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PAC-10 CONFERENCE PAC-12 CONFERENCE 1350 Treat Blvd., Suite 500, Walnut Creek, CA 94597 // PAC-12.COM // 925.932.4411 For Immediate Release: August 27, 2012 Contacts: Dave Hirsch ([email protected]), Alex Kaufman ([email protected]) 2012 PAC-12 FOOTBALL STANDINGS PAC-12 OVERALL NORTH W-L Pct. PF PA W-L Pct. PF PA Home Road Neut. vs. Div Streak California 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Oregon 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Oregon State 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Stanford 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Washington 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Washington State 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 SOUTH W-L Pct. PF PA W-L Pct. PF PA Home Road Neut. vs. Div Streak Arizona 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Arizona State 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Colorado 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 UCLA 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 USC 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Utah 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 .--- 0 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 This Week’s Schedule Thurs., Aug. 30 Ranking Game Site Time/TV Series/Last Meeting --/-- Northern Colorado (0-0) Rice Eccles Stadium (45,017) 5:15 p.m. MT Utah leads, 2-0-0 30/32 UTAH (0-0) Salt Lake City, Utah P12N Utah, 7-6 (1937) --/-- Northern Arizona (0-0) Sun Devil Stadium (71,705) 7:30 p.m. PT ASU leads, 20-14-4 --/-- ARIZONA STATE (0-0) Tempe, Ariz. P12N ASU, 41-20 (2010) --/-- UCLA (0-0) Rice Stadium (47,000) 6:30 p.m. CT UCLA leads, 4-0-0 --/-- Rice (0-0) Houston, Texas CBSSN UCLA, 26-16 (2006) --/-- WASHINGTON STATE (0-0) LaVell Edwards Stadium (63,470) 8:15 p.m. MT BYU leads, 2-1-0 32/t36 BYU (0-0) Provo, Utah ESPN BYU, 50-36 (1990) Fri., Aug. 31 --/-- San Jose State (0-0) Stanford Stadium (50,000) 7 p.m. PT STAN leads, 50-14-1 21/18 STANFORD (0-0) Stanford, Calif. P12N STAN, 57-3 (2011) Sat., Sept. 1 --/-- Nevada (0-0) Memorial Stadium (63,000) 12 noon PT CAL leads, 22-2-1 --/-- CALIFORNIA (0-0) Berkeley, Calif. P12N Nevada, 52-31 (2010) --/-- Nicholls State (0-0) Reser Stadium (45,674) 12 noon PT First Meeting --/-- OREGON STATE (0-0) Corvallis, Ore. P12N --/-- COLORADO (0-0) Sports Authority Field (76,125) 2 p.m. MT COLO leads, 61-20-2 --/-- Colorado State (0-0) Denver, Colo. FX COLO, 28-14 (2011) --/-- Hawai’i (0-0) L.A. Memorial Coliseum (93,607) 4:30 p.m. PT USC leads, 7-0-0* 1/3 USC (0-0) Los Angeles, Calif. FOX/FOX Deportes USC, 49-36 (2010) --/-- San Diego State (0-0) CenturyLink Field (67,000) 7:30 p.m. PT WASH leads, 2-0-0 27/26 WASHINGTON (0-0) Seattle, Wash. P12N WASH, 36-3 (1997) --/-- Arkansas State (0-0) Autzen Stadium (54,000) 7:30 p.m. PT First Meeting 5/5 OREGON (0-0) Eugene, Ore. ESPN --/-- Toledo (0-0) Arizona Stadium (51,811) 7:30 p.m. PT Arizona leads, 3-0-0 --/-- ARIZONA (0-0) Tucson, Ariz. ESPNU ARIZ, 41-2 (2010) Rankings listed (AP/Coaches poll); * - Win later vacated AROUND THE PAC-12 A LOOK AHEAD KICK IT OFF: The Pac-12 kicks off its 97th season with an unprecedented four Thursday games, Fri., Sept. 7 which coincides with the first football games aired on the Pac-12 Networks, featuring Northern Utah at Utah State Colorado at UTAH and Northern Arizona at ARIZONA STATE. Of the 12 games played during the ESPN2, 6 p.m. MT opening weekend six will appear on the Pac-12 Networks. In fact, the Pac-12 Networks will air 17 games over the first four weeks of the season, including broadcasts from each of the league’s Sat., Sept. 8 12 campuses. Southern Utah at California P12N, 12 noon PT THE POLLS: For the first time in league history, two Pac-12 teams appear among the Top 5 in Eastern Washington at Washington State the AP preseason poll - No. 1 USC and No. 5 OREGON. In the Coaches poll, the Trojans are at P12N, 12 noon PT No. 3, while the Ducks hold down the No. 5 spot. STANFORD comes in at No. 21 in the AP, No. Sacramento State at Colorado 18 in the Coaches. Both WASHINGTON and UTAH received votes in both polls. P12N, 1 p.m. MT USC vs. Syracuse (2) NON-LEAGUE SLATE: The Pac-12’s non-conference schedule of 36 games includes matchups ABC, 3:30 p.m. ET