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EA Sports announces reboot of NCAA Football franchise

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images IT’S HAPPENING! For all the people who never gave up hope and for all the people who refused to believe that the franchise would continue to fade into nothing, this one is for you. On Tuesday, EA Sports officially announced that they will be rebooting their long-missed franchise of NCAA Football games that has been on hiatus since the 2013 season with the last installment of the series being NCAA Football 14. For those keeping track at home, it’s bee...

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Oregon replaces Washington in Pac-12 Championship Game

Photo by Steve Dykes/Getty Images The Ducks will now face the Trojans for all the marbles The Oregon Ducks may not have reached the Pac-12 Championship Game the way that they wanted to — but nevertheless, they’ll be playing for the crown on Friday night against the USC Trojans . The Washington Huskies , after meeting with the Conference, will not have the requisite number of 53 scholarship student-athletes available for the meeting against USC as originally scheduled, and per a statemen...

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Pac-12 Championship Week matchups are set

Photo by Chris Gardner/Getty Images The Conference announced all 6 matchups for Week 7 The Pac-12 Conference announced all Week 7 matchups ahead of the final week of the football season, headlined, of course, by the USC vs Washington Pac-12 Championship Game. The conference announced the following matchups for Week 7: Washington @ USC — Pac-12 Championship Game on Friday at 5:00 pm Washington State at Utah at 10:30 am Stanford @ UCLA at 5:00 pm Oregon vs Colorado (at USC) at 6:00 pm...

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The Pac-12’s highest-graded players through Week 4

Photo by Jeff Halstead/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images We took to the grade books to see who’s doing what The Pac-12 football season has been unlike any other season, ever, in the history of the conference. We’ve seen game after game get canceled, new opponents added and scheduled games just 36 hours in advance. Yet, we’ve made it past Week 4 of the season and with two regular season weeks left to play, we thought it was a good idea to take a look at the gradebooks to see who has been pl...

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Pac-12 to potentially allow non-conference games after all

Photo by Jeff Halstead/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Pac-12 reversed its course and is set to allow the 12 member schools to play a non-conference football game this season Well now we have it. Two weeks into the Pac-12 Football season and we’ve already made some major adjustments around the protocol set in place to be able to play this season during a global pandemic. The conference, previously staunch in their saying they won’t allow non-conference games to be played this seaso...

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Week 1 Pac-12 Team of the Week

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images The Pac-12 is back, baby! The Pac-12 was welcomed back with open arms from those in the national media and despite some cancellations that saw Utah vs Arizona and Cal vs Washington canned, we were still treated to some amazing matchups and dominant performances. Here are your top players at each position in our Week 1 Pac-12 Team of the Week: Quarterback Sam Noyer , Colorado Buffaloes Sure, Noyer didn’t throw for more yards than everyone,...

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Week 2 game times announced for the Pac-12 slate

Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images Six games are set — will we make it to Saturday will all six still intact? The Pac-12 football slate is set to commence for Week 2. Even though we saw two games cancelled and four teams with a season-opening performance, optimism runs wild for a full slate of games this weekend. The Pac-12 football season continues with No. 20 USC (1-0) squaring off against Arizona (0-0) at 12:30 pm (3:30 pm ET) Colorado (1-0) facing Stanford (0-1) at 12:30 pm (3:...

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Utah-Arizona game cancelled

Photo by George Frey/Getty Images The Utes and Wildcats now join Cal and Washington as spectators to the Pac-12 in Week 1 The Pac-12 released a statement on Friday, announcing the cancellation of the upcoming Utah Utes vs Arizona Wildcats game, originally scheduled for November 7 at 1:00 pm local time. According to the conference’s statement, the request to cancel the game came from Utah and came on the backs of an influx of positive Covid-19 test results. “The Pac-12 has approved a r...

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