The Pac-12 dissolved in 2024, but one vestige of the former conference remains relevant to the college football season unfolding this fall: the bowl lineup. The legacy teams are locked into the postseason arrangement that existed prior to collapse.

Each week, the Hotline will project and assess the postseason status for all 12 teams. Last week’s projections can be found here.

Arizona was quietly and subtly one of the Big 12’s biggest winners last weekend despite watching the mayhem from home.

The Wildcats were not victorious in a material sense, of course.

Their record didn’t improve: They are one game over .500 and closer to the bottom of the Big 12 than the top.

Their bowl math did not change: They must win two of their final five to claim a spot in the postseason.

Their gut-punch

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