The Pac 12 hardware has been handed out and literally everyone in the conference made the All Pac 12 First Team. But, there were still a few awards I felt needed to be handed out before the season was complete.
Pac 12 All Name Team
Shabazz Muhammad, UCLA. You can’t have this name and sling insurance for a living.
Jahii Carson, ASU. Such a rare gift to be able to pull off the double ‘i’.
Bak Bak, Cal. Odds are, once you read his name, you repeated it several times and giggled to yourself.
Andrew Andrews, Washington. Kind of a jerk move by his parents.
Beau Gamble, Colorado. Sounds like he could star in his own CBS drama.
Pac 12 Coach Who Most Resembles a High School Math Teacher
One of the most closely contested awards this season in the Pac 12.
Arizona State’s Herb Sendek was long considered the front runner for this award only to have Washington State’s Ken Bone not only resemble a teacher in high school that would check your graphing calculator before every test, Bone actually assembled an entire coaching staff of what I believe are actual high school and maybe even middle school math and science teachers. Not to be out done by Bone and Sendek, Oregon's Dana Altman looks like he’d be much more comfortable grading papers than breaking down film of opponents. Finally, USC's interim coach Bob Cantu emerged late, separating himself from the group by appearing to be the kind of “cool” high school math teacher that wore a loose fitting tie and occasionally let the class work on homework from other classes.
Winner: Dana Altman. And if he were a high school math teacher, he’d definitely wear the short sleeve button down shirt and tie combo.
Pac 12 Player Most Likely to Have Been in Early 90’s Sitcom
Arizona’s Nick Johnson may or may not have appeared in Saved By the Bell: The First Class. Oregon State’s Joe Burton may or may not have decided to pursue basketball to avoid being typecast as the funny, chubby kid and Utah’s Jason Washburn may or may not have been the bully in a very serious episode of Boy Meets World.
Winner: Arizona State’s Jonathan Gilling. Seriously, have you ever seen him and the kid from Step By Step in the same room? Throw some oversized red glasses on him and take a closer look at his birth certificate. Now.
Pac 12’s Goofiest Big Man Award
I won’t even attempt to waste your time with this one. He was a bigger lock for this award than Daniel Day Lewis was for Best Actor.
Winner: Brock Motum.
Lifetime Achievement Winner: Brock Motum
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Last Week: 10-5
Season: 108-68-1
Week 14
Buffalo over St. Louis
Cincinnati over Dallas
Cleveland over Kansas City
Tampa Bay over Philadelphia
Washington over Baltimore
Atlanta over Carolina
New York (A) over Jacksonville
Indianapolis over Tennessee
Chicago over Minnesota
Pittsburgh over San Diego
San Francisco over Miami
Seattle over Arizona
New York (N) over New Orleans
Green Bay over Detroit
Monday Night Football
Houston over New England
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Week 12: 5-8
Season: 98-63-1
Week 13
Buffalo over Jacksonville
Chicago over Seattle
Detroit over Indianapolis
Green Bay over Minnesota
Houston over Tennessee
Kansas City over Carolina
San Francisco over St. Louis
New England over Miami
New York (A) over Arizona
Denver over Tampa Bay
Cincinnati over San Diego
Oakland over Cleveland
Baltimore over Pittsburgh
Dallas over Philadelphia
Monday Night Football
Washington over New York (N)
Last Week: 11-2
Season: 93-55-1
Week 12
Minnesota over Chicago
Cincinnati over Oakland
Pittsburgh over Cleveland
Indianapolis over Buffalo
Denver over Kansas City
Seattle over Miami
Tampa Bay over Atlanta
Tennessee over Jacksonville
San Diego over Baltimore
St. Louis over Arizona
San Francisco over New Orleans
Green Bay over New York (N)
Monday Night Football
Philadelphia over Carolina
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