Well, this is where it gets interesting.
There does appear to be some separation between Washington and Stanford at the top of the Pac-12, so of course those two go head-to-head this week in the Pac-12’s lone ranked matchup.
As for the rest of the conference, there’s a lot of “is this team for real?” going on in both the positive and negative direction: in the positive, Colorado and Utah. In the negative, USC and Oregon.
As always, three Star sports staffers — Jon Gold, Michael Lev and me, Zack Rosenblatt — rate the conference’s teams 1-12, combining and tabulating those votes to create each week’s power rankings in the Conference of Champions.
Here’s the latest (with comments by Rosenblatt):
