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Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News has been a busy bee this week, yet we somehow missed his update on the Pac-12's progress with its new bowl game negotiations, which included Wilner projecting a potential future lineup. It's an interesting a...

All Pac-12 fans and observers should be focused on two items when it comes to the new four-team playoff that will begin in 2014: 1. The makeup of the selection committee; 2. The announced importance that selection committee will put on strength of sc...

If we all go out to dinner with Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott this weekend, he's buying. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Scott is the highest paid college conference commissioner, earning more than $3 million last year. The WSJ r...

Much of what you think you know in the college football preseason ends up being hooey, which is part of the fun.

PHOENIX -- Although the new College Football Playoff format likely will ignite a spirited debate between Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott and his SEC counterpart, Mike Slive -- as well as every other major conference commissioner -- there is at least ...

The 2013 NFL draft was terrible for the Pac-12. It was worse than any draft since 2000. Well, other than 2012, when the draft looked a lot like the one last weekend, with 28 players also picked. The conference had 28 players picked in 2010, but th...

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 ...

The SEC, as has become the pattern over the past decade, is ruling recruiting just as it has been ruling the national title hunt. On national signing day eve, it has five of the top 10 teams in the ESPN recruiting rankings -- it's pretty much the...

What are the odds a Pac-12 player wins the 2013 Heisman Trophy? Glad you asked, because sports betting site Bovada released its 2013 Heisman Trophy odds this week -- thanks to the Big Ten blog for noticing! -- and it includes five Pac-12 players a...

Welcome. I am he as you are he as you are me and this is the mailbag. Goo goo goo joob. (Kevin is the walrus). Follow the Pac-12 blog on Twitter. Notes please. Tyler from Phoenix, Ariz., writes: I know you and Kevin are pretty high on ...

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...

Ohio State posted one of the great "What might have been?" seasons in the history of college football this year. Just imagine what might have happened had the unbeaten Buckeyes, say, anticipated oncoming NCAA sanctions and self-imposed a bowl ban ...

The Pac-12 had two top-10 teams and two more in the top-17 of the final regular season BCS rankings, but it's not close to the top ten in terms of athletic department revenue in 2011-12, according to a story in the Birmingham News, which listed figur...

The Pac-12 has never before had eight bowl teams. But so what? It's only been a 12-team league for two seasons. Eight bowl-eligible teams should become the standard. What's more important is the final bowl record. And that should -- emphasis on sh...

Taking stock of Week 14 in the Pac-12. Team of the week: Stanford didn't receive any votes as the Pac-12 champion in the preseason media poll. That's out of 123 voters. And all of those voters -- including Kevin and I -- were wrong. Best game: ...

Oregon and Stanford lead four Pac-12 teams in the final regular-season AP and coaches' polls. Oregon ranks No. 3 in the coaches' poll, which counts in the BCS standings, while it's fifth in the AP poll. Rose Bowl-bound Stanford is eighth in both p...