Identifying the most important game on the schedule for every Pac-12 team in 2023

The most important game to win may not always be the biggest. We identify each Pac-12 team’s must-win game in 2023.

There is a difference between the most important game of the college football season for each team and the so-called biggest game.

When we talk about the most important game, most of the time, we’re looking at the big picture for that program and what a win, or even a loss, would mean for the future.

For every team in the Pac-12, except USC of course, their biggest game will be against … USC. They are the conference favorite and with a Heisman Trophy winner at quarterback, the Trojans could very well play their way into the College Football Playoff.

And since we can’t have a listicle that says: “Biggest Game: USC” nearly every single time, we went through all of the schedules and determined each Pac-12 school’s most important game of the 2023 season, which is less than two months away.