Mark Saxon, OC Register

Pete Carroll has been through this before, but he acknowledges that doesn’t make it easy. Carroll’s USC Trojans are trying to become the third team in the history of college football — his 2004 team was the second — to go wire-to-wire as the No. 1 team in the nation. The Associated Press rankings that came out Saturday agreed with every other major poll that came before and put the Trojans on top… continue