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Author: Stephen Vilardo

Gonzaga
College Basketball SuperWest College Basketball 

Stephen Vilardo’s Week 6 SuperWest Hoops ‘Games to Watch’

> Two unranked Pac-12 teams get a shot at upsetting ranked opponents with off-court distractions

featured, recent 11 min read

There’s a lot of intrigue and excitement on this week’s men’s basketball schedule, which sees four games featuring two ranked teams.

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UNLV
College Basketball SuperWest College Basketball 

Stephen Vilardo’s Week 6 SuperWest Hoops Power Rankings

> The Top 16 teams from among the Pac-12, Mountain West, and West Coast conferences

featured, recent 10 min read

Arizona remains on top after another big non-conference battle last week, and Gonzaga and UCLA also kept humming along.

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College Basketball SuperWest College Basketball 

Stephen Vilardo’s Week 5 SuperWest Hoops ‘Games to Watch’

> Las Vegas is the place to be this week with a number of quality games slated for the strip

featured, recent 10 min read

The Las Vegas Clash features a Top 15 college basketball matchup between two teams with great history in Arizona vs. Indiana.

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Arizona HOops
College Basketball SuperWest College Basketball 

Stephen Vilardo’s Week 5 SuperWest Hoops Power Rankings

> The Top 16 teams from among the Pac-12, Mountain West, and West Coast conferences

featured, recent 9 min read

The first week in December brings another edition of our weekly SuperWest Top 16 power rankings from among the Pac-12, MWC, and WCC.

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College Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 All-SuperWest Football Team

> The Pac-12 and Mountain West conferences, along with BYU, feature a host of great players

featured, recent 15 min read

Both the Pac-12 and Mountain West, along with BYU, feature a host of great players, many of whom will go on to play in the NFL.

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College Football Mountain West Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Mountain West Championship Notes

> It's the fourth time in the 10 MWC Title Games that Boise State and Fresno State have met

featured, recent 5 min read

resno State and Boise State doing battle to decide the Mountain West is becoming old hat. This is the fourth

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Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Pac-12 Football Championship Notes

> Caleb Williams heads into the Pac-12 Championship against Utah as the Heisman front-runner

featured, recent 5 min read

A good outing at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas could cement Caleb Williams’ case for the Heisman and punch USC’s ticket to the CFB Playoffs.

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Stephen Vilardo's Top 25
College Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 14 College Football Top 25

> The top four in these rankings should be the top four in the CFB Playoff rankings as well

featured, recent 15 min read

s the regular season comes to an end, we have a much clearer picture of the college football landscape. The

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Michael Penix
College Football Pac-12 Football 

Vilardo: Week 13 Pac-12 Football Stat Highlights

> The USC Trojans lead the nation with a turnover margin of +1.82 per game

featured, recent 6 min read

No. 6 USC remains squarely in the College Football Playoff picture heading into its final regular season game against Notre Dame.

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Stephen Vilardo's Top 25
College Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 13 College Football Top 25

> Five teams in last week's Top 25 did not look great but all of them—except Tennessee—still won

featured, recent 15 min read

mong the teams ranked in my top six last week, five of them struggled and did not look great. All

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College Football West Coast Football 

Vilardo: Points Gained, Lost, and Denied in the Red Zone

> Winning and losing can in many cases be traced back to a team's performance in the red zone

featured, recent 5 min read

Moving the ball and getting into the endzone is the name of the game on the offensive side of the ball in college football.

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Auto Racing Formula 1 

Stephen Vilardo’s F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Preview

> What looked like a fight between Red Bull & Ferrari to begin the season has gone by the wayside

featured, recent 4 min read

F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Preview with a television schedule of events, some quick facts and speed points, and a table of recent winners.

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Gonzaga
College Basketball SuperWest College Basketball 

Vilardo: Early 2022 SuperWest Hoops Power Rankings

> Weekly comparative rankings of the Top 16 teams from the Pac-12, Mountain West, and WCC

featured, recent 10 min read

his season we will have you covered from all angles with our hardwood coverage. As the season progresses and heats

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Stephen Vilardo's Top 25
College Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 12 College Football Top 25

> The Pac-12 will need some crazy things to happen for USC to land a Playoff berth

featured, recent 14 min read

The Conference will need some crazy things to happen for USC to land a Playoff berth, in addition to the Trojans running the table.

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Auto Racing Formula 1 

Stephen Vilardo’s F1 São Paulo Grand Prix Preview

> The Brazilian Grand Prix at the track best known as “Interlagos” tends to produce fun races

featured, recent 5 min read

As Formula 1 reaches its homestretch with just two races remaining, the schedule takes the teams to Interlagos for the São Paulo Grand Prix.

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Alex Austin
College Football West Coast Football 

Vilardo: SuperWest Football Analysis of Passes Defended

> Five teams in our coverage area are among the top 30 in passes defended per game this season

featured, recent 6 min read

The west has several teams and individuals getting active on defense, making things difficult on the passing game of the opposition.

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Stephen Vilardo's Top 25
College Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 11 College Football Top 25

> Teams are sorting themselves out, but it's not time to downgrade Oregon State

featured, recent 15 min read

Oregon football continues to put up crazy offensive numbers against every team on their schedule not named Georgia.

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Caleb Williams vs Arizona
College Football West Coast Football 

Vilardo: SuperWest Teams and Third-Down Situations

> An analysis of third downs as a whole, and situations that make them difficult to pick up

featured, recent 9 min read

An analysis of SuperWest teams and players in terms of third downs as a whole, and situations that make them difficult to pick up.

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Stephen Vilardo's Top 25
College Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 10 College Football Top 25

> At 6-2, the Oregon State Beavers are off to their best eight-game start since 2013

featured, recent 13 min read

UCLA comes in at No. 10 after getting a win over Stanford in the Rose Bowl for the first time since the 2008 season.

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F1 Grand Prix of Mexico
Auto Racing Formula 1 

SuperWest F1 Project: Mexico City Grand Prix Preview

> The first in a series of columns and podcasts edited and produced by our Dane Miller

featured, recent 4 min read

With the Formula 1 race in Mexico City on Sunday, our Stephen Vilardo initiates SuperWest Sport’s coverage of the series.

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College Football West Coast Football 

Vilardo: SuperWest Loaded with Exceptional Running Backs

> Among those rushers are four of the top five active career rushing leaders in college football

featured, recent 5 min read

Oregon is running the ball for 6.0 yards per carry in games played outside of Eugene this season, the fourth-best road mark nationally.

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Stephen Vilardo's Top 25
College Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 9 College Football Top 25

> TCU and Oregon came up big in high-profile matchups, and Clemson held off Syracuse

featured, recent 14 min read

mong my top four, Georgia and Michigan each had byes, Tennessee may as well have against UT-Martin, and Ohio State’s

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Drew Timme
College Basketball SuperWest College Basketball 

2022-23 Preseason All-SuperWest Men’s Hoops Teams

> Top players from the Pac-12, the MWC, and the WCC as selected by our Stephen Vilardo

featured, recent 5 min read

When college football reaches the halfway point, it means college basketball season is not far behind.

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Kentucky v Arkansas
College Basketball SuperWest College Basketball 

’22-23 SuperWest Preseason All-America Men’s Hoops Teams

> As chosen by our senior SuperWest and National basketball writer, Stephen Vilardo

featured, recent 3 min read

The SuperWest All-America teams are filled with seniors. And some of the tough decisions left off are also seniors and upperclassmen.

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Stephen Vilardo's Top 25
College Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 8 College Football Top 25

> A pair of thrillers in Salt Lake City and Knoxville headlined the shakeups at the top

recent 13 min read

The top-ranked team in Stephen Vilardo’s Top 25 rolled yet again, but the SEC East may not be a foregone conclusion for Georgia.

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USC WSU
College Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 7 SuperWest CFB Notes

> The game of the week is in Salt Lake City where USC faces its first ranked opponent in Utah

featured, recent 15 min read

In Fresno, the Bulldogs will host San Jose State for the Valley Trophy, and Stanford travels to Notre Dame to play for the Legends Trophy.

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Stephen Vilardo's Top 25
College Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 7 College Football Top 25

> This week we see a matchup of ranked opponents in each Power Five contest

featured, recent 12 min read

The 3rd Saturday in October brings the Tennessee vs Alabama. This week we see a matchup of ranked opponents in each Power Five contest.

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College Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 6 SuperWest CFB Notes

> Utah at UCLA is a marquee contest between a pair of teams with two different 8-game streaks

recent 17 min read

or the second week in a row the Pac-12 features a matchup of two ranked teams, and once again, that

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Stephen Vilardo's Top 25
College Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 6 College Football Top 25

> Week Five saw the No. 1 team in the nation struggle and seven teams drop out of the rankings

featured, recent 12 min read

Stephen Vilardo’s Top 25 had UCLA ranked since the preseason and the Bruins delivered with a big win over Washington.

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College Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 5 SuperWest CFB Notes

> Friday's UW vs. UCLA matchup will show if both are for real with their unbeaten records

featured, recent 12 min read

Friday is the highlight of the Pac-12 schedule with a Washington-UCLA matchup that will show if they’re for real with their unbeaten records.

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Stephen Vilardo's Top 25
College Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 5 College Football Top 25

> How the nation's top teams stack up after another week of upsets and near misses

featured, recent 12 min read

The week ahead in college football offers a few matchups that will help decide which teams are true contenders and which may be pretenders.

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michael penix jr vs msu 2022
College Football West Coast Football 

Vilardo QB Notes: Penix Jr. Transforming UW Offense

> Through three games, the Huskies are putting up 388.7 passing yards per game

recent 4 min read

Michael Penix has flourished in DeBoer’s offense over the first three games of 2022 with a rating of 180.78, ranking him 18th in the nation.

