Because you never know when a mustachioed quarterback from 3,000 miles away will show up and change the course of a season: Our ranking of 25 impact newcomers — it’s actually more than 25 — in the Pac-12 this season.
The precise definition of newcomer is, of course, vital in an exercise of this nature, and we’ve set parameters that are both narrow and broad.
Narrow: Only players who haven’t set foot on the field for a Pac-12 program were considered — that’s transfers, true freshmen and redshirt freshmen who didn’t play a lick last season, but not intra-conference transfers.