Welcome back everyone, to the Hike’s Peak Podcast, thank you for coming back to the mountain! As promised, we’re going to spend this week analyzing each PAC-12 team’s projected win totals, along with their most important player for 2026. I’ll let you know what I’m thinking about all eight team’s prospects in the win column, good or bad, which will help explain why a specific player is going to be your favorite team’s X-factor this season. Complete with scouting, depth chart projections, scenarios, and my personal expectations for each pick, this episode should introduce you to the main characters of the upcoming PAC-12 campaign. Lots of scouting reports to get through, let’s dive in! Real quick before we get going, first off, I’m very happy to announce that I will be attending Mountain West Media Days in Las Vegas on July 15th and 16th at the Palms Casino, providing you with interviews with all 10 head coaches and every attending player! Can’t wait to bring you guys some fantastic, exclusive content for you all, but in order to prepare, we will be taking next Tuesday off. As long as everything goes according to plan, the following Tuesday, you’ll receive the interviews with all of the players, and we’ll talk to every head coach the week after. Second thing, check out the always-free Mountain West PAC-12 Depth Chart Tracker which should have complete stats for every player in the Mountain West in time for Media Days! The PAC-12 stats are on the way, I promise, but since they didn’t want to have an official media day for their conference, I feel okay making them wait an extra week. Alright, enough shop talk, let’s get on with it! Show Notes: MW Media Days Announcement & MW/PAC Depth Chart Tracker App updateEach PAC-12 teams' O/U win total & Most Important Player w/ analysisMost Important Player breakdown (by position):Quarterback, Running Back, Safety: 2Wide Receiver, Cornerback: 1That is it for this week’s episode of the Hike’s Peak podcast, thank you so much for listening! This completes our preview of each Mountain West and PAC-12 team’s projected win totals and most important player, if you missed the Mountain West version just click here to catch up on that. Make sure to explore the FREE depth chart tracker app! If you like the show and enjoy our coverage, leave a rating on whatever platform you’re listening on, every single one of those helps us out immensely. Follow us on twitter at MWCConnection and find all of your Mountain West news at MWCConnection.com. Thank you again for listening, I will see you all when I get back from Las Vegas on July 21st with suitcases full of football intel! Until next time, I’m Jack Thompson, and thank you for coming back to the mountain!
