Pac-12 Football 2017: 5 teams on upset alert in Week 6

With UCLA and Arizona State on the sidelines, there are five Pac-12 games this week. We rank the upset alert risk for each favorite in Week 6 action.

Now that we are in the full swing of Pac-12 action, there are far fewer total games that feature Pac-12 teams. As a result, the weekly Upset Alert deals less with the question of which teams will be upset than in why the favorites in each contest might fall over the weekend.

There is ostensibly some major variation in quality between the top of the league and the bottom teams. We have seen some major upset in the conference over the years, though, as national aspirations have been crushed for the league’s top teams by its unheralded spoilers. There is never really time to let down guard when it comes to Pac-12 play.

Three of the five favorites will be playing at home this weekend, and in one case an unranked team is favored over a ranked team on the road. Even in the course of a week leading up to a game, the point spread is bound to slide by several points as action swings one way and then the other.

Which Pac-12 favorites have the likeliest chance of being upset in Week 6? Read ahead to see how we project the upset opportunities, from least likely to most likely. (All betting lines courtesy of Sportsbook Review.)