For the fifth consecutive season, it is expected that the Pac-12 will fail to place a team in the College Football Playoff. It’s a drought of irrelevance compounded by the fact that the best players from the West keep signing to play football outside of the league.
Too many California kids at Alabama or Clemson. Too many Seattle recruits headed to Ohio State. Too many Oklahoma Sooners coming from all over the place.
USC doesn’t deserve all of the blame here. Outside of Oregon and Utah, there aren’t a lot of programs doing well.