PAC-12 HONORS 2019 PAC-12 FOOTBALL STANDINGS PLAYERS of the WEEK THIS WEEK's PAC-12 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE (#Pac12fb) QUICK HITS
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PAC-12PLAYERS HONORS For Immediate Release \\ Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019 Contacts \\ Dave Hirsch ([email protected]), Ryan Andersen ([email protected]) OF THE WEEK OFFENSE 2019 PAC-12 FOOTBALL STANDINGS Anthony Gordon, QB, WSU In his first career start, complet- PAC-12 OVERALL ed 29-of-35 passes (.828) for NORTH W-L Pct. PF PA W-L Pct. PF PA Home Road Neut Div Streak 420 yards and 5 TDs. He started California 0-0 .--- 0 0 1-0 1.000 27 13 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 W 1 the game with 15 straight com- Stanford 0-0 .--- 0 0 1-0 1.000 17 7 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 W 1 pletions and finished the first Washington 0-0 .--- 0 0 1-0 1.000 47 14 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 W 1 half 22-of-23 for 330 yards and Washington State 0-0 .--- 0 0 1-0 1.000 58 7 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 W 1 4 TDs. He led WSU to scores in Oregon 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-1 .000 21 27 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 L 1 all nine of his drives. Oregon State 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-1 .000 36 52 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 L 1 OFFENSIVE LINEMAN SOUTH W-L Pct. PF PA W-L Pct. PF PA Home Road Neut Div Streak Liam Ryan, LT, WSU Arizona State 0-0 .--- 0 0 1-0 1.000 30 7 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 W 1 Did not allow a QB pressure on Colorado 0-0 .--- 0 0 1-0 1.000 52 31 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 W 1 any of his snaps, grading ouit USC 0-0 .--- 0 0 1-0 1.000 31 23 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 W 1 at 90 percent for the game. Utah 0-0 .--- 0 0 1-0 1.000 30 12 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 W 1 Blocked for a 100-yard rusher, Arizona 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-1 .000 38 45 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 L 1 while the team threw for 507 UCLA 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-1 .000 14 24 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 L 1 yards. DEFENSE Francis Bernard, LB, UTAH THIS WEEK’S PAC-12 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE (#Pac12FB) Taking on his former team in BYU, he posted four tackles, Fri., Sept. 6 Site Local Time/TV including 1.5 for loss and re- Sacramento State at ARIZONA STATE Sun Devil Stadium (56,232) 7:00 p.m. ET/P12N turned an interception 58 yards Series: ASU leads, 1-0-0. Last: ASU, 55-0 (2013) (Guy Haberman, Lincoln Kennedy, Cindy Brunson) for a TD. Sat., Sept. 7 Site Local Time/TV DEFENSIVE LINEMAN Northern Illinois at #13 UTAH Rice-Eccles Stadium (45,807) 11:00 a.m. MT/P12N Benning Potoa’e, DT, WASH Series: UTAH leads, 1-0-0. Last: UTAH, 17-6 (2018) (JB Long, Chad Brown, Krista Blunk) Led Huskies to 47-14 win over #25 Nebraska at COLORADO Folsom Field (50,183) 1:30 p.m. MT/FOX Eastern Washington as he Series: Nebraska, 49-19-2. Last: COLO, 33-28 (2018) (Joe Davis, Brock Huard, Bruce Feldman) posted four tackles, including 3.0 for loss, with two sacks. UW San Diego State at UCLA Rose Bowl (80,616) 1:15 p.m. PT/P12N defense held EWU to 63 yards Series: UCLA leads, 21-0-1. Last: UCLA, 33-14 (2009) (Ted Robinson, Yogi Roth, Lewis Johnson) rushing, sacked the QB four Northern Colorado at #22 WASHINGTON STATE Martin Stadium (32,952) 2:00 p.m. PT - P12W times and had nine tackles for Series: First Meeting (Jim Watson, Jeremy Bloom) loss. Nevada at #16 OREGON Autzen Stadium (54,000) 4:30 p.m. PT - P12N Series: ORE leads, 6-2-0. Last: ORE, 69-20 (2011) (Roxy Bernstein, Anthony Herron, Jill Savage) SPECIAL TEAMS Michael Turk, P, Arizona State CALIFORNIA at #14 WASHINGTON Husky Stadium (70,183) 7:30 p.m. PT - FS1 Set a NCAA. Pac-12 and ASU re- Series: WASH leads, 54-40-4. Last: CAL, 12-10 (2018) (Brian Custer, Robert Smith) cord for highest average yards per #23 STANFORD at USC LA Coliseum (77,500) 7:30 p.m. PT - ESPN punt in a game wiht a minimum Series: USC leads, 62-33-3*. Last: STAN, 17-3 (2018) (Adam Amin, Todd McShay, Molly McGrath) of five attempts (63.0 yards per Northern Arizona at ARIZONA Arizona Stadium (55,675) 7:45 pm PT/P12N punt). He punted five times for Series: ARIZ leads, 14-1-0. Last: ARIZ, 62-24 (2017) (Guy Haberman, Lincoln Kennedy, Cindy Brunson) 315 yards (64, 62, 65, 49 and OREGON STATE at Hawai’i Aloha Stadium (50,000) 6 pm HT/Spectrum Sports 75). He put three