Not putting as much effort into this as usual this week, in honor of Cal football’s embarrassing belly flop in Berkeley against that juggernaut UCLA squad.
1. Oregon
Had a feeling they would beat the Huskies, but honestly thought they would play better. Herbert and Browning were pretty on par with each other and both teams stink at kicking FGs.
2. Washington State
Congrats to the Coogs, finally, after all these years, they get to host College Gameday, as they look to take down the Ducks after their big emotional win in Eugene.
3. Washington
Given how Oregon still must play at the Coogs and at Utah, they aren’t out of the North race yet.
4. Utah
This team is really starting to turn into something. They can take a stranglehold on the South by taking down USC at home this week. FPI says they have a 76% chance to do it. The Utes will match USC’s physicality and make life difficult on Daniels, but will it be enough? Whoever wins this will win the South, IMO, but again, Utah having to face Oregon and Washington, and USC missing both, is a total travesty!
5. USC
Giving nod over Stanford even though Stanford has better wins and head to head win because Stanford looked so terrible last week against Utah, but maybe Utah is just really good now. We find out this week.
6. Stanford
Will be fascinating to see how this bunch fares at ASU this week. Shaw has never lost three in a row, and usually wins these types of games, but ASU is pretty solid. The trees have an identity crisis as they haven’t been able to run for shit other than against USC.
——-Conference title contender cutoff-——
7. Colorado
All those saying the Buffs were overrated, take a bow. That was an ugly showing in L.A. Hard to imagine them standing up to Utah after seeing how bad Montez was against a good defense.
8. ASU
It seems these guys should have beat Colorado given how they have played others, but they aren’t quite good enough to give them head-to-head loss benefit of doubt over Buffs.
Wow, do the bottom four really stand out apart from the Top 8...
9. UCLA
The Bruins just hit their high water mark of the season and only needed one game to do it, a testament to how putrid the rest are. This is their ceiling I imagine. Probably locked in this spot the rest of the way.
10. Arizona
It’s remarkable that a team so terrible can be as high as 10, but they clobbered OSU, and beat Cal, so where else can they be. Does anyone really think this team will beat UCLA? I sure AF don’t!
11. OSU
Not one fiber of my being thinks Cal is going to beat the Beavs in Corvallis after witnessing what Cal is, so even though Cal has the better record, consider this a preemptive strike. Seems likely only one of these teams will earn a PAC-12 win this season and that team has that game at home this week.
12. Cal
OMG. WTF is this? Once again, NQR takes shit for being “anti-Cal” because he claims Cal is not better than Colorado or UCLA (among others), and they actually underperform my meager expectations and make me look like the biased homer. I fully expected Cal to take an L vs. the Bruins, but 37-7??? I hope Yogi’s time machine is correct and Cal does move to the MWC for football by 2022. This charade has got to stop. It’s simply a waste of resources to have so many people put so much time and energy into the white elephant that is Cal football.
1. Oregon
Had a feeling they would beat the Huskies, but honestly thought they would play better. Herbert and Browning were pretty on par with each other and both teams stink at kicking FGs.
2. Washington State
Congrats to the Coogs, finally, after all these years, they get to host College Gameday, as they look to take down the Ducks after their big emotional win in Eugene.
3. Washington
Given how Oregon still must play at the Coogs and at Utah, they aren’t out of the North race yet.
4. Utah
This team is really starting to turn into something. They can take a stranglehold on the South by taking down USC at home this week. FPI says they have a 76% chance to do it. The Utes will match USC’s physicality and make life difficult on Daniels, but will it be enough? Whoever wins this will win the South, IMO, but again, Utah having to face Oregon and Washington, and USC missing both, is a total travesty!
5. USC
Giving nod over Stanford even though Stanford has better wins and head to head win because Stanford looked so terrible last week against Utah, but maybe Utah is just really good now. We find out this week.
6. Stanford
Will be fascinating to see how this bunch fares at ASU this week. Shaw has never lost three in a row, and usually wins these types of games, but ASU is pretty solid. The trees have an identity crisis as they haven’t been able to run for shit other than against USC.
——-Conference title contender cutoff-——
7. Colorado
All those saying the Buffs were overrated, take a bow. That was an ugly showing in L.A. Hard to imagine them standing up to Utah after seeing how bad Montez was against a good defense.
8. ASU
It seems these guys should have beat Colorado given how they have played others, but they aren’t quite good enough to give them head-to-head loss benefit of doubt over Buffs.
Wow, do the bottom four really stand out apart from the Top 8...
9. UCLA
The Bruins just hit their high water mark of the season and only needed one game to do it, a testament to how putrid the rest are. This is their ceiling I imagine. Probably locked in this spot the rest of the way.
10. Arizona
It’s remarkable that a team so terrible can be as high as 10, but they clobbered OSU, and beat Cal, so where else can they be. Does anyone really think this team will beat UCLA? I sure AF don’t!
11. OSU
Not one fiber of my being thinks Cal is going to beat the Beavs in Corvallis after witnessing what Cal is, so even though Cal has the better record, consider this a preemptive strike. Seems likely only one of these teams will earn a PAC-12 win this season and that team has that game at home this week.
12. Cal
OMG. WTF is this? Once again, NQR takes shit for being “anti-Cal” because he claims Cal is not better than Colorado or UCLA (among others), and they actually underperform my meager expectations and make me look like the biased homer. I fully expected Cal to take an L vs. the Bruins, but 37-7??? I hope Yogi’s time machine is correct and Cal does move to the MWC for football by 2022. This charade has got to stop. It’s simply a waste of resources to have so many people put so much time and energy into the white elephant that is Cal football.
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