Dots: Award Semifinalists

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Football Dots

• Jake Browning and Budda Baker have been named semifinalists for prestigious end-of-year national awards. Curiously, Sidney Jones is absent from the DB award lists.

• Marshawn Lynch driving the injury cart at Cal has become a legend. But that’s not the only thing he’s remembered for in Berkeley.

• QB Power Rankings from the Pac-12 blog.

• It’s week 10, which means conference title races are beginning to find their final form. Who’s in the driver’s seat in the Pac-12 North (I’ll give you a hint, we write about this team a lot) and South?

• Azeem Victor trying to better balance his emotions with his physical play.

• Great spotlight on Cal’s use of misdirection against Oregon. How much of this will we see on Saturday night?

• What were the biggest hits and misses of the preseason polls?

• Football Four Podcast diving into the ups and downs of both Washington and Tennessee’s seasons. Both programs were preseason media darlings.

• There’s a lot of potential movement this off season with hirings and firings spinning the old coaching carousel. What are the questions that will define this movement?

• Grading Cal’s loss to USC.

• Jon Wilner has some interesting thoughts on Steve Sarkisian before diving into his power rankings.

Basketball Dots

• Washington Women’s Basketball will enter the season ranked #17.

• The Daily Californian’s preview of Pac-12 basketball.

• Could Markelle Fultz lead all freshmen in scoring?