All fans can look at their teams’ schedules and identify the stretches that will likely determine whether the season will be a success.
That’s our objective as we examine the schedules of all Pac-12 teams and attempt to identify the toughest two- to-four-game stretches of 2016 for each club.
Up next: Oregon State Beavers
Toughest stretch: Oct. 1-15 (at Colorado, vs. Cal, vs. Utah)
Why: The Beavers’ schedule is back-loaded pretty heavily and Gary Andersen’s team isn’t quite at the point yet when it can imagine handling a Stanford-UCLA-Arizona-Oregon stretch in the final month of the season.