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College football: Pac-12 gets season off to a shaky start

PHOENIX — The Pac-12 had some impressive victories during college football's opening weekend.

UCLA looked sharp behind star-in-the-making freshman quarterback Josh Rosen, California scored 73 points in a rout over Grambling State and Southern California beat Arkansas State by 51.

Those turned out to be exceptions in what's usually a weekend of routs.

For a conference that's been compared to and been mentioned as possibly being deeper than the SEC, the Pac-12 took a big backseat to the conference from the South with some ugly losses the first week of the season.

A rundown of the Pac-12's losses and shaky performances:

Stanford

Result: 16-6 loss at Northwestern.