Welcome to the Hotline’s weekly assessment of the eight teams in the rebuilt Pac-12 that imagines them 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.)

(All times Pacific)

1. San Diego State (9-2)

Result: beat San Jose State 25-3 Next up: at New Mexico (Friday at 12:30 p.m. on CBS Sports Network) Comment: The Aztecs held yet another opponent to single digits — that’s seven of 11, if you’re scoring at home — and have left zero doubt as to the identity of the best team in our hypothetical conference. But their path into the College Football Playoff remains extraordinarily narrow. Tulane is the frontrunner, given las

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