Cal kicked off the college football season last Friday with a 51-31 win over Hawaii in Australia, getting the Bears off to a 1-0 start in the post-Jared Goff Era.
The rest of the Pac-12 will open their season over the next three days, beginning Thursday night with Utah hosting Southern Utah and Oregon State traveling to take on Minnesota.
With the 2016 season kicking off in full in just a few hours, we present The Oregonian/OregonLive preseason Pac-12 Power Rankings.
1. Stanford
(2015 record: 12-2, 8-1)
Preseason AP ranking: 8
The defending Pac-12 and Rose Bowl champs will break in a new quarterback in senior Ryan Burns, but have a Heisman favorite to lean on in do-all offensive threat Christian McCaffrey.