The college football season is now 10 weeks old, but it wasn’t until Saturday that the Pac-12 finally joined the fray in what’s been a most unusual campaign. It didn’t take long for the league to follow suit with the rest of the country—by Friday evening, two of the six games scheduled had been canceled due to COVID-19 and contact tracing protocols. Welcome to 2020, Conference of Champions.
That left four games to be played, beginning with a first-of-its-kind Pac-12 After Dawn showing at 9 a.m. PT between No. 20 USC and Arizona State in Fox’s coveted Big Noon Kickoff time slot that did not disappoint.