Only two spots behind the Buffs, you can almost make the same argument for the No. 12 Utes (up three spots from 15 after beating Arizona State 49-26) to get to the CFP semifinals, but Utah’s penultimate regular season game isn’t nearly as strong (3-7 OR at home) as Colorado’s.
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Exhausted of late-night Saturday games involving your favorite Pac-12 Conference football team? Manny Wilkins is completing 60.6% of his passes for 1730 yards, 7 touchdowns, and 7 interceptions for Arizona State.
For more evidence, see last week’s 49-26 home loss to Utah. OR running back Royce Freeman has a solid day of his own, rushing for over 100 yards and a score, but the Ducks defense had no answer for the Cardinal offense all game long.
The Arizona State Sun Devils will travel to play the Washington Huskies in a PAC-12 college football game on Saturday night.
The Sun Devils, in rallying from a 17-point deficit to beat UW 27-17 past year in Tempe, had four sacks of Browning, who attempted a career-high 52 passes in that game.
Jake Browning wasn’t his typically dominant self agaisnt the Trojans. Opponents are completing just 50.9 percent of their passes, the best mark in the conference. That lone scoring strike went to John Ross, who ended up with eight grabs for 154 yards.
But Washington is now without two of its top two defenders against the run. It was simply a poor output offensively. Connor O’Brien, his replacement, picked up the only sack against USC.
“I don’t even really know what the one through four rankings means when there is only four weeks left in a season”, said Browning. He recently had a streak of 152 passes without an interception. The Buffs scored a touchdown on their first possession of the game but only led the Wildcats 14-10 midway through the second quarter. However, both Anu Solomon and Brandon Dawkins failed to find the end zone, though they did manage to move the ball well. Never the less they could not stop McCaffrey in a loaded box, nor could they actually stand up to the passing attack when they put the game on Chryst. Myles Gaskin has rushed for 1003 yards and 8 touchdowns, while Lavon Coleman has added 606 yards and 3 scores for the Huskies.
Washington is the only Pac-12 team that has been nationally ranked every week.
Still so many scenarios to play out, and that’s part of what makes college football so fun, isn’t it? With leading tackler Azeem Victor expected to miss the rest of the season with a broken lower leg, Beavers will get plenty of playing time. “This is a special time in Colorado football”. The Cougars were predicted in the Pac-12 media poll to finish fourth in the Pac-12 North, while Colorado was selected to finish last in the Pac-12 South. Just throw me the ball. While it is important to keep in mind that they beat up a bad Ducks team, the Cardinal do look like they are returning to their top level form.
This won’t be close.
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Sam Darnold’s brilliance and a stalled Husky offense dashed Washington’s hopes of a flawless season Saturday on Montlake, as the Huskies dropped a 26-13 decision to red-hot USC. “We’ve got to be able to push and get some movement and create some holes for those guys”.
