USC saw its chances for a spot in the BCS title game take a major hit even before we officially reached autumn. The Trojans’ 16-13 loss to Washington looked eerily familiar to losses in previous years to UCLA, Stanford and Oregon State — conference losses to weaker foes that hurt USC’s national ranking. Five of [...]
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Weekend hot jock: Matt Barkley
USC’s freshman quarterback Matt Barkley grabbed lots of headlines after beat the San Jose State School of the Blind Spartans last week. Stewart Mandel of SI even called him “the next Joe Montana” after his first college start. I’ll tell you this: I never found Joe Montana as hot as I find Barkley; and I’m [...]
USC, UCLA show NCAA what class is
It is great to hear about the cooperation being exhibited this week between USC football coach Pete Carroll and UCLA’s Rick Neuheisel, and how they gave the big middle finger to the NCAA. For years, both USC and UCLA wore their dark home jerseys in their annual end-of-season rivalry game. But the big, mean NCAA [...]
Oregon State knocks off No. 1 USC
USC’s road to college football’s national championship hit a major speed bump after the Trojans were upset, 27-21, by Oregon State at Corvallis, Ore. It was the second consecutive time Oregon State beat USC at home and continued a bad tradition for the Trojans.
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Dirty Dozen: Badgers on the move
It’s time for another weekly edition of college football’s Dirty Dozen ranking the Top 12 teams in the country. This week, I was able to watch one of the nation’s best teams in person, as I went to the Wisconsin-Fresno State game. After managing to catch some highlights of the Ohio State-USC blowout on TiVo, [...]
Dirty Dozen: ECU rises, Ohio State falls
Here we go with my first edition of college football’s Dirty Dozen, a weekly ranking of the nation’s Top 12 teams. This past weekend, the number of surprises were few, but one non-BCS team landed the biggest punch of all. The pride of Conference USA, East Carolina, stunned West Virginia, knocking WVU completely from my preseason [...]
