Football doesn't get the credit it deserves. USC has been that good, but Oregon, Cal, UCLA and Arizona State all have the potential to be scary good this year too. The rest of the conference is good enough to sneak up on anybody else too. The conference still rides on UCLA's basketball reins though, and hasn't been very good for a while. Academically, horrifically overrated. The top 5 schools (the 4 Cali schools and U-Wash) are superb, but the bottom half of the conference is mediocre at best, just glorified WAC schools.