The 2011 Pacific-12 Football Championship Game will be played on Friday, December 2, 2011 to determine the 2011

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 football

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 champion of the Pacific-12 Conference (Pac-12). The game will feature UCLA

2011 UCLA Bruins football team

The 2011 UCLA Bruins football team represents the University of California, Los Angeles in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team is coached by fourth year head coach Rick Neuheisel and plays their home games in Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California...

, champion of the South Division, playing against the North Division champion Oregon

2011 Oregon Ducks football team

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. The game will take place at Oregon's Autzen Stadium

Autzen Stadium

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, as the Ducks' conference record of is better than UCLA's record of . This will be the first football conference championship for the Pacific-12 Conference, or any of its predecessors. UCLA earned a berth in the game though it only had the second best record in the South Division; the South Division's best record belonged to USC

2011 USC Trojans football team

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 , however USC is ineligible to participate in the game due to NCAA sanctions. Both Oregon and Stanford

2011 Stanford Cardinal football team

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 finished with identical 8-1 conference records in the North Division; however Oregon defeated Stanford during the season, giving them the berth in the Conference Championship Game.

The game will be at 5:00 p.m. PST

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/6:00 p.m. MST

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 and be televised by Fox Sports.

Pregame buildup

• On November 28, 2011, UCLA Coach Rick Neuheisel
  Rick Neuheisel
  Richard Gerald "Rick" Neuheisel, Jr. , is an American football coach, former player, and attorney. He was most recently the head football coach at University of California, Los Angeles, a position he held from 2008 to 2011...
  
  was fired, but he will be allowed to coach in the Championship game.