End of the regular season

The regular season is over, and as always, the final rankings look nothing like the initial rankings from week one.

Namely — Washington is a likely College Football Playoff team, Colorado is the Pac-12 South champion, and Oregon and UCLA are conference bottom dwellers.

It got so bad for the Ducks, apparently, that coach Mark Helfrich was canned just two years after a berth in the national championship game.

This time next year, if there’s no improvement from Arizona State, Arizona or UCLA, we might get a repeat of the 2012 coaching cycle where Todd Graham, Rich Rodriguez and Jim Mora were all hired after their predecessors were let go.

Really, the theme of the Pac-12 this year was “Huh? What just happened?”

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So we’ll apply that to the final power rankings, and look at what happened with each team to get where they find themselves right now.

As always, votes for the rankings came from Jon Gold, Zack Rosenblatt and Michael Lev.

Rosenblatt is on the comments today.

Enjoy, and thanks for following along.