The Pac-12 breaks down somewhat nicely between the teams that are and are not bowl eligible after 12 weeks. Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Oregon State, USC, Utah, and UCLA are the teams with 6+ wins and are all pretty clearly superior to the teams below them: Cal, Arizona State, Stanford, Colorado, and Washington State. These groups also line up pretty nicely with the preseason expectations, with the notable flipping of Arizona and WSU, who have gone in opposite directions. Interestingly, these bottom 5 teams have only beaten each other in conference, with the exception of WSU’s win over OSU early in the season, which now looks like a bizarre anomaly.
Picking the Pac, Week 12: The Good, The Bad, and the Pac
