After a season of ups and downs and wild endings, Pac-12 football is right back to where it all began.
The first conference game of 2015 was Stanford’s come-from-behind (then) upset of USC in the middle of September, and perhaps fittingly, that’s where the league will conclude the year with Saturday’s Pac-12 Football Championship Game matchup between the Cardinal and the Trojans. While the game is what a lot of folks predicted—USC was the preseason favorite in the South, while Stanford was second in the North but considered a dark horse for the College Football Playoff—the ups and downs for each program in the ensuing three months made things all the more remarkable that each is squaring off with a trip to the Rose Bowl on the line.