The season was originally scheduled to begin on September 26, 2020, and end with the 2020 Pac-12 Championship Game on December 18–19, 2020, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.

On July 10, 2020, the Pac-12 announced that all competition in fall sports, including football, will be played exclusively in-conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[2] On August 11, 2020, the Pac-12 Conference suspended all fall sports competitions due to the ongoing pandemic.

[3] On September 24, 2020 the Pac-12 Conference announced that the postponement of fall sports was to be ended and teams will return to play with a six-game Conference-only season to begin on November 6, and the Pac-12 Championship Game on December 18 with the rest of the conference seeded for a seventh game.

2020 Pac-12 Spring Football and number of signees on signing day: North Division South Division The Pac-12 will conduct its 2020 Pac-12 media days at the Loews Hollywood Hotel, in Hollywood, California, in July on the Pac-12 Network.

Below are the results of the media poll with total points received next to each school and first-place votes in parentheses.

For the 2020 poll, Oregon was voted as the favorite to win both the North Division and the Pac–12 Championship Game.

On August 2, 2020, a few days after the Pac-12 announced a conference only season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of 13 Pac-12 football players from 10 schools released a list of demands including health and safety protections, guaranteed medical coverage for players, elimination of excessive salaries for staff, end to racial injustice in sports and society, and a profit-sharing arrangement whereby 50% of the conference revenues will be distributed evenly among athletes.

The regular season was originally scheduled to begin on September 26, 2020, and end on December 5, 2020.

Washington, the North Division winner, was scheduled to play USC, the South Division winner, in the championship game, but COVID issues forced it back out, allowing the second-best team by record in the North, Oregon, to take their place instead.

Arizona State,[24] Stanford,[25] USC,[26] and Washington[27] declined to pursue bowl game opportunities.

UCLA[28] and Utah[29] opted out of playing in a bowl before their final regular season games and with their eligibility still in doubt.

Each individual university will determine what will be allowed in terms of family member attendance on that basis.