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Stephen Vilardo's Top 25
College Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 4 College Football Top 25

> How the nation's top teams stack up after another week of upsets and near misses

recent 13 min read

Three weeks into the 2022 college football season, we can start to get a better feel for which teams might stay in the Top 25.

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Jack Plummer, Austin Ajiake
College Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 3 SuperWest CFB Notes

> The 16 teams play 11 nonconference matchups with crossover games vs the Big Ten & ND

recent 20 min read

The 16 SuperWest teams play 11 nonconference matchups this weekend, with crossover games involving the Big Ten and Notre Dame.

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NFL NFL West Divisions 

Stephen Vilardo’s NFL West Week 2 Game Notes

> A few notes and numbers for the AFC and NFC West games this week

recent 15 min read

Last week Kansas City became the sixth team in the Super Bowl era to win eight consecutive season-opening games with a win over Arizona.

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Stephen Vilardo's Top 25
College Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 3 College Football Top 25

> How the nation's top teams stack up after a thrilling week of close games and upsets

recent 12 min read

Week two of the 2022 college football season brought us some huge upsets and thrillers as reflected in Stephen Vilardo’s latest Top 25.

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Stephen Vilardo's Top 25
College Football National CFB West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Week 2 College Football Top 25

> A look at how the nation's top teams stack up after the first full slate of games

featured, recent 12 min read

A lot of the teams at the top end of our SuperWest Top 25 College Football rankings won by large margins as expected.

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College Football Pac-12 Football West Coast Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s Week 1 SuperWest CFB Game Notes

> News and notes for each Pac-12 game and those of BYU, Boise State, and San Diego State

featured, recent 23 min read

College football news, notes, and stats for each Pac-12 game and those of BYU, Boise State, and San Diego State.

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NCAA Soccer Olympic Sports 

NCAA West Women’s and Men’s Soccer Previews

> A look at the prospects of the top soccer teams and players west of the Rockies

featured, recent 6 min read

As football season gets into full swing so do all the other NCAA fall sports, including women’s and men’s soccer.

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Stephen Vilardo's Top 25
College Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s Preseason College Football Top 25

> A look at how the projected top teams stack up before the games start in late August

featured, recent 15 min read

With preseason camps in full swing across the nation, it’s time to bring you our SuperWest Sports Preseason College Football Top 25.

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College Football 

SuperWest Sports Preseason All-America Team

> The nation's best player at each position as chosen by our senior writer Stephen Vilardo

featured, recent 5 min read

Picking this year’s college football All-America team involved numerous tough choices selections, particularly at the QB and RB selections.

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College Football Pac-12 Football 

2022 SuperWest Preseason Pac-12 All-California Teams

> Best players and coach from Cal, Stanford, UCLA, and USC for 2022, two teams deep

featured, recent 15 min read

Preseason choices for the best players at each position collectively from Cal, Stanford, UCLA, and USC for 2022, two teams deep.

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Pac-12 in NBA Draft 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Pac-12 Historical NBA Draft Capsules

> A condensed history of each Conference program's pro basketball selections over the years

featured, recent 7 min read

With the 202 NBA Draft in the books, these capsules provide a condensed history of each Conference program’s selections.

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Pac-12 in NBA Draft 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Pac-12 NBA Mock Draft

> Expect six former Pac-12 men's basketball players to be selected on Thursday night

featured, recent 6 min read

With the NBA Finals winding down we turn our attention to the NBA Draft. Stephen sees six former Pac-12 players getting selected.

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Pac-12 in NBA Draft 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Pac-12 NBA Draft Stat Preview

> The Conference has seen at least one player selected in the First Round of the last 33 drafts

featured, recent 6 min read

The Pac-12 has seen at least one player selected in the First Round of the NBA Draft 33-straight drafts & that streak will continue in 2022.

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NFL Draft Pac-12 Football 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Statistical NFL Draft Preview

> Conference and national selection notes, trends, streaks, and other milestones

featured, recent 8 min read

The Pac-12 will be well represented throughout the Draft, and several players from the conference should hear their names on Day One.

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NFL Draft Pac-12 Football Pac-12 Pros 

Stephen Vilardo’s 2022 Pac-12 NFL Draft Capsules

> Each Conference program's pro football draft history at a glance

featured, recent 6 min read

In anticipation of Thursday’s 2022 NFL Draft in Las Vegas, here are summary capsules for each Pac-12 program.

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College Basketball Pac-12 Men's Basketball 

Stephen Vilardo’s WSU Semifinal NIT Stat Preview

> A win over Texas A&M would get the cougars into the finals of the NIT for the first time ever

featured, recent 2 min read

The Big Dance is over for the Pac-12, but the Conference still has one men’s team in Washington State playing during the last week of March.

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