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Sooners top 10 in latest editon of College Wire’s Power Rankings

Oklahoma is ranked 9th in College Wire’s latest power rankings.

Oklahoma is in deep preparation for another war of a basketball game as they ready themselves for their first actual road game. They’ll take on a tough TCU Horned Frogs team coached by Jamie Dixon.

Over the weekend, Porter Moser’s squad opened up Big 12 play with a gritty win against an experienced and talented Iowa State team. The Sooners led the way thru the first 35 minutes of game time. After Iowa State took a late lead, a 7-0 run late pushed Oklahoma over the hump.

As the Sooners prepare for two Big 12 games this week, they’ll be ranked as one of the best teams in the country. Our colleagues at College Wire agree and has the Sooners at No. 9 in their most recent power rankings.

Ahead of Oklahoma at number one sits the Purdue Boilermakers, led by Zach Edey. New Big 12 member Houston is the number two team, but dropped their first game of the season Tuesday night. Behind them are the Kansas Jayhawks, long-time standard bearers of Big 12 hoops. The Sooners travel to Allen Fieldhouse for a Saturday afternoon tilt.

UConn and Arizona slot in at four and five. The only two SEC teams in the top 10 of these power rankings are Tennessee and Kentucky, who come in at six and seven, while the lone ACC representative, UNC, comes in at eight. Behind Oklahoma sits Scott Drew and his Baylor Bears tenth.

In the rest of the power rankings, BYU (18), Texas Tech (23), and Cincinnati (24) round out the rest of the Big 12 representation in the rankings.

Oklahoma faces three of the five Big 12 teams in this week’s power rankings in their next six games. The Sooners have some significant opportunities to add even more impressive wins to an already appealing tournament resume. It starts on Tuesday with a win in Fort Worth.

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College Wire’s Pac-12 writers make their Week 13 selections

According to the writers at College Wire, the conference title game, the last championship game, will have as much riding on it as ever.

It’s Rivalry Week in the Pac-12 and in many of the other conferences and unfortunately, most of these games aren’t supposed to be toss-ups. There is one clear favorite in all of these games, but as we all know, you can throw the records out when a rivalry is concerned.

There’s still plenty to play for as the regular season ends. Washington has already clinched a spot in the Pac-12 title game with Oregon and Arizona still needing a win. If the Ducks beat the Beavers, they’re in and will get that much-awaited rematch with the Dawgs. Arizona needs the Ducks to lose and defeat the Sun Devils in order to go to Las Vegas.

According to the writers here at the College Wire sites that cover the Pac-12, the conference title game, the last championship game, will have as much riding on it as ever before.

Here are our selections.

College Wire’s Pac-12 writers make their Week 12 selections

The last football season of the Pac-12 is almost over and it’s difficult to believe this is it.

The standings are shaping out about the way we all thought it would be with Oregon and Washington is still on that collision course for Las Vegas. But all of that could be derailed with the Huskies traveling to Corvallis to play the 10th-ranked Beavers.

Oregon State controls its own destiny if, and it’s a big if, the Beavers could pull off a couple of upsets by winning its week and their last trip to Eugene in the foreseeable future.

The writers on the College Wire staff have analyzed these games as much as we can (ok, maybe not) and here are our selections for the Week 12 contests.

College Wire’s Pac-12 writers make their Week 11 selections

The Pac-12 season is just about over and the conference standings are rounding into form almost how we expected it to. No one expected USC’s fall, however.

Washington and Oregon are still on a collision course for Vegas, but teams such as Oregon State, Washington State could still play spoiler, especially the Beavers. The Ducks’ chief rival still has to play both the Huskies and Ducks and should they win out, they would crash the party.

As for the College Wire Pac-12 writers, we are mostly in agreement on this week’s games, but we might have to hold an intervention for Donovan James, who sees the USC-Oregon game going down a little differently than the rest of us.

College Wire’s Pac-12 writers make their Week 9 selections

The winner of the Washington-USC game will determine a lot as to which team(s) will be in Vegas for the conference championship.

We’re down to the 3/4 mark of the college football season and the Pac-12 is rounding into form just as we thought it would with a couple of surprises along the way.

Oregon, Washington, and USC are the three teams vying for the two spots in the conference title game and after this week, that picture will become more clear. Washington goes to SC and if the Huskies win that, they can pretty much punch their ticket to Vegas. The Trojans and Ducks meet up the very next week and that winner is probably the Huskies’ opponent.

