Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.
Frequent readers of this space might have noticed we make a big deal out of the Pac-12’s annual performance in non-conference games, whether it’s good, bad or ghastly. Our reason:...