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The three-way tie atop the Big 12 South has been broken. Thanks to the BCS, Oklahoma will be going to the conference title game.
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From the AP: Bob Stoops is done with the politicking that has turned the national championship race into a campaign, and he thinks other coaches are getting tired of it, too. “It’s unfortunate. No one likes to do it,” the Oklahoma coach said Tuesday at his weekly news conference. “I think that’s why more and…
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When tailback Broderick Green announced he was transferring, the first question that popped into most USC followers’ heads was: Who’s next? Receiver Vidal Hazelton seemed like a logical candidate. Not only has his playing time dropped precipitously after he ranked second on the team in catches last season, but the coaches declined his request to…
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Posted By:Darren Rovell It may be too early to speculate on whether an eight team college football playoff or a “plus one” (essentially a Final Four) will actually be instituted. But the agreement announced this week by ESPN to take over the BCS for 4 years and $500 million could turn out to be a…
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Barack Obama isn’t done campaigning — for a college football playoff. On Sunday he discussed the topic with 60 Minutes (video above). He first brought it up during a halftime interview on Monday Night Football the day before he was elected. So will it actually happen? The Wiz of Odds gathered several reactions here, but…
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I’m happy to report that I was wrong and, thanks to the power of the internet, I was corrected in record time. I doubt The Smoking Gun has ever solved anything this complex, this fast. A few hours ago I posted about the possible scenarios that would take USC to the BCS National Championship game…
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Football players like to get physical. Even Olivia Newton-John liked to get physical. But this is the BCS era. Let’s get technical. Following up on this weekend’s commentary about USC’s (non-existent) hopes of playing for the BCS Championship game, I hacked into the BCS computers and calculated all the possible outcomes. Assuming the Trojans run…
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Posted by ESPN.com’s Ted Miller USC remained sixth in the latest BCS standings and its computer ranking held steady at eighth, but the Trojans are no longer alone in the standings. Oregon State jumped into the standings at No. 21 and state rival Oregon is just behind at No. 24. The Beavers are also ranked…
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By coaching in his 100th game for USC on Saturday, Pete Carroll joined an elite fraternity of Trojans icons. The only other three to have done so are Howard Jones (1925-40), John McKay (1960-75) and John Robinson (1976-82, 1993-97). Carroll has a better winning percentage (.850) than any of them, but it doesn’t mean he…
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In light of the Pac-10 finally getting two more teams in the top 25 of the BCS standings, I asked Pete Carroll whether he thinks the conference gets the credit it deserves on a national basis. He claimed to have no clue about conference power rankings, but he did say this: “It seems like the…
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The Trojans improved markedly in the penalty department vs. Stanford, drawing six flags for 45 yards — down from their conference-worst average of 78.7 entering the weekend. But Pete Carroll believes USC should have had one fewer penalty, claiming that a holding call on Patrick Turner in the third quarter should not have been whistled.…
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Posted by ESPN.com’s Ted Miller The Pac-10 blog has often called USC the most-talented team in the nation. While something like that can’t be measured and proclaimed a fact like, say, 2 + 2 = 4 is a fact, most folks without an agenda recognize that as a reasonably true statement. Some know it to…
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