The 2023 college football will feature the end of the Pac-12 as we know it. With conference realignment on everyone’s mind, it’s a good reminder that this will be the last season that both the USC Trojans and UCLA Bruins will be a part of the conference before jetting off east to the Big Ten.
Fortunately, it is also shaping up to be one of the best Pac-12 seasons we’ve seen in a long time, with schools like Oregon, USC, Washington Utah, Oregon State, and UCLA all expected to rank inside the top 25. There’s a good chance that multiple teams will find themselves inside the top 10 at some point in the year, and the Pac-12 will more than likely be able to end their College Football Playoff drought as well.
Already this offseason, we’ve looked at all of the schedules in the conference and tried to predict outcomes for everyone involved, but now we wanted to look a little bit further and predict the bowl game matchups as well.
Keep in mind the scenarios are very complicated with bowl tie-ins and contractual preferences for teams that have not been involved in certain locations, so we do our best to track it all.
Here’s how we see things playing out before spring ball gets going across the Pac-12.