Pac-12 Championship preview: Washington, Oregon meet again as teams bid farewell with CFP berth on the line

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The Pac-12 entered the 2023 college football season dead in the water after the mass exodus that occurred over the summer. 

The "Conference of Champions" was decimated after Colorado decided the time was right to jump ship, followed by Utah, Arizona and Arizona State announcing their moves to the Big 12 in 2024.

The Pac-12 logo is seen on the field after the 115th Apple Cup between the Washington Huskies and the Washington State Cougars at Husky Stadium on November 25, 2023, in Seattle. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

Oregon and Washington chose to join UCLA and USC in the Big Ten before Cal and Stanford made the move to the ACC. 

All that remained of the once-storied conference was Washington State and Oregon State as the season kicked off, the swan song for the Pac-12.

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And then the college football world realized that the conference was arguably the deepest in the country as the season commenced.

At one point, the Pac-12 had a record eight teams ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 before the West Coast schools beat up on each other throughout the season.

"I consider what they did in September, I think you have to consider what they did," Fox Sports analyst and former Washington quarterback Brock Huard told Fox News Digital when discussing the depth of the Pac-12. "That’s all we got are those games to compare out of conference versus other Power Five conferences, and they had the best winning percentage of any of them. I do take that into account. I’ve watched the level of play. I’ve been in the Big Ten and the Big 12 and the Pac-12 this year. And from