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Joseph Salvador

Pac-12’s Demise Highlighted by Incredible Week 1 Record by Former Teams

This past college football offseason was one of the most eventful in history. After all, it’s not every day that a Power 5 conference falls before your very eyes. 

By the start of the college football season this week, all but two teams from the Pac-12 are set to leave the conference, leaving only Oregon State and Washington State. Ironically, the conference balled out in Week 1 of the 2023 college football season, winning every game it played — as of Sunday morning. 

It all started with Utah on Thursday when it trounced Florida 24–11 and then Arizona State squeaked by Southern Utah 24–21. Then USC decimated Nevada 66–14 on Friday. The Utes and the Sun Devils are set to leave for the Big 12 while the Trojans are bound for the Big Ten. 

The remaining teams in the conference followed up by winning every single game on Saturday, the most incredible one being Colorado upsetting No. 17 TCU by a final score of 45–42 in Deion Sanders’s debut. The Buffaloes are also leaving for the Big 12. 

Oregon State is the lone team yet to play this weekend. The Beavers are scheduled to face San José State at 3:30 p.m. ET on CBS for the clean conference sweep.  

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