Washington Football: Jake Browning folds as Huskies fall to Cal

1. If Washington isn’t good, how about the rest of the Pac-12?

Entering Week 9 the Pac-12 had five ranked teams: No. 24 Stanford, No. 24 Utah, No. 19 Oregon, No. 15 Washington and No. 14 Washington State. Of those five, Washington State held a conference-best 6-1 record while the rest of Pac-12 was a jumbled mess.

The Pac-12 South doesn’t have any teams without multiple losses in conference play, with the front-runner, Utah, sitting at 4-2 in the conference. The Pac-12 North, although buoyed by three teams that entered the weekend with just one conference loss, will finish Saturday with one lone 1-loss team remaining.

If Cal can beat Washington, who was supposedly the cream of the crop out west, then all bets are off. The Pac-12 is nearly eliminated from Playoff mix once again, and the first rankings haven’t been released. There isn’t really anyone that has a legitimate argument to be in the mix outside of Washington State, and the odds of the them making it through the rest of conference play without one more loss don’t stack up well at all.