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Typically, offensive coordinators hand the ball to their running backs and pass the ball to their receivers. When they switch roles, it's just for a change of pace, such as a screen pass or a reverse. That is how it is in most college football con...

Everybody loves rankings lists, and college football fans -- by necessity -- seem to like lists even more than average folk. So we have Athlon making another list. First it ranked Pac-12 coaches. Now it ranks all 125 coaches for FBS programs. O...

Happy Friday. Follow the Pac-12 blog on Twitter. Greetings to all our new Pitt fans. Maybe you can start a blog club with Kansas State and Mississippi State fans? To the notes! Alex from Ann Arbor, Mich., writes: Ted,Your article about Ru...

Chip Kelly isn't terribly big. He's not notably loud, either. Nor is he typically expansive. Who he is, however, is -- was! -- the presence most often cited as transforming Oregon's football program from good to great. So his absence from the Ducks' ...

Happy Friday. Follow the Pac-12 blog on Twitter. Unless you are afraid. And Happy Birthday to 55USC. To. The. Notes. Wait. OK, I'm ready now. Peter from Calgary, Alberta writes: Ted, I am still a bit baffled about why Kevin Hogan is...

Happy Friday. Might the Washington Redskins give former Arizona QB -- and unquestioned No. 4 player in the Pac-12! -- a look in the draft? Former Arizona State great Jake Plummer is helping out former Kansas State QB Collin Klein. California ...

Before we focus forward, we're going to look back with team-by-team season reviews. We continue today in reverse alphabetical order. OREGON (12-1, 8-1) Grade: A MVP: Quarterback Marcus Mariota went from being the Ducks' biggest preseason ...

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...

Chip Kelly was gone, off to the NFL. It was Cleveland. Then Philly. And then he wasn't. Kelly's second deep NFL flirtation -- recall last winter's "did-he-or-didn't-he?" with Tampa Bay -- ended with him back at Oregon, back atop the Pac-12's prese...

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...

Oregon center Hroniss Grasu talks about the Ducks' Fiesta Bowl victory over Kansas State and the program's future."...

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The Oregon Ducks donned new T-shirts after their 35-17 victory over Kansas State in the Totitos Fiesta Bowl. "Won the Day" those shirts said, obviously playing off the program's mantra under Chip Kelly: Win the day. Oregon certa...

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,...

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The first half of the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl featured plenty of momentum swings, but Oregon's proved the most potent, even though the Ducks' running game struggled. The Ducks are up 22-10 at the half, despite only rushing for 52 y...

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'...