As summer hits the midway point, that means one thing, football is just around the corner! Yes, that's right, football is almost here... Finally! While there were a number of coaching changes across the Pac 12 last year, most of the conference remained intact this offseason. On the field, the Pac 12 Conference returns plenty of talented players, headlined by Oregon's Justin Herbert, Colorado's Laviska Shenault, Washington's Trey Adams, and Utah's Zack Moss among a large number of other gifted players. At the same time, programs like Arizona State and Washington have to replace a lot of talent from last year's teams.

Win totals are starting to trickle out from the oddsmakers recently. The way-too-early rankings and many offseason prediction pieces have noted that the league is without one true frontrunner in the conference as a whole, primarily split between Oregon, Utah, and Washington, but the majority have Utah as the clear-cut favorite in the South Division. Oddsmakers, like FanDuel, agree that there is no frontrunner within the conference, as no program has a higher win total than 9.5, and there are four programs within 1 game of that mark as well.

There's also a clear separation from those top four schools and the remaining eight programs in the league. As the highest win total among the eight is 7.5 wins, which doesn't speak too kindly about the rest of the conference.

For Utah, there is plenty of reason to be optimistic about the season. The talent returning from last year's squad is impressive, and the schedule they face is not nearly as difficult as it was a year ago. The Utes are transitioning into a new offense, which is a bit of question mark, but there is optimism because of how well it suits Utah's personnel. Many in the media are predicting good things for the program.

FanDuel has recently released win totals for Utah and every other Pac 12 program, let's take a look at what they predict.