This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods get to talk about something that they haven't been able to in over two years, a win on the football field for the Arizona Wildcats! Sure it took half of Cal's team being out of commission due to a COVID-19 outbreak, but Jedd Fisch got his first win as a college head coach and there is no place to go but up from here for the Cats! Speaking of COVID-19, Cal had 44 players and coaches test positive so its game against USC had to be p...
Nov 11, 2021•1 hr 42 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods came back down to earth with their picks against the spread and continue to be baffled by the up and down nature of this crazy Conference of Champions. For the 5th week in row our No. 1 team in the POC Power Rankings lost, this time Oregon State to a 2-5 California squad. Dave and Ryan breakdown what was a crazy mess of week 9 games including Oregon allowing Colorado to score TWENTY NINE (29) offensive points, Arizona coming withi...
Nov 03, 2021•2 hr 1 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are back with a little pep in their step after combining to go 9-3 in their picks against the spread last week (Ryan 5-1, Dave 4-2). Can the guys keep that momentum going into a full week 9 slate of games with no Pac-12 programs on BYE weeks? Most likely not, but they will for sure give it the minimal effort per usual. Dave and Ryan do have a lot of things to say about that crazy week 8 in the Conference of Champions including Ari...
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr 48 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are back at it discussing the breaking news that Washington State has fired head coach Nick Rolovich and four of his assistant coaches for cause because they failed to follow the state mandate and get vaccinated. They discuss where this Cougars program goes from here and how Rolovich's conspiracy brain won out over logic and common sense, throwing away his $3 million yearly contract to coach football. Dave and Ryan also try to mak...
Oct 19, 2021•2 hr 5 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are licking their wounds after going a collective 1-7 picking Pac-12 games against the spread, with Dave coming in at a perfect 0-4. Each week the Conference of Champions makes less and less sense, with teams looking great one week and terrible the next. Both Ryan and Dave breakdown the four games in the Pac-12 that featured another beatdown for the Trojans in the Coliseum, another record-setting loss for the Arizona Wildcats and ...
Oct 13, 2021•1 hr 40 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are in back in studio once again trying to make sense of the Pac-12 conference, with the top-two teams from our Pac-12 Power Rankings losing. Looking up and down both divisions, it appears that any program is capable of beating any other program (OK maybe not Colorado or Arizona) and that will likely means the chaos continues for the entire season. Does this mean the Pac-12 is once again out of the College Football Playoff race? W...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 26 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are in studio discussing the first full weekend of Pac-12 conference play, going over the good, the bad and the ugly. Unfortunately there was plenty of ugly to go around including Arizona going two calendar years without a win on the football field, Colorado going 24-straight possessions without scoring a point (a Pac-12 record) and the Trojans getting throttled at home by the Oregon State Beavers. They also preview and make their...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 50 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are in studio breaking down what was an extremely rough Saturday night for the Pac-12, with the Pac-12 South losing all five of its out of conference games, dropping the conferences OOC record to a putrid 23-27. The Conference of Champions only has one undefeated team remaining heading into the meat of conference play, the Oregon Ducks. As our friend Jon Wilner pointed out, the Pac-12 has lost to 6 Power Five opponents, 5 Mountain...
Sep 22, 2021•1 hr 32 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are in studio trying to make sense of this crazy conference that is the Pac-12. In week 1 the North crashed and burned and in week 2, with UCLA on a BYE, the South followed suit and fell flat on its face. The Ducks got another signature win for the conference, but another College Football Playoff contender USC got blasted by Stanford. The guys also discuss the breaking news that the Trojans have finally fired Clay Helton (much to ...
Sep 15, 2021•2 hr 10 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are in studio once again breaking down what was an incredible week one in the Pac-12, at least if you are a fan of the UCLA Bruins. Pac-12 North fans most likely had a bad taste in their collective mouths with the division going 1-5 and the lone win was a 4th quarterback Oregon comeback over Fresno State. The Pac-12 South fared much better, going 5-1 including UCLA's impressive domination of LSU in the Rose Bowl. The guys also bre...
Sep 08, 2021•1 hr 51 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are back in studio gearing up for the first real week of college football here in the Pac-12, with 12 games played over 3 days for week 1 in the conference plus an opportunity to recap the lone week 0 Pac-12 game, a UCLA blowout win over Todd Graham's Hawaii squad. The guys go through each and every game and make their picks against the spread, reveal their POC Power Rankings for the opening week of the season and share their Surv...
Sep 02, 2021•1 hr 37 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham is solo with David Woods out because he is in a "protocol" according to his publicist. The show must go on however, so Ryan dives into all of the juicy Pac-12 football news and notes that Dave despises so much, including starting quarterback news at Utah and Arizona, The Alliance that formed between the Pac-12, Big 10 and ACC, the Pac-12 deciding not to expand and of course Washington State head coach Nick Rolovich getting prickly with the mandat...
Aug 27, 2021•1 hr 12 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods return to the studio to preview the 2021 college football season for the six Pac-12 South teams: USC, Arizona State, Utah, UCLA, Colorado and Arizona. Will the Trojans win the conference or is this finally the year that Clay Helton is fired? Can Arizona State block out the distractions and bust through to win the division? Can Utah get back to its winning ways? Is this the year Chip Kelly wins an out of conference game? Will Karl ...
Aug 18, 2021•1 hr 21 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods return to the studio to preview the 2021 college football season for the six Pac-12 North teams: Oregon, Washington, California, Stanford, Washington State and Oregon State. Will the Ducks three-peat as Pac-12 Champions? Can Washington overtake Oregon? Will Chase Garbers lead Cal to the promised land? Can Stanford build on their surprise 4-2 showing in 2020? Can WSU's Run-and-Shoot light up the North? Will the Beavers and Jonathan...
Aug 11, 2021•1 hr 16 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods return to the studio to discuss the recent meeting between Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff and Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby and what it could mean for the Conference of Champions going forward. Could there be a merger between the two conferences? Maybe something as simple as a scheduling agreement between the two conferences? Or any sort of alliance that would help the two Power Five conferences combat the already huge Big...
Aug 04, 2021•1 hr 19 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods return to the studio to breakdown all of the interesting news and notes from Pac-12 Media Day 2021. It started off with new conference commissioner George Kliavkoff addressing the media 30 minutes after Texas and Oklahoma announced they had officially asked to join the SEC. Things got more interesting when Washington State head coach Nick Rolovich addressed the room via Zoom because he has yet to receive the vaccine and wasn't all...
Jul 29, 2021•1 hr 37 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods return to discuss the breaking news that Washington State head coach Nick Rolovich will not be attending Pac-12 Media Day in person because he has not been vaccinated against COVID-19. The guys were going through the Pac-12 Media Day release right after it was sent to the media and noticed that there was a note indicating that Rolovich would be doing interviews via Zoom. Neither host knew why but within minutes Rolovich's statemen...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 36 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods celebrate the end of an era that went on far, far too long as Larry Scott is finally out as the Pac-12 commissioner. New Conference of Champions boss George Kliavkoff will have plenty of damage to assess from the work of his predecessor and Pac-12 fans are hoping he will be able to push the right buttons to get the conference back on track and on par with the rest of the Power Five. July 1 also marks for the first day that college...
Jul 01, 2021•51 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods discuss the Pac-12 athletic directors meeting with incoming commissioner George Kliavkoff and how the future of college football scheduling strategy could change with the likely expansion of the College Football Playoff from 4 to 12 teams. The ADs are considering a couple of options to help optimize the Pac-12's chances of making and succeeding in a 12-team playoff world, including eliminating the division model for the conference...
Jun 26, 2021•1 hr 26 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods discuss the breaking and disturbing news surrounding Herm Edwards and the Arizona State football program, alleging that the Sun Devils hosted recruits on campus during the NCAA extended recruiting dead period. According to reports, ASU had dozens of recruits from all over the country on campus from October through February, including a huge weekend of visitors for the Sun Devils spring game. There is reportedly a dossier of eviden...
