The USC Trojans will play nine straight weeks of football later in this Pac-12 season. They play on September 23 at Arizona State and will not have a week off until Thanksgiving in late November.
Colorado did beat TCU, but that win came at the expense of having to play Travis Hunter over 140 snaps in 100-degree heat. We are coming up on some very interesting situations in Pac-12 football, many of them attritional. Which teams will be able to refill the fuel tank and play well not on an occasional basis, but on a consistent basis?
The depth of each main Pac-12 contender will be tested at some point in the season. Oregon and Washington have their off week on October 7. Then they will play the next one and a half months and could be stretched thin when they play USC in November, possibly cancelling out the Trojans’ own attritional issues.
We asked a panel of Pac-12 experts — from Oregon, Colorado, and here at Trojans Wire — the following question: Will Colorado hit a wall, given how many snaps Travis Hunter is playing?
See what our panelists said: