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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First of all y the Heisman went to Troy Smith.2nd of all Do not ever try to compare your sorry ass SEC teams to what is know know as one of the greatest dynasties of all time, a dynasty that still has about 5 years left or as long as Pete Carroll is around. Also you know if we played Arkansas now we would fuck them up just as bad, they dont have a team it’s all Darren McCfadden. We would fuck up any team from the SEC there all quality teams but besides LSU, and Florida none of them are great teams like USC. We would still fuck up your LSU Tigers, and the Florida Gators. However I definitely agree there are alot of teams that dont deserve to be in the top 10, and I am glad somebody finally came out and said it. Wisconsin sucks, west Varginia is overrated, Texas sucks, and honestly I know Cal is from our PAC 1o but I think they’re overrated to.
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If you really think about it nobody can really beat USC the past 5 years those 6 losses were all upsets, games that USC would of one 9 times out of 10, when ever they were faced against a team that everyone thought that could challenge them USC pretty much always beat there ass, and remember the last 4 losses in the past 4 years all came up to a point total of 12. So this year with more experience I don’t think they will get upset, and they will definitely step up, and crush all the ranked teams like they do every year.
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um lets see here this website summary:stuck up usc fans, but half of u are BANDWAGON fans I hsve know tigran for a little while not since a couple years ago i have heard from his mouth usc, the school i go to three years ago no one wore a usc swatshirt now they do your all bandwagon fans i am a true ucla fan iv been there when theyre 7 and 6 iv been there when its 10-2 but u guys that have no life other than typing your “oppions” on a website that nobody importants reads
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Brian shut the fuck up your an iddiot
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And Besides If UCla’s fooball team was as good as USC’s. Yuo guys would be bragging to. You guys are just jealous because you cant even contend against Utah. Besides no one is talking about UCLA were talking about USC, and LSU
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And Brian can you fucking learn how to type, you don’t know how to spell shit. I have been a USC fan since 2001 the year they went 6-6. You barely even care about college football. I can tell when I talk to you about it. Besides You have only known me for pretty a couple of years, and dont take it out on USC because you guys suck. What kind of football team plays so bad where they can go from #11 to unranked.
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Well i have made my point now. USC beat Nebraska 49-31 in Lincoln…. Look today, Ball State is beating Nebraska in Lincoln too? Wow Nebraska couldnt have been that good. So, USC cant be that good. They will go undefeated b/c of a weak schedule… who is LSU playing today? o yeah #12 S.C. and they have also killed #9 VT.. O and btw they have only had 7 pts scored on them soo far. I new that Nebraska was poor, yet they were able to score 31 on USC and will probably lose to Ball state
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31 points? You obviously haven’t watched the whole game, if not at all. Pete Carrol, because of the classy guy he is, put his second unit in the 4th quarter for them to get some experience and playing time. The game wasn’t as close as the score seemed to be. SC outscored Nebraska 42-10 at one point. LSU on the other hand likes to run of the score while risking possible injuries. Smart.
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REALLY? you obviously havent watched an entire LSU game….. Perriloux plays QB too and we have about 3 different running backs……
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Only saw the first quarter of the USC game, but by the looks of the final, they didn’t seem to have much trouble. The beefy part of their schedule doen’t really come until the second half of the season but they can’t get caught overlooking hungry non-top level teams. Thus far they haven’t. LSU easily handled South Carolina, the game was not as close as the final score; though if looked at things like SECBABY does I would say something like:
I can’t believe LSU let an obviously overrated South Carolina team back in the game, especially at home when South Carolina has such an anemic offense. And perrenial bottom feeding Vanderbilt handled Ol’ Miss by 14 while Florida barely beat them by 6; so it’s obvious Florida isn’t that good either. And oh, winless Syracuse beat Louisville easier than Kentucky, showing how bad Lousville is, so Kentucky must not be that good. And KY beat Arkansas, who must be even worse, so Alabama beating Arkansas on the last play of the game means nothing and they’re bad too. Thus Georgia must be pretty bad to need OT to beat ‘Bama.
That’s how ridiculous your arguments sound SECBABY. The SEC is a very good conference–arguably the best in college football this year. I don’t think most mind you making your argument for LSU or Florida being #1 and the SEC being the toughest conference this year particularly bothers people. But your repeated denying of the undeniable about non-SEC teams and conferences (particularly USC and the PAC-10) also being pretty darn good does. It also makes you look rather foolish, which diminishes any legitimate arguments you may stumble across in your ramblings.
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I mean I know LSU is a great football team, and so is Florida, but don’t take away, anything from any other great team like USC just because they’re not in the SEC. You can be a great team, and not play in the SEC. don’t treat it like all the good teams are only in the SEC
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Well, you usually have to win one or two ugly ones to go undefeated, and tonight’s win up in Washington was U-G-L-Y. If they play like that in Eugene, Berkeley, Tempe and possibly even at the home against OSU or UCLA, an undeated season is out the window. Fortunately, tonight they proved good enough against Washington to overcome the turnovers, penalties and injuries. More than can be said for Oklahoma, Florida, West Virginia, Texas and Rutgers (all but West Virginia losing to unranked teams and WV going down to South Florida). I felt Cal and Oregon both looked pretty good–one of them had to lose. Wisconsin held on to beat previously unbeaten MSU. It’ll be interesting to see how things shake out in the polls after today’s slew of upsets. With all the upsets in the top ten, I don’t think it’s unconceivable for Oregon to move into the top ten despite their loss, as it was a competetive game against what will now likely be the #3 ranked team.
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Well Mike D I know were #2 now in the ap. But did LSU play any better than we did and they faced a mucher weaker Tulane team, I think they would of struggled to against Washington, and unlike, 8 of the other ranked teams, including the three in the top 5, USC held off the upset, I mean teams were getting upset left and right, atleast USC held off. Also I look at it this way. Every great team has adversity, and has to go through a scare, and this was USC’s. However they showed poise, and came out alive.
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After last night’s performance I can’t say that I’m convinced they deserve a #1 ranking at the moment. Not that I don’t think they are good enough to win the title, but they will need to play closer to the top of their game week in and week out if they are going to do it. I’m not particularly concerned either–I’m hoping their less-than-impressive performance and drop in the AP poll will provide a motivating challenge and “wake up call” for them. I fear they may have been taking all the accolades being heaped on them from preseason a bit too seriously and forgetting they have to perform on the field EVERY WEEK to win the title.
Regardless, winning will take care of everything. To earn the championship USC will likely have to go undefeated, which means in a five game stretch over a six week span they will have to win at Oregon, at Cal, at Arizona St and their rivalry game against UCLA (their game against Oregon St–who is not all that bad and who beat them last year–is the “easy game” during that stretch). If they get to the Oregon game undefeated and run the table through that gauntlet, they will have a well deserved berth in the title game (as well as a likely #1 ranking going into that game in all polls and computers). I just don’t see any current top ten undefeated teams besides LSU (Ohio St/Wisconsin winner, South Florida, or Boston College) jumping USC if they all were to run the table. Kentucky feasibly could if they were to impressively go undefeated in the SEC, but then LSU would have to lose so USC would still be at least #2. Cal possibly could if they didn’t have to lose for USC to go undefeated, so going undefeated puts Cal out of the picture. Should USC slip only once, their chances on getting in would be slim and depend on who they lose to, by how much, and how many undefeated and 1-loss teams there are at the end of the year. With two or more losses, they for sure would not deserve a shot at the title.
I think they’ll make it through the next three weeks undefeated–though I’m a little squeamish about going into South Bend, despite how bad the Irish have looked; there’s just something about that rivalry. I believe they will either blow the Irish off the field, or it will be extremely nip and tuck. The Oregon game will go a long way towards my assessment on what I believe their chances will be for the title.
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What is SC going to do next year without Booty? I realize that Booty is having his share of problems this year, but I shudder to think what might happen if someone like Mark Sanchez were to lead the team next year.
