Monday, November 19, 2012

Weekly Pac-12 Rankings

One more week in the books.  And what a week it was!  The conference saw both marquee wins and embarrassing losses; all and all we're getting a better picture of how the conference will stack up.  Of course, there are still plenty of big games and new faces around the conference that we have yet to see.  But as things stand as of this morning, and based solely on performance so far, here's how the conference looks:

1 Colorado (4-0) | Last week: #3: Not only have the Buffaloes looked solid in each of their four games, they also have the Pac-12's biggest accomplishment so far: a win against then-#16 Baylor.
2 Oregon State (3-1) | Last week: #1: The Beavers played well in a loss to Alabama and then recovered nicely the next day by beating a respectable Purdue program.
3 California (3-0) | Last week: #2: Two more wins this week, plus some other contributors emerged to give Crabbe and Cobbs some help.
4 Oregon (3-0) | Last week: #12: Whatever Oregon was doing wrong last week against Northern Arizona, well . . . it's fixed now.  The Ducks destroyed Portland State and Vanderbilt.  And Arsalan Kazemi is just beginning to make his presence felt.
T5 Arizona (2-0) | Last week: #11: Another fifth-place log jam this week.  Arizona looked much better in a home win against UTEP.  Still waiting to see if they can justify their Top 10 national ranking against quality opponents.
T5 Arizona State (2-0) | Last week: T-#5: No groundbreaking wins, but they comfortably took care of business against weak competition.  Which is much more than some can say.
T5 Southern Cal (2-0) | Last week: T-#5: The Trojans look much better than they did last year.  We'll get a better measurement of their improvement tonight as they take on Illinois.
8 UCLA (3-0) | Last week: T-#5: The Bruins are 3-0, just like they should be; but UC Irvine nearly beat them at Pauley Pavilion.  UCLA must atone for that scare before they get any love from this apparition.
9 Washington (2-2) | Last week: T-#5: The loss to Ohio State was forgivable.  And its win against the Big East was very nice.  But the Huskies will still be feeling that Albany loss in March.
10 Stanford (3-1) | Last week: #4: Looked just fine all week.  And then Belmont happened.
11 Washington State (2-1) | Last week: T-#5: Looked just fine against Utah Valley.  And then Pepperdine happened.
12 Utah (1-1) | Last week: #10: The loss to Sacramento State is as bad as any Pac-12 loss so far this year, and the Utes haven't done anything yet to offset it.  And it probably cost the Utes three or four spots in this ranking.

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