TheAll-Pac-12 football team is an annualPac-12 Conference honor bestowed on the best players in the conference following everycollege football season. Pac-12 coaches select first and second teams that each typically consists of 11 offensive players (aquarterback, tworunning backs, twowide receivers, atight end, and fiveoffensive linemen), 11 defensive players (fourdefensive linemen, threelinebackers, and fourdefensive backs), and four specialists (apunter, akicker, areturn specialist, and aspecial teams player).[1][2] Ties result in additional players being selected.[3] Votes are based on a weighted ranking, and coaches are allowed to select players from their own team. Players placed on the first team are given an award by the conference, while those on the second team receive a certificate. Players that are not named all-conference may receivehonorable mention if they received at least two votes. The preliminary results are then given to the coaches, who may choose to name as many as two additional players from their respective program for honorable mention from the conference.[1]
The conference was founded as thePacific Coast Conference (PCC), in 1915, which principal members founded theAthletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) in 1959, and subsequently went by the namesPacific-8,Pacific-10, becoming the Pac-12 in 2011.[4]
Following is a list of all-conference teams in the history of the Pac-12: