You know it’s getting close to kickoff when the Pac-12 coaches and players assemble in California for the annual Pac-12 Media Day festivities.
Today the interviews with each Pac-12 coach, flanked by their representing players will begin bright and early — Chris Petersen will be taking to the podium at 10:45 am PST.
Petersen is scheduled to have Nick Harris and Myles Bryant alongside him this year, and aside from the general Q&A segment with the media, the coach and Husky players will also have one-on-one time with the Pac-12 TV crew.
You can watch the entire show (or just Coach Pete) on the Pac-12 network (check your local listings), the Pac-12 Now app, or go to www.pac-12.com/live on your laptop, desktop, or ipad.
Predictions: Most feel that the media in attendance will pick Oregon to win the North this year, and Utah to win the South. The reason they’re sleeping more on Washington this year is because Washington lost guys to the draft on defense (which happens every year and every year they still lead the conference in defense), and also because pundits love senior quarterbacks and Justin Herbert of Oregon is a senior quarterback.
In reality, they are most definitely sleeping on Washington in 2019, as well as Cal — and they almost always sleep on Washington State. It’s unknown how the rest of the division will shake out; Stanford has not been quite as relevant the past three years as they were before Washington began to emerge again, and Oregon State is still growing under Jonathan Smith.
In the South, Utah returns key starters from last year’s South Division Champion, USC seems completely out of whack, and the rest of the division is definitely hard to read at this point. It’s no accident that most of the Pac-12 titles the past few years have been won by the North.
Here’s a schedule of times for each coach today:
