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.
Washington, Cal, Arizona and Utah are expected to make their 2020 debuts, but all four face opponents that played last week, a significant competitive disadvantage.
The conference is prepared to mix and match in the event more games are canceled because of coronavirus, as long as there's enough time for the logistical changes.
The USC-Arizona State game at 9 a.m. Pacific drew a 1.3 rating despite terrible timing: It started 30 minutes after the major news networks called the election for Joe Biden.
A recap of the Pac-12 action from Week One … Theme of the Week: Favorites do favorite things Division favorites Oregon and USC took the first of six steps toward...
The issues isn't coronavirus case counts; it's the contact tracing and quarantine protocols that have left teams without enough players. The Pac-12 testing plan was supposed to prevent this problem.
A week that featured two cancellations and played out in the shadow of the election nonetheless delivered a remarkable USC comeback against Arizona State.
Continuity is king after an offseason disrupted by COVID-19, and the Trojans and Bears have cohesion where it counts most. When they meet in the Pac-12 championship, USC's talent will...