College Basketball Predictions. Pac-12 Picks, Lines For Saturday, February 25

Pac-12 college basketball predictions, lines, how to watch for Saturday, February 25

College basketball predictions and lines for every Pac-12 game on Saturday, February 25


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Arizona State at Arizona Prediction

Game Time: 2:00 ET
How To Watch: CBS
Prediction: Arizona 78, Arizona State 65
Line: Arizona -12, o/u: 151.5

Washington State at Cal Prediction

Game Time: 6:00 ET
How To Watch: Pac-12 Network
Prediction: Washington State 69, Cal 62
Line: Washington State -11.5, o/u: 125

USC at Utah Prediction

Game Time: 8:00 ET
How To Watch: ESPNU
Prediction: Utah 75, USC 72
Line: USC -2, o/u: 140.5

Oregon at Oregon State Prediction

Game Time: 10:00 ET
How To Watch: Pac-12 Network
Prediction: Oregon 66, Oregon State 58
Line: Oregon -8.5, o/u: 129

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Utah Football Schedule 2023: Analysis, Breakdown, 3 Things To Know

Utah football schedule 2023. Analysis, breakdown, 3 things to know

Utah football schedule 2023: Who do the Utes miss on the Pac-12 schedule and what are 3 things to know?


Utah Football Schedule 2023: 3 Things To Know

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Aug 26 OPEN DATE

Sept 2 Florida

Sept 9 at Baylor

Sept 16 Weber State

Sept 23 UCLA

Sept 29 at Oregon State

Oct 7 OPEN DATE

Oct 14 Cal

Oct 21 at USC

Oct 28 Oregon

Nov 4 Arizona State

Nov 11 at Washington

Nov 18 at Arizona

Nov 25 Colorado

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Utah Football Schedule What To Know: Who do the Utes miss from the Pac-12 slate?

The two-time defending Pac-12 champs don’t get a whole lot of schedule breaks overall. Last year they didn’t get Cal, but they also caught a massive solid by not getting Washington.

This time around there’s no Washington State – that’s not a bad thing considering what a tough battle that was in a 21-17 Ute win last season – to go along with the horrible break …

No Stanford. This year, that’s the Pac-12 team you want to face. The Utes took it down 42-7 in 2022.

Utah Football Schedule What Really Matters

Cal is a home game, but the date with Huskies is up in Seattle in mid-November. That’s a problem made worse by the road game at USC and the trip to Corvallis to deal with a nasty Oregon State squad.

There might be back-to-back road games against Washington and Arizona in mid-November, but there are just four Pac-12 game away from Salt Lake City. Getting UCLA and Oregon at home helps.

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Give the Utes credit. They’re not shying away from a non-conference challenge (cough … UCLA … cough).

Now Florida has to deal with Rice-Eccles.

It was one of the better games of last season, and it came in the opener. Utah had the Gators in big, big trouble before Cam Rising’s late interception. That starts the season followed up by a trip to Baylor.

The overall schedule is just hard enough to keep the Utes from getting to the College Football Playoff – there are at least two losses in there somewhere – but it’s not nasty enough to keep them from playing for another Pac-12 championship.

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Penn State 35, Utah 21 Rose Bowl What Happened, What It All Means

Penn State 35, Utah 21: Rose Bowl what happened, player of the game, and what it all means

Penn State beat Utah to win the Rose Bowl. What happened, who was the player of the game, and what does it all mean?


Penn State 35, Utah 21 Rose Bowl What Happened, Player of the Game, What It All Means

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Rose Bowl What Happened

14-14 at halftime, the game broke wide open with two huge plays. Nick Singleton took a handoff 87 yards for a score in the third, KeAndre Lambert-Smith took a pass 88 yards for a touchdown in the fourth, and Utah didn’t wasn’t able to get back on the board until the final seconds.

– Utah kept up in the first half with a short touchdown catch from Thomas Yassmin and Ja’Quinden Jackson ran for a 19-yard score, but the offense stalled and the game turned when QB Cam Rising was knocked out for the game. Penn State scored 21 straight points before Utah backup Bryson Barnes found Jaylen Dixon for a five-yard touchdown.

