With a sold-out crowd of 72,981 expected to fill Memorial Stadium, California hosts top-ranked USC Saturday at 12:30PM in the Golden Bears’ final home game of the 2005 season. The match-up will be televised regionally by ABC.

Over the past three years, the Cal-USC game has come down to the final possession each time. The Trojans won, 30-28, in 2002 and 23-17 last year in Los Angeles. The Bears prevailed 34-31 in triple overtime in 2003 in Berkeley – an outcome that handed USC its most recent defeat.

The Trojans lead the country in both scoring offense (49.89 ppg) and total offense (593.56 ypg) while also topping the Pac-10 in scoring defense (20.56 ppg) and total defense (348.33).

Trojans return to site of their last loss [CalBears.com]