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Pac-12 North season preview: Oregon is the Pac-12's best hope at the College Football Playoff

As the fall inches closer, it is becoming increasingly difficult to see the college football season going off as planned. Maybe more nonconference games get canceled, maybe the entire season moves to the spring. The country's coronavirus response, and the fact that a lot of colleges appear to be moving toward online classes for this fall, put basically everything in doubt.

If nothing else, though, read these previews as a time capsule of sorts. Here's what we would have been talking about in a normal summer. And in said normal summer, the Pac-12 North had quite a few interesting plot lines swirling around.