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The speculation surrounding the Arizona Wildcats and Arizona State Sun Devils potentially joining the Big 12 Conference has led to a very interesting question.Could just Arizona leave for the Big 12, leaving Arizona State in the Pac-12?In the past, the answer to that question would have likely been a resounding no, but there are some indications that the Wildcats and Sun Devils could no longer be a ...

BY KELLAN OLSONArizona SportsThe Pac-12 is about to look a whole lot more different than Herm Edwards remembers it since he joined Arizona State in 2017 as its football coach and was fired in September 2022.The future departure of USC and UCLA, combined with the recent development of Colorado’s as well, has the longevity of the conference in doubt, with several more changes surely coming.Edwards, however, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It’s been more than eight months since Carnell “Cadillac” Williams was named the interim head coach of Auburn’s football program.Williams’ tenure in the head coach mantle lasted less than a month and saw him split four contests. And as short-lived as the moment may look on paper, Auburn’s players are hopeful it’s something that lives on for some time.That was something Auburn’s player ...

Published Jul. 28, 2023, 5:25 p.m.By Mark Inabinett |Brian Robinson Jr. led the Washington Commanders in rushing yards as a rookie in 2022 despite being shot two weeks before the season kicked off.The former Alabama running back figures if he could do that after getting shot, think what he might do when healthy.“Not one time I felt like Brian Robinson,” Robinson said on Friday about the 2022 campaign. ...

Jul 28, 2023 Updated 3 hrs agoLAS VEGAS – Andrew Peasley binge-watched “Quarterback” as soon as the documentary began streaming on Netflix.The behind-the-scenes access gives viewers an intimate look at the mental and physical toll a season takes on three quarterbacks – Patrick Mahomes (Kansas City Chiefs), Kirk Cousins (Minnesota Vikings) and Marcus Mariota (then Atlanta Falcons) – during the 2022 ...

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia will open its Big 12 slate at home this season, but it won’t likely be a relaxing experience for the Mountaineer defense.WVU’s first league test is Sept. 23 at Milan Puskar Stadium against Texas Tech, which had one of the best offenses in the conference last year in its first season under coach Joey McGuire and offensive coordinator Zach Kittley.WVU has yet to beat the Red ...

By Mike VorelSeattle Times staff reporterWashington had a championship offense in 2022.But not a championship team.To remedy that, UW attempted to upgrade its sputtering secondary this offseason — adding three transfer corners (Jabbar Muhammad, Thaddeus Dixon and Darren Barkins) and five true freshmen (corners Caleb Presley, Curley Reed and Leroy Bryant, and safeties Vincent Holmes and Diesel Gordon).A ...

Virginia running back Mike Hollins details his spring football return ahead of the Cavaliers' August training camp.He’s continuing on his miraculous quest toward taking the field when Virginia opens its new campaign on Sept. 2 against Tennessee in Nashville.Cavaliers running back Mike Hollins, a survivor of this past November’s shooting on Grounds that left him wounded and killed three of his teammates, ...

Though conference realignment is at the forefront of college athletics at the moment, the college football season begins in a little over a month.The last season in the Pac-12 as it stands today — USC, UCLA and Colorado will depart after the season — is shaping up to be one for the ages.USC, Washington, Utah, Oregon and Oregon State all have a good chance at the Pac-12 title, and the amount of quarterback ...

PUBLISHED July 28, 2023 at 2:58 p.m. | UPDATED: July 29, 2023 at 3:43 a.m.LOS ANGELES — Come January, they could be national champions, those young men who cycled through USC’s John McKay Center on Thursday, the day before fall camp began.It wasn’t hard to picture it, as position group by position group came through, these USC football players patiently and politely answering our probably pretty repetitive ...