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I think they’ll be fine next year at quarterback one way or another. It’s hard for me to believe Carroll & company would leave themselves sans someone they felt could do the job after Booty leaves via a recruiting lapse. Not sure who it will be, but I feel fairly confident someone competent will emerge to lead the team at quarterback (I wouldn’t throw Sanchez out as a possibility either–I assume you believe his character/leadership is in question as from evertying I’ve heard on him he has the physical tools; maturation is not out of the question in all areas–nor is it guaranteed).
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Now I love upsets, I was celebrating, when Oklahoma, Florida, West Virginia, and Texas lost, now I know there was more but those were the ones that really affected the title race. The race for the national championship turned from a 5 team race, to a 2 team race. I say 2 team because Cal, Ohio st., and Wisconsin still don’t look like real title contenders. So anyway although I love upsets, the only thing that bothers me, is that the blockbuster match ups for next week between Florida v.s. LSU, and Texas v.s. Oklahoma wont be as exiting,. What was supposed to be a #2 v.s.#3 match up turned into a #1 v.s. #9 match up, between Florida, and LSU, and what was supposed too be a #4 v.s. #7 game turned into a #10 v.s. v.s. #19 game. However It is still going to be a great college football weekend, one the will provide 11 ranked v.s. ranked games.
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The Florida/LSU game may have lost a little luster but it’s still HUGE. As last week showed, it’s incredibly difficult to go undefeated, so there’s a more than fair chance that a one loss team will be in the title game when all is said and done. Should Florida win, and run the table from here, it still could be them (as last year). A loss and all Florida’s hopes to defend their title are gone. A loss for LSU would certainly damage their hopes significantly, but not extinguish them completely should they run the table from that point on.
Texas/Oklahoma has indeed lost much luster–especially in regard to how good Oklahoma had looked prior to last week. I think Texas’ shot at the title game are pretty much nonexistent and Oklahoma’s are hanging by a thread. As opossed to a one loss LSU or Florida, they just don’t have a tough enough schedule remaining to climb as far as they need to even if they run the table from here on out.
Cal looks like the real deal to me, and I think USC is going to have their hands full up in Berkeley. However, I agree that historically Cal seems to clutch up (usually at an unextpected time) even if they pull off a big win (which would be against USC in this case).
Wisconsin has not looked impressive but has found ways to win. Ohio State is intriguing to me and may be a legitimate contender.
Boston College and South Florida are also intriguing teams IMHO–will be interesting to if either of them can run the table (I think they’ll each end up with one or more losses, but who knows for sure). I don’t see any of these teams jumping an undefeated USC or LSU team however, no matter what they do.
I just do not see Kentucky running the table in the SEC (though if they did they could jump an undefeated Wisconsin, Ohio State, Boston College and South Florida which would likely put them in the title game–they would have beaten LSU and either USC or Cal has to end up with a loss).
Don’t have a real feel for Arizona State, who would have to beat Cal and USC (they get both at home) to go undefeated which I don’t see happening–and they’re too far back in the rankings anyway should any two teams in front of them remain undefeated.
Purdue, Missouri, and Cincinatti, the other undefeated teams from major conferences, are likewise too far back in the rankings and lack historical reputation. Hawaii, the only other undefeated team, realistically doesn’t have a prayer unless pretty much everyone ahead of them winds up with two or more losses.
So the way I see it USC and LSU control their own BCS destiny. Cal is close, but could maybe get jumped by Ohio State even if they go undefeated. Kentucky is actually likely the next closest to controlling their own destiny (see earlier comments), though I believe highly unlikely. I believe Ohio State needs USC or LSU to lose to have a chance while Wisconsin needs the USC/CAL winner or LSU to lose even if they run the table. Boston College and South Florida just don’t have the historical name recognition (or conference reputation that Kentucky would have) to jump any teams ahead of them without those teams ahead of them losing.
