ESPN.com · Sep 5, 2016
Pac-12 panic! Trying to resist overreaction Monday
No. 16 UCLA looked overmatched for three quarters against unranked Texas A&M on Saturday.College football's opening weekend started fairly well for the Pac-12 but then suddenly started to spiral into the muck. Instead of joining the trend of Overreaction Monday, let's be more systematic.
Draw a line down the center of your paper. On the left, write down the seven teams that won. On the right, write down the five teams that lost.
That is an unspectacular performance by the conference, particularly considering an 8-4, 9-3 or even 10-2 accounting seemed perfectly reasonable, based on Vegas viewing just three teams as underdogs.