Like their team, Trojans fans have been taken down a few pegs — perhaps all the way to El Paso, or someplace even less desirable.

EUGENE, ORE. — Gosh, it’s gonna be fun in El Paso on New Year’s Eve, the cow-town Sun Bowl kicking off appropriately at high noon, Trojans honks wise now to make reservations at the Stampede Bar to finish off and, of course, forget 2007.