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Recent Columns:
Hard-to-find regional telecasts and time-zone differences have, for years, left Pacific 10 Conference schools feeling Left Coast isolated and ignored.
Exhaustive examination of Saturday's exhilarating game action led to this reputation-risking observation:
The "Big 12" reasons why the Big 12 is the best conference (so far) this season:
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.