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Don’t be surprised if Florida beats LSU on Saturday. Remember the reason LSU’s defense is so great, especially against the run is because they are able to load the box with 8 guys against,NFl style offenses witch gives no room or spacing fo opponents. It also brings pressure against the passing game, and with the speed of the LSU secondary the linebackers don’t have to drop back into coverage as often. However Florida runs a spread offense, with 5 wide sets, witch will force LSU”s linebackers to drop back and play coverege, and the safety’s wont be able to blitz as often. So there will be alot of room for Tim tebow, and the Florida offense, not only that LSU has to worry about tm Tebow’s running ability, with all that space he will havwe remember LSU hasnot faced one offence tha runs the spread. Here’s what it will all look like.
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well I said I wasnt gonna comment anymore until the end of the season when LSU hoist the trophy and settles this once and for all, but in light of this past weekends games and the turn over on the poll. I gotta say, I hope like everything that USC gets that #1 spot back….why, just so that it will be that much sweeter when we show pac-10 what football is all about. there short and sweet nobody reads the long post anyway.
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I am sorry mike D but LSU will win this weekend… I have been watching Florida for a while and they are not as strong as everyone thinks they are. LSU D will prevail
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You don’t have to apologize to me–I really don’t care who wins the Florida/LSU game. Given LSU’s at home, nursing last year’s loss, and I believe is the better team, I expect them to. That said, I would not be shocked if Florida pulled off the upset–I believe they’re a pretty good team also and may match up decently against LSU.
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Regardless of who ends up with this year’s title, I think USC knows just a little about what football is about. Since start of 2002 season:
2 AP Championships, 1 BCS Championship
63-6 overall (.913)
5 consecutive BCS bowls (4-1 record in those games)
5 consecutive top 4 AP finishes
5 consecutive 11 win seasons
24-3 against AP top 25 teams (.885)
4-0 against SECProgram history:
11 National Championships
747-300-54 (.702) overall record
29-16 (.644) bowl record
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good shizz mike d! But who are we kidding really. we all know usc is going to start dominating all of their opponents from now on. They will win the title with no doubt. i really hope they play lsu though. im impressed by their defence. usc needs to step their game up cause they do have a lot of it. Also SEC fan sucks balls!!!!!!!!!
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Lack of a “Steve Smith” wide out is costing the Trojans big time. This current offensive backfield is entirely S.K’s folks. Unlike the 2005 team that was coached up by Norm Chow, the current staff is reaping what they have sewn.
I have always admired Norm Chow, and what he did over there at BYU with wayyyyy less talent that what USC gets. When Norm signed on to Pasadena, I knew that USC was going to roll. Now that he’s gone, and “HIS” players are gone, USC’s Offense is sputtering by on PURE TALENT.
You just can NOT replace an offensive genius like CHOW. It was outright depressing to watch all of that USC talent go down burning in flames to a fiesty group of Stanford Cardinals.
I can still hear the ringing cheers during the LSU vs Florida game when the upset was anounced. Bot LSU and Florida looked better than USC. Don’t get me wrong, I root for USC. It’s just that those team ran all kinds of schemes at you. Besides the schemes, the ball actually was passed deep down the side and middle “&” the wide outs made the “catch” and were running at their 4.3 speed.
Faced with 4th and 20, the Cardinals strike right down the middle of the field! Wow!
How about that sack of Booty in the closing seconds! I guess SK thought that they weren’t going to blitz. Wow!
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Stunning, and bitterly disappointing. I didn’t see any of the game and on last check it was 23-14 USC when I went out for the evening. They obiously weren’t impressive to be up only 9 at that time, but Stanford had scored only once offensively all game to that point so I figured a “W” was fairly safe. From the stats it looks like they dominated the game overall (total yards), BUT 5 TURNOVERS? And giving up a fourth and twenty and a fourth and goal from the 10 to lose it on Stanford’s final drive? It’s obvious they did not deserve to win. I felt they may lose one or two this year, but certainly not to Stanford. They may be lucky to stay in the top 10 with a HOME loss to this year’s STANFORD team….
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Best guess for tomorrow’s top rankings:
1. LSU
2. Cal
3. Ohio State
4. Boston College (I think they’ll jump SF)
5. South Florida
6. Oklahoma
7. Anyone’s guessIf LSU, Cal and Ohio State close out undefeated it’ll be interesting to see who gets to play LSU in the title game. But both of those teams could easily lose, and I think BC and SF will lose before the year’s out. That puts Oklahoma in the best position of any of the 1 loss teams. For USC to have a chance they need to (1) get their heads on straight and play up to their talent and (2) get lots of help, because they would need a lot of teams in front of them to lose no matter how good they play/look from here on out.
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remember last season when USC lost early what saved them was there tough schedule late in the season against #21Oregon, #17California, and #6Notre Dame. well even though they got upset tonight I still expect them to get by Arizona, and Notre Dame, so like last year they will have a slew of late season tests, which can really help them out, hopefully either LSU, or Ohio St. can lose one game so a one loss team can get to the title game, and if USC can run the table the rest of the way it can still be them, because I am sure that if they beat #14Oregon, #3California, #18Arizona st., and rival UCLA it should put them back in the race as #2 unless both Ohio St. and LSU run the table, and if this time they are one game away from the title, I would expect them to beat UCLA, and get in, and we still have a long season ahead of us.
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This year is looking like last year. USC will not play in the NCS. It will be the Big Ten and the SEC -AGAIN! If USC can somehow beat Cal, it knocks the PAC 10 absolutely out of contention.
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WOW I AM SPEECHLESS….. I cant believe yall lost to standford….. TOugh schedule ahead…. LOL so does LSU
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you have the right to talk shit SECBaby, but congratulation’s on a huge win, Now USC has lost only there 7th game in the past 6 years and after each loss they always bounce back and this year wont be any different. I promise you. after each loss it never tears there season apart, they still always manage to win at least 11 games
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USC has the potential to run the table, but not the way they’re playing. It’s what you DO, not what you potentially can do. To date, they are significantly underachieving. If they don’t turn a corner, I see them losing to both Oregon and Cal, and they could drop one or two of their other games. We’ll see how they respond.
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You know you have a top level program when everyone else rejoices so much over such a humiliating loss. I have to admit, if I weren’t a USC fan I’d be snickering about this game myself–everyone loves to see a major power get knocked of by a lower level team (except the fans of the the major power). The “lower level” team comment is not meant to be a knock on Stanford as a whole–they’ve had some pretty decent teams from time to time over the years, but objectively speaking not recently and certainly not this one.
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At them moment I think LSU/OK is the most likely title game matchup. I believe Cal, Ohio State, Boston College and South Florida will all end up with at least one loss and Oklahoma will run the table, passing them up. With LSU’s overall resume, I think they could withstand a single loss (so long as it weren’t to La Tech or Ole Miss) and still stay in the top two. There have already been a lot of crazy results this season however so who knows–should be interesting to watch the rest of the year unfold.
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Confirmed at USCRIPSIT.COM – Mark Sanchez is practicing with first team offense and will probably QB on 10/13 vs. Arizona.
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USC can still make it the rest of the way. LSU could still fall.
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Wow, the Undeafeted Team and Top Ten carnage continues. LSU, Cal, Missouri, Cincinatti no longer undefeated, with Hawaii barely staying so and ASU still playing at this time. That leaves only OSU, BC, USF, Hawaii and possibly ASU. I don’t think any of these will stay undefeated but who knows? Based on remaining schedule (for what that’s worth) and prior performances, USF may have the best chance of those teams. There’s certainly going to be scramble for pecking order of the numerous single loss teams, though most of these will end up with more than one loss. After all the talk of who would win the “predetermined” LSU/USC title game, there’s now a very real chance NEITHER of these teams will even be in the game–though both still control their own destiny for at least getting into a BCS bowl game.
