Tag: Picking the Pac

Picking the Pac – College Wire staff makes Week 9 selections

In the short schedule of games, the Pac-12 presented last week, there weren’t many upsets and the Pick the Pac standings reflect it.

Stanford kicking five field goals to sneak past Arizona State cost several College Wire staff members a perfect record for Week 8. But Don Smalley (me) got lucky and was able to weasel into second place thanks to the Cardinal kicker Joshua Karty.

Unless there are some upsets in Week 9, it’ll be difficult to move up the standings as the staff is in agreement for most of the games. There was a variety of picks for the ASU-Colorado game and Stanford was able to gain a believer in DucksWire’s own Andy Patton.

Here are the current standings and our Pick the Pac selections for another brief docket of games in the Conference of Champions.

Name Last Week’s Record Overall Record
Jack Carlough (Buffaloes Wire) 4-0 50-10
Don Smalley (Ducks Wire) 4-0 48-12
Zac Neel (Ducks Wire) 3-1 47-13
Tony Cosolo (Buffaloes Wire) 3-1 47-13
Patrick Conn (College Wire) 3-1 46-14
Matt Zemek (Trojans Wire) 3-1 46-14
Don James (Trojans Wire) 2-2 44-16
Andy Patton (Ducks Wire) 3-1 44-16
Matt Wadleigh (Trojans Wire) 3-1 43-17

 

Picking the Pac: The CollegeWire staff make their Week 3 selections

Picking the Pac: Week 3 of the Pac-12 slate has some interesting matchups with BYU-Oregon as the showcase.

With the season moving right along just like Fozzie Bear and Kermit the Frog in the Studebaker, there are going to be more differences of opinions as the matchups become more even.

The BYU-Oregon contest is the marquee game in the Conference of Champions this week, and, as expected, the staff of the College Wire sites are split on who they think will come out on top.

The most intriguing game might be the Pac-12 after dark game when current Football Championship Subdivision national champion North Dakota State heads to Tucson to take on Arizona. Several writers think the Bison are going to pull off the “upset.” But would it really be an upset?

Here is how we did last week and through two weeks of games.

Zac Neel, 9-2 (20-3)
Don Smalley, 10-1 (19-4)
Andy Patton, 7-4 (18-5)

Matt Zemek, 8-3 (20-3)
Matt Wadleigh, 10-1 (19-4)
Don James, 8-3 (18-5)

Jack Carlough, 10-1 (20-3)
Tony Cosolo, 9-2 (18-5)

Patrick Conn, 10-1 (21-2)