At the bottom, the resident laughingstock, Colorado, has succeeded in generating local excitement and national intrigue with the arrival of Deion Sanders and possibly the most aggressive approach to overhauling the roster on record. So this space resolves to concern itself with the living rather than the soon to be dead.Īt the top, the race for the crown is the most wide open of any major conference, by far, with Oregon, USC, Utah and Washington all looking like viable contenders and Oregon State and UCLA looking to take the next step.
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Throw the TV execs in a lake! For one more season, though, Pac-12 football as we know it remains very much alive - terminal, maybe, but as far as the players and coaches and marching bands and feral student sections that actually represent its lifeblood are concerned, still as vital as ever. There is certainly no shortage of paeans to the good old days and laments about the soul-crushing pursuit of every last nickel of television revenue, if that’s what you’re in the market for. Is this preview going to serve as an obituary? Hell, no. Whether or not the “Pac-X” brand remains affixed to a going concern by this time next year, by any meaningful definition the “Conference of Champions” will have ceased to exist.īut are we here today to talk about next year? We are not. The leftovers, Oregon State and Washington State, face the grim certainty that they are all but finished as major-conference players. As of this writing, speculation remains rampant over the mind-boggling possibility of Stanford and Cal joining the ACC, just to crank the geographic absurdity all the way up to 11. A hundred years of regional solidarity ends here: With Oregon and Washington reluctantly poised to follow USC and UCLA to the sprawling bicoastal behemoth organized under the banner of the Big Ten, and with the Mountain Time Zone schools (Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah) seeking refuge in the Frankenstein’s monster that is the Big 12. It’s impossible to make any introduction to West Coast football in 2023 without acknowledging the ongoing drawing-and-quartering of West Coast football as we know it. That’s not to deny reality, which looms all too large. We come not to bury the Pac-12 - not just yet, anyway.
3 CFP) scored the game’s last 28 points.Everything you need to know about Pac-12 football ahead of the 2023 season. Six weeks earlier, the Wildcats jumped out to a 28-10 lead early in the second quarter at TCU before the Horned Frogs (12-1, No. It don’t get no better than that, on the goal line for the game, almost.” “That was just great execution, just overall, by the defense,” said linebacker Daniel Green, who was in on the fourth-down stop. Klieman had worked under Taylor, the Kansas State athletic director, at North Dakota State.Īfter blowing an 11-point lead in the final 7 1/2 minutes of regulation, the Wildcats got the ball in overtime after stopping TCU running back Kendre Miller twice from inside the 1, the second on fourth down when the Horned Frogs opted against a field goal try in overtime.
“And coming here, I look at these guys that believed in us as a coaching staff when there was a coaching change and stuck with us.” But he believed in me and us,” Klieman said.
Gene Taylor took a chance on an FCS coach when not a lot of people would.
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