By Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter)

Post-Week 3 Pac-12 Power Rankings

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Notre Dame and Georgia have received the most attention around the college football world for their 0-2 starts, but both squads have played quality teams and had chances to win.

By Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter)

Post-Week 2 Pac-12 Power Rankings

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By Steven Lassan

Post-Week 1 Pac-12 Power Rankings

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There have been several September shockers over the last few college football seasons. Appalachian State beating Michigan in 2007 still gets a lot of talk, and there were early stunners last year with Jacksonville State blindsiding Ole Miss, Kansas losing to North Dakota State 6-3, and James Madison topping Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. There may not be a surprise of that level during the opening weekend, but interesting storylines always seem to happen early in the season.

by Steven Lassan and Mitch Light

Athlon will be making college football predictions for every game this season. Here are our picks for the first week's games in the PAC-12.

Each year we ask college football coaches to tell us what they really think about the other teams in their conference. But we don't want the same old press conference quotes, so we asked them to give us their quotes...anonymously. Here are this year's quotes in alphabetical order for each team in the PAC-12.
 

We have ranked every college football program in the country, based on the attractiveness of the position from a coaching perspective. We considered many factors — tradition, facilities, location, money  — but in the end, we simply asked ourselves the following question: Where would we want to coach?

(Note: Current or impending NCAA sanctions were not a factor in these rankings.)

Athlon continues our countdown to the upcoming season with our first, second and third All-Pac-12 teams for the 2011 season. Click here for all our college football team previews, rankings and predictions.