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Following the National Championship Game, Connor Pelton and I delivered our way-too-early rendition of the AP Top 25 poll.
Today, Pelton and I are here to take a premature look at the Pac-12 and hand in our January ballots projecting how the conference standings will look in the preseason. In Monday night’s poll, we owned different views of the league; Pelton turned in his top-25 list including five Pac-12 schools, while mine featured three.
Considering the Conference of Champions went 3-3 this bowl season, I’m not so bullish on its current standing. History, however, favors those who are: The Pac-12 has boasted five or more teams ranked in the AP Preseason Top 25 ahead of each of the last four seasons.
Can the Pac-12 duplicate its recent success in the ballots this offseason? We’ll have to wait and see. For now, take a look at how we see the conference shaping up.
Pac-12 2017 Way-Too-Early Rankings
| Pelton | Jones |
|---|---|
| Pelton | Jones |
| 1. USC (4) | 1. USC (5) |
| 2. Washington (9) | 2. Stanford (15) |
| 3. Stanford (16) | 3. Washington (18) |
| 4. Colorado (20) | 4. Washington State |
| 5. Utah (24) | 5. Oregon |
| 6. Washington State | 6. Utah |
| 7. UCLA | 7. Colorado |
| 8. Oregon | 8. UCLA |
| 9. Arizona State | 9. Arizona State |
| 10. Oregon State | 10. Arizona |
| 11. Arizona | 11. California |
| 12. California | 12. Oregon State |