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Trojans Wire, Ducks Wire, and Buffaloes Wire 2023 Pac-12 football writer poll

Our 2023 #Pac12 football poll voters: @ZacharyCNeel @Donald_Smalley @Jack_Carlough @Matt_Wadleigh and @MattZemek.

College football season is here. It’s time for the last season of Pac-12 football, at least for the conference as we have known it. Next year everything will be wildly different. This is our final time to savor the familiar rhythms, rivalries and matchups of the Pac-12 that we have enjoyed for a very long time, ever since Arizona and Arizona State left the Western Athletic Conference to form the Pacific-10 Conference in 1978.

We gathered a panel of Pac-12 College Wire site writers to make their picks on the order of finish in the Pac-12 standings for 2023. Our panelists are Jack Carlough of Buffaloes Wire, Zachary Neel and Donald Smalley of Ducks Wire, Matt Wadleigh of Trojans and Buffaloes Wire, and Matt Zemek of Trojans Wire.

We will give you the consenus order of finish based on our five combined votes. We will provide the full vote tallies for each team in each position. We will then share each individual writer’s full order of finish for the Pac-12 football standings this year.

The envelope, please:

Final Pac-12 football standings for 2022, compared to Pac-12 preseason media vote

The preseason #Pac12 media poll failed to predict #USC’s place in the conference. The Trojans were the only team to go 8-1 in the Pac this year.

We made it. We have arrived at the end of the 2022 Pac-12 football regular season. Our rankings of the 12 teams might change based on the outcome of the Utah-USC Pac-12 Championship Game on Friday night in Las Vegas, but the standings have no editorializing or analysis: They are cold, hard numbers fixed in the pages of time. Nothing can or will change them. They are set in stone.

If you had one team finishing sixth in the Pac-12 and that team finished second, you badly underrated it.

If you had a team finishing fourth and that team finished 10th, you badly overrated it.

Let’s see how the Pac-12 football preseason media vote compared to the actual order of finish.

We’ll give the media vote first and then present the final 2022 Pac-12 football standings: