Let’s face it, an obsession with listmaking — otherwise known as glazomania — is ingrained into probably 90 percent of the human race. For college football pundits, this is probably just as well, since listing and ranking everything from teams, players, and coaches to the wieners at various stadiums’ concession stands probably makes up two-thirds […]
Read moreUSC Holds Off Georgia Tech, 76-57
Dwight Lewis scored 19 points as Southern California pulled away from Georgia Tech at the start of the second half to win 76-57 Monday night.
Read moreBCS Standings
USC’s fifth, Oklahoma grabs the valued No. 2 spot and Oregon State goes tumbling out of the top 25. Mighty Penn State, the likely bowl opponent, is No. 8. 1. Alabama (12-0) .9713 1 1 2815 .9965 1 1521 .9974 3 92 .920 2. Oklahoma (11-1) .9351 3 4 2569 .9094 2 1397 .9161 1 […]
Read moreDon’t Know Much About Sociology
A USA Today special report into athetes’ majors showed clustering in certain majors “without the academic demands most students face.” A chart of the Top 25 football teams in 2007 showed 57.9 percent of USC’s juniors and seniors (22 of 38) majored in sociology. The only top 25 schools with more football players in a […]
Read moreHey, NCAA: Can Stepheson play?
Alex Stepheson is sitting, waiting, wishing. He’s sitting out games, having already missing USC’s opener. He’s waiting to find out if he can play in the Trojans’ second home game tonight. And he’s wishing he can board a red-eye flight that will take the team to Puerto Rico for a weekend tournament. Stepheson is an […]
Read moreYear-in, Year-Out?
This is a phrase that is often used when talking about the superiority of the SEC as a conference. As in “year-in, year-out, the SEC is the strongest league in college football.” You hear it a lot. Way too much, in fact. Now, here’s the thing. The SEC is currently the top conference. It was […]
Read moreThe best rankings system?
Everyone seems to have computer formula these days. But some systems engineer professors at Georgia Tech claim their system “consistently predicts NCAA basketball rankings more accurately than . . . even the tournament seeds themselves.” The LRMC methord says it was right 55-65 percent of the time in games where picked different winners than other […]
Read moreEllis Keeps Streak Alive
The College Football News always tries to do things differently — and so they did with their All-America team this year. But one thing they didn’t do differently was keep USC nose tackle Sedrick Ellis’ All-American streak alive. He’s been named first-team on every single one released to date. But naming Oregon’s Dennis Dixon as […]
Read moreUpset Special
It was an upset sort of weekend for college football’s elite. Nine of the AP-25 teams awoke with hangovers; the foul taste of defeat in their mouths. Five of the losing teams were previously ranked in the top ten. And to make matters worse only two of the losing teams, West Virginia and Oregon, fell […]
Read moreSagarin Not So Impressed
USA Today’s computer rankings guru Jeff Sagarin wasn’t as impressed with the Trojans’ 38-10 win over 109th-ranked Idaho. His rankings this week drop USC (90.10) from the top spot to No. 2, fip-flopping the Trojans with LSU 93.99), last week’s No. 2 team. The complete Sagarin ratings can be viewed at:http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/fbt07.htm If there is any […]
Read moreTrojans Gain in Coaches Poll
The 38-10 ho-hum win over Idaho didn’t hurt USC at all in the ESPN-Coaches Poll out Tuesday morning with the Trojans actually picking up four first-place viotes from the 45 they had in the preseason poll. UCLA (1-0) improved from No. 17 to No. 14 this week with USC’s next opponent Nebraska (1-0) improving two […]
Read moreWeis not making QB choice public
Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis has decided on a starting quarterback, he’s just not telling anyone who it is – including the player he’s picked. Weis has said repeatedly since the team began practicing this month he would not announce whether Evan Sharpley, Demetrius Jones or Jimmy Clausen would start at quarterback until it was […]
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