Pac-12 Woes
Is the Pac-12 turning into the Dismal Dozen?
No conference had a more miserable bowl season in 2017 than the Conference of Champions. Nine schools qualified for post-season play. Eight of them lost.
Only Utah’s win over West Virginia (and, by the way, Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham is 11-1 in bowl games) kept the conference from going winless.
Four of the losses were incurred by ranked teams – USC, Washington, Stanford and Washington State.
A trend or an aberration?
Well, based on the first week, it’s not good news for the conference.
Washington, believed to be the best team in the Pac-12, threw out a listless performance in losing to Auburn. UCLA was upset by a pedestrian Cincinnati team and Arizona, another pre-season darling, succumbed to BYU.
Oregon State was embarrassed by Ohio State, 77-31.
Ouch!
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