Oregon will replace Washington in the Pac-12 championship game this weekend due to the Huskies' lingering COVID-19 issues.
The Ducks will represent the North Division and face South Division champion USC at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Dec. 18.
"This decision was made under the Pac-12's football game cancellation policy and Football Championship Game policy due to Washington neither having the minimum 53 scholarship student athletes available for the game nor the minimum number of scholarship student athletes at a position group, in each case as a result of a number of positive football student athlete COVID-19 cases and resulting isolation of additional football student athletes under contact tracing protocols," the league said in a statement.