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On Friday, the Pac-12 announced that fall sports would moving to a conference only schedule. In the statement it said that “Conference-only schedules will be announced no later than July 31.” We wanted to play around with different possibilities of what a conference-only schedule would look like for football.
Option One: Keeping as is
The most likely real life option is to keep the schedule as is and starting the season at USC on Sep. 26.
Week 1 @ USC
Week 2 vs. Oregon State
Week 3 vs. UCLA
Week 5 @ Colorado
Week 6 @ Washington State
Week 7 vs. Cal
Week 8 @ Oregon
Week 9 vs. Utah
Week 10 @ Arizona
Option Two: Playing every team
In this mock situation, we have the Pac-12 playing every Pac-12 team. The other add-in with this one is that we made the schedule to be more like a basketball one to limit travel.
Week 1 @ Oregon
Week 2 @ Oregon State
Week 3 vs. UCLA
Week 4 vs. USC
Week 6 @ Washington State
Week 7 @ Washington
Week 8 vs. Utah
Week 9 vs. Colorado
Week 10 @ Stanford
Week 11 @ Cal
Week 13 @ Arizona
Option Three: A condensed South season
In the third mock schedule this plan has the South teams only playing the South Division in a season shortened or delayed even more.
Week 1 @ USC
Week 2 vs. UCLA
Week 3 @ Colorado
Week 4 vs. Utah
Week 5 @ Arizona
Which option do you like the most?