SC’s second-place ranking got you down? Well, take heart in the fact that we are nevertheless the Pac-10′s “clutch team past.” We’re not really sure what that means, but here’s the evidence in favor: The record speaks for itself. The Trojans: Own 11 national titles in five different decades. Own the highest all-time winning percentage [...]
Posted in Alabama, Coaches, Notre Dame, Pac-10, SEC, UCLA, USC, Washington State | No Comments »The Bleacher Report has come up with a trap game for each conference. The Pac-10 entry, not surprisingly, involves the Trojans: The Game: USC at Washington State, October 18 Before: Arizona State Why it Will be a Trap Game: Arizona State appears to be main contender in 2008 to end USC’s hegemony in the Pac-10. [...]
Posted in Pac-10, USC, Washington State | 1 Comment »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 [...]
Posted in Coaches, Texas, Washington, Washington State | 3 Comments »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 »Apparently Stewart Mandel wants his alma mater to get on ND’s schedule again. Does anyone think that ND is going to join a conference? Come on—they don’t need the money or the exposure, so (sorry Stewart) I doubt that Kevin White is going to respond to your letter. An ingenious SC fan is trying to [...]
Posted in Northwestern, Notre Dame, Texas A&M, The U, USC, Washington State | 2 Comments »The latest round of CommishPhil’s Weekend Primer is out, including, among other features, the “Jim Harbaugh Prediction Watch”: USC’s march to fulfill Jim Harbaugh’s prophecy as the greatest college football team ever continues in Los Angeles, where the Trojans host Washington State. Not merely satisfied with winning games, Pete Carroll’s team has added an impressive [...]
Posted in Student Body Right, USC, Washington State | No Comments »Awful Announcing again provides us with this weekend’s TV schedule (Sept 20th thru 22nd): The weekend opens with Texas A&M at Miami and Erin Andrews probably in a tank top—YEAH! (Erin will also be in Tampa for South Florida, so it might be a tank top twofer.) We’ll see if Coach Fran really has a [...]
Posted in Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, South Florida, Texas A&M, The Other USC, The U, USC, Washington State | No Comments »The general nationwide belief that USC is going to lose at least one, if not all, of its tough three-game stretch against Oregon, Cal and Notre Dame took some strange twists and turns this weekend. Oregon was thrashed by Wazzu, a team USC managed to beat at the Palouse. But the Ducks’ performance was a [...]
Posted in Cal, Notre Dame, Oregon, USC, Washington State | No Comments »Were Tommy Tuberville’s comments on Wednesday somehow prophetic? He did say, after all, that “I’ve about had it with this playoff deal,” Tuberville said after a lengthy, emotional argument for a playoff. “We all understand in our conference how tough it is. In our conference, that’s about the only chance we’d have to make it.” [...]
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