Pac12 Preseason Rankings and Predictions for 2022
Pac-12 Preseason Rankings and Predictions for 2022 are based on the preseason ratings predictions by some of the polls, magazines and other sources.
The Pac-12 season starts in a few days. This article looks at the preseason ratings predictions by some of the polls, magazines and other sources.
There are 3 Pac-12 teams ranked in both the AP and Coaches polls.
USC went from 4-8 last year to a top-15 team. UCLA received 2 points in the AP poll and 10 in Coaches poll. Oregon State had 2 votes in both polls.
The number in the next to some of the teams is the number of first place votes that team got.
Sports Illustrated has 4 Pac-12 teams in their top-25: Utah, USC, Oregon and UCLA.
CBS Sports ranked all 131 Pac-12 teams.
There are many preseason rankings for college football. The consensus consensus ranking is based on all the sources. Utah is ranked 6th, Oregon 9th and USC 19th. Oregon State is 21st. Pac-12 has changed to taking the top-2 teams regardless of division. The Pac 12 has two rankings: one for division and one of all teams.
The Pac-12 Division Preseason Rankings are based on the consensus rankings compiled by stassen.com.
The rankings without divisions are inconsistent with the ones with divisions. Some publications did it one way and others the other way. The one that has UW at 9, College Football Poll, also has USC at 11, Stanford at 4, and Colorado at 6 in the Pac-12.
Jeff Sagarin has been putting out a ranking of college football teams since 1998. He has a preseason ranking for all D1 teams. The Pac-12 teams are Utah, Oregon, USC, UCLA, Arizona State, Stanford, California, WSU, Colorado and Arizona.
ESPN has their Football Power Index (FPI) for all of the FBS teams. It ranks the teams, predicts their W-L records and their chances at winning out, making the playoffs and more. Here is some of that information for Pac-12 teams:
The ‘6Wins%’ is an indication of how likely each team is going to win 6 games and thus make a bowl game. UW is one of the 5 teams that seem very likely to be playing at least 6 wins.
ESPN has game projections for all Pac-12 teams. UW has a 39.3% chance of beating Michigan State and 56.7% of winning against California.
ESPN FPI has a 1-2 win difference between projected wins and games favored. Stanford is favored in 3 games, but has better than 47% chance in the 3 other games where they are underdogs. UCLA is also favored, although their chances in some of the games are less than 60%.
Arizona is favored against WSU. Colorado is only favored in one game: Cal (52.3%). Oregon is also favored over Utah ( 52.4%). Stanford is heavily favored. UCLA is a slight favorite over USC (54. 3%). Utah is an underdog to Florida (47.9%) and to Oregon (56.5%).
The Pac-12 preseason rankings and predictions for 2022 are as follows:
ESPN's FPI predicts a loss to Arizona State. WSU is not expected to be a big favorite against UW.
The Pac-12 teams are ranked according to their preseason rankings. The teams' winning percentages are projected.
ESPN FPI Pac-12 Win Projections for Week 1 are based on the games that have been played. The numbers can change weekly based upon the results of the previous games.
The Pac-12 has 4 new head coaches this year. The conference is dominated by Utah, USC, and Oregon. UCLA is a consensus #4 team in the conference. Arizona and Colorado are in bottom third. There is no consensus about the rest of the teams. UW and OBS are expected to win their first 2 games.
This poll is closed.
