USC's Pac-12 Football Championship Game Matchup Replaced With Oregon

SAN FRANCISCO (Pac-12.com) — The Pac-12 has, after consultation with Washington, made the decision to replace Washington with Oregon as the Pac-12 North Division team to face South Division champion USC in the Pac-12 Football Championship Game scheduled for Friday, December 18.

This decision was made under the Pac-12's football game cancellation policy and Football Championship Game policy due to Washington neither having the minimum 53 scholarship student-athletes available for the game nor the minimum number of scholarship student-athletes at a position group, in each case as a result of a number of positive football student-athlete COVID-19 cases and resulting isolation of additional football student-athletes under contact tracing protocols.

Under Pac-12 Football Championship Game policy, the team with the next best record in the North Division, Oregon, will represent the North Division against South Division Champion USC.

USC will face Oregon in the Pac-12 Championship Game at 5 pm PT on Friday at the @lacoliseum on FOX.#FightOn | #BeatTheDucks https://t.co/VMGDkPKcGg

— USC Trojans (@USC_Athletics) December 14, 2020