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Bowl Projection Roundup: Where each Pac-12 team is slotted to play after Week 10

Can we all collectively take a second to mourn the fact that there are only three weeks left in the college football regular season? Man, that went by fast.

As we get down to the end of the road for some teams, and the jump to the postseason for others, the future outlook is starting to become clearer for all. Some teams are in desperation mode trying to grab their sixth win to become bowl-eligible, while others are sitting pretty, trying to strengthen their resume to potentially jump into the College Football Playoff at the end of the year.

Throughout the Pac-12, you’ve got a lot of teams still in contention to make a big-time bowl game at the end of the season. So where is everyone projected to play now that we’ve got 10 weeks of the season down? Let’s take a look:

Two Pac-12 losses could increase the Texas Longhorns’ playoff odds

Oregon, Washington and USC have a shot at the College Football Playoff on the line in Week 7.

The College Football Playoff picture is about to get clearer this week. Continue reading “Two Pac-12 losses could increase the Texas Longhorns’ playoff odds”

Bowl Projection Roundup: Where each Pac-12 team is slotted to play after Week 6

For the past several weeks, we’ve looked at the bowl game projections for each team in the Pac-12 and watched as they’ve slightly changed based on the previous weeks’ results.

For the most part, there haven’t been very many games of magnitude in the conference thus far; ones that cause the landscape at the top of the conference go shift.

That changes this week, and going forward until the end of the season. We get Oregon vs. Washington, and USC vs. Notre Dame on Saturday, two games that could complete change the outlook of a season for the teams involved. Watching how the bowl game projections change after each week going forward will be interesting.

For now, let’s take a look at where each Pac-12 team is currently slated to play in the post season after Week 6 of the season:

Bowl Projection Roundup: Where each Pac-12 team is slotted to play after Week 5

We are just about to the midway point of the 2023 college football season, and it’s become pretty clear the Pac-12 continues to hold an incredibly strong position in the national landscape.

There are three conference teams ranked inside the top 10 and six inside the top 25. A couple of the teams at the top — Oregon and Washington — are receiving some serious buzz for a spot in the College Football Playoff.

Luckily for all of us, those two teams will play each other in Week 7 after a bye week.

As for the rest of the schools in the conference, there are also some high expectations remaining. Here is where everyone is slated to play in the postseason after Week 5 of the season.

Bowl Projection Roundup: Where each Pac-12 team is slotted to play after Week 4

ESPN has a Pac-12 team playing for the national championship, while other projections have numerous Pac-12 teams playing in New Years Six bowls.

It’s going to be interesting how the national view of the Pac-12 Conference shifts over the coming weeks. With four weeks of the 2023 season behind us, there is little argument against the idea the Pac-12 is the best conference in the nation. It has six teams in the top 25 and four in the top 10.

However, conference play is underway, and the Pac-12 loves to beat up on itself. Already we’ve seen Washington State knock off Oregon State, and Oregon knock off Colorado. As we go further, games between Oregon and Washington, USC and Utah and Washington State and UCLA will add dings to certain teams’ resumes.

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Will the overall view of the conference stay the same, though?

That’s what will be interesting to watch. For now, though, it’s clear the teams in the Pac-12 are viewed as highly as any in the nation, and that’s been made clear by the bowl projections after Week 4. Here is a look at where all of the teams out west are projected to play in the postseason after the 2023 regular season.

Bowl Projection Round-Up: Where each Pac-12 team is slotted to play after Week 2

We knew going into this season that the top of the Pac-12 Conference would likely be as strong as it ever has been in recent memory. We didn’t quite expect the middle tier of the Pac-12 to be as good as it has been so far, though.

While there are currently eight Pac-12 teams in the Associated Press Top 25, more teams than that are projected to stick around and be bowl eligible once the year comes to a close as well. While the top teams out west are fighting for potential spots in the College Football Playoff, or a New Years’ Six Bowl, there’s a good chance that well over half of the conference ends up playing somewhere this postseason.

Here is where every Pac-12 school is projected to play their bowl games after Week 2 of the college season.

