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Pac-12 football standings after Week 9

Washington remains on top, Oregon improves its position, Oregon State suffers a damaging loss.

The Pac-12 football standings after Week 9 involve a few notable developments. The main story is that Washington survived a scare at Stanford to remain unbeaten in the conference and on course to make the Pac-12 Championship Game on Friday, December 1.

The other particularly big story is that the Oregon State Beavers — who entered Week 9 with only one loss in the conference — picked up loss number two at Arizona. This affects the tiebreaker situation in the conference and reshapes various tiebreaker scenarios at the end of the season. Oregon State just lost any last degree of leverage it might have previously owned. The Beavers now have to beat Washington and Oregon in the final weeks of the season if they want to make the Pac-12 title game. They’re in big trouble in terms of getting to Las Vegas.

Let’s give you the full Pac-12 standings heading into November:

Pac-12 football standings for Week 8

USC’s place in the standings took a hit, but worse, the Trojans’ reputation took a hit.

The USC Trojans had not lost a Pac-12 game before Saturday night’s 34-32 loss to Utah. Yet, the absence of a Pac-12 loss did not mean USC was producing a good season. The Trojans weren’t playing well. As soon as they went up against better opponents, the path was going to get a lot tougher. Sure enough, USC couldn’t even beat Utah at home with the Utes missing Cam Rising at quarterback, Brant Kuithe at tight end, and (for the first half) Cole Bishop at safety. Utah had to play backups at multiple positions, but the Utes were still better and tougher than the Trojans. USC was as close as it was only because Utah made a ton of mistakes in its own right.

The Trojans aren’t good, and they aren’t ready to win big. Their season is on life support. One more Pac-12 loss will knock them out of the conference championship chase.

Here are the Pac-12 football standings after Week 8:

Pac-12 football standings through Week 7

Washington rules the roost, even though it is second in the standings.

Clarity. We received some of it in Week 7 of the college football season. Washington and Oregon are the two best teams in the Pac-12. USC doesn’t deserve to be in the discussion. Arizona is a good football team. The Wildcats proved that with their 44-6 demolition of Washington State on the road in Pullman.

Oregon State beat UCLA, but the Beavers didn’t play elite defense and UCLA’s offense finally began to look somewhat potent.

Oh, and remember Friday night? Colorado blew a 29-0 lead at home to Stanford with Travis Hunter back in the lineup for the Buffaloes.

Let’s give you the Pac-12 football standings after Week 7:

Pac-12 football standings after Week 6

Washington State’s loss removes one more Pac-12 team from the ranks of the unbeaten.

The Pac-12 football race is about to get even more serious. The USC Trojans are thankful it didn’t get more serious on Saturday night. USC was able to avoid what would have been a catastrophic defeat against the Arizona Wildcats. The Trojans are 4-0 in the Pac-12. They still have Cal on their schedule, which should be a fifth win. The long and short of it for the Trojans is that if they can win three of their four tough games — Utah, Washington, Oregon, UCLA — they will return to Las Vegas for the Pac-12 Championship Game. Utah, Washington, and UCLA are all at home, so the Trojans know that if they can defend their home field, they will be in Vegas on December 1.

Let’s look at the full Pac-12 football standings following Week 6 of the season:

Pac-12 football standings after Week 5

Oregon State and Utah both have conference losses. That’s the big development in the #Pac12 entering October.

The Pac-12 Conference is beginning to look like we all thought: Oregon, USC, and Washington at the top. However, Oregon State and Washington State are making noise, and the Trojans defeated the Colorado Buffaloes in Boulder in an offensive fireworks show.

UCLA and Washington State had off weeks, and next week all of Oregon, Stanford, Utah, and Washington have idle weeks.

Here are the latest Pac-12 standings with the three top-10 schools remaining undefeated going into October:

Pac-12 football standings for Week 4

USC leads the standings, but Washington and Oregon made the most impressive statements in Week 4.

The Pac-12 Conference had a ton of top-25 showdowns this past weekend, although some of them did not go as expected.

Oregon crushed Deion Sanders and Colorado to give the Buffs their first loss, and Washington State survived a furious Oregon State rally. Utah defeated UCLA by a 14-7 score (yes, really) and Arizona just squeaked past Stanford on the road.

Then, both Washington and USC took care of business late on Saturday night, although the Trojans had a little bit of a scare against Arizona State.

With that said, here are the updated Pac-12 standings, and everybody is waiting for Colorado to face USC next weekend in Boulder.

Pac-12 football standings after Week 3

The full #Pac12 schedule begins in Week 4. Eight teams are unbeaten after three weeks of nonconference play. Not bad for a dying conference.

The preliminaries are over. The Pac-12’s football teams have made their way through three nonconference games (with USC playing Notre Dame in one month). Next week, the conference schedule begins throughout the conference and the race for Las Vegas begins in earnest.

Did we learn a whole lot from nonconference play? In the case of Colorado, this recent escape against Colorado State showed the Buffaloes probably aren’t ready for what Oregon and USC will bring. On the other hand, Oregon State handling an offense-challenged San Diego State team probably doesn’t give us a whole lot of context on where the Beavers truly stand. UCLA easily defeated San Diego State as well. Does this mean the Bruins are better than the Beavers? It’s an open question.

With that in mind, let’s look at the Pac-12 football standings after Week 3:

Pac-12 football standings after Week 2

The #Pac12 finally did lose a game, but the big hitters remained unbeaten. The conference’s overall record: 21-4.

The second full week of college football has come to an end, and the Pac-12 Conference once again had a successful weekend. Unfortunately, the Pac-12 lost some games after going 13-0 in Week 1 and Week Zero, so it was only a matter of time before some programs got in the loss column.

Washington State winning at home against Luke Fickell and Wisconsin was somewhat surprising, and Arizona gave Mississippi State a run for its money on the road before losing in overtime.

The finale was USC’s crushing victory over Stanford, 56-10, in a game where Caleb Williams played only the first half.

Here are the updated Pac-12 football standings after two full weeks of action:

2023 Pac-12 football standings: Week 1

The #Pac12 dominated college football this weekend. Enjoy these standings — they aren’t going to be perfect for long.

The 2023 college football season is officially underway. In what looks to be the final season of the Pac-12 Conference (unless Oregon State and Washington State convince others to come), it has gotten off to a booming start.

The Colorado Buffaloes stunned TCU in Deion Sanders’ first game, and Oregon and Washington pummeled their opponents in lopsided affairs.

With Week 1 (and Week Zero) officially behind us, let us examine the Pac-12 standings. Don’t worry: As the weeks go by, this picture will get more and more puzzling and wackier, which is why we all love college football.

Believe it or not, the entire Pac-12 won this weekend. Rarely are the standings ever going to look like this again:

Pac-12 Championship Game tiebreaker scenarios: USC’s Dec. 2 opponent in Vegas

#Utah has NOT been eliminated by its loss to Oregon. There’s actually a very realistic scenario in which the Utes can face #USC in a rematch.

So, did the Utah Utes get eliminated by their loss to Oregon late Saturday night, while you were reveling in the aftermath of USC’s thrilling win over UCLA?

No, they did not.

Utah is not only alive; the Utes have a clear path to Las Vegas. They’re not in a preferred position — they need a lot of help — but the scenario they need is not that far-fetched at all.

Let’s walk you through the Pac-12 Championship Game tiebreaker scenarios which will determine the team USC faces on Dec. 2 in Las Vegas, plus some playoff and New Year’s Six bowl notes as well: