Auburndawg's Preseason PAC-12 Power Rankings!

Auburndawg

Just a couple of notes for the uninitiated. These are the official PAC-12 Power Rankings and will be updated after the end of the last PAC-12 game each week. Immitation is not appreciated. Also, Power Rankings are not the same thing as the current standings, but rather reflects how well each team is playing at that moment. Strength of opponents matters. Finally, keep in mind that gaps between teams matter. With that, here we go:

Auburndawg sees two distinct tiers in the PAC to begin the season, and, unfortunately, until proven otherwise, Duckdynasty and the usurpers from Palo Alto remain on top.

1. Oregon. It burns Auburndawg's fingers to have to type that. Someone make them go away.
2. Stanford.
T3. WASHINGTON, USC, UCLA. Three teams with major talent and major coaching questions. If sanity is to return and LA and Seattle are to resume their rightful place as the centers of power in west coast football, pray that Sark, Mora and Kiffin mature into coaches worthy of these three great football schools.
T6. Oregon State, ASU. Less elite talent, but solid coaching.



8. Utah. Very little real PAC-12 talent. But these guys are well coached and not use to losing. Yet.
9. Arizona. Carey makes them dangerous

10. Cal. Remember when Tedford was a genius?




11. WSU. The only drama here is, when does the Pirate King of Poop Island implode?


12. Colorado. Still suffering a Skippy hangover.

4321DAWGS

nobody gives a shit exceot auburndawg

RaceBannon

UW does not have major talent

[Deleted User]

Wait Colorado still blames Rick even tho they went to a BCS game afte his departure???

Mad_Son

1) Oregon
2) Stanford
3) UCLA
4) USC
5) OSU
T6) ASU/UW
8) Arizona
9) Cal
10) Utah
11) WSU
12) Colorado

dhdawg

anyone putting UW above ASU and UCLA is crazy. And BTW Utah sux, and Arizona is way better

[Deleted User]

Arizona won 8 games and plungered us last year. And Rich Rod>Sark. Should be above us.

Auburndawg

This is not last year. Add Tanigawa, Jamora, Callier, Riva, Kevin Smith, maybe Kohler at some point, and a year of experience to last year's team. We return more starters than anyone else.

Sorry to be positive, but even Sark is going to have hard time screwing this team up.

[Deleted User]

Returning starters is one of the most overrated stats in CFB. Our coaches didn't change, our talent didn't change. We just keep the same mediocre players and coaches for another year.

Southerndawg

Auburndawg said:

This is not last year. Add Tanigawa, Jamora, Callier, Riva, Kevin Smith, maybe Kohler at some point, and a year of experience to last year's team. We return more starters than anyone else.

Sorry to be positive, but even Sark is going to have hard time screwing screw this team up. Expect 7-6 with three or four plungers

FTFY

Auburndawg

CollegeDoog said:

Returning starters is one of the most overrated stats in CFB. .

Right. Because 19 year old freshmen don't improve once they become 22 year old SRs.

Southerndawg

Auburndawg said:

CollegeDoog said:

Returning starters is one of the most overrated stats in CFB. .

Right. Because 19 year old freshmen don't improve once they become 22 year old SRs.

Returning starters from a shitty team means a more experienced shitty team. HTH

Blackie

"reflects how well each team is playing at that moment. Strength of opponents matters."

Dave, you motherfucking imbecile. The season hasn't started yet.

dhdawg

I think you're sleeping on ASU. And I still have no idea why utah is so high

BennyBeaver

dhdawg said:

I think you're sleeping on ASU. And I still have no idea why utah is so high

dh=dickhead?

just curious.

ThomasFremont

UCLA has no "major coaching questions" a la USC and UW. HTH.

Steve_Bowman

IF Tanigawa and Jamora are healthy, if. This is not a strong list. Shark can't screw this up?

Steve couldn't pull the trigger on last year's Alabama team. He'd start throwing bubble screens and other goofy short passes thee to four plays of five in the second half. He'd stop running altoghter if he got behind. That's what he does.

Auburndawg said:

This is not last year. Add Tanigawa, Jamora, Callier, Riva, Kevin Smith, maybe Kohler at some point, and a year of experience to last year's team. We return more starters than anyone else.

Sorry to be positive, but even Sark is going to have hard time screwing this team up.

RaceBannon

Auburndawg said:

CollegeDoog said:

Returning starters is one of the most overrated stats in CFB. .

Right. Because 19 year old freshmen don't improve once they become 22 year old SRs.

The longer they stay the worse they play #HuskieFootball

Southerndawg

Steve_Bowman said:

IF Tanigawa and Jamora are healthy, if. This is not a strong list. Shark can't screw this up?

Steve couldn't pull the trigger on last year's Alabama team. He'd start throwing bubble screens and other goofy short passes thee to four plays of five in the second half. He'd stop running altoghter if he got behind. That's what he does.

Auburndawg said:

This is not last year. Add Tanigawa, Jamora, Callier, Riva, Kevin Smith, maybe Kohler at some point, and a year of experience to last year's team. We return more starters than anyone else.

Sorry to be positive, but even Sark is going to have hard time screwing this team up.

Sark is a fucktarded play caller. Head scratchers appeared early 2009 and completely set in with that shit he called at Notre Dame. IMHO the Huskies have played just one "great" game under Sark, and that was vs #19 Cal at the end of the 2009 season. Unfortunately that turned out to be a complete head fake.

ThomasFremont

Southerndawg said:

Steve_Bowman said:

IF Tanigawa and Jamora are healthy, if. This is not a strong list. Shark can't screw this up?

Steve couldn't pull the trigger on last year's Alabama team. He'd start throwing bubble screens and other goofy short passes thee to four plays of five in the second half. He'd stop running altoghter if he got behind. That's what he does.

Auburndawg said:

This is not last year. Add Tanigawa, Jamora, Callier, Riva, Kevin Smith, maybe Kohler at some point, and a year of experience to last year's team. We return more starters than anyone else.

Sorry to be positive, but even Sark is going to have hard time screwing this team up.

Sark is a fucktarded play caller. Head scratchers appeared early 2009 and completely set in with that shit he called at Notre Dame. IMHO the Huskies have played just one "great" game under Sark, and that was vs #19 Cal at the end of the 2009 season. Unfortunately that turned out to be a complete head fake.

I for one can't wait to see our new up-tempo offense. They will go 3-and-out even faster than the old offense. But the defense won't mind, cuz we have so much depth now. #BestPlayCallerInAmerica

Southerndawg

ThomasFremont said:

Southerndawg said:

Steve_Bowman said:

IF Tanigawa and Jamora are healthy, if. This is not a strong list. Shark can't screw this up?

Steve couldn't pull the trigger on last year's Alabama team. He'd start throwing bubble screens and other goofy short passes thee to four plays of five in the second half. He'd stop running altoghter if he got behind. That's what he does.

Auburndawg said:

This is not last year. Add Tanigawa, Jamora, Callier, Riva, Kevin Smith, maybe Kohler at some point, and a year of experience to last year's team. We return more starters than anyone else.

Sorry to be positive, but even Sark is going to have hard time screwing this team up.

Sark is a fucktarded play caller. Head scratchers appeared early 2009 and completely set in with that shit he called at Notre Dame. IMHO the Huskies have played just one "great" game under Sark, and that was vs #19 Cal at the end of the 2009 season. Unfortunately that turned out to be a complete head fake.

I for one can't wait to see our new up-tempo offense. They will go 3-and-out even faster than the old offense. But the defense won't mind, cuz we have so much depth now. #BestPlayCallerInAmerica

The plungers that will result will be remarkable. Should be the end of an error.