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 four games [...]
Posted in Arizona State, Arkansas, Cal, Illinois, LSU, Ohio State, Oregon, Recruiting, USC, Virginia | 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 [...]
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 »Okay, so you got no live updates this week; I apologize. I was taking online defensive driving to get out of a ticket, so I saw very little of the daytime action and then the family came home and it was daddy/daughter time until SC started.
First, maybe I was wrong about SC. For the first [...]
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 [...]
Our friends at the Worldwide Leader have decided who will play for the alleged BcS title and in turn have created BcS chaos.
On November 17th, they have Michigan finally beating Ohio State and finishing the season 12-0.
Then, over Thanksgiving weekend, they have SC and LSU surviving scares from ASU and Arkansas.
Finally, Championship Weekend arrives. While [...]
2007: The Year of the Running Back.
That is the theme of the Sports Illustrated college football previews. Also, it’s USC and everyone else in the Top 20.
As America was overwhelmed with Tiger Woods, hot weather, and the NFL preseason, here is a quick Saturday breakdown.
Oklahoma still doesn’t have a starting QB. I think that Oklahoma is playing this situation as safely as it can because they have seen teams win the national title with caretaker QB’s (Krenzel 2002).
The Sooners are expected [...]
Happy Friday. Let’s get to the roundup.
Most of the major preseason polls have closed, and with 97% of precincts reporting, we can report that USC is getting a little bit of attention. They top both the College Football News poll and the USA Today coaches poll. That should be good news for Trojan fans, but [...]
We might be two months from the kickoff of the college football season, but down South, talking gridiron trash is a year-round sport. Take LSU coach Les Miles, who decides to provide a little pre-season locker room material for the Trojans:
“I can tell you that I would like nothing better than to play USC for [...]
Gus Malzahn is done with Houston Nutt. Does that mean that the rest of the Springdale Four (since Damian Williams has already left for USC) will follow him to Tulsa? Then the Golden Hurricanes would get to see if Mitch Mustain and his mom are the greatest …
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