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January, 9, 2013

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By Ted Miller | ESPN.com

With Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year Will Sutton announcing he will return to Arizona State for his senior year, which surprised me, it seemed like a good time to go ahead and list returning starter numbers for 2013.

There is some fudge factor here because many teams list more than 11 guys on either or both sides of the ball. And this doesn't take into account guys who missed all or much of the year with injuries, such as USC DE Devon Kennard, Washington DE Hau’oli Jamora or Colorado WR Paul Richardson.

And a couple of guys might still announce they will enter the NFL draft.

So here we go.

Arizona: 6 offense, 11 defense, no specialists

Big names: RB Ka'Deem Carey, WR Austin Hill, LB Jake Fischer

Arizona State: 7 offense, 8 defense, kicker

Big names: DT Will Sutton, QB Taylor Kelly, TE Chris Coyle, DE Carl Bradford, S Alden Darby

California: 5 offense, 6 defense, 2 secialists

Big names: DE Deandre Coleman, RB Brendan Bigelow, OLB Chris McCain, K Vince D'Amato

Colorado: 9 offense, 7 defense, 2 specialists

Big names: DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe, CB Kenneth Crawley

Oregon: 8 offense, 7 defense, kicker

Big names: QB Marcus Mariota, RB/WR De'Anthony Thomas, WR Josh Huff, C Hroniss Grasu, CB Ifo Ekpre-Olomu

Oregon State: 8 offense, 7 defense, 2 specialists

Big names: WR Brandin Cooks, RB Storm Woods, DE Scott Crichton, LB D.J. Alexander

Stanford: 7 offense, 8 defense, kicker

Big names: QB Kevin Hogan, OT David Yankey, LB Shayne Skov, DE Ben Gardner, S Ed Reynolds

UCLA: 6 offense, 6 defense, kicker

Big names: QB Brett Hundley, OG Xavier Su'a-Filo, OLB Anthony Barr, LB Eric Kendricks

USC: 8 offense, 8 defense, kicker

Big names: WR Marqise Lee, RB Silas Redd, DE Morgan Breslin, DT Leonard Williams, LB Dion Bailey

Utah: 6 offense, 6 defense, no specialists

Big names: WR Dres Anderson, DB Brian Blechen, LB Trevor Riley, S Eric Rowe

Washington: 10 offense, 8 defense, 2 specialists

Big names: QB Keith Price, RB Bishop Sankey, WR Kasen Williams, TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins, NT Danny Shelton, LB Shaq Thompson

Washington State: 9 offense, 9 defense, 2 specialists

Big names: QB Connor Halliday, WR Gabe Marks, S Deone Bucannon, K Andrew Furney

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