The Penn State defense took over with six sacks – two from Curtis Jacobs – and force two turnovers. Utah moved the ball with a slew of methodical drives, but the points were there in the second half without Rising.

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Rose Bowl Player of the Game

Sean Clifford, QB Penn State
He completed 16-of-21 passes for 279 yards and two scores.

Rose Bowl Fun Stats

– Before getting hurt, Utah QB Cam Rising completed 8-of-21 passes for 95 yards and a touchdown with a pick, and he ran for 56 yards.

– Average Yards Per Throw: Penn State 12.7 – Utah 5.2

– Time of Possession: Utah 35:13 – Penn State 24:47

Rose Bowl What It All Means

Penn State got its Rose Bowl under James Franklin. The team closed with five straight wins after the tough loss to Ohio State. After opening the season with a fight of a win over Purdue, the other 11 victories were by double-digits. The only two losses were to two College Football Playoff programs.

4-4 now in bowls under Franklin, Penn State lost the Outback to Arkansas last year and went on a roll ever since.

Utah had yet another amazing season under Kyle Whittingham. With a Pac-12 Championship and a second straight trip to the Rose Bowl, the amazing run continues as the conference’s current power program.

Cam Rising going out of the game played a huge role, but he didn’t play defense. Penn State was just that explosive and just that good. With the defeat, this is Utah’s fourth straight bowl loss since winning five in a row since 2011.

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College Football Expert Picks Predictions: January 2 Bowls

College Football Expert picks and predictions for the January 2nd bowl games

College football expert picks, predictions: January 2nd bowl games: Illinois vs Mississippi State, Tulane vs USC, LSU vs Purdue, Penn State vs Utah


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Mississippi State vs Illinois

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Line: Mississippi State -3, o/u: 46

Eric Bolin, RazorbacksWire.com: Illinois
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Jeff Feyerer, CFN: Mississippi State
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Cami Griffin, LonghornsWire.com: Illinois
Dan Harralson, VolsWire.com: Mississippi State
Phil Harrison, BuckeyesWire.com: Mississippi State
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Kevin McGuire, NittanyLionsWire.com: Illinois
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Tyler Nettuno, LSUTigerswire.com Illinois
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Johnny Rosenstein, SportsBookWire.com: Illinois
Nick Shepkowski, FightingIrishWire.com: Illinois
Scott Steehn, WinnersandWhiners.com: Illinois
Joe Vitale, UGAWire.com: Mississippi State
Clucko the Chicken (a coin flip), CFN: Mississippi State
CONSENSUS PICK: Mississippi State 

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Penn State vs Utah Rose Bowl Prediction Game Preview

Penn State vs Utah game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Rose Bowl on Monday, January 2, 2023

Penn State vs Utah prediction, game preview, odds, how to watch. Rose Bowl, Monday, January 2, 2023


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Penn State vs Utah How To Watch

Date: Monday, January 2, 2023
Game Time: 5:00 ET
Venue: Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA
How To Watch: ESPN
Record: Penn State (10-2), Utah (10-3)
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Utah keeps on rolling. This might not be quite the team the 2021 version was, but it matched last year’s ten-win campaign, it won another Pac-12 Championship, and it’s going to another Rose Bowl.

It’s Utah. You know what you’re getting.

Great lines, great coaching, a smart style with a great combination of toughness and confidence – that’s Utah, and now it all has to come together to make this the program’s best season in the 12 years as a member of the Pac-12.

Penn State is more about what’s coning than what this is. Sure, we’ve heard it all before about how Penn State has the talent, the upside, and the excitement to be on the verge of national championship-level status, but yeah, James Franklin might have that in place for 2023.

It’s a young team with a whole lot of superstar power about to make this one of Franklin’s best teams yet … potentially. Next year.

As is, the Nittany Lions are fantastic. They went 10-2 with the only blips coming against Ohio State and Michigan, but no one would buy into the idea that they might have one of the four best teams in college football.

They’re missing a few parts – not having star CB Joey Porter around hurts – but for the most part they should be fine.

Utah has done a whole lot of big things over the years to prove it’s a big-time program. Utah – not USC, not Oregon, not UCLA – has become the power program in the Pac-12 over the last few years, but it doesn’t have one of these – at least it doesn’t have one as a Power Five program.

