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 [...]
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 »Okay, here we go. As soon as you think that you might want to not watch much college football this weekend 7 of the Top 15 lose.
#1 USC left all of their crisp play in LA and squeaked by U-Dub by 3. SC looked terrible and I would not be surprised if LSU is [...]
Posted in Alabama, Auburn, Cal, Clemson, Florida, Kansas State, Kentucky, LSU, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, USC, Washington | 2 Comments »Tonight: ESPN2 West Virginia at South Florida and as much as I want USF to win, I just don’t think they can stop PatSlatonSteveWhite.
Saturday: ABC Regional Cal at Oregon—be prepared for Dan Fouts’ homerism to get out of control when the Ducks play well. However, I think that Oregon has proven that when they are [...]
John Smith of NBCSports thinks that SC is going look past Washington and lose 33-31.
Eric Smith of USA Today (multi-colored Fish wrap) likes SC to win by 3 scores.
I guess John Smith doesn’t want anyone to watch the Flagship network Saturday afternoon Oct 20th. Well, if ND is 0-7, those of us that like watching [...]
Okay, so this weekend’s games look awful after the Friday night West Virginia/South Florida battle.
Now, I know you will say, “Wait—Cal is at Oregon!” And yes, if you live in Californa, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, or Idaho you will get to see that game. (If you have GamePlan, of course, then you are set.) Everywhere [...]
According to Scott Wolf, one Pac-10 coach has said that Jake Locker will be better than Vince Young. Which, of course, raises the question: Which coach said it? Our guess is Bill Doba or Ty Willingham (”Please, UW AD, give me at least three more years.”)
At any rate, it won’t be hard to improve upon [...]
As SI considers the ‘Pac-10 vs. SEC’ question, Bill Trocchi seeks some outside help in constructing his latest conference power rankings:
For this particular exercise, I forwarded Ken White, the senior oddsmaker for Las Vegas Sports Consultants, 10 hypothetical matchups. Keep in mind that White’s company sets the odds for 90 percent of the casinos [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State, Auburn, Cal, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Oregon, Oregon State, Pac-10, SEC, Stanford, Tennessee, The Other USC, UCLA, USC, Vanderbilt, Washington, Washington State | 5 Comments »Saturday, September 15, 2007
College Gameday: live from Lincoln, Nebraska, 10:00 AM EDT (Fowler/Herbstreit and the other two)
No. 5 Florida (2-0) vs. No. 22 Tennessee (1-1), 3:30 PM EDT, CBS (Lundquist/Danielson); Florida -8
No. 10 Ohio State (2-0) at Washington (2-0), 3:30 PM EDT, ESPN (Franklin/Cunningham); Ohio State -4
No. 16 Arkansas (1-0) at Alabama (2-0), 6:45 PM [...]
The Star-Telegram has a nice treatment of what’s shaping up to be a brutal road schedule for the Trojans:
Two weeks into the season, the Pacific-10 Conference has earned plenty of woooooo-eeeeeee’s. The Left Coast League is the second-best only to the Southeastern Conference.
The conference went 7-0 Saturday. The only loss of Week 2 was Oregon [...]