The Other USC Archive

USC v. USC

The LA Times reports that the Trojans have priority of use over the ‘SC’ logo, now that
the administrative tribunal of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has ruled that the local USC has priority of use when it comes to the “SC” logo, including the interlocking version.
The battle between the USCs has been quietly raging [...]

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Best rivalries?

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 [...]

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TV/Announcer Listings for Week 9

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 and the ABC national [...]

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 »

Announcer Listings for Week 6

Once again Awful Announcing takes the time while battling the WWL to give us the announcer listings for week 6.
Highlights:

College football on ESPN or ESPN2 every night this week as they try and counter-program the MLB playoffs that they no longer carry. The best game of the weeknight slate is Thursday’s #8 Kentucky at #11 [...]

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Pac-10 vs. SEC, Round 24

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 [...]

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AP voters looking not so good

Apparently some writers don’t take ther AP Poll ballot as seriously as fans would like them to. (Thanks to TheBigLead for the heads up.)

First, Parrish Alford, of the NE Mississippi Daily Journal, still thinks Louisville is #13 while Kentucky is #24. (And here I could’ve sworn that I saw Kentucky score at will against the [...]

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Week 4 TV Games and Announcer List

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 [...]

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The Other SC really hates Lee Corso

Apparently Lee Corso has fired up Gamecock Nation. His comments about Coach Spurrier not being able to win the SEC in 400 years have led to this new website.
The Gameday crew’s host Chris Fowler has commented but Lee is trying to avoid the controversy his mouth caused.
“I’m a little puzzled (about) the approach (of) marketing [...]

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Saturday on the Couch Recap – Sunday Brunch

Upset Alert Recap: South Florida pulled it off at Auburn; so did Washington. Oregon put Lloyd Carr on suicide watch. UCLA and Texas survived tough games at home.
Virginia Tech looked to be the 2nd most overrated team in the country; however, Pat Forde feels that LSU is #1.
The Ole Ball Coach pulled his magic against [...]

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Rules for college football fans

Many of you have no doubt seen Page 2’s “New Rules for College Football Fans to Live By.” But let’s be honest: that’s a lot to read, and somewhere around Rule 26.a.1 our eyes started to glaze over. So here’s a condensed list:
1a. Under extenuating circumstances, however, you may have up to three Division I-A [...]

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