Leland Wong: Now that we’re finally getting into Pac-12 play, it’s about to get a lot easier for our Pac-12 Power Rankings. For one thing, there are like half as many games for us to review. Beyond my laziness, conference games make it significantly easier to draw comparisons between teams as there are fewer independent data points.
But let’s push pause on this poorly-ordered intro to state why exactly we’re here. In our weekly Power Rankings series, we endeavor to rank the 12 teams of the Pac-12 through a combination of their performance and fanbase sentiment, with a keen emphasis on the latest week.