Listened to the ESPN podcast earlier this evening. The question arose as to whether this would be the year that the Pac-12 North would supplant the SEC West. The analyst (I forget his name) said that if you look at the 3rd best team in the P12 North, it's Washington. While in the SEC West, it's LSU. (Loud chuckles all around). Said the analyst: "And those two teams played a couple years ago, and it wasn't even close."