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Here's a guess that everyone will agree that Ohio State's Urban Meyer, Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin and Penn State's Bill O'Brien turned in the three best first-year coaching jobs this fall. But how do the other 25 fall, a group that includes four fr...

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 ...

Welcome to the mailbag. Follow the Pac-12 blog on Twitter by clicking here... no... here. To the notes! Steve from Eugene writes: So Ohio State can't go to a bowl game. Penn State can't go to a bowl game. Is it possible that the Rose Bowl wi...

Here's our quick reaction to USC's 24-14 win over Washington. It was over when: USC defensive back Josh Shaw grabbed a tipped interception near midfield from Huskies QB Keith Price on fourth-and-8 with 4:20 left in the fourth quarter and the Troja...

LOS ANGELES -- USC is back as the Big Show, as a premier football program that features All-Americans, high rankings and national title hopes. At least, that's been the big talk all summer. Really, it started last December when QB Matt Barkley sto...

Happy Friday. Arizona needs help on defense from walk-ons. Arizona State has a new cornerback. California athletic director Sandy Barbour says Jeff Tedford is not on the hot seat. Colorado needs a facilities upgrade. Oregon is still sorti...

The worst part of preseason practices is watching injuries pile up. California's defense has taken a couple of hits, though not to projected starters. Talented sophomore cornerback Stefan McClure, who suffered a major knee injury on Nov. 25 aga...

The freshman coach wanted to know what was up. I told him I knew all the plays; there was no reason to practice them over and over; the endless repetition might be spiritually disastrous; we were becoming a nation devoted to human xerography. Ric...

Armansky's star researcher was a pale, anorexic young woman who had hair as short as a fuse, and a pierced nose and eyebrows. She had a wasp tattoo about an inch long on her neck, a tattooed loop around the biceps of her arm and another around her le...

USC's offense was good at just about everything last year. Just about. But not everything. One thing USC wasn't good at? Red zone offense. In 2011, it ranked eighth in the Pac-12 in red zone offense. Its eight red zone rushing TDs were the fewe...

California's defense, already perceived as among the Pac-12's best, just got better, courtesy of Penn State. Khairi Fortt has announced he's transferring to Cal, where he will be immediately eligible and could be in the mix at inside linebacker in...

USC coach Lane Kiffin said depth at running back was his team's biggest concern at Pac-12 media day. That concern was addressed Tuesday with the confirmation that Penn State's Silas Redd will transfer west. Redd, second-team All-Big Ten in 2011, r...

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or dr...

Greetings. You can follow me on Twitter here. To the notes! Preston from Portland writes: Silas Redd is good, quite good, but not great. If he does in fact go to LA to join the Trojans, how big of an impact would he have on USC's season? ...

Is USC's embarrassment of riches at the skill positions about to get more embarrassing? Could be, as the flirtation between Penn State junior running back Silas Redd and USC now reportedly involves an actual date. Coach Lane Kiffin and Redd are me...

Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: "Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours." That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday. Arizona is interested in potential Penn State transfers...