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 [...]
Posted in Arizona State, Ohio State, Oregon, Pac-10, Stanford, USC | 2 Comments »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 »Mark Mangino begins a rigorous pre-season fitness regimen. OU cheerleaders scramble to memorize the words to Boomer Sooner. Nerds across the country prepare for twelve weeks out of the shadows as they don Micheal Jackson-esque pseudo-military uniforms to march in the band. A Northwest Florida cryogenics lab begins de-icing Bobby Bowden. Joe Paterno starts sundowning. [...]
Posted in BCS, BYU, Boise State, Coaches, Florida State, Kansas, LSU, Navy, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, San Diego State, Stanford, Top Tens, USC | 1 Comment »Apparently, Notre Dame really wants to keep their schedule as easy as possible for the next decade.* Looks like USC and Michigan till 2018, a few Catholic school battles with BC, and eight or nine guaranteed wins (Just like this past season, right?), which puts them in the middle of the BCS money grab. Speaking [...]
Posted in Boston College, Michigan, Notre Dame, Stanford, USC | 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 »December 1, 2007 has come and gone, which means that this wild and crazy season is over. No one was great, everyone claimed to be good, and we are left with a system that is designed to give us a 1 vs. 2 game—based on the opinions of 167 people who don’t watch every game [...]
Posted in Appalachian State, BCS, Big 12, Big Eleven, Boston College, Coaches, Georgia, Hawaii, I-AA (we refuse to call it "FCS"), Kansas, LSU, Michigan, Mizzou, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Pac-10, Polls, Stanford, Student Body Right, USC, Va Tech, West Virginia | 4 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 »We’re already on record as doubting whether Stanford’s upset of USC was the biggest ever. Now it looks like maybe it wasn’t even the biggest upset this season: According to a spokesman for BetUS.com, an online gaming website, if Stanford were playing Notre Dame this week at Palo Alto — the teams are scheduled to [...]
Posted in BCS, Notre Dame, Stanford, USC | No Comments »(Here it is, Trojan fans: my effort to finally get rid of my outrage.) Injuries are injuries, I don’t care. The “Dwarf from Shreveport” sucks and the first throw he makes that wins a game for SC will be his first. Oregon State, UCLA, Stanford: he was a turnover machine in all of them with [...]
Posted in Stanford, Student Body Right, USC | 5 Comments »From the “thinking about the misfortune of others helps us feel better about our own” department comes today’s discussion question: When was the last time a so-called power had a season as awful* as Notre Dame’s currently having? (Their victory over UCLA notwithstanding.) One proposal might be USC’s 3-8 in 1991, which included losing a [...]
Posted in Air Force, Duke, Memphis, Notre Dame, Stanford, USC | 1 Comment »