A new era of Oregon Ducks football has begun, and while fans start to get used to the way Dan Lanning runs his program, they can also get a better feel for how the future will start to shake out in Eugene.
It seems like forever until we will get to see this team back on the field against new competition in August, but that doesn’t mean we have to wait any longer to start talking about what the new season might bring.
The truth is, the Pac-12 as a whole is going to look quite a bit different in 2022 than it did a year ago.
There were massive coaching moves. Lincoln Riley took over at USC, and Kalen DeBoer stepping in at Washington. Quarterback changes are also expected, and a number of competition battles will take place across the conference this spring and summer. Those results have massive ramifications on the rest of the west coast.
While the nature of college football is fluid, so many changes make it tough to predict anything. That’s not going to stop us from trying, though. Here is how we think the balance of power will look like in the Pac-12 for the start of the 2022 season: