The 2009 Pacific-10 Conference football season started on Thursday, September 3, 2009.

Oregon won the Pac-10 title, which had been held by USC for the past seven years.

Seven conference teams were invited to participate in post season bowl games, with only UCLA and USC winning their bowl games.

During the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season, all five Pac-10 teams won their bowl games: Pre-season poll voted on by the media during the Pacific-10 Football Media Day, with the number of first-place votes shown in parentheses:[1] [13]

Doak Walker Award Lou Groza Award Tom Hansen Conference Medal[14] Walter Camp Football Foundation All-America: FWAA All-America Team: Sporting News All-America team: AFCA Coaches' All-Americans First Team: ESPN All-America team: First Team: ST=special teams player (not a kicker or returner) First Team: [15] (2) Two-time first-team All-Academic selection; (3) Three-time first-team All-Academic selection