Austin Murphy has an excellent article on the Trojans’ recent early-season dominance. First, the recap:
The makers of these odds have clearly taken the “Stun Factor” into consideration. That’s my coinage for the strange spell that settles on USC’s early-season, non-conference opponents. It explains why quality teams with terrific athletes come into these September epics looking [...]
Now watch that line jump to 13 or 14.
Posted in Ohio State, USC | No Comments »Here at Ohio State, they teach you to be a better man, Small said. There, it’s just all about football.
Posted in Ohio State, USC | 1 Comment »Another list of college football’s top coaches, another top slot for Pete Carroll:
The buzz: Carroll has made USC arguably the premier program in the nation. Carroll’s 76-14 record in eight seasons gives him the best winning percentage of any Division I coach with at least five years’ experience. He has won 74 of his past [...]
Rivals.com asked its college football round table to name the school that is the most prohibitive favorite in its conference. The answers were BYU, Ohio State, and yes—USC.
This shouldn’t be a news flash. USC already has won six Pac-10 championships in a row, dominating the league like it never has been dominated before. Since its [...]
Posted in BYU, Ohio State, Pac-10, USC | No Comments »Brian Walker of TheStreet.com has posted four daring college football predictions. They’re all worth a read, but this one naturally caught our eye:
Southern Cal will not win the Pac-10.
I’m picking only one USC to have a shot at their conference title this year, and if you read above you can see it’s not the powerhouse [...]
Afraid that the Trojans will look past the Cavaliers to the Buckeyes? Well, that’s pretty much impossible now, if only because two of the Cavalier players were caught stealing beer from a private club in Charlottesville.
SC fans planning on traveling for the game: follow the link for gameday poster ideas.
Carson Palmer is no fan of the Buckeyes (Who can blame him?), and apparently he let that be known on the radio last week. Seems like pretty much what you would expect from a Pac-10 player forced to spend most of the year in Big Ten country, but Adam Jacobi over at FanHouse thinks Carson’s [...]
Posted in Big Eleven, Ohio State, Pac-10, USC | 1 Comment »Austin Murphy of SI.com predicts that Ohio State will take us out:
4. I predict the Buckeyes will launch their run at a third-consecutive national-title game by taking down USC at the L.A. Coliseum on September 13 in what will be the lowest-scoring game of the season for both teams. Laurinaitis, fellow LB Marcus Freeman & [...]
The Sports Blawger has posted a list of the top ten college football coaches. Some interesting choices along the way (for example, Urban Meyer over Mack Brown), but he ends up in the right place:
1. Pete Carroll, Southern California
Yep. It’s Pete. If OSU dominates the Big-10, I don’t think they’ve invented a name for what [...]