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Pac-12 panic! Trying to resist overreaction Monday

Related Topics: Pac-12 Conference, Clay Helton

College football's opening weekend started fairly well for the Pac-12 but then suddenly started to spiral into the muck. Instead of joining the trend of Overreaction Monday, let's be more systematic.

Draw a line down the center of your paper. On the left, write down the seven teams that won. On the right, write down the five teams that lost.

That is an unspectacular performance by the conference, particularly considering an 8-4, 9-3 or even 10-2 accounting seemed perfectly reasonable, based on Vegas viewing just three teams as underdogs.

Yet the mighty SEC needs Ole Miss to upset Florida State Monday night in order to avoid a 6-6 showing in nonconference play, which would include a pair of top-11 teams losing.