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There is plenty of film on every player. One game won’t destroy draft stock or repair it that much. Also, Senior Bowl, the NFL Combine, Pro Day, etc.

Biggest concern for next year is the secondary. Only returner is Guidry. QB remains to be seen. But I think we’ll be decent elsewhere.

Looking at returning rosters across the conference, USC will be a heavy favorite to win the division, if not the entire conference next year.

This phenomenon began within the last decade. Christian McCaffrey being a notable example off the top of my head.

The bowl games don’t have as much meaning with the shear amount of games, diluting the pool. It’s also lost meaning with the advent of the playoffs. The Rose Bowl is no longer the highest goal within the PAC 12.

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Utah opens -6.5.

What about Virginia about Georgia in their conference title games? They got beat worse than Utah.

Ranked 5th on conference championship weekend to playing a 7-5 team in a bowl game. College football is bizarre.

Not six places worth of difference. Especially, when they’ve been considered a playoff team all year and had a de facto home game in Atlanta.

After watching Georgia getting beat down, I think the committee give Utah a pass for a NY6. Georgia has been in the top four all season. Sometimes, you just have a bad day.

No way Utah slips down to the Holiday Bowl. I’d be shocked.

Utah has a shot for the Cotton Bowl. They are the only 11-win team from a P5 conference, not in a major bowl. The committee, which has liked them will assign the team.

So Penn State, Minnesota, Alabama, Notre Dame and Utah are in the running. So maybe a pool of three to five teams. I think the team must be the the top 12. If Wisconsin loses,…[Read more]

We scored after that though on the Nacua TD. The real back breaker was down one score, Oregon has a 3rd and 1 at their own 30 with 7:20 left. 3rd and 1. Seems like a run play. Is a run play. Right up the gut.

Leki gets pancaked by a single blocker. Penisini beats his guy to the outside, but the play is to the inside. OL get to second level on…[Read more]

Clemson’s all time records. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/clemson/index.html
Won the national championship in ’81. Had some back to back 10-win seasons in the 80’s. And then consistently inconsistent until the last 7-8 years.

Miami has five national championships mostly in the 80’s and early 90’s. Private school that costs nearly…[Read more]

Read this earlier today. Listened to the podcast with Kragthorpe as well. These guys really do some in depth analysis. Very impressive.

Interesting to hear about the run game too. Utah leads the country in defensive rushing yards per game. But yeah, I see how teams have abandoned the run against them. Will definitely be a focal point of this…[Read more]

This wasn’t at the PAC 12 Championship Game, but I have bought scalped tickets before and got a really good deal. I literally waited until the event started before I started looking and they were dropping their ticket prices quickly. Have tried that method at a Utah game with no luck. They were firm on price.

Flip side is that now there are good…[Read more]

I like the way you think. I took five days off work in mid January, in high hopes. 🙂

Isn’t that what a defensive focus typically is? Stopping the run? Moss can’t be arm tackled and has tons of yards after contact. I don’t know why fans get so bent out of shape by comments made by media members. Stacking the box, in this case, seems like a decent strategy to make the offense more one dimensional.

I saw a CFB Reddit post a few weeks back that was talking about which team in every conference is the scariest to play. Not in terms of an Ohio State or Alabama that is a blue blood. But a team that is middle of the pack and beats you when they probably shouldn’t, type of scenario.

Most of the PAC 12 responses were one of the AZ schools.

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