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College Football
With no clear favorite, Pac-12 promises memorable fall race
By GREG BEACHAM
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Stanford
coach David Shaw only needed
a few words to epitomize why his
Cardinal are the Pac-12 football
favorites this fall — and also why
that distinction doesn’t mean much.
“I think we have a chance to be
a good team, but we’re a team in
lux,” Shaw said after learning his
Cardinal had won the preseason
media poll.
The West Coast’s top league
is wide open heading into the fall,
with a half-dozen legitimate title
contenders and no overwhelming
favorite. Every team has major
questions at key positions, but
nobody seems better prepared
to answer them than the ever-re-
sourceful Cardinal.
Stanford is the defending cham-
pion of the conference and the Rose
Bowl, and running back Christian
McCaffrey might be the nation’s top
player. It’s still not enough to make
them prohibitive favorites to repeat
in a conference that could end up
without a playoff representative
again despite several quality teams.
Parity is the enemy of excel-
lence, and the Pac-12 is full of
teams with big positives and big
question marks. Two-thirds of the
league began training camps with
uncertainty at quarterback, and the
league doesn’t appear to possess
any dominant defenses.
It could be a recipe for tight
division races, memorable Saturday
inishes and a crackerjack confer-
ence title game.
THE FAVORITES
NORTH: Stanford has McCaf-
frey, but less than 10 other returning
starters, including no tested quarter-
backs. The Cardinal also must ight
through a brutal schedule while
fending off challenges from Oregon
and Washington, who both could
contend with just a few breaks.
The Huskies are the popular pick
to surge in their third season under
Chris Petersen, while the Ducks
always have enough talent despite
no clear starting quarterback.
SOUTH: Although Utah is a
serious contender, the division race
could come down to the annual
crosstown showdown between
UCLA and USC at the Rose Bowl on
Nov. 19. The Bruins had too many
injuries on defense to contend last
season, but quarterback Josh Rosen
is ready to blossom into a national
star. They could be ready to knock
off the talented Trojans, who must
play Alabama, Stanford and Utah
away from home in September.
TOP PLAYERS
Stanford
RB
Christian
McCaffrey. After one of the most
spectacular individual seasons in
conference history, the do-every-
thing Heisman Trophy inalist is
back to doing everything again.
UCLA QB Jake Rosen. A new
offensive scheme should mean
bigger plays and more chances for
Chosen Rosen to shine.
In this
July 15,
2016, ile
photo,
Stanford
running
back
Christian
McCaf-
frey
speaks at
the Pac-
12 NCAA
college
football
media
day, in
Los An-
geles.
AP Photo/Reed
Saxon, FIle
USC WR JuJu Smith-Schuster.
The Trojans’ annual turmoil has
obscured the career of the next
brilliant pass-catcher in USC’s long
lineage, but he has a chance to get
everybody’s attention this fall.
Oregon RB Royce Freeman.
After setting the Ducks’ single-
season rushing record last year, he
will shoulder a heavy load during a
possible transition season.
Utah DL Lowell Lotulelei. The
consummate space-eating lineman
from a powerful football family
is back to clog lanes on one of the
nation’s top defensive fronts.
Washington QB Jake Browning.
The Huskies’ preseason popularity
hinges partly on the gifted sopho-
more, who appears poised to break
out with an improved offense.
Washington State QB Luke
Falk. The big-armed passer might
be the man who can lead coach
Mike Leach’s offense into title
contention.
NEW FACES
Oregon QB Dakota Prukop.
The Montana State transfer is the
favorite to follow Marcus Mariota
and Vernon Adams, but he has two
capable competitors for the job at
the controls of the Ducks’ remark-
able offense.
Arizona defensive coordinator
Marcel Yates. Rich Rodriguez is
rebuilding his defense with the
former Boise State coordinator, but
he could need more than one season
to ix everything.
USC coach Clay Helton. He’s far
from new, but the veteran assistant
is in his irst full season in charge of
the Trojans, with a roster in lux and
a sadistic schedule.
ON THE HOT SEAT
Sonny Dykes, California. No
coach in the Pac-12 is in imminent
trouble as the season begins, but
Dykes certainly could use a strong
year after Jared Goff’s departure
to solidify his rebuilding program
with the Golden Bears.
Mike MacIntyre, Colorado.
Likewise, the Buffaloes coach’s
rebuilding project probably would
beneit greatly from a .500 season
— or heck, even three Pac-12 victo-
ries in the same season for the irst
time since 2007.
PICKS
North: Stanford. South: UCLA.
League champion: Stanford.
MLB
On day Mariners option Walker, Iwakuma tosses gem to beat Tigers
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Hisashi
Iwakuma threw seven shutout
innings for his seventh win
in his last eight starts, Mike
Zunino and Kyle Seager both
had RBI singles off Michael
Fulmer in the second inning
and the Seattle Mariners beat
the Detroit Tigers 3-0 on
Monday night in the opener
of a key three-game series.
Seattle won its fourth
straight and moved within
2 1/2 games of Detroit and
Boston for the second wild
card in the American League
thanks to another gem from
Iwakuma. The right-hander
allowed ive hits and struck
out eight, running his streak
of scoreless innings at Safeco
Field to 21 1/3.
In his only other start this
season against Detroit in
June, Iwakuma (13-7) failed
to make it through the ifth
inning, giving up ive runs on
11 hits.
The performance by
Iwakuma offset another
solid start from Fulmer. The
Tigers rising star threw seven
innings and allowed only
Detroit
Seattle
0
3
two hits while striking out
six. Three of Seattle’s ive
hits off Fulmer (9-3) came in
the second inning when the
Mariners took an early lead.
The rookie suffered his irst
loss since June 17 — also the
last time the Tigers lost when
he started.
And for a change, the runs
for Seattle didn’t come via
the long ball.
Nelson Cruz led off the
second with a double and
scored when Seager rolled a
ground ball behind Detroit’s
defensive shift and into
center ield. Seager moved
into scoring position when
Leonys Martin walked with
one out and scored as Zunino
was strong enough to dump a
broken-bat single over third
baseman Casey McGehee
and into left ield.
Seattle added a run in
the eighth when Nori Aoki
doubled with two outs and
scored on Guillermo Here-
dia’s RBI single.
Iwakuma did the rest.
He retired 12 of the inal 13
batters he faced, including
striking out the side in the
fourth. Iwakuma has devel-
oped into the ace of Seattle’s
staff this year, throwing at
least seven innings in eight
of his past 14 starts.
Newly acquired Arquim-
edes Caminero pitched a perfect
eighth in his Seattle debut and
rookie Edwin Diaz pitched the
ninth for his ifth save.
ROSTER SHUFFLE
Tigers:
Left-hander
Daniel Norris was recalled
from Triple-A Toledo and
will start on Tuesday night.
The Tigers placed right-
hander Bruce Rondon on
the paternity list to clear the
roster spot for Norris.
Mariners: Starter Taijuan
Walker was optioned to
Triple-A Tacoma to open a
roster spot for Caminero.
Walker was roughed up for
six runs in four innings in
his last start. Ariel Miranda
will take his spot in Seattle’s
rotation.
UP NEXT
Mariners: Wade LeBlanc
(1-0) makes his sixth start
since being acquired.
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