Pac-12 Roundtable Discussion Entering First Big Week

The Sports Illustrated Pac-12 roundtable discussion makes its debut this week as six reporters who cover conference teams talked about their teams' upcoming games in the video atop the story.
UCLA was the only Pac-12 team who played a game this past week, and the Bruins posted a 44-10 victory over Hawaii before a relatively small crowd at the Rose Bowl.
Th Bruins will get a bigger test this weekend when they host 16th-ranked LSU, hoping they have more fans at the game than LSU, which may bring a crowd. UCLA is giving free tickets to students, trying to build its attendance.
The people in the round-table discussion include Dan Raley (Washington Huskies), Claudette Pattison (USC Trojans), Max Torres (Oregon Ducks), Donnie Druin (Arizona State), Sam Connon (UCLA Bruins) and Jake Curtis (Cal Bears).
Washington opens against Montana, USC plays San Jose State, Arizona State hosts Southern Utah, Oregon faces Fresno State, Cal opens at home against Nevada.
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Jake Curtis worked in the San Francisco Chronicle sports department for 27 years, covering virtually every sport, including numerous Final Fours, several college football national championship games, an NBA Finals, world championship boxing matches and a World Cup. He was a Cal beat writer for many of those years, and won awards for his feature stories.