The Blue Board

Give me your teams who should be better or worse next year.

For the PAC-12

Washington: Should be the team that makes the biggest leap up of any in the conference. Was a very young team this season that played very good at home, but horribly on the road. Must get over that mental hurdle of playing away from Seattle.

USC: Should be much better on both sides of the LOS. Losing Barkley could be a blessing in disguise as the USC offense should get back to being more balanced. As of now with a receiver trio of Lee, Woods*, and Agholor will be the best in the nation. *better than 50/50 chance of coming back but far from a sure thing

ucla: Should take a leap in their 2nd year under Jim Mora jr. They will lose Jonathon Franklin on offense, but the D returns most of their starters. If Anthony Barr comes back, they have the makings of an elite front 7.

Oregon St. Returns most of their starters, but loses playmakers on both sides of the ball, most notably Markus Wheaton at wr, and Jordan Poyer at CB. Overall should be better

Stanford: Hard to be better than PAC-12 champs, but overall could be better. Now losing Shane Skov, and especially Chase Thomas, who I feel was the best 3-4 OLB in CFB will be tough to replace. Losing Taylor on offense will be a blow as well, but the Offensive line should be improved, and Kevin Hogan is an emerging star at QB.

Oregon: Offense loses Barner, but the offense overall could be even better next year. Defense is going to take a hit losing a couple of big time linebackers and one of the best pass rushers in the nation in Dion Jordan. If they do lose Chip Kelly, then this team will take a step back.

Arizona. Will be the 2nd year under Rich Rod so you would think there would be improvement, they also return the nations leading rusher in Kadeem Kerry, but I am not sure if they will have a QB to fully run his system.

ASU. Return their QB Taylor Kelly who runs that offense well, and the PAC-12 defensive player of the year Will Sutton. Should be improved next year.

WSU and Colorado should both be better next season, especially WSU, but neither will be very good.

Cal. Could be better, but Dykes is going to have a tough going in his first season.

Utah. Will have a tough time replacing Star Loutolulei on the defensive front. will remain at the bottom of the conference.

Overall the PAC-12 should be much improved across the board, and could very well be the nation's toughest conference. The Schedules will simply be too tough for any team out of this conference to make it to the national title game. I don't see any team having less than 2 conference losses at this time.