When Pat Haden had to step down from the College Football Playoff selection committee due to health reasons this year, people wondered if that would impact the conference's chances at getting a team in. Turns out, the Pac-12 took care of that themselves by failing to get a one-loss team out of league play. But the Pac-12 will be back in those sad looking meeting rooms with Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens. Mullens will serve for three years, and is one of five sitting A.D.'s on the committee. He can't talk about the Ducks in those meetings, but having another Pac-12 person in there will be good in addition to Condoleezza Rice
- Other Oregon-ish news has Nike starting its own 7-on-7 football league, and this could have a major impact on recruiting in coming years
- SB Nation released its top 100 college football games of the season, and the only Arizona game to make the cut was the one against Washington State.