Near grid lock

Should have seen it coming. The Washington Huskies caught USC looking ahead to their big game with Stanford.

Kent Hollenback

Ventura

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No matter how good you are, every once in a while you’re going to have a game in which everything is stacked against you, nothing goes right, and you just have to find a way to win. Pete Carroll said that the Trojans “just couldn’t do more things wrong,” and for the first time, I disagree with him -- they could have lost. Just ask Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia, Rutgers and Oregon.

So, the Trojans had their cage rattled. Strangely, it may turn out to be just what they needed.

Richard Sprunger

Pasadena

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If Washington didn’t provide USC fans comfortable game seating on a barge out on Lake Washington, then the Huskies missed a chance to serve USC supporters a taste of their own medicine. At their home games for visiting fans, USC chooses to provide seating that’s about a stone’s throw from Monterey Park.

Thus, a few words of advice for fans of the Cardinal attending today’s game.

* If you’re curious about UCLA-Notre Dame, be sure to bring a portable radio tuned to 1070. Revealing scores of other games is a concept totally foreign to USC’s Coliseum.

* From your splintered seats in Section 1, you’re going to need binoculars. And that’s just to see your cheerleaders. If you have designs on actually seeing some plays, that’ll require something Hubble-like.

Gene Miller

Huntington Beach