Week 1 Overreactions: Making sense of the Pac-12’s undefeated start to 2023

Travis Hunter is a serious Heisman candidate? USC’s defense isn’t a problem? Washington is CFP-worthy? The Pac-12 delivered the storylines in Week 1.

We all knew that in the last year of the Pac-12 Conference as we knew it, there was an expectation that the league would be as strong as we’ve ever seen at the top.

With USC, Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Oregon State all being ranked inside the top 25 going into the year, there was no question that conference out west could hold their own in 2023. I don’t think anyone expected the conference to go undefeated in Week 1 of the season, though.

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Colorado impressed in the game of the week. USC, Washington, and Oregon all took care of business in blowout wins. Utah, Washington State, Oregon State, and UCLA looked solid in wins. Even Stanford, Cal, Arizona, and Arizona State picked up their end of the slack and got victories.

It now leaves the Pac-12 as the only conference in the nation without a loss after Week 1.

So what should we make of all of this production from the conference that is trying to go out with a bang? Now is no time to be level-headed. Here are our biggest overreactions to the Pac-12 after Week 1:

Pac-12 News: USC to hire athletic director Jen Cohen away from Washington Huskies

Former Washington Huskies athletic director Jen Cohen will reportedly be taking over as the new AD for the USC Trojans.

A shakeup in leadership took place in the Pac-12 Conference on Monday morning.

According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, the USC Trojans are set to hire Jen Cohen as their new athletic director, taking over for former AD Mike Bohn, who resigned from the role in May.

Cohen was the standing AD for the Washington Huskies since 2016 and is a current member of the College Football Playoff selection committee. The most notable success that Cohen has had at Washington is the hiring of football head coach Kalen DeBoer, who led the team to a 11-2 record in 2022.

At USC, Cohen becomes the first female athletic director in school history. She will be tasked with overseeing the Trojans’ leap to the Big Ten next year, alongside Oregon, UCLA, and her former employer, Washington.

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Who goes first in a 2023 Pac-12 fantasy football draft?

Who are you taking first in a Pac-12 fantasy football draft? Caleb Williams in the 1st? Troy Franklin in the 4th? Bo Nix in the last??

No matter which form of football you fancy, we are just weeks away from getting started. The NFL is already deep into the preseason, while college football teams get ready to kick things off either in Week Zero or Week 1 at the start of September.

While watching football is one of the greatest joys for sports fans, something that oftentimes makes it all better is having a stake in the action with fantasy football teams. Though fantasy football is much more prominent in the NFL than it is in college, some maniacs still dabble in the college ranks as well.

As a way to preview the 2023 season in the Pac-12 season, I invited Justin Pluid and Shane Potter from The Flock Pod to join me on the latest episode of the Sco-ing Long Podcast, and we went through a fantasy draft of players just in the Pac-12.

We drafted a quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, a tight end, a FLEX (RB, WR, or TE), and a defense for each team. The draft order went Shane, Zac, and JD, in a snake draft form.

Here is how things broke down in the end:

Social media reacts to reported Pac-12 streaming deal with Apple TV

After more than a year of negotiating and seeking a media rights deal that would see the remaining Pac-12 schools get as much revenue as some of the competing conferences in the nation, commissioner George Kliavkoff finally presented some numbers to his constituents on Tuesday afternoon.

The reception may not have been what he had hoped.

Per a report from ESPN’s Pete Thamel, Kliavkoff presented the Pac-12 presidents and athletic directors with a primary streaming deal with Apple TV on Tuesday. The deal would have incentivized tiers for league members if certain subscription numbers were met for Apple, giving the deal a certain amount of upside, Thamel reports.

There is an expectation that the Pac-12 presidents will once again meet in the coming days to further discuss the deal, but no decisions have been made public at this time.

As anticipated, fans of the Pac-12 and college football in general chimed in via social media to comment on the deal, many of whom took a chance to declare a time of death for the conference.

Will the lackluster numbers result in more defections for the conference that is trying — and apparently failing — to stay afloat? Time will tell. For now, here are some of the best reactions on social media to the new deal numbers that are being floated.