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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...

ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach has released the third edition of his 2013 Way-Too-Early Preseason Top 25, and there are a lot of changes. For one, there's a new No. 1: Ohio State, which went 12-0 in coach Urban Meyer's first season, jumps two-time def...

Welcome to the mailbag. Follow the Pac-12 blog on Twitter. We can't guarantee it will make you smarter, but it probably will. To the notes! Bruce from Los Altos, Calif., writes: Re: Oregon's penalties for NCAA infractions. How do you think t...

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. Hope your brackets are beautiful. Follow the Pac-12 blog on Twitter. This mailbag is a salute to the state of ... Texas. Yeah, I have no idea why so many folks from Texas wrote in this week. To the notes! rtXC1 from Denison,...

Hello. Welcome to the mailbag. Follow the Pac-12 blot on Twitter. To the notes. JJ from Tumalo, Ore., writes: Ted, good take by Chris Low on Bama today. I asked Chris to explain how the schedule is put together in the SEC. The Tide 'misse...

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...

We're looking at some of the top individual performances in the Pac-12 in 2012. Up next: You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson. Who and against whom: Stanford defensive end Henry Anderson played a key -- and underrated -- role in Stan...

ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach foresees the Stanford Cardinal as the top team standing in the way of an Alabama three-peat in 2013. At least, that's how he stacks things up in the second iteration of his Way-Too-Early preseason top-25. Stanford repl...

Welcome to the mailbag. Thanks for coming. Follow the Pac-12 blog on Twitter and everyone will like you. To the notes! Brian from Salem, Ore., writes: Hey Ted,I was just wondering why recruits bother making verbal commitments to schools? It ...

UCLA already beat USC on the field this past season. What if the Bruins follow that up by beating the Trojans on national signing day? Will that mean the, ahem, football monopoly in Los Angeles is officially over? Or maybe we should go this way...

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...

Florida leads the nation and USC leads the Pac-12 with national signing day just two days away, according to the ESPN.com recruiting rankings. USC is followed by UCLA at No. 11, but the Bruins and Trojans are battling for a number of prospects dow...

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...

Chip Kelly is not one to do things the conventional way, even leaving Oregon for the Philadelphia Eagles. He plays football by a different tempo and he lives by a different tempo. When you think he will zig, he zags. And he has a flair for the dramat...

As all of you know, the Pac-12 blog -- Kevin and myself -- is bold. Not bold like, "Hey, this is a bold cabernet!" but bold like a guy willing to jump into a volcano to save his remote control. There is no fear with the Pac-12 blog. None. Other t...