ASU has Washington, Colorado, USC, and Oregon all on the road, and Stanford and Utah at home. Easily the toughest schedule in the conference. They will almost certainly have three conference losses by the time we play them, and could quite possibly have four. Their conference schedule is heavily front loaded, with the exception of a game against Oregon State.
So long as Utah doesn’t take too many Ls in our games against the South, we should win our division even with three conference losses, though two would obviously be better. Make no mistake, USC is still the roadblock because of their schedule. We absolutely have to own the tiebreaker against them to win the division. ASU will be out of the running before October ends and Colorado, while perhaps a bit overrated at this point (beating a Colorado State team that was thoroughly worked by Hawaii and a Nebraska team that no one knows anything about doesn’t say a lot), looks to be our second biggest threat to the division title. This is, again, based largely on schedule, but Colorado does get both USC and Washington on the road.
Utah will win the division if they can limit their south division losses to one (and that loss isn’t to USC or Colorado) and limits north losses to two or less.
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