with 11 opponents who are ranked or received votes in the preseason AP and/or USA Today Wisconsin at Oregon State polls. Keep an eye on week two as the schedule features four games against teams ranked FX, 1 p.m. PT among the Top 20. Fresno State at Oregon P12N, 3:30 p.m. PT FOUR NEW COACHES: The desert landscape is changing as new coaches appear this season in Nebraska at UCLA Tucson and Tempe as Rich Rodriguez will guide Arizona and Todd Graham will take over at Ari- FOX, 4:30 p.m. PT zona State. The Pac-12 South Division gets another new face with the appointment of Jim Mora Oklahoma State at Arizona at UCLA. Mike Leach takes over at Washington State. It’s not the first time four new coaches P12N, 7:30 p.m. PT debuted in the same season. Four new coaches made their Pac-10 debut in 2003 - Mike Riley Duke at Stanford (Oregon State), Karl Dorrell (UCLA), Keith Gilbertson (Washington) and Bill Doba (Washington P12N, 7:30 p.m. PT State), while four new coaches appeared on Pac-8 sidelines in 1976 - Craig Fertiig (Oregon Illinois at Arizona State State), Terry Donahue (UCLA), John Robinson (USC) and Jackie Sherrill (Washington State). ESPN, 7:30 p.m. PT Washington at LSU SIGNAL-CALLERS: While the Pac-12 had three QBs selected in the 2012 NFL draft, the league ESPN. 6 p.m. CT still boasts several experienced standout quarterbacks in USC senior Matt Barkley (36 starts), UTAH junior Jordan Wynn (19), WASHINGTON STATE senior Jeff Tuel (19), CALIFORNIA senior Zach Maynard (13), WASHINGTON junior Keith Price (13), and OREGON STATE sophomore PAC-12 VS.: Sean Mannion (10). There are six quarterbacks who will lineup behind center with five or fewer starts with their current school. Those six include ARIZONA senior Matt Scott (5) and first-year Atlantic Coast ......................... 0-0 starters ARIZONA STATE sophomore Taylor Kelly, COLORADO junior Jordan Webb (although he Big East ................................. 0-0 was a two-year starter at Kansas before transferring to Colorado), OREGON freshman Marcus Big Sky .................................. 0-0 Mariota, STANFORD junior Josh Nunes and UCLA freshman Brett Hundley . Barkley set Big Ten .................................. 0-0 school and Pac-12 records as he tossed for 3,528 yards (294.0 per game) and a Pac-12 record 39 TDs. Mannion threw for 3,328 yards (277.3 per game), Price threw for 3,063 yards (235.6 Big 12 .................................... 0-0 per game) and a UW record 33 TDs, Maynard tossed for 2,990 yards (230.0 per game). Wynn Conference USA .................... 0-0 and Tuel are coming off a season marked by injuries, but are expected to return to their 2010 Great West ............................. 0-0 form when they passed for 2,334 yards/17 TDs and 2,780 yards/18 TDs respectively. Mid-American ........................ 0-0 Missouri Valley ....................... 0-0 OTHER HEADLINERS: A total of nine first-team and 16 second-team All-Pac-12 performers Mountain West ....................... 0-0 return. The Pac-12 is loaded with quality receivers as both first-team and second-team selec- Southeastern .......................... 0-0 tions return - California junior Keenan Allen (1,343 yards) and USC junior Robert Woods (1,292 Southern ................................ 0-0 yards) were both first-team picks, while USC sophomoreMarqise Lee (1,143 yards) and Wash- Western Athletic ..................... 0-0 ington State junior Marquess Wilson (1,388 yards) were second-team selections . The Pac- 12 features five returning 1,000-yard rushers. Utah’sJohn White, who set a Ute single-season Independent .......................... 0-0 record with 1,519 yards, Stanford’s Stepfan Taylor (1,330 yards), California’s Isi Sofele (1,320 Total-All ......................... 0-0 (.---) yards), Arizona State’s Cameron Marshall (1,050), and USC’s Curtis McNeal (1,005 yards). Two Total-FBS ....................... 0-0 (.---) others were within 70 yards of the 1,000-yard mark - UCLA’s Johnathan Franklin (976 yards) vs. BCS .......................... 0-0 (.---) and Oregon’s Kenjon Barner (939 yards) . On the defensive side, Utah’s Star Lotulelei and Oregon’s Dion Jordan are among the nation’s best along the front line. Pac-12 is teaming with The Pac-12 posted a 25-16 record quality in the secondary. USC’s T.J.