Pac-12 football game predictions: Week 7

It’s another installment of Pickin’ The Pac. The games are bigger and the stakes are higher.

Anothr loaded Pac-12 schedule is here, and this weekend has plenty of big matchups. Oregon and Washington face off. UCLA and Oregon State play each other, and Arizona against Washington State should be a good game.

USC faces Notre Dame in that storied rivalry, and the predictions are all over the place.

Matt Wadleigh, Donovan James, and Matt Zemek from Trojans Wire; Zachary Neel, Don Smalley, and Miles Dwyer from Ducks Wire; podcast producer Ian Hest; and Jack Carlough from Buffaloes Wire are here to make the selections once again.

Let’s remind you about our content on the College Wire websites this week:

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Follow Fighting Irish Wire for more on Notre Dame as the Irish prepare to face USC.

Follow Buffaloes Wire for complete coverage of Deion Sanders and Colorado.

Follow Ducks Wire for coverage of Oregon football leading into the big game against Washington on October 14.

Prominent Pac-12 sports journalist thinks USC is likely to fire Alex Grinch before season’s end.

USC and Lincoln Riley need to have a plan in place if Alex Grinch coaches poorly and loses to Notre Dame.

Notre Dame’s offensive coordinator might actually be worse than Alex Grinch, a fascinating plot point heading into the October 14 renewal of Irish-Trojans.

Brent Venables is coaching Oklahoma far better this year than Lincoln Riley is coaching USC. It’s up to Riley to change that reality against Notre Dame and Utah.

Here, below, are our Pac-12 predictions for Week 7. The USC-Notre Dame game looks like the biggest coin flip: