This fall will be interesting. Both Oregon and Washington have held up their end of the bargain and made the playoffs for football. The landscape has changed out west though. The cream of the crop recruits are going to the few blue bloods. A few have stayed out west to play at UW, USC, and Oregon but not enough.

USC needs to be good for national respect but the whole school can't get its crap together. Helton should have been fired a few years ago.

But make no mistake - when the playoffs expand, the Pac12 champion will have an automatic bid.