Date |
Opponent |
Location |
TV |
Time (PT) |
Tickets |
Gamble |
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9/01/07 |
Idaho |
L.A. Coliseum |
FSN | 7:15PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
9/15/07 |
Nebraska |
Lincoln, NE |
ABC | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
9/22/07 |
Washington State |
L.A. Coliseum |
ABC | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
09/29/07 |
Washington |
Seattle, WA |
ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
10/06/07 |
Stanford |
L.A. Coliseum |
Versus | 4:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
10/13/07 |
Arizona |
L.A. Coliseum |
TBA | TBA | Buy | Sell | Bet |
10/20/07 |
Notre Dame |
South Bend, IN |
NBC | 12:30PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
10/27/07 |
Oregon |
Eugene, OR |
FSN | 12:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
11/03/07 |
Oregon State |
L.A. Coliseum |
ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
11/10/07 |
Cal |
Berkeley, CA |
ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
11/22/07 |
Arizona State |
Tempe, AZ |
ESPN | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
12/01/07 |
UCLA |
L.A. Coliseum |
ABC | 1:30PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
01/01/08 |
Illinois |
Rose Bowl |
ABC | 2:10PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
2007 Schedule
496 responses to “2007 Schedule”
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Can anyone write anything that make sence anymore.
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spell sense right genious. i’m drunk and i can still splell
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oh my bad, a did you see the game last night against Idaho, it got so boaring by the second half. Im sure if pete Carroll wanted to he would of ran up the score, but I guess with all the injuries you got to take your starters out while tha game is already in hand, if he left hia starters in to run up the score they would risk even more injuries.
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Oh ya almost forgot how about michigan, Im still shocked, how do you think they will do the rest of the way
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USC will get proggressively better throughout the whole season. Ucla or the excuse for 11 monkey cum guzzling nigger half-breads they put out on the field each week will lose to BYU ! You heard it hear first. Are all UCLA fans armenians or some other worthless race ? thats not rhetorical, i really want to know. I’d be pissed off too if i went to a school with ugly smelly unshaven poon, and had to get beat every year by the cooler guys across town just like back in high school. go back to doing what you guys are really good at, math problems – Mahalo Fuck You Dont you have a bruin page to spend all your time on ?
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A Im Armenian, and Im a huge fan of USC, my whole family is Armenian and my uncle is attending USC, I like the fact the your a USC fan as well, but you better watch what you fucking say. and unlike other Armenians Im not at all harry Im all clean, for some greaat reason I have the only Armenian family who doesnt look like that. Peaple are shocked when they find out Im Armenian.
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Oh by the way he’s right about something, you Bruin fans need to find your own page. If you didn’t notice this site is called Trojanwire, not bruinwire, trojanwire.
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USC SUCKS, THERE SCHEDULE SUCKS! THEY PLAY NONONE!
CAL SUCKS, NOTRE DAME SUCKS, NEBRASKA SUCKS, UCLA SUCKS AND THESE ARE THEIR EXCUSES FOR GAMES! THE SEC IS WERE ITS AT LSU, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, ARKANSAS, ALABAMA, SOUTH CAROLINA! LOOK AT WHO LSU PLAYS TONIGHT ITS 2LSU VS 9VIRGINIA, NOT THAT VIRGINIA IS ANY GOOD. SEC HAS THE MOST TEAMS RANKED THE HIGHEST BY THE END OF THE SEASON AND AT THE BEGINING. USC PLAYS FUCKING ARIZONA,ARIZONA STATE, OREGON, OREGON STATE, STANFORD, AND I HEARD TALK THEY WERE ADDING BERKELY TO THEIR SCHEDULE LOL! LSU #1 -
Man all you hatas need to stop drinking all that haterade save some for your children so they could hate when USC beats their favorite teams. All you biatches(don’t know if we could swear so i purposely spelled it like that.)need to shut up just because we beat you and don’t choke in a bowl game *cough* Notre Dame *cough*. Hey “tigran at August 23, 2007 06:50 PM” Take michigan out of there they lost to that crappy team, wait i guess they’re good, Appalachain State. So ya all of of you quit your biatching and see USC win the National Title. USC #1
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Man all you hatas need to stop drinking all that haterade save some for your children so they could hate when USC beats their favorite teams. All you biatches(don’t know if we could swear so i purposely spelled it like that.)need to shut up just because we beat you and don’t choke in a bowl game *cough* Notre Dame *cough*. Hey “tigran at August 23, 2007 06:50 PM” Take michigan out of there they lost to that crappy team, wait i guess they’re good, Appalachain State. So ya all of of you quit your biatching and see USC win the National Title. USC #1
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USC is #1 weather you like it or not. There is a reason why they have been #1 3 out of the past 4 years. consistancy, 5 years in a row now they have won at least 11 games, have you herd that from lSU Oklahoma, ,Florida , West Varginia or any other team in the country no. No team in the top 25, or I should say in the country has been better than USC has the last 5 years or even in college football history we have our 5 consecutive BCS bowl games appearences to show for it , our 4-1 BCS record, and our 2 recent national, championships. and out of all those great teams the past 5 years who were argued to be the greatest team of all time, speaking of the to time national championship team who was led by Leinart , and Bush this is the best defense that USC has had out of all these great teams in those past 5 years maybe even the best defence in USC’s great history who has put up 12 national titles, now if your not a Trojan fan that has to be a scary thought I dont care how much you hate them.
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you all need to learn how to “sphell”
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USC plays noone and that is why they have 11 wins every year. Oh, and btw LSU always has 11 or more wins…. they have for the past 5 years too. Also, if anyone was watching we beat the shit out of the #9 Virginia. And in case anyone was wondering LSU played in the BCS national championship game in 03 against Oklahoma. Not USC, they played in the Rose Bowl. ( BUT LSU had 1 loss and USC had non) Well, USC plays NONONE! The SEC is the toughest conference, thats why you rarely see an undefeated team come out from it.
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USC plays noone and that is why they have 11 wins every year. Oh, and btw LSU always has 11 or more wins…. they have for the past 5 years too. Also, if anyone was watching we beat the shit out of the #9 Virginia. And in case anyone was wondering LSU played in the BCS national championship game in 03 against Oklahoma. Not USC, they played in the Rose Bowl. ( BUT LSU had 1 loss and USC had non) Well, USC plays NONONE! The SEC is the toughest conference, thats why you rarely see an undefeated team come out from it.
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wah fucking wah! this is what we’ll hear from the sec . which i don’t see making a whole lot of noise either. everyone’s got their sharwe odf buster’s on the scheduals, so pass us by with that one! the pac 10 is as cut throat as any confrence in america!
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“wah fucking wah! this is what we’ll hear from the sec . which i don’t see making a whole lot of noise either. everyone’s got their sharwe odf buster’s on the scheduals, so pass us by with that one! the pac 10 is as cut throat as any confrence in america!”
bull shit! dont even try and compare your little bullshit conf. to the SEC ! we spend every week playing like it’s a championship on the line. think about it every week we play FLORIDA…..GEORGIA……ALABAMA….ARKANSAS…AUBURN…..EVEN OUR WEAKER TEAMS LIKE S.CAROLINA AND OL’ MISS are a harder schedule than most of your!
it’s alright I swear to god I hope usc wins out and ends up playing LSU for the National Title, it will go down just like the ass rape that ND took last year when they brought their beloved brady quinn to battle!
and think about this, for LSU to make it to the big game they will have to get past Florida not once but twice! why you ask, easy they have them on the regular schedule, and chances are highly likely that it will be a florida LSU SEC title match…..or as we will be calling it down here “the actual national title game” any time a SEC teasm goes and plays a team out of our conf. it’s never a game worth watching.
JUST EXCEPT IT THE SOUTH OWNS FOOTBALL, IT’S HOW IT WAS HOW IT IS AND HOW IT ALWAYS WILL BE!
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TRUE THAT! i remember when LSU played ARIZONA last year and won 45-3, when USC won 20-3. Also, face it when u play teams like washington, washington state, arizona, arizona state, and stanford who wouldnt finish over .500 in the SEC you know that your conference sucks. Just face it, the Pac-10 is weak and the only reason that USC is ranked #1 is they play nobody, and they get alot of publicity being in California compared to Louisiana. Also, they dont play a Conference championship game! The SEC Championship game is the actual TITLE GAME! For example, in 03 LSU had to play Georgia 2xs!
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I dont understand why you guys think so high, and mighty of your selves for beating Notre Dame, USC beats the shit out of Notre Dame every year, and it’s not that great of an accomplishment, because Notre Dame just flat out sucks, they didn’t even deserve a BCS bowl last year. If USC does play LSU in the title game this year we will beat the shit out of them, because LSU’s so called great defensive line who hasn’t played a descent offense yet, will finally go up against a great offensive line, and a great quarter back. In my mind i don’t even think LSU will get to the title game, I see USC playing Oklahoma in the national championship. Oh ya if USC has such and easy schedule why is there schedule ranked as the 2nd toughest in the country which by the way is higher than LSU.
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no it’s just wah fuck’n wah! let em gripe, bitch, bragg, lsu plays busters till florida, and they’re the greatest thing since invented wheat bread! sec wasn’t so tough when auburn was suppose to shut out usc.. when we came there! hmmm ,went the other way… heh go figure!
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Sheesh. It’s way to early to see how things will end up, but it’s assinine to say either the PAC 10 or the SEC “sucks” given recent history or what we’ve seen so far this year. To say CAL sucks, and the whole SEC is tough, when CAL took care of TENN (a ranked SEC team who would likely be near the top 10 if they had beaten CAL) this year–what planet are you from? Now, the objectively “better” team does not necessarily play better on a given day (if they did we there would never be an upset and we would ALWAYS have an undefeated National Champion as they would never lose since they are the “best” team), but let’s bring some objectivity here. At the moment, the PAC 10 has 4 teams in the top 20, with two just outside the top 25. The SEC, with a couple more teams in it, has five in the top 20 with two more in the top 25. ESPN’s panel of “experts” has 4 PAC-10 teams in their Power 16 and 2 SEC teams. Sagarin’s current computer rankings from USAToday has the PAC-10 ranked #1 and the SEC #2. Again, it’s way early in the season, but that’s where things stand as of today. Here’s some “reality” the way I see it:
1. The PAC-10 as a whole does not, and may never get, the respect it deserves from anywhere East of the Rockies. Regional bias being what it is.
2. I think part of the reason for (1) is that the PAC-10 years ago locked itself into some very mediocre mid-level bowl deals beyond their Conference Champion.
3. I believe another reason is that the mid-level PAC-10 teams have not historically faired extremely well in a number of these games. Until PAC-10 teams perform consistently well across the board in all their bowl games (not just their top three teams doing well as last year), #1 is not likely to change.
4. I believe the SEC, while a very good conference, is generally a bit overhyped. Last year however, based on final bowl results, it pretty much played up to the hype when all was said and done.
5. Generally speaking, half the teams in ANY conference–not matter how good or bad the conference is–will end up under .500 in conference play (one loss for every win by someone else). So to say the bottome half of another conference would not finish .500 in your conference really isn’t saying that much.
6. Regarding 2003. Both LSU and USC fans need to get over it. It is what it is: A split championship. The system, which is not perfect, failed to produce it’s desired outcome of an “undisputed” champion that year. USC objectively got rooked out of being in the BCS title game (ranked #1 in both polls prior to the bowl games). However, LSU and OK got in the game according to the “rules” that had been set in place. LSU won the game convincingly and therefore deserved the BCS title for that year. Likewise, USC won the AP title according the “rules” (AP votes were not “bound” by the outcome of the BCS system “title” game) set there–and they deserve the AP title. USC was #1 in the AP poll prior to the bowl games, won their bowl game convincingly against a very good team, and hence maintained their #1 AP ranking. I think an LSU/USC bowl game would have been extremely competitive–we’ll never know for sure who WOULD HAVE won had it occured because (1) It’s subjective to which team was actually “better” and (2) the “better” team may not have actually played better on the day the game took place.
Everyone knows the “rules” to win a championship this year. We’ll see which of the contenders plays well enough week in and week out to win the prize this year. FIGHT ON!
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I agree 100% with Mike D it is way to early to make assumptions like that, I mean were are still probably going to see about 10-15 more upsets let alone huge huge upsets. will also probably see many more teams in and out of the top 5. Are USC and LSU the two best teams in the country right now, definitely. However you never know when a team isn’t well prepared, or can have an off day, so lets stop the huge predictions, that goes for me to, and lets wait, and see what happens with alot of big games coming up such as USC Nebraska.
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ok maybe it is too early to start predictions ? and your right who’s to say what any given team can do on any given day. my point is this, can anyone sit there and honestly,SEC fan or not, and tell me that PAC-10 is as tough a conf. as the SEC……maybe you can but I would have to say your doing some serious mind altering drugs if you truely beleive it as the truth! look at last year, just the two big bowl games….LSU beat ND like a red headed step child…..and then the ohio state florida game, it was like after the one kick off return they had they never came back on the feild, and then it all started again last week, when non confrence VT took their trouncing from the bayou bengals. I mean is the SEC gonna just have to keep passing out good old fashion southern boy ass stomps before the pollsters realize that their beloved USC has’nt done crap except beat IDAHO (boy there’s a squad)
and yes cal did beat tenn. Tenn has proven to be more like Vandy, or Auburn or Miss, they are our weaker part of the conf. right now, but then again cal had something to prove after the ass kicking Tenn gave them last year, so I dont blame them for coming out with a chip on their shoulder….but like the dude says above who knows whats gonna happen to any given team on any given day (i’m para-phrasing) the only thing I would add to his theology is this who knows what any of the bottom 2/3 of a confrence is gonna do week in and week out.
so respond all you want, here is my “too early” prediction. LSU nat champs over USC final score 59 14
now, respond or dont I could care less I will be back to this site at the end of the season to either rub it in your face or eat crow, let the cards fall where they may….
all this from a Gator fan…….
love peace and hair grease, talk to ya’ at the end of the season!
