Inside Washington State’s plan to turn wins into dollars, and dollars into wins
Ticket revenue is at record levels thanks to four sellouts (double last year’s total), and donations are soaring. Now the Cougars need to keep the...
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Jon Wilner
Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.
Pac-12 Bowl Projections: Signs still point to Huskies in Rose Bowl
The week before the Apple Cup, Jon Wilner still sees no reason to believe UW won't beat WSU and get a bid to the Granddaddy...
Pac-12 Power Rankings Week 11: Will USC fire Clay Helton? | Jon Wilner
For the second consecutive week, the Cougars and Huskies are 1-2 in Jon Wilner's Pac-12 power rankings. But, with USC's elimination from the conference title...
Pac-12 Bowl Projections: Why the Huskies, not Cougars, should be smelling Roses
Believe it or not, there's a scenario in which UCLA, already ineligible for the postseason, clinches the Pac-12's Rose Bowl berth. But, really, Jon Wilner's...
Pac-12 Power Rankings Week 10: It’s all about the Apple Cup
It's simple: Washington wins out, and it wins the Pac-12 North. The Cougars can lose one more game — just not the last one. Just...
Pac-12 Power Rankings Week 9: WSU Cougars unquestionably top a conference in chaos
Jon Wilner's preseason prognostications have never been proven so wrong as Washington State this season. What's behind the Cougars' surprise success? Mike Leach tells Pac-12...
What’s the best job in the Pac-12? Even coaches say there’s an obvious hierarchy
It's clear Washington is in the top tier, but is Chris Petersen's job the most coveted in the conference? Pac-12 Hotline's Jon Wilner asked the...
Pac-12 Power Rankings: Is WSU’s win over Oregon enough to overtake Washington?
The Cougars lurched ahead of the Huskies in the AP top 25, but what about Jon Wilner's power rankings? Before we get into that, a...
Pac-12 midseason report: Top players, best coach, South chaos, officiating scandal and bum ankles
The conference is sputtering. Its top teams have underwhelmed. It's on the brink of playoff elimination already. There was that officiating scandal. And that other...
Bowl projections, and why a CFP berth is looking unlikely for a one-loss Pac-12 champ
After the Huskies lost to Oregon last weekend, the Ducks, Cougars and, maybe, Colorado, now stand the best chance of representing the Pac-12 in the...