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Leading off
It's depth chart Wednesday! There are four teams on bye this week -- Arizona State, Stanford, UCLA and USC -- so we won't update them until next week. Here are the updated depth charts for the other eight.
Oregon (page 8 of the game notes)
Oregon State (page 19 of the game notes)
Utah (page 10 of the game notes)
Washington (page 9 of the game notes)
Washington State (page 11 of the game notes)
Some observations:
A few changes on the Cal depth chart from Week 2. Daniel Lasco is listed as the starting running back and receivers Darius Powe and Maurice Harris have their spots outright, without an "or." Also, Jake Kearney is listed as the starting strong side linebacker, with former starter Raymond Davison moving to the weak side behind Jalen Jefferson.
At Oregon, left tackle Jake Fisher, who left the Wyoming game in the first quarter with an injury, has an "or" next to his name, with Matt Pierson poised to step in if Fisher can't go.
At OSU, as previously noted, left guard Garrett Weinreich hasn't practiced, so it might be Roman Sapolu again.
At Utah, Gionni Paul comes back just in time for the injured Jason Whittingham, who is expected to miss two months with a wrist injury.
At Washington, Kasen Williams is listed as a starting WR and Sidney Jones is listed as a starting CB opposite Marcus Peters, who returns from his one-week suspension.
Mark your calendars
The Pac-12 released the 2015 schedule on Tuesday and Kyle Bonagura broke it down last night. You can just scroll down, because it's the post right below this one. Or if you're really lazy, just click here.
Some of the key matches that jump out are Michigan's trip to Utah in a rematch of this weekend's game, Arizona State vs. Texas A&M at Reliant Stadium and a rematch of Oregon-Michigan State, with the Ducks traveling to B1G country this time around.
There's the usual matchups of Notre Dame vs. USC and Stanford, plus Oregon State travels to Michigan and Cal heads to Texas. And don't think the Cougars won't have vengeance on their mind when they go to Rutgers.
P-A-C vs. S-E-C
Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News broke down the nonconference performances thus far of the Pac-12 and the SEC to find the answer to the question: Who is better?
He crunches the results, makes a couple of predictions, and leaves us with this result:
The Pac-12 hasn’t outperformed the SEC thus far in Power 5 results and has no discernible advantage going forward in the quantity or quality of its Power 5 games.
News/notes/practice reports
More takeaways from the Colorado game.
The Golden Bears were confident even before they were winning.
Plenty of Hawaiian tradition among Colorado players.
Some analysis of Oregon's 2015 schedule.
Steven Nelson was the difference maker last season for Oregon State.
Yards and points are tough to get against the Cardinal.
Breaking down UCLA's 2015 schedule.
Utah will have to win the turnover battle against Michigan.
Georgia State's coaching staff has Washington ties.
Isiah Myers has been added to the Biletnikoff watchlist.
Just for fun
Ever wonder what Mike Leach or Steve Sarkisian would look like if they were the subject of the Mona Lisa? We haven't either, thank goodness someone has.
Three times the jinx? We're kidding.
Marcus Mariota is on his third SI cover this week. All 3: pic.twitter.com/59cedWhMvf
— Kyle Bonagura (@BonaguraESPN) September 16, 2014