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Hey, a little bit of smack talk and “predictions” are part of college football. I just think it’s wise to temper emotion with a bit of factual reality. Making emphatic predictions at this point in the season is high risk/high reward. You’ll generally end up looking either real genius or real stupid. I’ve found that most people who view things through emotion only often (1) don’t care if they look foolish/stupid and/or (2) don’t even realize how foolish/stupid they come across, so maybe it doesn’t matter. Here are some things I’m interested in getting more data on:
1. Michigan: That bad? Or are Appalachian State and Oregon much better than given credit for? I lean more towards the former, but also likely a bit of the latter. More data is needed to allow a more fact-based assessment.
2. Va Tech: Overrated? Just one bad game? One great game by LSU? Or is LSU THAT good (I know your answer SEC fans). I believe a fairly even combination of all, but again, more data is needed to make a better assessment.
3. Is Tennessee a truly “weak” sister in the SEC as suggested by SEC fan? Had they won at Cal I’d venture to guess they’d be ranked near the top 10 (warranted or not—again, only time will tell) so at this time a number of people don’t see it that way. How would a strong showing in the SEC by TENN impact people’s view on Cal’s win? What impact would a victory at the Swamp this weekend have? I believe (predict) Cal is a legit top 10 team and Tennessee will do reasonably well themselves this year. Only time will let us know for sure.
4. Thus far, I agree that LSU has probably looked the most impressive of the contenders—but we’re only two weeks into the season, and last year OSU looked the most impressive of the contenders throughout the year. As I recall, many (including myself) somewhat doubted Florida prior to the BCS championship game because they only “squeaked” by some “marginal” opponents rather than blowing teams out week in and week out.
All that said, I like USC’s chances A LOT. They do have a number of minefields to navigate through however. It’s certainly difficult for me to see them getting blown out by anyone (including LSU, as predicted by SEC fan, should that end up being the BCS title game). I think that is more like wishful thinking. USC hasn’t lost a game by more than one score for something like five years. With their talent and coaching it’s difficult for me to see that changing this year (should they fall at all). My greatest concern is how all the pundits have been unanimously declaring them #1 and the team to beat through the preseason as they are usually wrong. Precious few teams that start the season #1 end there. I believe the 2004 USC team was the last to do it and I’m hoping the 2007 rendition will be able to follow suit. I’m kind of hoping the media hype and focus shifts to another “more impressive” team as USC progresses through (hopefully) an undefeated season to a shot at this year’s BCS National Title.
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When you talk about Florida barely squeaking out victories last season, the only game i can think of is their 17-16 win against South Carolina.
Now im not trying to brag, but think about it man SEC has 2 teams in the top 5, PAC has 1. SEC has 5 in the top 25, PAC has 3. PAC also has teams like Stanford, Washington, Washington State, and Ariona whom i cant remember when they where ever ranked. (PuSH OVERS) Since 2001 the Pac 10 has been 17-17 in Bowl games and the SEC has been 25-18. Also, LSU has only had 7 points scored against them and VT only had 149 total yards and LSU had 600. Whats this LSU has also played 2 games but only 7 pts? and USC played Idaho and had 10 on them? I dont get it. Also in the game against the power house Idaho, USC let them get 253 yards and USC only got 420 ( and this is the #1?).. Also, does the PAC 10 have a Championship Game? LSU had to play Georgia twice in 2003 b/c of it and we still beat the shit out of em. I just cant wait to see USC play Nebraska and watch them have trouble with what i feel to be an OK team, not a great one, and OK one. -
Hey all you boring windbags who love the tab and index keys, who cares. I only read the short posts.
Between SC and UCLA alone ther are enough national championships in all sports to call Pac10 THE CONFERENCE.
SEC, Big 10, ACC what a joke!
It’s like comparing Rodney Dangerfield (Pac10) to Ted Knight (all the rest).
Oh, but you have your sad little pride…
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“When you talk about Florida barely squeaking out victories last season, the only game i can think of is their 17-16 win against South Carolina.”
Ah, how soon they forget. Shall I remind you? Here are a list of Florida’s lone loss in 2006 along with games won by a touchdown or less. Also included are the final record, AP ranking and bowl result (if any for that opponent):
21-20 win over Tennessee (9-4) [25]; Lost Outback Bowl by 10 to Penn St
17-27 Loss to Auburn (11-2) [9]; Won Cotton Bowl over powerhouse Nebraska [NR] by 3
21-14 win over Georgia (9-4) [23]; Won Chick-fil-A Bowl by 7 over Va. Tech
25-19 win over Vanderbilt (4-8) [NR]; 3 of 4 wins against Tenn St (1AA), Temple and Duke
17-16 win over South Carolina (8-5) [NR]; Won Liberty Bowl by 8 over Houston
21-14 win over Florida State (6-7) [NR]; Lost Emerald Bowl by 17 to UCLAThat would be 6 of 12 games prior to the conference championship game. Not exactly blowing teams out every week–and I think I’ve been told by an SEC fan that Tennessee and Auburn are lumped in with Vandy “as a weaker part of the conference” right now. Unless that only refers to THIS year, as a matter of convenience to cover for losses to Cal and South Florida. In which case you can’t say teams such as Washington are weak this year based on any recent prior season’s performance. I’d say the Vandy game was certainly less impressive than this year’s USC win over Idaho… But look how things turned out for Florida in the end….
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“Now im not trying to brag, but think about it man SEC has 2 teams in the top 5, PAC has 1. SEC has 5 in the top 25, PAC has 3.”
SEC Strong: Don’t know if you simply missed some teams reading the polls or are trying to skew the facts. Current poll rankings:
AP
SEC: 6 top 25 (2,5,16,17,22,23); 1 “others receiving votes”
PAC-10: 4 top 25 (1,8,11,19); 2 “others receiving votes” [WASHINGTON and AZ STATE; two of the P-10 “pushovers” you listed]USAToday/Coaches
SEC: 6 top 25 (2,3,16,23,24,25); 2 “others receiving votes”
PAC-10: 4 top 25 (1,8,11,21); 2 “others receiving votes”ESPN “Experts” POWER 16
SEC: 3 (1,4,16); 2 “others receiving votes”
PAC-10: 4 (2,6,10,13)Seems pretty comparable to me given the SEC has two more teams.
FYI: The SEC only has a conference championship game for two primary reasons that I see: (1) MONEY (2) There are too many teams in the conference to do it any other way. In the PAC-10 every team plays EVERY other team in the conference–no getting a lucky draw on missing out on a tough conference opponent; making a championship game excessive and unnecessary.
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Just watch….. by the end of the year, USC will not have won the national championship…..
SEC is very competitave and hard to come out of without a loss bud…… Pac-10 ( id love to c LSU kill all those teams….)
Wait man wuts this you left out another poll on ESPN.com —–ESPNU fan poll has LSU #1 and so does the Power 16
USC is #1 in the AP and USA Today…. Seems to me we have a tie for first…..
Let it be, even if LSU loses a game, and USC doesnt, some other team from the SEC will dominate USC…. Cant wait for USC to lose to either Nebraska, Cal, UCLA, or Stanford (DOMINATING TEAM), or have a tough game with Arizona again or have a tough one with Arizona state……….We will see what you are made of by playin Nebraska… However, its ashame to see that USC doesnt schedule one tough non-conference oponents like LSU even though they will be playing about 5 ranked teams this year in their own conference….. GAY…… (USC = PUSSIES!) -
Hmmm, let’s see: Schedules are generally laid out 5 years in advance. USC plays historically solid (though in a down cycle right now) Notre Dame EVERY year alternating home and away. Let’s look at some additional recent-past non conference games:
2003 USC AT Auburn; USC wins 23-0
2004 USC AT Va Tech; USC wins 24-13
2005 USC vs Arkansas; USC wins 70-14
2006 USC AT Arkansas*; USC wins 50-14
* Went on to SEC championship game where they stayed within 10 at a neutral site against future National Champion Florida.
2007 USC AT Nebraska (historically solid program); results TBD
Hmmm, 4 of these 5 games on the road too.Damn, I guess if USC wants to start scheduling “at least one” tough non conference opponent, they’ll have to quit scheduling SEC teams and teams SEC fans claim constitute their “tough” non conference games….
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And oh, as things stand right now LSU has 4 ranked teams on their schedule: #5 Florida, #16 Arkansas, #17 South Carolina, and THEN #9 Va Tech (three conference and 1 non-conference) and USC is scheduled to play…you guessed it, 4 ranked teams: #8 Cal, #11 UCLA, #19 Oregon and #14 Nebraska, (also 3 conference and 1 non-conference). I guess that means LSU’s schedule is comparable just about as weak as USC’s.
