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Ducks Wire Roundtable: Predicting the Pac-12 awards for the 2023 season

The Pac-12 media day is later this week, so we wanted to get our year-end award predictions on record.

The 2023 college football season officially begins for the Pac-12 later this week, when coaches and select players all convene in Las Vegas for the annual Pac-12 Media Day.

Dan Lanning will be in attendance alongside QB Bo Nix and LB Jeffrey Bassa, talking to media members around the league and previewing the upcoming season, where the Ducks hope to make it back to Las Vegas for the conference title game in December.

One of the best things that come out of the Pac-12 Media Day is award predictions from the top media members in the conference. A select group of reporters is asked to predict who they think will win the year-end awards, such as Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year, and Coach of the Year.

Here at Ducks Wire, we wanted to do the same, so we brought together our first roundtable of the year to give a preview of the Pac-12 as a whole and see if we could predict who some of the biggest award-winners would be in 2023.

Several Ducks were honored with postseason Pac-12 awards

Three Oregon Duck football players were named to the Pac-12 First Team with a whole host of others being honored as well.

The Pac-12 announced its postseason awards and the Oregon Ducks football team is well represented.

Oregon’s offensive line had two all-conference first-team performers and the Duck secondary had one representative.

Besides the first team, the second team and honorable mentions were full of Ducks. One thing is for sure though. The quarterback position was a beast. Oregon’s Bo Nix received just an honorable mention after the season he had.

But it would be tough to argue that Nix was snubbed. That’s how good the Pac-12 quarterbacks were this season in 2022. USC’s Caleb Williams (first team) and Washington Michael Penix, Jr. (second team) beat out Nix and it’s possible all three come back for 2023. Williams was the Pac-12’s Offensive Player of the Year.

Jonathan Smith (Oregon State) and Kalen DeBoer (Washington) shared the Coach of the Year honors.

Here are all the Oregon Ducks who were honored by the Pac-12.