Blogging from Pac-10 media day

We're blogging from the red carpet of Pac-10 football media day, where players from around the West Coast have an opportunity to meet their favorite beat writers and radio jocks. OK, not quite ... but there are a lot of big names present and there will be plenty of coverage over the next few hours.

To kick things off, here's this year's preseason media poll. Remember that The Times does not participate, but we do report ...

1. USC (38) — 389
2. Arizona State — 330
3. Oregon — 295
4. California (1) — 274
5. UCLA — 204
6. Oregon State — 192
7. Arizona — 185
8. Washington — 139
9. Stanford — 76
10. Washington State — 61

First-place votes are in parenthesis; total votes are listed after the dash. According to the league, the poll has picked the champs 25 of 47 years and the last eight seasons in a row (a few of those were ties, of course).

—Adam Rose