Welcome to the Hotline’s final weekly assessment of the eight teams in the rebuilt Pac-12. We will publish a men’s basketball version beginning next week that will appear throughout the remainder of the regular season.

(Here are last week’s rankings.)

What better way to end our season-long assessment of a conference that doesn’t exist than by handing out very real hypothetical awards?

The eight teams that make up the future Pac-12 produced standout performances across three months but a hefty number of clunkers, as well.

Put another way: The conference will start the 2026 season playing from behind against the American in the race for a College Football Playoff berth.

The Hotline sorted through the brilliance and the carnage that unfolded to select our first annual postseason honors f

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