The Sugar Bowl win over Alabama came at the end of the 2008 season when Utah was still a Mountain West program.

In the Pac-12 it has a few Las Vegas Bowls, and a Foster Farms, and a Heart of Dallas, but the program that was 14-1 in bowl games from 1999 to 2017 is 0-for-its-last-3 in three big bowls including last year’s Rose Bowl.

Like Penn State, there are a few players missing, but not enough to be catastrophic. Tight end Dalton Kincaid is the one who matters.

Penn State clunked in last year’s Outback Bowl loss to Arkansas, but it’s been okay under Franklin going 3-3 so far with wins in the Cotton and Fiesta, and a Rose Bowl loss to USC in an epic battle to end the 2016 season.

GOOD LUCK hoping for this year’s Rose Bowl to be anywhere near as good as last year’s Ohio State 48-45 win over Utah. We won’t count the 2020 playoff game – that wasn’t played in Pasadena – so really, the last five true Rose Bowls have been amazing.

Last year’s was great, the Oregon 28-27 win over Wisconsin to kick off the 202 year was outstanding, the Ohio State 28-23 win over Washington was fun, and the 2018 54-48 Georgia double overtime win over Oklahoma ranks among the best bowl games ever – and certainly deserves to be in the team photo of best College Football Playoff games. Before that was the Penn State-USC thriller.

And we all deserved those games after what Christian McCaffrey and Stanford did to Iowa in the 2016 Rose.

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Why Penn State Will Win The Rose Bowl

The run defense should hold up.

This isn’t the USC defensive front the Utes are going against.

There was the outlier against Michigan, but that was it for bad moments for the Penn State defensive front. It allowed over 400 rushing yards to the Wolverines, held Minnesota to 165 in a blowout win, and stuffed Auburn allowing 119 rushing yards in a 41-12 road blasting.

No one else ran for more than 100 on this D, and now it’s rested. More than that, Michigan is the only team to average more than four yards per carry against the Nittany Lion defensive front.

Utah’s offensive line is phenomenal, and it’s great at keeping defenses out of the backfield, but now it’s dealing with the Big Ten’s best pass rush and the best D at generating tackles for loss.

On the flip side, Penn State got out of its running game in the two losses. It’s 9-0 when running for more than 111 yards, but …

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Why Utah Will Win The Rose Bowl

The Utah defensive front is rested, too.

It got hammered on by Florida to start the season, and it couldn’t deal with UCLA. Those were two of the two losses, and there was a problem in the first meeting with USC. The Gators, Bruins, and Trojans, though, had quarterbacks who could take off. That’s not really Sean Clifford – he can run a little bit, but not really.

Everyone else had major problems running on the Ute defensive front the tallied fewer than 100 rushing yards seven times.

However, the real problem for the Nittany Lions might be control. As good as the running game is, and as terrific as the offense has been, it’s miserable on third downs.

In general they’re good at controlling the ball and the clock, but that’s going to be impossible to do against a Utah team that’s equal parts deliberate and explosive.

Few teams are able to dominate the clock like Utah can, with third down conversions coming at a 50% clip, and with the defense the best in the Pac-12 at coming up with third down stops.

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Utah Wins Pac-12 Championship Over USC: What This Means For College Football Playoff

5 things Utah’s win over USC in the Pac-12 Championship means for the College Football Playoff

Utah rocked USC 47-24 to win the Pac-12 Championship. What does this all mean for the College Football Playoff?


Utah 47, USC 24: What This Means For The College Football Playoff

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5. USC is out of the College Football Playoff

There’s a chance the College Football Playoff committee really did do its homework on USC. Maybe it decides it’s not fair to punish a team for playing a conference championship, while some other team that finished its season getting rocked by its rival got to spend its Saturday holiday shopping.

The committee can’t complain about the USC defense. It gave up 562 yards to Utah in the first meeting – a 43-42 Ute win – and gave up 400 yards or more six times in the final seven games. The bad D cake was baked when USC was ranked fourth in the penultimate rankings.

Maybe the committee figures that out, and maybe it goes a step further and projects that USC really is one of the four best teams in college football once Caleb Williams’ leg heals a month from now.

