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Picking the Pac: College Wire staff makes Week 12 selections

The Pac-12 upsets from last week didn’t hurt the CollegeWire Pick the Pac standings too much, but the records took a hit.

The Pac-12 endured its own chaos last week with two big upsets no one saw coming. Oregon lost to Washington and Arizona stunned UCLA. Since no one picked these upsets, the College Wire Pick the Pac standings didn’t experience a shakeup.

With just two weeks left, Jack Carlough seems to have a comfortable lead over three writers tied for second. As we look at the schedule, there are more 50-50 games this week than there have been at any time of the season. Can Stanford win The Big Game? Will Arizona’s run toward bowl eligibility continue? And who is truly the King of Los Angeles?

Here are the standings and how the College Wire staff believes what those answers will be come Sunday morning.

Name Last Week’s Record Overall Record
Jack Carlough (Buffaloes Wire) 4-2 64-13
Don Smalley (Ducks Wire) 3-3 61-16
Tony Cosolo (Buffaloes Wire) 4-2 61-16
Matt Zemek (Trojans Wire) 4-2 61-16
Zac Neel (Ducks Wire) 4-2 60-17
Patrick Conn (College Wire) 4-2 59-18
Andy Patton (Ducks Wire) 4-2 58-19
Don James (Trojans Wire) 3-3 57-20
Matt Wadleigh (Trojans Wire) 4-2 57-20

Picking the Pac: CollegeWire staff make their Week 2 selections

The CollegeWire staff is at it again with their selections for Week 2 in the Pac-12.

Here we go again.

The staffs are the Pac-12 College Wire sites decided Week 1 selections went so well that we thought we would go for Week 2. Again, there were plenty of easy picks out there such as UCLA over Alcorn State and Washington over Portland State.

But there are some sneaky good games here this week. Colorado goes to Air Force, Oregon State goes to Fresno State, and of course, the Pac-12 opener where No. 10 USC travels to Stanford.

There weren’t any crazy selections, but TrojansWire editor Matt Zemek was the only one to pick Arizona defeat Mississippi State. He obviously liked what he saw last week with the Wildcats’ win over San Diego State.

Here are the picks for this week: