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Play it forward: UCLA vs. Arizona State, Washington vs. Stanford

UCLA Coach Jim Mora and his team prepare to take the field against Texas on Sept. 13 at AT&T Stadium. The Bruins will face Arizona State on Thursday in Tempe, Ariz.
UCLA Coach Jim Mora and his team prepare to take the field against Texas on Sept. 13 at AT&T Stadium. The Bruins will face Arizona State on Thursday in Tempe, Ariz.
(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
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1: UCLA at Arizona State on Thursday pairs the team picked to win the Pac-12 Conference South Division against the defending South champion. Bruins starting quarterback Brett Hundley will likely return from a left-arm hyperextension, while Sun Devils starter Taylor Kelly is definitely out with a foot injury.

2: Top-ranked Florida State’s traveling circus visits North Carolina State this week for another key Atlantic Coast Conference game. The Seminoles welcome back quarterback Jameis Winston, who returns to the lineup after his headline-making, one-game suspension against Clemson.

3: It doesn’t seem possible, as poorly as his team has played, that Chris Petersen is the first Washington coach to start 4-0 since Gil Dobie in 1908. We’ll be impressed if Petersen gets to 5-0, because this week Washington plays host to Stanford.

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4: Ohio State’s 39-game winning streak against in-state rivals will be on the line his week when the Buckeyes host talented Cincinnati in Columbus. Ohio State’s last loss to another team from Ohio was in 1921 versus Oberlin.

5: Colorado plays at California in a matchup of the Pac-12 teams that last year went a combined 1-17 in league play. The “W” was Colorado over Cal. Both schools are much improved, though, especially Cal, which lost a Hail Mary heartbreaker at Arizona on Saturday.

chris.dufresne@latimes.com

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