College football is the same every year. We wait an entire offseason for it to arrive, often resorting to tactics like commenting on fan blogs to get us to the end of summer. Then, like a good night's sleep, it is over before you even realized it had begun.
This weekend marks the true end of season as various conferences hold their annual championship games. For the PAC 12, it is the fifth such game in the short existence of the series and the second straight to be held at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, CA. For the Power 5 teams playing this weekend, playoff implications are on the line both in terms of "qualification" and "positioning.