Nah. Going off of past CFP ranking precedent, USC will likely drop below Utah, who could rise up as high as 6 but will probably settle in at 7.

4. Utah is going to the Rose Bowl

That’s two years in a row for Utah going to the Rose Bowl as the Pac-12 Champion. Don’t discount what a massive deal that is for a program that’s still the new guy on the block after moving over from the Mountain West in 2011.

That sets off a chain of major bowl things.

The win almost certainly puts Ohio State in the College Football Playoff. It also pushed out Washington, who likely would’ve gone to Pasadena with a USC Pac-12 Championship win. That means Penn State will almost certainly slide on into the open spot as the best available Big Ten team.

That all means USC will probably go to the Cotton to face the Tulane/UCF winner.

All of that means Ohio State won’t go to the Orange Bowl, which means Tennessee – or possibly Alabama – will end up playing the ACC champion. With an SEC team in and a Big Ten team out, that pushes down Notre Dame in the bowl chain thanks to a slew of procedural things.

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3. TCU is almost certainly locked into the College Football Playoff no matter what

This could all change if Kansas State beats TCU 55-3 – or just dominates in the win – but according to College Football Playoff tradition and precedent, it’s going to be hard to kick out a 12-1 team for a two-loss team that didn’t win its conference championship – like Alabama or USC.

Utah would be more in the discussion if it lost twice, but it’s not getting in with three losses. Clemson might have a shot of getting a whole lot closer than you think in the final rankings – like 5 – with an ACC Championship win over North Carolina, but the two losses are too much to overcome.

Had USC won, it would’ve been in no matter what as a 12-1 Power Five conference champion. If TCU loses and gets destroyed, then the debate would’ve been with Ohio State for that fourth spot. With USC losing, that solves the problem.

Could two-loss Alabama get in over as 12-1 TCU that loses the Big 12 Championship? Nah, because …

2. Remember, no two-loss team has ever made the College Football Playoff

2017 Auburn would’ve had the best shot of breaking through this ceiling.

It lost two games, but it beat Alabama. Had it beaten Georgia for the SEC Championship, it would’ve been a tough theoretical lift to put in the Dawgs and Tide over the Tigers – Georgia was 3, Alabama 4 in the final rankings after Auburn lost the SEC Championship.

That year Ohio State had a beef, too. It was 11-2 with a Big Ten championship, closing out with a win over a previously unbeaten Wisconsin. However, an 11-1 Alabama team that didn’t win its own division got in.

In 2016, Penn State beat Ohio State 24-21, but it lost two games earlier in the season. It went on to win the Big Ten Championship to finish 11-2 with a Power Five championship. 11-1 Ohio State not only got in instead, it was the 3 seed.

Eight years, 32 College Football Playoff spots. Not one team has ever been in with more than one loss.

This year? No matter what, there will be four teams with no more than one loss. That means …

1. Ohio State, your table is ready

Everyone will be dogging the idea of Ohio State getting in without playing that one tough extra game that USC did – and everyone might be right.

However, Ohio State is still the only team in college football to start 11-0 winning every game by double-digits.

It beat Notre Dame. It hung 77 on a Toledo team playing in the MAC Championship. It put up 54 on Iowa, 44 on Penn State, and ended up scoring 43 points against nine of those first 11 games except for the 21-10 win over the Irish and a 21-7 win over Northwestern in crazy weather conditions.

It’s one sin was a 45-23 pasting at home by Michigan.

If Michigan had been 9-3 – like Utah was going into the Pac-12 Championship – that might be a deathblow.

If Clemson hadn’t blown it against South Carolina and could pull off an ACC Championship at 12-1, it would’ve been in instead.

Had Tennessee not gacked in a blowout over South Carolina and finished 11-1, it would’ve had a better resumé than Ohio State.

If Michigan really is the No. 2 team in the country – or maybe No. 1 with a Big Ten Championship win and a Georgia loss – then theoretically, Ohio State might be No. 3.

No matter how it happened, it’s one of the four remaining teams without at least two losses. Thanks to Utah, Ohio State will almost certainly get its shot.

