Jon Joseph No. 1 Share Posted July 1, 2023 Prime Time, welcome to the Pac-12. Pac-12 strength of schedule rankings 2023: Deion Sanders faces tough debut slate, USC gets favorable draw - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Here's how each schedule ranks in difficulty for the final season of the Pac-12's current configuration Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Marsh No. 2 Share Posted July 1, 2023 Gotta love how Colorado is deemed for having the hardest schedule because they are the worst team. But I suppose that makes sense. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Joseph Author No. 3 Share Posted July 1, 2023 On 6/30/2023 at 11:24 PM, David Marsh said: Gotta love how Colorado is deemed for having the hardest schedule because they are the worst team. But I suppose that makes sense. In part, but playing 11 P5 opponents and tripping to Oregon, UCLA, and Utah and playing in Pullman in November, and drawing USC and Oregon State and not Cal is a witch. Compare this schedule to what the conference handed the LA schools, especially UCLA in 2023 and CU has a far greater degree of difficulty. And UW coming off of the Apple Cup and Oregon and Oregon State coming off the Civil War game if one of the three teams qualifies for the conference champ game will have to play USC in the champ game, if it qualifies, coming off of an idle week. USC plays week 0 so it was going to get a 2nd bye. But the bye could not have come in the penultimate week of the regular season with SC playing UCLA the ultimate week. And UCLA misses both Oregon and UW? Both UCLA and USC get the benefit of the Cali scheduling agreement with both playing Cal and Stanford before kissing off the Pac. Why? Why did Mullens and Jen Cohen at UW and the other Pac-10 ADs sign off on this parting gift for the LA schools? What did Merton Hanks and the Pac-10 gain from this gift to UCLA and USC? Nothing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
