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ESPN.com's Brad Edwards is our college football numbers guy, a pundit so skilled that the BCS (sometimes) makes sense to him. Therefore, he's not afraid to use advanced metrics to evaluate an upcoming college football season. He shifted through so...

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 ...

The most newsworthy part of a "Heath and Well-Being" initiative the Pac-12 announced Monday was the conference's intention to reduce contact in football practices. From the news release: Football Contact Reduction: The Pac-12 will codify into a f...

On Wednesday, we provided you with our worst five Pac-12 BCS moments. Here's what we wrote (our polls can only included five choices, so if you think Oregon losing the Rose Bowl to Ohio State after the 2009 season, go with "other"). 1. Just one...

All schedules are not created equal. Sometimes it's the luck of the draw and sometimes it's soft -- or hard -- nonconference scheduling. And sometimes there are less tangible factors, such as bye weeks and fan expectations. So who's got the tou...

On Wednesday, we provided you with our top five Pac-12 BCS moments. Here's what we wrote (our polls can only included five choices, so if you think Oregon and Stanford both winning BCS bowl games this past year qualifies, go with other): 1. USC d...

The 2013 season will be the final year of the BCS era. And there was much rejoicing! So, what have been the Pac-12 highs and lows of this often confounding system? Thanks for asking! Best 1. USC drubs Oklahoma for the 2004 national title:...

Two items appeared in my email over the past 24 hours, one representing a celebration of college football's old system and the other the brand spanking new. First, there's the four-team college football playoff, which will begin in 2014 and replac...

Every game counts. But some games count more. Or tell us more. We're going through the Pac-12 and picking out one game that seems most important -- or potentially most revealing -- for each team from our vantage point today. And then we'll let ...

Oregon defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti knows transition. He's coached at Oregon in five different decades and under four head coaches. He's seen tough times and BCS bowl games. So Chip Kelly's departure to the Philadelphia Eagles isn't going shake...

STANFORD, Calif. -- Stanford quarterback Kevin Hogan, as a redshirt freshman, made his first career road start against No. 2 Oregon in Autzen Stadium, the most inhospitable venue in the Pac-12. Entering the game, the Ducks had won 13 games in a row o...

STANFORD, Calif. -- The first step in Stanford's national ascendancy was wearing blue shirts a mechanic would wear at the gas station. The message then-coach Jim Harbaugh was trying to deliver was simple: Sure, Stanford is one of the nation's elite u...

On Jan. 4, Oregon, fresh off its second consecutive BCS bowl victory, was at an all-time high. Then, while riding that wave of emotion, it watched Chip Kelly transformed into Hamlet -- "To go or not to go, that is the question..." Kelly was certai...

Might Stanford be headed back to the Rose Bowl next January, only this time to play Alabama and to try to end the SEC's streak of seven consecutive national titles? Or is it going to be Oregon under first-year coach Mark Helfrich? That's one ta...

First we gave you the final 2012 power rankings. Now we look ahead. These can and will change, largely based on our whims. 1. Oregon: The Ducks, winners of two straight BCS bowls, nip Stanford because their offseason questions have more obvious an...

Oregon gives the Pac-12 a final 4-4 bowl record, though that record now includes victories in a pair of BCS bowl games. Here's how we see it following the Ducks' 35-17 victory over Kansas State. It was over when: Oregon owned the third quarter,...