Only No. 12 Utah and No. 22 Oregon made the cut for the final AP poll of the 2021 season. Meanwhile, the SEC had five teams ranked.
Far more revealing, in our view, is this: The Pac-12 has not placed more than two teams in the final AP poll since the 2017 season.Meanwhile, the Mountain West has had eight ranked teams in the last four AP polls.The Pac-12’s poor showing in 2020 can be easily excused: The conference started later than its peers, played fewer games and only participated in two bowls.
But add the final AP polls from 2018, ’19 and ’21 to the calculation, and there’s an unmistakable arc — a distinct erosion in performance as judged by a national body of media members that has served as the sport’s judge and jury since the 1930s. Not long ago, the Pac-12 was regularly placing five or six teams in the end-of-season AP rankings, but no longer. And the combination of a weak top and mediocre middle has stripped the conference of two potential calling cards:— It doesn’t have the quality depth to match the SEC or Big Ten.
But trace the rise and fall for yourself: We have provided every Pac-12 team featured in the AP preseason and postseason polls since the conference expanded in 2011.
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