NCAA football betting players will be keeping a close eye on the Pac-10 this season as USC isn’t eligible for the postseason or conference championship, which they have dominated in recent years. But the Pac-10 has been around for a while, and it has grown from its initial group.Here are some inputs from the college football news and the history of Pac-10.

The Pac-10 began as the Athletic Association of Western Universities in 1959, then went through name changes like the Big Five, Big Six and Pacific-8 to signify their growth. The name Pacific-10 came about in 1978. Currently, the Pac-10 contains Arizona, Arizona State, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington and Washington State. But next year, the name will be changed to the Pacific-12 as the conference will be getting two new members in Colorado, who leaves the Big 12, and Utah, who were in the Mountain West Conference. The Pac-10 tried to lure Texas away from the Big 12 as well as conference realignment is running rampant in the NCAA, but the Longhorns stayed at home, and the Pac-10 will settle for the Buffaloes and Utes.

Only USC has represented the Pac-10 in the BCS title game, winning one and losing one, and their BCS bowl tie-in is the Rose Bowl, which is called “The Granddaddy of Them All” as the oldest bowl game going, so winning the Pac-10 conference holds a lot of weight. With USC’s fall, the conference is wide open this year, and that should make it an exciting campaign for online sportsbook players.