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USC vs Utah Pac-12 Championship Prediction Game Preview

USC vs Utah Pac-12 Championship game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Pac-12 Championship Week game on Friday, December 2

USC vs Utah Pac-12 Championship prediction, game preview, odds, how to watch. Championship Week, Friday, December 2


USC vs Utah Pac-12 Championship Prediction Game Preview

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USC vs Utah Pac-12 Championship How To Watch

Date: Friday, December 2
Game Time: 8:00 ET
Venue: Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV
How To Watch: FOX
Record: USC (11-1), Utah (9-3)
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Why Utah Will Win

How did the Utes do it the first time around?

They got down big early, rallied back, and rallied again with Cameron Rising running for a touchdown and the two in the final minute to beat USC 43-42 in one of the best games of the college football season.

The running game is going to continue to be a problem for the Trojans. They held up relatively well, but allowed over four yards per carry to go along with the 424 yards from Rising.

The Utah offense should be good for at least 400 yards – even if it doesn’t get to the 562 that were the most allowed by the Trojans all year – with the versatility to do whatever it wants.

Defensively, the Utes haven’t allowed more than 70 rushing yards in four of the last five games, and USC doesn’t have Travis Dye, who led the way with 76 yards in the first meeting.

Let Caleb Williams get his yards, accept that there will be a few explosive plays, and then let the offense do the work. Every third down stop and every empty USC possession will mean everything.

The pressure is ALL on the other side of the field. Utah is in the Rose Bowl with a win, and it’s probably in the Alamo if it loses. On the other side, USC has the College Football Playoff right there for the taking.

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Why USC Will Win

USC had them.

It got up fast on Utah, got up late, and it couldn’t hang on against a strong team in one of the tougher environments in college football.

But it was on the road.

Utah managed to beat Washington State, but it’s 1-3 this year away from Salt Lake City against teams that finished with a winning record after going 1-4 last year against the good opponents that didn’t come to Rice-Eccles.

Yeah, that one win last year was over Oregon in the Pac-12 Championship, but the Utes had that team’s number. USC has a much, much better quarterback situation and even more firepower.

It’s not like Utah stopped the Trojan attack that rolled up 556 yards of total offense. It came up big when it had to, but Caleb Williams got off that field thinking he let one slip away.

There’s a reason he’s – probably – about to win the Heisman Trophy. Over the last three weeks he’s hitting even bigger shots down the field, he has been even more accurate, and he took his game up a few notches in the biggest games of the year. He’s handled the stress fine so far.

Yeah, the pressure is on, but there’s a way to tone that down – rely on the run defense.

The USC D might have been pounded on earlier in the year, and UCLA cranked up 204 yards, but the defense held up better over the last month, it rose up against the Notre Dame running game, and …

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What’s Going To Happen

Utah is going to get its yards.

The USC defensive front seemed to accept the challenge of the moment last week, but the secondary has crashed allowing over 300 yards in five of the last six games.

However, the D continues to make up for its issues with lots and lots of takeaways. The five saved the day against UCLA, the two against Notre Dame mattered, and overall the team is a whopping +24 in turnover margin.

Utah will get up fast and look like it’s in control, but Williams and the Trojans will creep on back before taking over midway through the second half after the team calms down and settles in.

It’s not going to be as much fun as the first time around, but it’ll be a blast.

One way or another, the College Football Playoff will probably be settled before Saturday.

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USC vs Utah Pac-12 Championship Prediction, Line

USC 38, Utah 34
Line: USC -2.5, o/u: 66.5
ATS Confidence out of 5: 2
USC vs Utah Pac-12 Championship Must See Rating (out of 5): 5
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Utah vs Colorado Prediction Game Preview

Utah vs Colorado game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Week 13 game on Saturday, November 26

Utah vs Colorado prediction, game preview, how to watch. Week 13, Saturday, November 26


Utah vs Colorado Prediction Game Preview

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Utah vs Colorado How To Watch

Date: Saturday, November 26
Game Time: 4:00 ET
Venue: Folsom Field, Boulder, CO
How To Watch: Pac-12 Network
Record: Utah (8-3), Colorado (1-10)
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Why Utah Will Win

The Utes will be doing a little scoreboard watching.

