With week 1 of the 2022 College Football season less than 100 days away, it's time for Pac-12 fans to start thinking about which games to watch out for prior to the start of Pac-12 play. Utah and Oregon's SEC matchups with Florida and Georgia, respectively, are the conference's biggest games that will likely catch the most eyeballs in the non-conference schedule. But beyond those two week 1 games, there are a bevy of opportunities for Pac-12 teams to pick up high quality wins before entering the conference slate.
On today's episode of Locked On Pac-12, Spencer McLaughlin goes beyond the week 1 schedule of non-Pac 12 games to highlight more notable out-of-conference matchups. Among today's featured matchups are Washington State @ Wisconsin, Arizona State @ Oklahoma State and Arizona playing host to former WSU coach Mike Leach and Mississippi State. People shouldn't sleep on Oregon State's non-conference opponents just because they don't feature a Power-5 opponent--they have the potential to make an early season statement if they can beat both Boise St and Fresno State.
Also on today's show, Spencer's latest coaching grade/evaluation of the Pac-12 football coaches features Arizona's Jedd Fisch. Despite a 1-11 record in his first season as the Wildcats' head coach, Fisch has done some things right and has a higher grade than one might expect after nearly going winless in his first campaign. The recruiting has so far been his strongest area, while his game management/scheme has certainly been his weakest, even after one year in which he took over a program that had lost 12 straight games. Meanwhile, his staff hires have been somewhere in the middle of those two categories, and they have plenty to prove in 2022.
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