Welcome to a new feature on the Hotline — an assessment of the eight teams in the rebuilt Pac-12 as if they were competing in the conference this season. We’ll even recognize one lucky team as the regular-season champion. The power rankings will be published each Sunday throughout the regular season.

For most of the 136 teams across major college football, it remains early in the 2025 season. For Oregon State, it’s rapidly getting late. The Beavers are 0-2 entering the toughest stretch of their schedule. The mistakes are prevalent, the frustration is evident and the head coach looks overmatched.

Trent Bray’s halftime interview Saturday afternoon on The CW, in which he used a seven-letter expletive to describe the special teams, was totally inappropriate and completely revealing at the sa

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