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The Trojans looked very ordinary to me again today, but considering they are nearly playing with the second string these days with the number of injuries they have, I guess it could be worse. Hope they get healthy in a hurry as the remaining schedule is going to be extremely challanging.
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Hypothetically speaking: Say OSU, BC and USF do drop a single game and LSU, Oklahoma, and USC run the table from here on out (not a likely scenario, but not impossible): Which two do you think get in the title game based on overall body of work for the entire season (considering past performance and difficulty of running the table given a team’s remaining schedule)? Based on where teams are in the polls right now, I’d guess it would be LSU and Oklahoma, closely followed by OSU and USC
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USC has a great chance at the title game. After this week with all the upsets lets say USC is at #5. So the next week lets say they beat Notre Dame convincingly like they’re expected to, so they will probably move up to #3. Now the reason I think they will jump two spots for beating Notre Dame is because the way things have been going this year it is very unlikely that USF, BC, and OSU all keep winning for 2 straight weeks in my mind they are next on the upset list. So as #3 lets say they go onto beat Oregon in Eugene, that should be enough to put them at #2, and a win over Oregon St. and Cal should bring them back to #1, and of course they would still have to take care of business against ASU, and UCLA. so thats why they still have a great shot at the title, however the question is not if winning the rest of the way is enough to send them to the title, it’s if they have enough to win all those games, and I think they do, because considering the fact that they are winning with 2nd stringers, I think by the time they begin the tough road starting with with Oregon, they will have most of there starters healthy, and have the same team back that we called #1 not so long ago.
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That’s very optimistic tigran. I’d say they at best have a reasonable chance for the title game should they be able to win out. I speculate that the new top 10 will be something like:
1. OSU
2. BC
3. USF
4. Oklahoma
5. LSU
6. South Carolina
7. Oregon
8. West Virginia
9. Kentucky
10. USC
11+ Cal, Arizona St, Va TechCould be some slight shifts by one or two places. I mean how do you sort out LSU beating South Carolina, South Carolina beating Kentucky, and Kentucky taking out LSU in triple OT today? Now, despite how impressive it would be for USC to win out, I just don’t see them passing any of those top 5 teams without those teams losing. I do think they could get up to #6 no matter what anyone else does, but to climb any higher I believe they would need help. As I said, I believe OSU, BC and USF will all end up with at least one loss. If that occurs, the Trojans get to #3, but they still would need LSU or Oklahoma to lose again. Not that it couldn’t happen, but I believe USC is more likely to lose again than either of those two teams. I’m hoping for the best, but trying to remain realistic in the process.
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USC has a great chance at the title game. After this week with all the upsets lets say USC is at #5. So the next week lets say they beat Notre Dame convincingly like they’re expected to, so they will probably move up to #3. Now the reason I think they will jump two spots for beating Notre Dame is because the way things have been going this year it is very unlikely that USF, BC, and OSU all keep winning for 2 straight weeks in my mind they are next on the upset list. So as #3 lets say they go onto beat Oregon in Eugene, that should be enough to put them at #2, and a win over Oregon St. and Cal should bring them back to #1, and of course they would still have to take care of business against ASU, and UCLA. so thats why they still have a great shot at the title, however the question is not if winning the rest of the way is enough to send them to the title, it’s if they have enough to win all those games, and I think they do, because considering the fact that they are winning with 2nd stringers, I think by the time they begin the tough road starting with with Oregon, they will have most of there starters healthy, and have the same team back that we called #1 not so long ago.
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Well Mike D the way things have been going this year we really have no clue how everything is going to play out, i mean as soon as we think we have it all figured out, you then find another top 5 or top 10 team go down, so as of now we are looking at what is going to be a interesting finish to this season for one cant wait to see how it all plays out i just hope USC can hold on for another week until they are healthy.
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Based on simple head to head matchups a number of the current top ten teams will have to aborb one or more losses before the season is over. I’m more concerned about USC winning their games as that is all they can control. From what I’ve seen to this point I believe one or more of the following are true:
1. USC is simply not nearly as good as the preseason hype.
2. Despite USC’s depth, injuries have taken a significant toll.
3. USC has consisitently played down to the level of competition. Reason unknown (potentials include overconfidence, arrogance, lack of motivation, ???)
