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Pac 12 Football: Week One Power Rankings

By Michael Valverde

Sep 19, 2015; Los Angeles, CA, USA; General view of Pac-12 logo on the field at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before the NCAA football game between the Stanford Cardinal and Southern California Trojans. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 19, 2015; Los Angeles, CA, USA; General view of Pac-12 logo on the field at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before the NCAA football game between the Stanford Cardinal and Southern California Trojans. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports /
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Week one Pac-12 conference games had some unusual action. Both the Pac-12 and the NCAA kicked off its season “down under” in Australia on Friday the 26th of August, as the Cal Bears took on the Rainbow Warriors of Hawaii.  The Conference waited close to another week to get the momentum going again playing their full slate of games starting last Thursday and finishing up on Saturday.

The Conference waited close to another week to get the momentum going again playing their full slate of games starting last Thursday and finishing up on Saturday.

Top 25 ranked games included:

  • #20 USC vs. #1 Alabama
  • Rutgers vs. #14 Washington
  • #16 UCLA vs. Texas A&M
  • UC Davis vs. #24 Oregon

The first week is always the out-of-conference games, and the Pac-12 handled themselves well. Winning every game favored to win except for the stink bomb the Washington State Cougars put up against the FCS conference representative in the Eastern Washington Eagles.

Washington State was favored by 27.5 points and ended up losing 45-42 in Washington. This loss marks the second straight season the Cougars lost their opening game.

In 2015, they came up short against Football Championship Subdivision Portland State. Eastern Washington is not a stranger to upsetting Pac-12 teams as they beat #25 Oregon State three-years ago 49-46 in Oregon.

I will be using Ryan Young’s pre-season article Pac 12 Football: Preseason 2016 Conference Power Rankings as a springboard for my week one Power Rankings article.

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