Welcome to a new feature on the Hotline — an assessment of the eight teams in the rebuilt Pac-12 as if they were competing in the conference this season. We’ll even recognize one lucky team as the regular-season champion. The power rankings will be published each Sunday throughout the regular season. (Here are last week’s rankings.)

It’s rivalry week in the Pacific Northwest with the Apple Cup in Pullman and the Civil War in Eugene.

To commemorate the occasion, the Hotline hit the record books. Our goal: Identify the worst beatings in the history of each series.

Because it will get ugly on Saturday, folks — it’s only a matter of degrees.

Will Washington State and Oregon State lose by three or four touchdowns?

Or will they lose in epic fashion, in record-breaking fashion?

So that our

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