There's nothing new about upheaval when it comes to football on the Pacific Coast. The pending departures of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten after the upcoming school year are hardly the first time the confederation has faced potential crisis or change. The forerunner of the modern-day Pac-12, the old PCC (Pacific Coast Conference), disbanded completely in the late 50s amid various scandals, re-emerging in five, six, and finally eight-team configurations by the mid-60s, with various labels (Big Five, Big Six, AAWU) before finally adopting the Pac-8 moniker in 1968. It can also be argued that the first shot across the bow for modern college conference realignment was fired by the Pac back in 1978 when it lured Arizona and Arizona State from the old WAC.
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