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The Pac - 12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that operates in the Western United States . It participates in 22 NCAA sports in the NCAA ' s Division I ; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ; formerly Division I - A ), the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition . The conference ' s 12 members are located in Arizona , California , Colorado , Oregon , Utah , and Washington . They include each state ' s flagship public university , four additional public universities , and two private research universities . The conference was created after the disbanding of the Pacific Coast Conference ( PCC ), whose principal members founded the Athletic Association of Western Universities ( AAWU ) in 1959 , and went by the names Big Five , Big Six , Pacific - 8 , Pacific - 10 . It became the Pac - 12 in 2011 with the addition of the ___MASK10___ and the University of Utah . Percival Molson Memorial Stadium ( also known in French as Stade Percival - Molson ; commonly referred to as Molson Stadium in English or Stade Molson in French ) is an outdoor football stadium located downtown on the slopes of Mount Royal in Montreal , Quebec , Canada . Named in honour of Percival Molson , it is owned by ___MASK66___ and has been the home of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League from 1947 to 1967 and again from 1998 to present . The stadium is also home to the McGill Redmen of the Quebec University Football League . The Selwyn House Gryphons high - school football team also play their home games at the stadium . The stadium has a capacity of 23 , 420 the result of a renovation project begun in 2009 that increased capacity from the previous 20 , 202 . ___MASK95___ , officially Leland Stanford Junior University , is a private research university in Stanford , California , adjacent to Palo Alto and between San Jose and San Francisco . Its campus is one of the largest in the United States . Stanford also has land and facilities elsewhere . Tim Sims ( born March 12 , 1985 ) is a former professional American and Canadian football cornerback . He was signed by the Montreal Alouettes as a street free agent in 2009 . He played college football for the Stanford Cardinal . Papa John ' s Cardinal Stadium is a football stadium located in Louisville , Kentucky , United States , on the southern end of the campus of the ___MASK7___ . Debuting in 1998 , it serves as the home of the Louisville Cardinals football program . The official seating capacity in the quasi - horseshoe shaped facility was 42 , 000 through the 2008 season . An expansion project that started after the 2008 season was completed in time for the 2010 season has brought the official capacity to 55 , 000 . An additional expansion project aiming to close the open end of the horseshoe to add 10 , 000 additional seats was announced on August 28 , 2015 , with the goal of opening within 2 years . The Montreal Alouettes are a Canadian football team based in Montreal , Quebec . Founded in 1946 , the team has folded and been revived twice . The Alouettes compete in the East Division of the Canadian Football League ( CFL ) and last won the Grey Cup championship in 2010 . Their home field is Percival Molson Memorial Stadium for the regular season and as of 2014 also home of their playoff games . History . Even after the emergence of the professional National Football League ( NFL ), college football remained extremely popular throughout the U . S . Although the college game has a much larger margin for talent than its pro counterpart , the sheer number of fans following major colleges provides a financial equalizer for the game , with Division I programs  the highest level  playing in huge stadiums , six of which have seating capacity exceeding 100 , 000 . In many cases , college stadiums employ bench - style seating , as opposed to individual seats with backs and arm rests . This allows them to seat more fans in a given amount of space than the typical professional stadium , which tends to have more features and comforts for fans . ( Only two stadiums owned by U . S . colleges or universities  Papa John ' s Cardinal Stadium at the ___MASK7___ and FAU Stadium at Florida Atlantic University  consist entirely of chairback seating .) The Grey Cup is the name of both the championship game of the Canadian Football League ( CFL ) and the trophy awarded to the victorious team playing Canadian football . It is contested between the winners of the CFL ' s East and West Divisional playoffs and is one of Canadian television ' s largest annual sporting events . The Toronto Argonauts have 16 championships , more than any other team . The latest , the 104th Grey Cup , took place in Toronto , Ontario , on November 27 , 2016 , when the Ottawa Redblacks defeated the ___MASK18___ Stampeders 39  33 in overtime . The Stanford Cardinal is the nickname of the 37 varsity athletic teams at ___MASK95___ . Stanford ' s program has won over 100 national team championships . Stanford has won 22 consecutive NACDA Directors ' Cups , awarded annually to the most successful overall college sports program in the nation . Stanford ' s teams compete in the Pac - 12 Conference , along with other schools from the western third of the United States . FAU Stadium is a college football stadium located at the north end of the main campus of Florida ___MASK52___ ( FAU ) in Boca Raton , Florida . Opened in 2011 , it is home to the Florida Atlantic Owls football team and is intended to be the first part of FAU ' s multi - use development project , " Innovation Village ".