{"id":424,"date":"2019-07-18T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2019-07-18T15:24:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T19:24:18","slug":"2019-pac-12-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/2019-pac-12-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Pac 12 Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

North Division<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Place<\/td>Team<\/td>Win-Share (Conf)<\/td>Record (Conf)<\/td>Rating<\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>Washington
Huskies<\/td>		9.6 (6.7)<\/td>10-2 (7-2)<\/td>4.72<\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>Oregon Ducks<\/td>8.8 (6.3)<\/td>9-3 (7-2)<\/td>4.60<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>Stanford Cardinal<\/td>7.6 (5.8)<\/td>8-4 (6-3)<\/td>4.36<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Washington St
Cougars<\/td>		5.8 (3.4)<\/td>8-4 (5-4)<\/td>3.83<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>California
Bears<\/td>		5.2 (3.2)<\/td>4-8 (2-7)<\/td>3.82<\/td><\/tr>
6<\/td>Oregon State
Beavers<\/td>		4.8 (2.8)<\/td>3-9 (1-8)<\/td>3.60<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

South Division<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Place<\/td>Team<\/td>Win-Share (Conf)<\/td>Record (Conf)<\/td>Rating<\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>Southern California
Trojans<\/td>		7.3 (5.3)<\/td>8-4 (6-3)<\/td>4.37<\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>Utah Utes<\/td>8.4 (5.8)<\/td>8-4 (6-3)<\/td>4.38<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>Arizona St
Sun Devils<\/td>		7.0 (4.8)<\/td>6-6 (4-5)<\/td>4.12<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>UCLA Bruins<\/td>5.8 (4.4)<\/td>6-6 (4-5)<\/td>4.04<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>Arizona Wildcats<\/td>4.0 (2.2)<\/td>6-6 (3-6)<\/td>3.54<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>Colorado Buffaloes<\/td>5.7 (3.6)<\/td>5-7 (3-6)<\/td>3.96<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Championship Game<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Washington over USC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

**Washington and USC get tie-breakers over Oregon and Utah respectively due to H2H**<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Washington repeats as Champs. This time beating USC instead of Utah in champ game. Probably one of Washington’s better teams, but Pac 12 stands to be improved this year with 5 legit top 25 type teams. Making it a tough road for Washington (or whoever the champ ends up being). Will be hard for any of them to come out with less than 2 losses. Washington is the team that could end up doing it IF Eason ends up performing to his hype. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oregon is another team that could end up a playoff contender with Herbert staying. The key will be how their defense performs. Stanford, USC, Utah, and even Wash St are all teams that could beat Oregon or Washington. Should be an exciting year in the Pac 12. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think Washington ends up as the 4th Playoff team. Edging out UGA and Big Ten Champ (better record than Big Ten Champ and Conference Champ over UGA). Oregon is a top 15 team, with Stanford, Utah, and USC as potential top 25 teams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 teams go bowling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bowl Projections<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Team<\/td>Bowl Projections<\/td><\/tr>
Washington<\/td>Peach Bowl (CFP Semifinal)<\/td><\/tr>
Oregon<\/td>Rose Bowl<\/td><\/tr>
USC<\/td>Alamo Bowl<\/td><\/tr>
Utah<\/td>Holiday Bowl<\/td><\/tr>
Stanford<\/td>Redbox Bowl<\/td><\/tr>
Washington St<\/td>Sun Bowl<\/td><\/tr>
Arizona St<\/td>Las Vegas Bowl<\/td><\/tr>
UCLA<\/td>Cheez-It Bowl<\/td><\/tr>
Arizona<\/td>Arizona Bowl<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Division Place Team Win-Share (Conf) Record (Conf) Rating 1 Washington Huskies 9.6 (6.7) 10-2 (7-2) 4.72 1 Oregon Ducks 8.8 (6.3) 9-3 (7-2) 4.60 3 Stanford Cardinal 7.6 (5.8) 8-4 (6-3) 4.36 4 Washington St Cougars 5.8 (3.4) 8-4 (5-4) 3.83 5 California Bears 5.2 (3.2) 4-8 (2-7) 3.82 6 Oregon StateBeavers 4.8 (2.8) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[58,101,54,90,168,169,50,60,24,55,56,167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}