But teams such as Oregon State and UCLA can still have their say if things go their way. Arizona is a much better team than we all thought with the emergence of freshman quarterback Noah Fifita and despite its recent loss to the Ducks, the Utes can still have a big say on how things will go down in the last ever Pac-12 season as it is formed right now.

The big game this week is the Dawgs and Trojans battling it out in the Coliseum and some of the College Wire Pac-12 writers still think USC has a chance. But oddly enough, Matt Zemek, the editor of TrojansWire.com, gave a specific prediction for that game, not just the winner.

Here are the selections.

College Wires writers make their Week 9 Pac-12 selections

The College Wire Pac-12 writers predict how an interesting Week 9 will shake out on Saturday.

Apparently, no one is buying Utah after its upset win over USC in the Coliseum. The Utes come back to the friendly confines of Rice-Eccles Stadium where they are nearly unbeatable.

Nearly.

Oregon, a team that many think is the best in the Pac-12 Conference, visits Salt Lake City for a clash of the Titans. ESPN Gameday will also be on hand to see a contest that will shape the immediate future of the league.

That’s how the day begins. The day ends with Oregon State visiting an Arizona team that no one saw coming. Backup quarterback Noah Fifita has played so well that there may be a Wally Pipp situation occurring in the desert. Google it, children. It’s a story about a guy named Lou Gehrig.

Here’s how the College Wire writers see Week 9 of the Pac-12 football season going down.

College Wires writers make their Week 7 Pac-12 selections

This is the week we’ve all been waiting for. This is the week we’ll get some answers that could carry us through the rest of the season.

Who is truly the best team in the Pac-12? That will be answered in Seattle as Oregon takes on Washington. The two teams are undefeated for the contest for the first time in the series history and it promises to be a good one. Surprisingly, for the College Wire Pac-12 scribes, they’re in agreement on who will win except one USC writer. We’ll have a talk.

Speaking of USC, the Trojans have a lot to prove when they go to South Bend and take on Notre Dame. That defense could be USC’s ultimate downfall and this could be the first sighting of that. Notre Dame isn’t Arizona or Arizona State.

As for the rest of the Pac-12 games, here’s how we see them going down this week.

College Wires writers make their Week 6 Pac-12 selections

When three of the four Pac-12 games are part of a tripleheader on the Pac-12 Network, you know it’s a slow week for the conference.

The only nationally televised game is Arizona at USC which will be on ESPN, but it’ll be a Pac-12 After Dark special.

So with it being a slow week and the picks aren’t very hard to guess, the CollegeWire Pac-12 writers decided to go out of conference and select the winner of the Red River Rivalry between No. 4 Texas and No. 12 Oklahoma.

Next week’s games will be much more entertaining with Oregon going to Washington and USC traveling to South Bend to take on Notre Dame.

But for now, here are the picks for a slow Week 6 of games.

College Wires writers make their Week 5 Pac-12 selections

Week 5 shouldn’t contain many surprises, if any, but that’s when chaos usually happens. Our Pac-12 writers make their picks.

The Pac-12 football schedule was in full swing last week, but there weren’t any surprises. Arizona State hung with USC for as long as it could before the Trojans won, 42-28. Utah outlasted UCLA, 14-7. Perhaps the biggest so-called surprise, although no one in Pullman would say it was a shock, the Cougars defeated Oregon State by three.

Surprises shouldn’t be on the docket in the conference this week either. The only toss-up game will be in Berkeley as California hosts Arizona State. Two mediocre teams playing each other could make for an exciting and close game.

Oregon State hosts Utah on Friday, and everyone is going to want to see how Colorado rebounds after its first loss of the season.

The College Wires Pac-12 scribes enter their picks for Week 5 of conference action with some differing opinions for that Golden Bears-Sun Devils matchup.

CollegeWire writers make their Week 4 Pac-12 selections

Does Colorado have a chance? Can Ole Miss beat Alabama? Will the Irish go down to the Chop? Find out how our Pac-12 writers see things.

The race for the very last Pac-12 football championship official begins this week as every team has a conference game. With eight of the 12 teams ranked, this week should promise to have some good games and see who are contenders and who are pretenders.

Week 4 also provides some intriguing matchups from across the country that will be must-see TV and the CollegeWire Pac-12 writers have thrown out their predictions for those games as well.

The majority of the television audience will be glued to ABC at 12:30 to find out if Colorado is truly for real as the Buffaloes make their way to Autzen Stadium to take on the Ducks.

Oregon is favored by three touchdowns, so does any of our writers give Deion Sanders’ team a chance? How will the BuffsWire writers select that game?

Here are our Week 4 selections for the Pac-12 and some other big-time games from around the nation.