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Until Saturday: A show about college football

Washington crowned Pac-12 champs | Can they win a playoff game?

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ari and Stew Mandel react to Washington's Pac-12 Championship game win over Oregon, 34-31. Ari makes his mea culpa to Huskie nation as someone who hasn't been fully bought in this season. Stew, who has covered the conference assiduously in his career, puts Kalen DeBoer's accomplishment in perspective. Plus, can UW win a playoff game, and what playoff scenarios are left on the table after the Pac-12 title game? Subscribe to the Until Saturday newletter: https://theathletic.com/newsletters/until-saturday Call/text the Until Saturday phone and leave us a question for a future mailbag and/or Sunday Sound-Off podcast: (316) 462-9852 Subscribe to Until Saturday on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbhfrD1COvG40Mk7vvgaHIQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And I've got to say, men in charter write us on, but we ain't right there.

0:09.0

We ain't right there.

0:11.0

Welcome to the latest edition of Until Saturday Live Reaction Show.

0:16.0

I'm Ari Wasserman, joined by my boss, colleague, mentor, Stuart Mandel.

0:21.0

We are here in Las Vegas live from the Pac-12 championship game.

0:26.0

The last Pac-12 championship game, there's ever going to be Washington, a 10-point underdog.

0:31.0

Beat Oregon, 34 to 31.

0:33.0

It's going to be a crazy weekend of football games.

0:36.0

There's going to be a lot of college football playoff discourse, too.

0:39.0

But this one was cut and dry.

0:41.0

Undefeated Washington will now advance the college football playoff as the Pac-12 champion.

0:46.0

And the last season of the conference, what was your takeaway from this game?

0:50.0

And what was it like as a person who's covered this conference very closely

0:55.0

to watch the last one of these?

0:57.0

Yeah, it's still surreal that it was the last one.

1:00.0

It's hard to process.

1:01.0

But if it is the last one and it is, they couldn't have gone out on a higher note.

1:05.0

This was, I've sat through many very dreary Pac-12 championship games,

1:09.0

especially when it was back at Levi's, when there were no playoff stakes.

1:14.0

Or a team went into it with play and then they got, you know, Utah one of your

1:17.0

had a chance to go play off and got destroyed.

1:19.0

And this was a massive showdown.

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