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Dan Weber, Riverside Press-Enterprise They’re headed in the right direction, at last, with a shot to make the best of a disappointing season. USC fans were at least smiling again this weekend with the Trojans’ improvement to No. 11 in both the AP poll and the BCS rankings after Saturday’s 24-17 win over Cal in…
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<!–start image–><!– end image–>The Trojans kept their BCS Bowl hopes alive with a rain-soaked victory over the California Golden Bears. Junior receiver Patrick Turner was held to just one catch, but Chauncey Washington and the USC running game more than made up for the slack. USCFootball.com took these action photos from the sidelines in Berkele
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We don’t know about you, but we’re entranced by Kansas coach Mark Mangino. He’s like Rick Majerus, but less cartoonish. He looks like what we want football coaches to look like; sorry, ladies, but he’s married! Anyway, Kansas is still undefeated and could legitimately be in the BCS title game. Our minds are blown, and…
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BCS guru Jerry Palm still projects USC to play Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl.
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Scott Wolf, Los Angeles Daily News This was supposed to be the week the Pacific-10 Conference decided who would represent it for a chance at the BCS national championship game. The USC-California game was to feature the conference’s two best teams, not to mention the two best stories with the Trojans’ success and wide receiver DeSean…
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Lloyd Lake postponed his meeting with NCAA on Friday until Wednesday of next week, think he is looking to settle? I do. But I also think he is exposed, so he is playing some gamesmanship. We have heard a lot of talk about taped conversations and documentation of this whole mess but yet none of…
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Mark Saxon, Orange County Register If vengeance were USC’s motivation going into tonight’s game against Oregon State, that pep talk would soon lose its punch. What are they going to tell themselves a month later against UCLA? The Beavers only sidetracked them last year with a 33-31 victory in Corvallis, Ore. The Bruins bumped them…
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Autzen Stadium will be rocking for Saturday’s Arizona State-Oregon clash. But who has the edge? SI.com’s Cory McCartney breaks down a showdown of unlikely BCS title contenders.
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<!–start image–><!– end image–>This week will be the greatest challenge for an SC team in quite some time, at least since 2001. National title hopes disappeared in October, which hasn’t happened to these players. The chances of winning the Pac-10 are very, very small. A BCS bowl berth is still a decent possibility, but not…
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Tom Haire, USCFootball.com For the first time since 2002, the Trojans aren’t thinking national championship as they head into November. This is a big challenge for Carroll and the staff – getting their players to understand the importance of each game remaining on the schedule in an effort to finish strong and take advantage of…
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BCS guru Jerry Palm projects USC playing Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl. That means Palm expects USC to win all of its remaining games.
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Carroll says that USC, now out of the BCS title picture, will focus on the next games with its sights still on Rose Bowl. If Stanford Coach Jim Harbaugh and others were to be believed, USC would now be well on its way to the Bowl Championship Series title game in New Orleans.
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