Pac-12 picks: Oregon over Nebraska; UCLA over BYU
Everybody ready for conference play in the Pac-12? USC and Stanford will meet Saturday in what has become a traditional league opener. Most of the other Pac-12 football teams, meanwhile, will conclude...
View ArticlePac-12 picks: Utah over USC, Stanford over UCLA
With five conference games this weekend, the 2016 Pac-12 football schedule begins in earnest. Each of the next 10 weeks, several league games will be played. Eight teams will launch Pac-12 play this...
View ArticlePac-12 picks: Stanford over Washington, Utes over Cal
This is the Pac-12's first weekend of the football season with a full schedule of conference games. And it starts Friday night with a big one: Stanford at Washington. The winner instantly will be in...
View ArticlePac-12 picks: USC over Colorado, Utes over Arizona
This is a rare, full Saturday schedule of six conference games for the Pac-12, beginning with one that may not have seemed nearly as interesting a month ago: Colorado at USC. Yes, here come the...
View ArticlePac-12 picks: Washington State over UCLA; Utes over Oregon State
Saturday's schedule of Pac-12 football games has a low-key feel, but that's not to say the games will be uninteresting. Start with a forecast of 50 mph winds at Oregon State's Reser Stadium for Utah's...
View ArticlePac-12 picks: Stanford over Colorado, Utes over UCLA
The Pac-12 football schedule is into the annual phase where upcoming Thursday games mean that two teams will have the weekend off. In this week's case, the schedule starts Friday night. On to the...
View ArticlePac-12 picks: USC over California; Washington over Utes
Colorado is off this week, so the only Pac-12 football game that really affects Utah – other than Washington's visit to Rice-Eccles Stadium, of course – comes Thursday night, when USC hosts...
View ArticlePac-12 picks: Colorado over UCLA; Washington over Cal
The Utah Utes have the weekend off in advance of next Thursday's game at Arizona State, while the Pac-12's postseason possibilities will come into only slightly better focus. I'll explain as we go. On...
View ArticlePac-12 picks: Utes over Arizona State; USC over Washington
Ever since the Pac-12 was formed with two divisions for football, the Stanford-Oregon game In the North has been circled on the calendar, because of its regional and national impact. Not this year....
View ArticlePac-12 picks: Utes over Oregon; Washington State over Colorado
Having spent equal time enjoying the afterglow of correctly picking USC's upset of Washington and agonizing about the Colorado-Washington State pick, I'm ready for a a full schedule of Pac-12 football...
View ArticlePac-12 picks: Washington over Washington State, Utes over Colorado
The final weekend of the Pac-12 regular season will determine both contestants in the conference championship game and affect the College Football Playoff race. That's good stuff. On to the picks:...
View ArticlePac-12: Oregon hires a builder; McCaffrey leaving Stanford
Considering how Mark Helfrich beat Utah in his second-to-last game as Oregon's football coach, the Utes probably should have hoped the Ducks hired a worse coach to replace him. But it looks to me like...
View ArticlePac-12 bowl pick: Washington State over Minnesota
Unable to fill its slot in the Las Vegas Bowl, the Pac-12 will open the bowl season Tuesday with the first of six appearances by conference members. Washington State vs. Minnesota, Holiday Bowl, 5...
View ArticlePac-12 bowl pick: Utah over Indiana
The Pac-12 has started the bowl season poorly and my picking record looks even worse, after I predicted a Washington State rout of Minnesota in the Holiday Bowl. So here comes another Pac-12 team...
View ArticlePac-12 bowl pick: Colorado over Oklahoma State
Having missed badly on my pick of Washington State in the Holiday Bowl, I came much closer with the forecast for Utah's winning the Foster Farms Bowl. I said it would be 27-17 for the Utes, and it...
View ArticlePac-12 bowl pick: North Carolina over Stanford
OK, this is getting embarrassing – for me, as much as the Pac-12 Conference. Colorado's 38-8 loss to Oklahoma State in Thursday's Alamo Bowl was the second bowl defeat for the conference in three...
View ArticlePac-12 bowl pick: Alabama over Washington
Thanks to Stanford's 25-23 victory over North Carolina in the Sun Bowl, the Pac-12 is even (2-2) in the bowl season. The competition gets exponentially tougher Saturday. Washington vs. Alabama, Peach...
View ArticlePac-12 football: Cal makes coaching change late in cycle
It is true that two of Utah's losses in the 2016 football season, in highly competitive games, were to teams led by Washington's Chris Petersen and Colorado's Mike MacIntyre, who were judged to have...
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