Rocky Top Talk is running an interesting series of posts on college football logos, focusing so far on failed attempts to be scary and the boring ones. (Coolest and worst are yet to come.) No sign of SC yet, although pretty much every other Pac-10 team has shown up on one of the two lists [...]
Posted in Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, Oregon, Stanford, USC, Washington | No Comments »Two weeks have passed since signing day, and now the guessing games begin. ESPN.com’s Bruce Feldman (my favorite college football writer) takes a look at what QB battles he expects to highlight spring practices nationwide. Cal is #1 on his list, as he thinks that Riley and Longshore will battle into August. But of course [...]
Posted in Cal, USC | No Comments »ESPN.com’s Mark Schlabach has been assigned the task of predicting the ’08 season—during the winter of 2008, as opposed to the customary summer. First, he gave America this the morning after LSU defeated Ohio State in that fake title game. 5. USC The Trojans played like the best team in the country in their final [...]
Posted in Arizona State, Arkansas, Cal, Illinois, LSU, Ohio State, Oregon, Recruiting, USC, Virginia | No Comments »I’ve been pondering this a lot since Chow got fired. Assuming that Chow returns to LA (which is obviously not official yet), about 50% of me is really concerned, because for the first time in a while, UCLA is making all the right moves. USC still hasn’t solved a DeWayne Walker defense, Neuheisel is that [...]
Posted in Arizona State, Cal, Coaches, Notre Dame, Pac-10, Stanford, UCLA, USC | No Comments »Fanblogs brings us StubHub’s list of 2007′s Top 25 College Football Rivalries, and, wouldn’t you know it, USC shows up twice in the top five. 1 USC at Notre Dame 20-Oct $409 1 $379 2 Ohio State at Michigan 17-Nov $408 3 $876 3 Oklahoma vs. Texas 6-Oct $400 2 $419 4 UCLA at USC [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State, Arkansas, Army, Auburn, Cal, Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa State, LSU, Michigan, Michigan State, Navy, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Oregon State, Pitt, Purdue, Stanford, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, The Other USC, The U, UCLA, USC, Va Tech, Virginia, West Virginia | No Comments »Here we go, thanks to Awful Announcing for listing the Week 9 College Football TV schedule. Tonight: #2 BC at #8 Virginia Tech, Hokie Hokie Hi. Tomorrow: Boise St at Fresno St, Can Boise win without the marrying man Ian Johnson? Saturday: Gameday: at Penn State as the ESPN/ABC corporate plan comes together with Gameday [...]
Posted in Arizona State, Boise State, Boston College, Cal, Kansas, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Tennessee, Texas A&M, The Other USC, USC, Va Tech | No Comments »As the last Saturday in October approaches, a couple of “experts” are already making their picks for this weekend’s games: Dan Shanoff, formerly of ESPN.com’s Page 2 and now a weekly College Football contributor at Deadspin likes Ohio State over Penn State, Oregon over USC, Cal over ASU, Florida over Georgia at the Cocktail Party, [...]
Posted in Arizona State, Boston College, Cal, Florida, Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Rutgers, USC, Va Tech, West Virginia | No Comments »Hey Urban Poet: Chuck Weis is listed at around 350lbs so I think that is right. Also, the “Dwarf from Shreveport” was left on the sideline all day so that also helped out a lot. Oh and there are no Division-I offensive players playing currently for Notre Dame. So, Ohio State dominated Michigan St for [...]
Posted in Arizona State, Cal, LSU, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, USC | No Comments »Not to get too hasty here, but the LA Times points out that if Florida upsets LSU, then (assuming that USC takes care of business against Stanford) USC and Cal will probably occupy the top two spots in the polls. A Florida victory over undefeated Louisiana State at Tiger Stadium could propel USC and California [...]
Posted in Cal, Coaches, LSU, Polls, USC | 1 Comment »Apparently Stewart Mandel wants a do over? Now he thinks that if he were to submit his first AP Ballot after Week 5, then LSU would be #1, followed by USC, Cal, South Florida and Ohio State.
Posted in Cal, LSU, Ohio State, South Florida, USC | 1 Comment »