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It is a happy, happy Friday. I will be on vacation next week, but Kevin will be back after winning $4.7 million in Vegas playing blackjack. You should follow the Pac-12 blog on Twitter. To the mail! Alex from Corvallis writes: Have you heard...

Happy Friday. Whatever happened to former Arizona safety Adam Hall? More on Arizona State staring down Notre Dame. California has landed a commitment from a quarterback. Not much news so far on Colorado's search for a new athletic director....

If the Dictionary of Phrases needs a demonstration of what "cautiously optimistic" sounds like, they might want to chat with Mark Banker about his Oregon State defense. He makes a good case for optimism. And he's got reasons to be cautious. It ...

Every year during the preseason, we rank things -- best this, best that. It's highly subjective. And fans seem to like it. We know that because it makes so many of you apoplectic at our bias and stupidity. Athlon Sports has ranked the Pac-12 stadi...

USC, in terms of national championships, Heisman Trophy winners, All-Americans, great traditions and NFL success, might be the nation's preeminent program, apologies to Alabama and Notre Dame. So calling the Trojans "sleepers" seems, well, odd. Bu...

Arizona offers a QB who is committed to Miami. Arizona State did the right thing standing up to Notre Dame. Checking in with California safety Avery Sebastian. Colorado's APR numbers are good. Oregon blog Addicted to Quack posts its All-Ameri...

The official start to the countdown to the Pac-12 College Football Season begins for most media folks at media day (for the Pac-12 blog, there is no start or finish line, just one continuous super-marathon of joy). This year Pac-12 media day is Fr...

If your buddy Otis jumped off a cliff, would you? That used to be a parental standby to elicit the begrudging answer, "No." Yet from the "whatever you can do ridiculously I can do just as ridiculously file," UCLA has matched rival USC by offeri...

Experience matters. Although using returning starters to measure a college football team is hardly an exact science, it does have value. But it's not the only way to measure the returning experience of a football team. Phil Steele has broken do...

On Tuesday, we looked at the five worst defenses in the Pac-12 in 2012: UCLA, California, Washington State, Arizona and Colorado. The issue was not pointing out past badness but considered the potential for 2013 improvement. That included returnin...

On Monday, we shared the opening odds for Pac-12 games from the Golden Nugget. Today, we show you how some of those numbers moved, courtesy of an interesting effort from Sharp Football Analysis. The way this works is if you get a plus-number fo...

As previously noted, Arizona State and Notre Dame will play in Tempe on Nov. 8, 2014, which represents a compromise on the Fighting Irish trying to get out of a home-and-home contract with the Sun Devils. There is, however, an interesting story be...

You guys have it real easy. I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going ...

The NCAA released its latest Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores on Tuesday, and Stanford led the way while Big Game rival California ended up last. Berkeley, for golly gosh sakes. You're Cal-freaking-Berkeley. Cal was so chagrined -- again -- ...

The Pac-12 features three new coaches: California's Sonny Dykes, Colorado's Mike MacIntyre and Oregon's Mark Helfrich. Each faces distinct challenges. We break those challenges down. CALIFORNIA: Sonny Dykes Who he replaced: Jeff Tedford (82-...

Notre Dame wanted out of its series with Arizona State, but the Sun Devils wanted to play. A compromise was announced Tuesday that is a win for the Sun Devils. The Fighting Irish will visit Tempe on Nov. 8, 2014, but the Sun Devils won't make a re...