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.)

The math that matters most improved incrementally for the collection of schools that will form the new Pac-12.

San Diego State’s prospects for reaching the College Football Playoff are no longer just this side of impossible. They have been upgraded to highly unlikely.

Instead of trying to solve advanced calculus, the Aztecs are now staring at trigonometry.

Nothing would add rocket fuel to the July 2026 debut of the rebuilt Pac-12 quite like one of its memb

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