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Who Needs a Blog Poll 2020: Man, what is up with the PAC 12?

The PAC 12 has gotten really adept at a new trick since the Playoff scheme began — scheduling tissue-soft OOC games and then still somehow eliminating itself in the first month of the season. Oh, sure, we’ve had to deal with the occasional undefeated team like Utah demanding a seat at the table — but that immediately takes us back to the first point. Someone like Portland State or UNLV on the schedule ain’t gonna impress anyone...even were they to run the table.

But, by far the most likely scenario is that the weak coaching in the PAC 12 manifests itself early (and often), whereby teams with far too much talent lose games they should not to teams that they should not in unacceptable manner.