Contenders
Stanford 7-1 #9 AP #8 Coaches
The Cardinal survived their first true scare of the Pac-12 season and hopefully got a bad game out of their system. The Cardinal are still far and away the conference's best shot at the Playoff and the good news coming out of Saturday for Stanford was that their somewhat questionable defense actually played fairly well against a spread passing attack that was somewhat similar to the ones Cal and Oregon will throw at them. It was actually their offensive struggles against WSU that caused the most concern.