016 Pac-12 Conference football season is the sixth season for the conference as a twelve-team league. The season began on August 26, 2016, with California vs. Hawaii. The final game was the 2016 Pac-12 Football Championship Game at Levi's Stadium on December 2, 2016, with Fox televising the game.