With College Football Playoff expansion stalled and frustration soaring, a new event has been created: The blame game. It’s the Big Ten’s fault for insisting on automatic bids for the…
By Jeff Metcalfe Colorado is the first, but almost certainly won’t be the last Pac-12 women’s basketball team to take a major hit from a makeup schedule. Coming off their…
Instant reaction to developments on the field, and off … 1. UW’s WRs: AWOL The transfer portal is producing an outsized share of news across the Pac-12 these days. We…
Pay no attention to the number of losses, the size of the losses or even the rat-a-tat nature of the losses. Oregon is headed for the NCAA Tournament, folks. The…
NORTH 1. Oregon: Uneasy rests the crown. The defending division champions have more questions than they did prior to the 2021 season. How will rookie coach Dan Lanning and his…
The fate of Pac-12 football each fall depends less on NFL Draft decisions made the previous winter than it once did. The creation of free agency … err, the transfer…
Reaction to developments on the field, and off … 1. Big week for the South We’re being a bit loose with the timeframe. The first in a series of events…
The Hotline mailbag is published on Fridays. Send questions to pac12hotline@bayareanewsgroup.com or hit me on Twitter: @WilnerHotline. Due to volume — and in some cases, the need for research — not all questions…
Two things became equally clear in Indianapolis last weekend, on the field and in the boardroom. On the field: The disparity between Alabama and Georgia and the best teams in…
Of the two remaining undefeated women’s basketball teams in Division I, the more likely to lose over the weekend, at least on paper, was unranked Colorado. But the Buffaloes never…