Oregon Ducks
A Savvy Dive Into The PAC-12 North
Now that Savvygameline has produced its preseason rankings, it is a good time to find out why the system has assessed PAC-12 North teams the way it has. I don’t suppose I will ever discover […]
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Oregon Ducks
Oregon Leads PAC-12 In Savvygameline Top 50
Editors’s Note: This article was originally published on SavvyGameLine.com by the same author. Some text has been re-used and tailored to the current discussion. In the two months since Savvygameline released its preseason rankings for all 130 […]
Oregon Ducks
The Inadequate Science Of Football Recruiting In The Pac-12
The Pac-12 has been one of the more disappointing yet interesting conferences over the past five years. When looking at most conference’s recruiting across the board, it typically will coincide with the winners. Land the […]
Oregon Ducks
The Pac-12 Conference Has A Television Problem
The Pac-12 Conference has a bit of a viewership problem as it pertains to college football and the national stage. It’s not that the two times one of its teams has made it to the […]
Oregon Ducks
2019 March Madness – Pac-12 Edition
Salsa. Merengue. Cha-cha. The Hype. The Floss. Pick your poison, but there’s only one dance that matters at this time of year. And there are three teams from the Pacific Northwest who are participating—Washington, Oregon […]
Oregon Ducks
Pac-12 Tournament Premier – Who Will Win It All?
Three of the past four years the top seed entering the Pac-12 tournament has gone on to win it but conference champion Washington is looking shaky of late while Oregon is getting hot at the […]
Oregon Ducks
College Football National Championship A Cruel Reminder Of Pac-12’s Great Depression
For decades the Pac-12 has been a major player in both college football and basketball. It’s odd when you think that just two years ago the Oregon Ducks were playing the blue blood North Carolina […]
Portland Trail Blazers
Fireside Sports Lightning Round – We Solve All The Sports Mysteries – Second Edition
Hello sports fans of the Pacific Northwest! And welcome back to the Fireside Sports lightning round. As promised we have spent another week coming up with questions for our lightning round contestants, and we’ll keep […]
Oregon Ducks
Things That Make You Go Meh – Pac-12 Football Eats Itself
In the past three weeks, we’ve seen a different front-runner emerge from the Pac-12. It was just two weeks ago that a one-loss Washington Husky team was heading to Oregon to defend its right to […]
Oregon Ducks
PAC-12 – Can You Get Enough Of The Simple Rating System?
I’m a fan of the Simple Rating System for all sports. It’s a calculation that considers strength of schedule and scoring differential, giving us a number that is predictive of future performance. The PAC-12 sets […]