Making it through the Pac-12 this season and landing a spot in the conference championship game is going to be no easy feat. If there is a team who gets out of the conference and into the College Football Playoff, nobody is going to be able to say that they didn’t earn it.
Teams like USC, Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Oregon State have all found their way into preseason top-25 rankings, and quarterbacks from a handful of schools are already being talked about as Heisman Trophy candidates before the season even starts.
Despite this, there are a handful of Pac-12 teams who are considered as having among the easiest schedules in the nation. With a little more than a month to go until the start of the season, Pro Football Focus looked at records from the 2022 season to identify which 10 teams have the easiest path in 2023.
While this may not be a perfect mode of determining schedule difficulty — thanks to the transfer portal, teams sometimes look completely different from one year to the next — it does give us one way to look at scheduling ease across the nation.
The Oregon Ducks have one of the easiest slates of games, according to PFF. Here’s where they rank among the top 10.