For subscribers: Our longtime columnist asks (and answers) all the big questions heading into Saturday's UA-Colorado game.
Greg Hansen Dear Mr. Football: Who is responsible for Colorado’s bid to become the second Pac-12 team in history to go 0-12?
How times change: In the 1900s, only one Pac-12 school fired a head coach in mid-season, and that was when ASU legend Frank Kush was fired after five games in 1979 — not for losing too much, but for allegedly slapping a Sun Devils punter in the face.
Once Walker got attention at UCLA, he was hired to be New Mexico State’s head coach in 2009. Gulp. It proved one thing: Walker is fearless. NMSU is surely the worst FBS team in college football the last 30 years. He went 10-40 and was fired. Ott, who was recruited strongly out of Chino Hills, California, by Fisch and Arizona running backs coach Scottie Graham last year, is so good that he has a chance to be just the second Pac-12 running back to be a first-team all-conference pick as a freshman. He would join Oregon State’s Jacquizz Rodgers in 2008.