of his five punts Series: OSU leads, 7-3-0. Last: OSU, 38-30 (2014) (Robert Kekaula, Rich Miano, Scott Robbs) inside the 20. #AP Rankings. * - Not including one win vacated due to NCAA penalty. FRESHMAN Jayden Daniels, QB, Arizona State QUICK HITS First true freshman QB to start a season opener at ASU. Threw • THE RANKINGS: Five Pac-12 teams are ranked this week in both the AP and Coaches polls - UTAH (13/15), WASH- for 284 yards and accounted for INGTON (14/12), OREGON (16/18), WASHINGTON (22/21) and STANFORD (23/23) ... It’s the first time the Pac-12 three touchdowns (two pass, one has seen five teams in the AP Top 25 in back-to-back weeks since weeks two and three during the 2017 season. run) in the 30-7 win over Kent State. He broke the previous ASU • GET YOUR KICKS: While Pac-12 kickers were a combined 15-of-19 (.789) on field goal attempts during the opening record for passing yards in first week, they were even more successful from 40+ yards as they combined to hit 9-of-10 (.900). Three connected from career game. 50+ yards - Arizona’s Lucas Havrisik (53 yards), Stanford’s Jet Toner (51) and Washington State’s Blake Mazza (50). 2019 PAC-12 vs. ... PAC-12 FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK American .......................................... 0-1 THE RANKINGS: Five Pac-12 teams are ranked this week in both the AP and Coaches polls - UTAH (13/15), WASHINGTON (14/12), OREGON (16/18), WASHINGTON (22/21) and STANFORD (23/23) ... It’s Atlantic Coast .................................... 0-0 the first time the Pac-12 has seen five teams in the AP Top 25 in back-to-back weeks since weeks two and Big Sky ............................................. 2-0 three during the 2017 season ... It’s the first time since 2016 that five Pac-12 teams were listed in the AP Big Ten ............................................. 1-0 preseason Top 25 ... OREGON has appeared in 11 of the last 12 AP preseason polls, WASHINGTON makes its Big 12 ............................................... 0-1 fourth consecutive preseason appearance in the AP poll and 33rd overall, UTAH is making its first AP preseason Colonial ............................................. 0-0 poll since 2009 and third overall, WASHINGTON STATE made its fourth appearance in the AP preseason poll and CUSA ................................................ 0-0 its second in the last three years, STANFORD has appeared in the AP preseason Top 25 for the ninth consecutive year. The Cardinal are one of six teams to have appeared in the preseason AP poll in each of the last nine seasons, Mid-American ................................... 1-0 joining Alabama, Ohio State, Oklahoma, LSU and Georgia. Mountain West .................................. 2-1 Southeastern ..................................... 0-1 DASHING DEBUTS: Several outstanding debut performances were turned in during the opening week. Three of Sun Belt ............................................ 0-0 the top four passing yardage totals in the season-openers were turned in by quarterbacks making their first start FBS Independent .............................. 2-0 with their current team - WASHINGTON STATE SR Anthony Gordon (29-of-35, 420 yards, 5 TDs), WASHINGTON JR (27-of-36, 349 yards, 4 TDs), ARIZONA STATE FR (15-of-24, 284 yards, 2 TDs) FCS Independent .............................. 0-0 Jacob Eason Jayden Daniels ... In their first starts, CALIFORNIA, SO RBChristopher Brown Jr. had a Conference-best 197 yards on 36 carries Total-All .................................. 8-4 (.667) (5.5 avg) with 1 TD, while COLORADO SO TB Alex Fontenot rushed 19 times for 125 yards (6.6 avg) and 3 TDs Total-FBS ................................ 6-4 (.600) ... ARIZONA STATE special teams were more than special as SO P Michael Turk set an NCAA record for punting average (63.0 avg) on a minimum of five attempts, while FR PKCristian Zendejas was a perfect 3-of-3 on his field The Pac-12 has posted a winning record against goals (35, 31, 40) and 3-of-3 on PATs in their first game with the Sun Devils. non-conference foes for 34 consecutive sea- sons. THE RETURNEES: A total of 174 starters, who started at least half of his team’s games or a majority of games at a specific position, return to Pac-12 football squads in 2019. That’s out of a possible 288 (includ- NEXT WEEK’S SCHEDULE ing placekickers and punters) for an average of 14.5 starters returning per team. OREGON returns the most with 19, followed by UCLA (18), ARIZONA (17) and ARIZONA STATE (17). STANFORD returns the fewest starters with nine. Among those returning starters are 11 first-team and 13 second-team All-Pac-12 perform- Fri., Sept.