Please back up at least some of your rhetoric with facts. Comments like “I’d like to see LSU kill all those teams” doesn’t require any support as I’m sure you WOULD LIKE to see that (as any fan WOULD LIKE to see their team dominate) and does not speak to the reality of whether it would happen.
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dude tigers you are arguing with a brick wall….. USC is playing Nebraska this weekend and that will show how bad they really are. i believe they may win, but it wont be b/c Nebraska is good…
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Dont forget the BCS games and title games where they usually beat down on there opponents
2002 Orange Bowl USC v.s. Iowa 38-17
2003 Rose Bowl* USC v.s. Michigan 28-14
2004 Orange Bowl* USC v.s. Oklahoma 55-19
2006 Rose Bowl USC v.s. Michigan 32-18
BCS Bowl Record 4-1
*-National championship
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Yep, historic FACTS are a stubborn thing and don’t change. Some further FACTS, specifically regarding tiger’s claim that LSU schedules at least one tough non conference opponent every year (while claiming USC does not). On a quick check (you can correct me if I missed something) here’s LSU’s non-conference schedules since 2003:
2003: UL Layfayette, Arizona, Tulane, Fresno St
2004: N Texas, Arizona St, Appalachian St
2005: Oregon St, Arkansas St, Troy
2006: UL Monroe, Arizona, West Illinois, LA Tech
2007: Va Tech, Middle Tennesse St, Tulane, LA TechLooking at those slates I’d have to assume the “tough” games were Arizona, Arizona St, Oregon St., Arizona, and Va Tech. Four of those five played at LSU. But wait, four of those teams are from the PAC-10 which sucks so bad, so they couldn’t possibly be the tough games, which leaves me scratching my head as to which of these perrenial powers (outside of Va Tech this year) tigers was referring to–or was he simply spewing, facts be damned. You certainly have a credibility problem saying that these PAC-10 teams suck when USC plays them, but are suddenly “tough” games when LSU does (well, unless you’re implying they’re easy for USC and tough for LSU because USC is so much better than LSU, which I do not believe is what you wish to imply). I’m not saying LSU isn’t an extremely good team. They are, and have looked very impressive thus far, and they could end up as national champs this year. I’m not saying the SEC is weak–it’s one of the best conferences out there. I’m simply looking for a little objective reality, which includes the fact that USC has had the top one or two programs over the last five years and looks poised for another great season–with a very real chance at adding yet another national title to their impressive resume. They do however, need to live up to the hype they’ve gotten to make that a reality.
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Mike D, you are very smart, and prove everything you say. Keep it up
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Also Mike D dont forget, while LSU is going to play Middle Tennessee st. today, USC will be playing #14 Nebraska in Lincoln. Which is always a very tough place to play. Quite Frankly I think Nebaska especially on the road is a much bigger test than Virginia Tech at home who in my mind was very over rated. Who as we speak is having trouble with Ohio at home not Ohio St. Ohio
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I think the results of today’s game against Nebraska pretty much speak for themselves–though there is certainly still some room for improvement. Most other contenders did well for themselves also–I’d say Florida doing the most. Hard to gauge Florida’s at-home game dominance against a ranked team relative to USC’s road dominance, but things should further sort themselves out as the season wears on.
On another note: What’s up with Notre Dame and their offensive genius head coach? I have to say the only thing I enjoy in college football nearly as much as a USC win is Notre Dame losing, but it looks so bad for ND at the moment that I ALMOST feel sorry for them.
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fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!utah beat us
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fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!utah beat us
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Wow what a weekend in college football, Notre Dame falls to 0-3, #9Louisville gets upset by Kentucky who better be ranked now, #11UCLA gets upset and blown out by Utah, Auburn gets upset by Mississippi St., and #1USC proves that they really are the #1 team in the country by absolutely routing #14Nebraska on the road in Lincoln where they easily past an early test. How about the running game for USC especially freshman Stephan johnson, he absolutely put on a show. USC is definitely the #1 team in the country, and for LSU the have yet to be tested.
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the irish suck! ucla a suck! wuz that shit again we were hearing about america’s team? dough boy taking the irish “back” to camp seems they got to find a team….seems the one he put together was a series of bad choices! well when you hired him was a bad choice! let me coach em! we’ll play all the div. 2 schools till i feel i can take off the training wheels!
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don’t take this the wrong way, I’m a big Trojan fan myself. But why do so many people think Booty is going to be a big Heisman candidate? It doesn’t seem like he’s that great. I’m sort of ignorant on the subject.
