AP Top 25 Reality Check: A wild Saturday showed the Pac-12 conference’s strengths, while also hurting its College Football Playoff chances.
Ute running back Micah Bernard runs for a Utah touchdown, in PAC-12 football action between the Utah Utes and the Stanford Cardinal at Rice-Eccles Stadium, on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022.Oregon beat UCLA, which beat Washington, which beat Oregon.The Pac-12 is better than it has been in recent years, but is also eating its own and undercutting its best teams’ chances to earn a College Football Playoff berth.
The Pac-12′s consolation prize for its exciting games and parity, which included two top-10 teams losing at home Saturday night, is more teams ranked in the AP Top 25 presented by Regions Bank this week than any other league with six. The last time the Pac-12 was the conference with the most ranked teams was Sept. 5, 1995, when the then-Pac-10 had five and the Southeastern Conference and Big Eight each had four.
Of less importance to the Pac-12, but quite important to Reality Check, how are the voters in The Associated Press college football poll supposed to rank these teams? Conceding that any attempt to use head-to-head results will tie voters in knots, Reality Check would like to make some suggestions.When the Bulldogs use tight ends Brock Bowers and Darnell Washington together, it seems unfair.Buckeyes have had few games with both RBs Miyan Williams and TreVeyon Henderson healthy. At this point, getting one of them 100% by the Michigan game would be huge.
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