| Game Name: | Pac-12 Football Championship Game |
| Subheader: | Conference Championship |
| Date Game Played: | December 5 |
| Year Game Played: | 2015 |
| Football Season: | 2015 |
| Visitor School: | University of Southern California |
| Visitor Name Short: | USC |
| Visitor Nickname: | Trojans |
| Visitor Record: | 8–4 |
| Visitor Rank Ap: | 24 |
| Visitor Rank Coaches: | 24 |
| Visitor Rank Cfp: | 20 |
| Visitor Coach: | Clay Helton |
| Visitor 1Q: | 0 |
| Visitor 2Q: | 3 |
| Visitor 3Q: | 13 |
| Visitor 4Q: | 6 |
| Home School: | Stanford University |
| Home Name Short: | Stanford |
| Home Nickname: | Cardinal |
| Home Record: | 10–2 |
| Home Rank Ap: | 7 |
| Home Rank Coaches: | 7 |
| Home Rank Cfp: | 7 |
| Home Coach: | David Shaw |
| Home 1Q: | 3 |
| Home 2Q: | 10 |
| Home 3Q: | 14 |
| Home 4Q: | 14 |
| Mvp: | Christian McCaffrey, RB, Stanford |
| Odds: | Stanford by 4.5 |
| Anthem: | Brian McKnight |
| Referee: | Terry Leyden |
| Halftime: | John Ondrasik |
| Attendance: | 58,476 |
| Us Network: | ESPN, ESPN Deportes |
| Us Announcers: | ESPN: Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge and Holly Rowe; ESPN Radio: Adam Amin, David Norrie and Olivia Harlan |
The 2015 Pac-12 Football Championship Game was played on Saturday, December 5, 2015 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California to determine the champion of the Pac-12 Conference in football for the 2015 season. It was the fifth championship game in Pac-12 Conference history. The game featured the South Division Co-champion USC Trojans against the North Division champion Stanford Cardinal. Stanford defeated USC 41–22 to win their third conference championship game.
The game was the fifth football conference championship for the Pac-12 Conference (or any of its predecessors). Last season, the Oregon Ducks defeated the Arizona Wildcats 51–13 for the conference championship and represented the conference in the 2015 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The Ducks then advanced to play in the first CFP National Championship on January 12, 2015 against the Ohio State Buckeyes for the national championship.
The Stanford Cardinal faced the USC Trojans for the second time in the 2015 season, having won by a score of 41–31 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum earlier in the year.
See main article: 2015 Stanford Cardinal football team. Stanford returned to the Pac-12 Championship for the third time since its inception. Stanford was led by fifth-year head coach David Shaw, QB Kevin Hogan, and RB Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey averaged 255 all-purpose yards heading into the game.
See main article: 2015 USC Trojans football team. USC competed in the championship game for the first time since the conference expanded to 12 teams. USC and Utah tied for first place in the South Division, but USC won the tiebreaker by beating the Utes in the head-to-head matchup that season. Leading the team were senior QB Cody Kessler, freshman TB Ronald Jones II, sophomore WR JuJu Smith-Schuster, sophomore CB-WR-RET Adoree’ Jackson.
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