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well the thing is we haven’t really developed a passing game yet, this game forces our recievers to step up their game more. then we’ll have a full balenced team.
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Also if you can run for 313 yards why do you need to pass 40 or 50 times a game, especially with that unbeleivable offensive line. I think after the Wasington St. game this Saturday you will see USC receivers develop alot more, and Booty will start to throw 200-300 yards every game. However It’s really great that USC has so many new weapons on offense this year, I mean there were about 10- or 15 guys who made some big plays.
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I dont know if anyone saw wut i saw on ESPN on national television, but of the 50 states, 47 think that LSU should be #1 were 3 think that USC should and of course they are California, Oregan, and Washington (The Pac 10 states) Also, the Pac10 proved their weakness this weekend. Washington getting routed by a weak Ohio state team, UCLA getting beat by a nobody, Cal had beat Tennesee but had a tough game with them and then Florida plays them and beats them by 39…. And USC plays a very poor defensive Nebraska. WOW great job Pac 10! Now lets see pac 10 has USC#1,Cal#6,and Oregon#13. SeC has LSU#2,Florida#3,South Carolina#12,Alabama#16,Kentucky#21,and Georgia#22. Thats 3 ranked teams for Pac that i see and 6 ranked SEC teams… WOW (also, if anyone heard the announcers said that LSU, Florida, or Oklahoma should be #1 b/c they have been blowing by quality opponents. O and if anyone didnt know LSU has played 3 games and their Defense has only had 7 pts scored on them. USC has played 2 and Idaho scored 10, and Nebraska scored 31pts. So that makes 42 WoW! great defensive team lol! i cant believe they even let them bak into the game. LSU played their 2nd and 4th string quarter backs knowing they wouldnt be scored on WOW USC and the PAC 10 SuCK!
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SECBABY: The SEC on whole has indeed looked very good so far. Kudos to LSU, Florida, South Carolina, and Particularly KY. I’ll reserve longer term judgment on Alabama and Georgia, but kudos for them being in the top 25 also. UCLA certainly looked pathetic and Washington faded this last weekend (how is it that every ranked team, or even top 10 team, the PAC-10 plays is “weak”, but even unranked teams with no wins the SEC plays are “quality” opponents?) However, to say USC, Cal, and Oregon have thus far looked anything but somewhat impressive thus far is complete idiocy. Preseason ranked Auburn’s performance to date may not rank up with the egg UCLA laid this past weekend, but it hasn’t been overwhelmingly impressive either.
And, oh outside of Va Tech at HOME (who’s own prowess is in question after their less-than-impressive showing against Ohio), exactly what quality oppenent has LSU played? I mean really, trying to put a home game against Middle Tennessee on par with a game IN Lincoln against Nebraska, who are you trying to fool? Nebraska legitimately put up 17 against USC; after about the 3rd quarter USC put in neutral and still won by 18 (boy, pulling to within 24 with 4:30 left in the game and to within 18 with 0:51 is really getting “back in it”).
I personally don’t have hearburn with anyone making a case for any of the current top 10 being “#1” at the moment (though for teams such as Texas, given last week’s escape, it might be a more difficult sell). The system is what it is however–which is that it’s EXTREMELY difficult to leapfrog someone higher ranked–starting from preseason rankings–unless they lose. But, if USC and the PAC-10 suck as bad as you think; and LSU is as good as you claim; things should properlly get “set in order” by the end of the season. So please be patient and simmer down on the whinning.
You look extremely foolish saying USC sucks when the facts are so blatantly obvious that they are among the top, if not the top overall college program since 2002:
61-6 overall
4-1 in BCS bowl games (average score, including loss: 38-22)
1 BCS championship
2 AP championships
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Look, Nebraska put on a very weak showing in week 2 against a weak Wake Forest team 20-17 (Not very impressive for a #14) And Wake forest beat Army this weekend 21-10. WOW Nebraska was Really good werent they! And they still managed to score 31 pts on USC after they had a close game with Wake Forest. My point is that a #1 team should not be giving up 20 or more points to a not so great team. However they managed to give up 31. LSU played #9 Virginia, and granted they may have not been that good but LSU still beat them with a solid 48-7 victory (the only points given up by LSU in 3 games)Now lets look at the remainder of these teams schedule:
USC:
Washington State(unranked)
Washington (unranked)
Stanford(unranked)
Arizona (unranked)
Notre Dame (terrible this year and unranked)
#13 Oregon
Oregon State (unranked)
#6 Cal
Arizona State (unranked)
UCLA (unranked)
*2 more ranked oponents and 8 unranked left… i think that even though Cal beat Tennesee it was still a 45-31 game. Florida played them and won 59-20 big difference b/n beating a team by 14 and by 39.LSU:
#12 S. Carolina
Tulane (unranked)
#3 Florida
#22 Kentucky
Auburn (unranked)
#16 Alabama
La Tech (unranked)
Ole Miss(unranked)
Arkansas(unranked, but should be ranked by the time they play LSU)
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Let’s see, and last year USC beat Arkansas AT Arkansas by 36 while Florida “only” beat them by 10 at a neutral site in the SEC championship game. So I guess that means USC was far superior to Florida last year? And hey, UCLA beat USC by 4, so they must have been better than than Florida too? Of course that’s nonsense; Florida won when they needed to last year and USC & Ohio State did not. End of story-things such as their meager 6 point victory against Vandy is immaterial. Florida is the deserved national champion for 2006. Your current argument similarly holds little water.
