RSS Feeds
Chris Dufresne• E-mail
|
Recent Columns:
USC, which we vaguely recall losing a football game at unranked Oregon State not too long ago, is No. 1 this week in Jeff Sagarin's USA Today ratings.
Given how precariously the game was sandwiched between Ohio State and Oregon on the 2008 schedule, USC Coach Pete Carroll now admits he had Oregon State circled all along on his watch-out calendar.
Almost three years ago, against Texas in the Rose Bowl, fourth-and-two cost USC a third straight national championship.
Early sideline observations while trying to make a headset connection with Norm Chow . . .
Three answers to three questions emanating from the first question-filled weekend of the season:
Tommy Trojan to Brutus Buckeye:
Wait a timber-lodge, Mike Riley, Trojans-killer minute: USC wasn't supposed to lose to thatthat OSU.
The folks at UCLA's appointments desk say their football schedule is booked through games of 2012 while USC's calendar was described as "jigsaw puzzle" complicated.
Don't dial the BCS crisis hotline yet, USC fans.
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Now we know why Georgia packed up its players and its bulldog mascot, Uga VII, who left an air-conditioned Dawg house back in Athens, to venture out on its longest regular-season trip since 1960.