Pac 12 gets off to rocky start

Aside from UCLA's win over LSU, the opening weekend of college football was miserable for Pac-12 Conference teams, with six teams losing to unranked squads.

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September 8, 2021 - 9:26 AM

Pac-12 logo on the field during the NCAAF game at Sun Devil Stadium on Nov. 9 in Tempe, Arizona. Photo by Christian Petersen / Getty Images / TNS

The Pac-12 opened the season with five ranked teams and was expected to have a competitive race to the conference championship, maybe even get a team into the College Football Playoff for the first time in five years.

The big league out West got off to a shaky start.

The Pac-12 became the first Power Five conference to lose six games on opening weekend since the SEC in 2016. All six were to unranked teams, too, second-most by a Power Five conference in 21 years.

“At times we look on paper, but paper has never won a football game. It’s actually what you do out on the football field,” Arizona State coach Herm Edwards said. “I think if you look at what’s happened in college football, and I said when I first took this job, there are a lot of upsets in college football and no one can ever figure it out.”

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