Now, at the moment, based on results thus far, my personal opinion is that LSU may have a more difficult road ahead. But it’s not USC’s fault Notre Dame (road game, and still a rivalry game for USC) looks horrific at the moment and UCLA laid an egg (I believe UCLA may well be ranked again by the time they play USC). Depending on how Cincinatti does against some of the bigger names in the Big East, Oregon State’s loss on the road there may not turn out to be as embarassing as it first appeared. It’s not inconceivable for Arizona State or Washington to break into the rankings either. Regardless, USC plays both Cal and Oregon on the road this year. No small task for any team. Currently, LSU’s toughest looking road games are at Kentucky and Alabama (both just breaking into the rankings); they get Florida and South Carolina at home; no easy task either (and it’s not LSU’s fault that what looks to be their toughest conference games will be at home this year-just the way it turned out).
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Some of you Knuckleheads are Morons and need to expand your choice of words used in here. USC is on a roll and no program has had as much success as the Trojans have had in the past 5-6 yrs, that is a fact. The last few years they have played several teams from the SEC and beat them all. If Lendall White gets another 3″ on 4th and 2, they beat Texas too. The Trojans will remain on top for many years to come. Get use to it.
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Also on a past comment by SECbaby: Nebraska scored 31 because USC put there 2nd team by early 1st 4th qtr, unlike LSU, Florida, and Oklahoma, who leaves in there starting team through out the entire game when they are up by 40 just to run up the score. Which is risking injury, oh ya and look at the offenses LSU, and Oklahoma have played. Mississippi St., Virginia Tech, and Middle Tennessee St. all terrible offences. Oklahoma has played North Texas, Miami, and Utah St. all terrible teams. Now you talk about Idaho scoring 10. First af all how can you get exited for a game like Idaho, USC’s competition Tuesday is more intence than a game like Idaho, especially with the fact tha USC had many of there key players injured and they didn’t want to risk more injuries by keeping there starters in when they game is well in hand unlike LSU, and Oklahoma. And like my last comment USC plays all of there tough games on the road, while LSU plays there tough games at home, and remember that USC, and LSU have 30-35 game winning streaks at home. So it doesn’t matter who USC, and LSU play if it’s on the road they will win. And I think USC would kill if they were in the SEC just to shut you ignorant ass holes up. Teams like South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, and especially Arkansas.Also USC will prove just how great there defence really is when the play great offences on the road, like Oregon, and Cal for an example.
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On a comment made by tigran….. LSU put in their 2nd string quarterback Perileoux during the second half……. WOW Cal couldnt beat a weak Tennesse bad 14pts…. Florida vs Tennesse-59-20 if u knew. Also, once the BCS poll comes out in October (think thats when) we will see who is #1 by the ranked teams they play and how they do against them. Also, i agree that Oklahoma plays terrible teams, they play Tulsa next (who is that) i was just repeating wut i heard on ESPN. Oh btw when Usc played Arkansas, Mcfadden was not at his best, and everyone can see that from his stats, and the team was nowhere near ready. Some of their key players were not even able to play. Although, i do not believe they still would have won. I think that the only thing they have on that team is Heisman candidate Mcfadden(i believe he may recieve the Heisman after last year and this year, but what do i know they gave it to Brady Quinn last year who sucked)But then there are alot of teams who i feel do not deserve to be in the TOP 10. Like West Virginia who almost lost to Marshall and Wisconson who had a tough game against D2 Citadel, and Texas who had a 35-32 game against Central Florida, and Oklahoma who plays noone except Texas, newly ranked Missouri #25 (wow tough game…) and Texas A&M.
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