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Wilner: no more "College Hotline", now "Pac-12 Hotline"

Wilner is the absolute best at what he does. We never knew what a true sports journalist looked like until we were introduced to him. Insightful, intelligent, respectful, informative. He doesn't take random pot shots at programs. He doesn't participate in piling on for the sake of piling on. His criticisms are valid, his praise is earned. In other words, he's the anti-Kizla.

I'm looking forward to seeing this new offering. I'm assuming it will be linked here, right?
 
Pac-12 Power Rankings after Week 2
  1. USC (last week 2)
  2. Washington (1)
  3. UCLA (4)
  4. Stanford (3)
  5. Washington State (5)
  6. Colorado (6)
  7. Oregon (9)
  8. Utah (8)
  9. Cal (7)
  10. Arizona (11)
  11. Arizona State (10)
  12. Oregon State (12)
Not a lot of movement this week. One good thing for the Buffs is that the bottom 4 teams are looking pretty bad off their week 2 performances and CU plays all 4 of them this season. Schedule is setting up to win at least 7 as the baseline.
 
Take Rosen off UCLA and they're a .500 team at best.
Of course, while Rosen is there they have the ability to beat anybody.
 
Agree Wilner is tops, so I'm signed up. Will see if he can cover the outlying areas (like Colorado) as thoroughly as the coast. Bottom line, as Sackman says, Wilner's a top college sports journalist, for too long an extinct species on the Front Range.
 
Buffnik said:
Pac-12 Power Rankings after Week 2
  1. USC (last week 2)
  2. Washington (1)
  3. UCLA (4)
  4. Stanford (3)
  5. Washington State (5)
  6. Colorado (6)
  7. Oregon (9)
  8. Utah (8)
  9. Cal (7)
  10. Arizona (11)
  11. Arizona State (10)
  12. Oregon State (12)
Not a lot of movement this week. One good thing for the Buffs is that the bottom 4 teams are looking pretty bad off their week 2 performances and CU plays all 4 of them this season. Schedule is setting up to win at least 7 as the baseline.
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What's striking about those bottom four teams is the schedules are just brutal for all four teams. It is not like they get time to really get better as the season goes along, it is more just trying to hang on. There is only one game matching up any of those bottom four teams before November.
 
Duff Man said:
What's striking about those bottom four teams is the schedules are just brutal for all four teams. It is not like they get time to really get better as the season goes along, it is more just trying to hang on. There is only one game matching up any of those bottom four teams before November.
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Crazy just how hard it was to get bowl eligible in 2014/2015 in the Pac-12 and now it seems pretty damn easy, that should be 7 wins with just those 4 teams.
 
Duff Man said:
What's striking about those bottom four teams is the schedules are just brutal for all four teams. It is not like they get time to really get better as the season goes along, it is more just trying to hang on. There is only one game matching up any of those bottom four teams before November.
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OTOH, it will probably set at least one of those coaches up for actually keeping their job at the end of the season. "We went 3-1 (or 4-0) in November" will be a lifeline to one or two of them.
 
Right now........Here's the way I see this. USC and Washington look like the best two teams in the conference. Cal, the Arizona schools, and Oregon State clearly look like they are the bottom third of the conference. Is there really a lot of separation between 3-8 (UCLA, Wazzu, Oregon, Us, Utah, and Stanford)? No.
 
ahoelsken said:
Right now........Here's the way I see this. USC and Washington look like the best two teams in the conference. Cal, the Arizona schools, and Oregon State clearly look like they are the bottom third of the conference. Is there really a lot of separation between 3-8 (UCLA, Wazzu, Oregon, Us, Utah, and Stanford)? No.
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I agree, but one or two of those middle teams are going to disappoint. My bets: UCLA and Oregon.
 
ahoelsken said:
Is there really a lot of separation between 3-8 (UCLA, Wazzu, Oregon, Us, Utah, and Stanford)? No.
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There is one thing that separates one of those schools from the others. Josh Rosen.

His presence probably moves UCLA from mid to bottom of that group right to the top.

I'd put the conference as
1 - USC
2 - UW


3 - UCLA

4-8 - CU, UO, WSU, UU, Furd

9-11 - Cal, UA, ASU












12 - OSU
 
BuffsNYC said:
I agree, but one or two of those middle teams are going to disappoint. My bets: UCLA and Oregon.
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Oregon is playing with house money with any success above bowl eligibility. I think everyone knows they are not a real contender this season.

OTOH, I think it is pretty clear that Rosen is gone after this season, so much more urgency in Westwood.
 
Duff Man said:
Oregon is playing with house money with any success above bowl eligibility. I think everyone knows they are not a real contender this season.

OTOH, I think it is pretty clear that Rosen is gone after this season, so much more urgency in Westwood.
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Sure, but finishing below Cal would be a surprise to their fans. I also think some believe that they are better than Wazzu.
 
Not sure there's another team that is going to do to Stanford what USC did to them. Think they're on a level right under the Trojans.
 
I'm biased, but I wouldn't lump Cal in with UA and ASU quite yet. Ya, Cal is almost certainly no better than perhaps 7th or 8th in the PAC, but the Arizona schools have looked downright awful. We'll know more after this weekend when they play Ole Miss. Then the schedule after that (for Cal) gets really tough.
 
BerkeleyBuff said:
I'm biased, but I wouldn't lump Cal in with UA and ASU quite yet. Ya, Cal is almost certainly no better than perhaps 7th or 8th in the PAC, but the Arizona schools have looked downright awful. We'll know more after this weekend when they play Ole Miss. Then the schedule after that (for Cal) gets really tough.
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I'd agree with that.
Cal is at least showing they might get better with time, as they adjust to new coaching system. They have way better talent for example than Colorado had a few years back. They should keep fighting and get better with time.

I truly expect the Arizona schools to give up sooner than later and the blowouts to get ridiculous.
 
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