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Last year, the chant of "We're No. 2! We're No. 2!" was heard in both Pac-12 and Big 12 country. That other conference, however much it makes folks grumble, gets to be No. 1 until somebody dethrones it. But the debate among Pac-12 and Big 12 fans ...

We're taking a look at the best and worst of the Pac-12 bowl season. Best player, offense: Washington RB Bishop Sankey was the best player on the field in the Huskies' 28-26 defeat in the MAACO Las Vegas Bowl. He gained 205 yards on 30 carries wit...

These are the final 2012 power rankings. If you don't like where you finished in the power rankings, you should have played better. See the pre-bowl-season power rankings here. 1. Stanford: Oregon received a higher final national ranking, an...

At least two people whispered the unthinkable to me after the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. "That," they said, "was a boring game." That, I realized after some pondering, is what happens when the superior team plays an outstanding game: 35-17 is what h...

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- On Nov. 17, both Oregon and Kansas State lost their only game of the season. Otherwise, these two teams likely would have met each other for the national title in South Florida instead of at the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl tonight. It'...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Tostitos Fiesta Bowl on Thursday night? Forget the corn chips; this matchup is about something else. It's the Regret Bowl. The What Might Have Been Bowl. It's the Can the Mayans Make the Apocalypse Take Out Only Nov. 17 Bo...

How can I hurt when I'm with you Warm, touchin' warm Reachin' out, touchin' me touchin' you Sweet Caroline Good times never seemed so good. Arizona RB Ka'Deem Carey eyeballs the rushing title. Arizona State is losing its running backs coach...

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to...

Last year, the Pac-12 had a quasi-valid excuse for its 2-5 face plant in the bowl season. Because 10-2 and fifth-ranked USC was ineligible for the postseason, the conference was missing a quality team, and the Trojans' absence forced everyone othe...

Kevin and Ted both were wrong -- again, and very much so this time -- about the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl after picking UCLA to beat Baylor, so they both fell to 67-27 on the season. There are two games on Saturday. Arizona State plays Na...

Greetings. Welcome to the mailbag. Follow the Pac-12 blog on Twitter here. It's where the Pac-12 blog tweets, which is a sight to behold. Brian Mahuna from Portland writes: Do you think Oregon is on the cusp of having an elite group of receiver...

Happy Friday. Football has a couple of the top moments at Arizona this year. Arizona State will need to be disciplined against Navy. What grade does California's head coaching hire get? More on Colorado's Coach Macs. Oregon is preparing f...

It was billed as a potentially high-scoring, exciting Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl. Baylor got the memo. UCLA didn't. The Bears dominated, making an early statement for the Big 12 in the battle with the Pac-12 for the title of "second best conf...

Here are three keys for tonight's Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl: 1. Johnathan Franklin versus Lache Seastrunk: Baylor's defense is bad, but it's better against the run than the pass. When we type "better," we mean less terrible. The Bears giv...

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster way...

UCLA (9-4, 6-3 Pac-12) vs. Baylor (7-5, 4-5 Big 12) Who to watch: Baylor has been ridiculously good on offense all season, but it got even better over the homestretch when running back Lache Seastrunk, an Oregon transfer, asserted himself, eclipsi...