This is the only week of the Pac-12 season with 12 games: Every team plays a non-conference opponent.
Only three are against Power Five teams (Michigan State, Oklahoma and Texas Tech), but most are challenging and every one is critical to the postseason math.
The Hotline examined the non-conference results for each Pac-12 team over the past eight years — since the start of the 12-school/two division era — to better understand the strength of the correlation between non-conference record and bowl eligibility.
How often do teams with a 1-2 non-conference mark reach the six-win threshold?