4. Every opposing team has been “jacked up” to play USC and played “over-their-heads”.I think it’s a combination of all the above, but am unsure as to how much each has contributed. As the weeks of mediocre play go by, I fear #1 above may be a much greater contributing factor than I’d like it to be. Right now, USC needs to get by ND in South Bend, which is by no means a “gimme” the way things have gone thus far. Then, the following week’s game in Eugene will be very telling as to their chances of at least getting to the Rose Bowl. From what I’ve seen thus far (from both USC and Oregon), I fear it would not be unreasonable for Oregon to actually thrash them fairly badly. Then again, maybe USC needs a game they consider to be a true challenge going in to get them to raise their level of play.
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I agree 100% remember last year they were also playing at the level of they’re weak competition, but as soon as they got to the big games, they began to blow out every top level team they had played, and I think by the time they play Oregon they will be much more healthy
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Ah, another undefeated top ten team goes down, though I don’t think this one particularly shocked many people. I just don’t see OSU, BC, ASU or Kansas staying undefeated either–not impossible, but I’d be a bit surprised if any of them did; and Hawaii’s schedule is too weak to get them into the #1 or #2 spot no matter what they do. So assuming OSU, BC, ASU and Kansas go down, it’s likely to be pretty wide open among any of the current top 13 teams that can finish with only one loss. I’d say Oklahoma and LSU have the edge if they can finish without losing again. Likely to be plenty of arguments over who should be in the title game by the time we get there. And all this after ESPN’s “preseason season” predicted like 4 or 5 top teams going undefeated (USC, LSU, Oklahoma, Michigan and one other I think). The reality is that going undefeated is extremely difficult–even for very good teams. Kind of reveals just how amazing USC’s 34 game win streak during the 2003-2005 seasons was.
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Mike d I don’t want to brag but believe it or not I called 8 upsets this year and Im 8 for 8 i called Auburn over Florida, South Florida over Auburn, Kentucky over LSU, Illinois over Wisconsin, Kansas St. over Texas, South Florida over West Varginia, Oregon St. over Cal, and Rutgers over South Florida. For Saturday I got UCLA over Cal, and Auburn over LSU.
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Those are both feasible. It’ll be interesting to see how LSU responds to the tough loss last week. If it were AT Auburn it would be much more likely. UCLA is so inconsistent it’s hard to peg them. Both their bad games have been OUT of conference however, and Cal seems to have a historical tendency to drop one or two games they should win. I haven’t checked if their starting QB is still out; that would make a huge difference IMHO. It would actually bolster USC’s chances at a shot in the title game (assuming they manage to win out, which I am not counting on) if Cal wins the rest of their games except against USC.
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You know what Im going to try my luck and call Michigan St. over Ohio St.
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Nice win for USC finally they get the blow out. What I noticed is that since the punt return by Joe McKnight, witch led to a USC touchdown against Arizona witch saved there season. USC has been playing with allot more passion, and a sense of erg ency. I think that one play is going to play a major factor if USC can win the rest of the way. I know it was against a 1-6 Notre Dame team, but the 38-0 win is what USC needed going into the tough part of there schedule. After Cal got upset for a second straight week, this time to UCLA witch by the way makes me 10-12 on my upset calls. I don’t see USC losing that game, as of now I feel Arizona State on a Thursday night is going to be USC’s toughest test. For this upcoming Saturday I pick USC to win 34-21. I think this will be the game where USC shows the country that there defense is as good as advertised, also I think Sanchez will have a big game and get allot of different receivers going, USC will also get allot of plays on the ground, that will be do to some key players on the o-line returning. not only is USC going to be allot more healthy on the o-line, but they will also have a few key returners on the defensive end. And my upset picks for this weekend will be Rutger over West Virginia, Penn St over Ohio St.
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