For the fourth straight year, the Colorado Buffaloes were voted to finish at the bottom of the Pac-12 South Division in the conference’s preseason media football poll.
Colorado received 46 points, the fewest among all Pac-12 teams in the poll, which was released Thursday. USC is favored to win the South, while Oregon was chosen to win the North Division.
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USC was picked as the favorite to become the Pac-12 champion, receiving 21 out of a possible 45 votes. Oregon was second with 17 votes, followed by Arizona State (3), UCLA (2) and Stanford (1).
The preseason media poll has corrected selected 29 conference champions over the previous 54 polls, including 12 of the last 15.
2015 Pac-12 preseason media football poll
Following are the results of the preseason media poll (points 6-5-4-3-2-1, first-place votes in parentheses):
| NORTH DIVISION | |
| 1. Oregon (37) | 262 |
| 2. Stanford (8) | 231 |
| 3. California | 174 |
| 4. Washington | 129 |
| 5. Washington State | 89 |
| 6. Oregon State | 60 |
| SOUTH DIVISION | |
| 1. USC (32) | 254 |
| 2. Arizona State (7) | 200 |
| 3. UCLA (6) | 180 |
| 4. Arizona | 155 |
| 5. Utah | 105 |
| 6. Colorado | 46 |
