Pac-12 football media gives their predictions

The Pac-12 conference media voted this week to determine who they believed would win the 2023 PAC-12 championship. Here are the results.

Who did the media pick?

36 media members across the PAC-12 voted for USC to win the PAC-12 in 2023. Of the 35 first-place votes USC received 25 of them. Of the 11 remaining first-place votes this is how they were given out.

• Utah – 6
• Washington – 4 
• Oregon – 1

The rest of the field

The preseason rankings are based on a points system, 12 points for first and all the way down to one point for 12th. The whole rankings and points finished as such.

1. USC (25)- 413 points
2. Washington (4)- 367 points
3. Utah (6)- 359 points
4. Oregon (1)- 344 points
5. Oregon State- 309 points
6. UCLA- 248 points
7. Washington State- 186 points
8. Arizona- 176 points
9. California- 132 points
10. Arizona State– 122 points
11. Colorado- 98 points
12. Stanford- 54 points

() notes the number of first-place votes received

What does history say about being preseason number one?

Of the last 10 preseason conference favorites nine of the last ten have gone on to win the PAC-12 in that respective season. The last team to not be favored to win the conference and go on to do so was Stanford in 2016.

What does this mean for Arizona State football?

With new head coach Kenny Dillingham, Arizona State is toward the bottom third of the Pac-12 media preseason rankings. With the likes of Caleb Williams, Michael Penix, and Cameron Rising to return to their teams, it will present a major challenge for ASU to climb the ranking quickly. Despite that, the Sun Devils will have a chance under Dillingham given the Devils will have eight games at Sun Devil Stadium. If the fans show up per request of Dillingham the postseason rankings may look a little different for the Devils.

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