Jun 17, 2021•1 hr 23 min
This week Podcast of Champions host Ryan Abraham goes solo with David Woods out on injured reserve, talking about the infuriating but not surprising exit interview for Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott. Associated Press reporter Ralph Russo talks to Scott for 25 minutes and Larry didn't disappoint, blaming everyone but himself for the conference failures and taking no responsibility for the lack of revenue and distribution by his baby, the Pac-12 Networks. Ryan also talks about some Pac-12 quarter...
Jun 09, 2021•58 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods put a bow on spring football 2021 with Stanford hosting its spring game over the weekend and UCLA finishing up with a rare Thursday morning spring game, both shown live on the Pac-12 Network. The guys also talk about the early season television times being set for the conference including a week zero game with UCLA, the first ever Pac-12 after dark matchup on Fox, Stanford in the Kickoff Classic during week one plus Oregon's match...
May 27, 2021•1 hr 16 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods give their thoughts on the long awaited announcement of the new Pac-12 commissioner, George Kliavkoff, the president of entertainment and sports for MGM Resorts International, will take over for Larry Scott starting on July 1. Kliavkoff won the opening press conference broadcast live on the Pac-12 Networks, discussing many of the major problems the conference is facing including putting a priority on college football, expanding th...
May 18, 2021•1 hr 22 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods give their thoughts on how the Pac-12 fared in the 2021 NFL Draft, with just three first round selections and 28 over all draft picks. Alabama alone had 6 first rounders and the SEC as a conference more than doubled the Pac-12's output, but there were other factors at play including a delayed and shortened season due to COVID-19 leading to fewer draft eligible Pac-12 players this year than last. The guys also talk about four more ...
May 10, 2021•1 hr 17 min
This week Ryan Abraham is trapped in a well again, so David Woods has spring football updates from several schools around the Pac-12 including the spring games for Arizona and Washington State, as well as an update on the Pac-12 commissioner search. And as always they spend time answering every single question listeners manage to send in, including text messages and voicemails! Please subscribe, give the POC a five-star rating and post a review on Apple Podcasts! Sound off about Pac-12 football ...
Apr 29, 2021•43 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods have spring football updates from several schools around the Pac-12 including the spring games for USC and Utah and spring scrimmage updates from Arizona, Colorado, Washington, Washington State, Oregon and Oregon State. While David tends to nod off when the topic of spring football comes up, Ryan dives in to talk about all of the virtual sacks accumulated in the spring, the plethora of quarterback transfers across the conference a...
Apr 18, 2021•1 hr 26 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods put a bow on the Pac-12 basketball season with UCLA falling in a heartbreaker in the Final Four to Gonzaga, Arizona firing long time head coach Sean Miller and the Stanford Cardinal winning the national championship against Arizona in an All-Pac-12 final for the Women's NCAA Basketball Tournament. The guys also have spring football updates from across the conference including several starting quarterbacks not taking part in spring...
Apr 10, 2021•1 hr 21 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are yet again doing the unthinkable, talking Pac-12 basketball! It was a historic run for the Conference of Champions with three teams (Oregon State, USC & UCLA) in the Elite Eight with only the Bruins punching their ticket to the Final Four. After starting the show with the UCLA fight song, David pontificates on how the Bruins could topple mighty Gonzaga and Ryan wants to know if David would rather have UCLA get blown out by ...
Apr 02, 2021•1 hr 50 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods go where no POC episode has gone before... talking Pac-12 basketball! In this special weekend edition of the Podcast of Champions David and Ryan discuss the hot start for West Coast hoops in the Indianapolis bubble, with UCLA winning it's first two games, USC, Oregon State & Colorado winning its openers and Oregon advancing due to COVID-19 issues with Virginia Commonwealth. The guys also talk about the leadership issues Oregon...
Mar 22, 2021•1 hr 26 min
This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods didn't know what the theme of the episode should be, so they went back to the subject line of Hythloday's email from last week, 'Asinus ad lyram.' What does it mean? It really doesn't matter, right? It just sounded cool so that is the direction the guys went this week. As far as Pac-12 football topics go, the guys get into the new naming rights deal for Washington State's football field, Alabama inside linebacker Brandon Kaho tran...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 3 min
