with Stanford winning and going to the playoffs or do you have Utah winning the PAC12 championship and not making the playoffs? Even if Utah wins the South and does not win the PAC12 I could see the Rose Bowl taking a lets say 10-2 USC over an 11-2 Utah.
We will see, still a ton of football to play. 8 straight weeks of football to be played with only Oregon State as the "easy" game to be played sandwiched in the consecutive weeks of games (CU game is the last one).