Pac-12 Power Rankings: Big Gulps Edition

Power rankings are often all the same, so we’re mixing things up. Each week you’ll get a rundown of 12 or fewer highlights, storylines and anything in between from the Conference of Champions.

The Pac-12 had a decent showing this week. Not great, but not awful, either. The best team fell to a good SEC team and the worst team got slaughtered by a good Big Ten team. Everybody else—except for you guys, Arizona and UCLA—made the conference proud.

And Mike Leach did a Mike Leach thing.

Let’s start our weekly installment with a rundown of some thoughts from Week 1.

1. UW failed on the big stage again

I’m definitely not feeling sorry for them.

The Pac-12 has had a PR problem for a while (more on that in…