They need Oregon to lose to Oregon State – that starts about 90 minutes before this starts – and then it gets potentially weird if Washington beats Washington State later that night.

First, Utah has to take care of business and roll through a Colorado team about to put a merciful end to its season.

The Buffs are dead last in the nation against the run. That’s a big, BIG problem against the Utah offensive line.

The Utes average over 200 yards per game on the ground and are 6-1 when averaging over 4.5 yards per carry – the one loss coming in the final seconds against Florida.

Colorado allowed 4.5 yards per carry or more in every game but two. It’s about to get hammered on hard, but …

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Why Colorado Will Win

Utah struggles on the road.

It’s been a disastrous season, and it would be a heavy lift to get past a team good enough to potentially play for the Pac-12 Championship, but there’s Salt Lake City Utah and there’s everywhere else Utah.

Salt Lake City Utah is 6-0, beat USC, and totally destroyed everyone else. Everywhere else Utah is 2-3 and had to fight to get past Washington State.

For Colorado, it starts with not turning the ball over. The offense might struggle to move the chains, but the multiple turnovers every game are the killer.

The offensive line hasn’t been awful. It has to keep the Utes out of the backfield, the running game has to be decent, and …

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What’s Going To Happen

Dead last in the nation in scoring defense. Dead last in the nation in sacks. Dead last in the nation against the run. Dead last in the nation in third down defense. Second-to-last in the nation in total defense.

It’s been a rough run for Colorado. It’s about to add to that total of 232.5 rushing yards per game allowed as Utah starts running, keeps running, and doesn’t stop.

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Utah vs Colorado Prediction, Line

Utah 40, Colorado 13
Line: Utah -29.5, o/u: 52.5
ATS Confidence out of 5: 1.5
Utah vs Colorado Must See Rating (out of 5): 2

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Pac-12 Predictions Schedule Game Previews Lines TV Week 13

Pac-12 schedule and previews for the Week 13 games including Arizona State at Arizona, Oregon at Oregon State, Notre Dame at USC, Washington at Washington State

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Pac-12 Predictions Schedule Game Previews Lines TV: Week 13

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Results So Far
Straight Up 63-19, ATS 41-41, o/u 39-44

Friday, November 25

Arizona State at Arizona

3:00 FS1
Line: Arizona -4, o/u: 65.5

UCLA at Cal

4:30 FOX
Line: UCLA -10.5, o/u: 60.5

Saturday, November 26

Oregon at Oregon State

3:30 ABC
Prediction: Oregon 31, Oregon State 27
Line: Oregon -3.5, o/u: 58.5

Utah at Colorado

4;00 Pac-12 Network
Line: Utah -29.5, o/u: 52.5

Notre Dame at USC

7:30 ABC
Line: USC -5.5, o/u: 64.5

Washington at Washington State

10:30 ESPN
Line: Washington -1.5, o/u: 60.5

BYU at Stanford

11:00 FS1
Line: BYU -6.5, o/u: 57.5

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Pac-12 Predictions Schedule Game Previews Lines TV Week 12

Pac-12 schedule and previews for the Week 12 games: USC at UCLA, Utah at Oregon, Stanford at Cal, Oregon State at Arizona State, Washington State at Arizona

Pac-12 schedule, previews Week 12: USC at UCLA, Utah at Oregon, Stanford at Cal, Oregon State at Arizona State, Washington State at Arizona 


Pac-12 Predictions Schedule Game Previews Lines TV: Week 12

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Results So Far
Straight Up 60-16, ATS 40-37, o/u 36-41 

Saturday, November 19

Washington State at Arizona

2:00 Pac-12 Network
Line: Washington State -3.5, o/u: 62.5

Oregon State at Arizona State

2:15 ESPN2
Line: Oregon State -7.5, o/u: 54.5

Stanford at Cal

5:30 Pac-12 Network
Line: Cal -5.5, o/u: 45.5

USC at UCLA

8:00 FOX
Line: USC -2.5, o/u: 75.5

Colorado at Washington

9:00 Pac-12 Network
Line: Washington -30.5, o/u: 64.5

Utah at Oregon

10:30 ESPN
Line: Utah -1.5, o/u: 61.5

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