October 2010 Archives
Where just over four hours until Oregon's high-flying Ducks invade the Coliseum.
Oregon is averaging nearly 60 points a game, which its lowest output of the season being a 42-point effort. But USC can play offense too, hanging 48 points with relative ease two weeks ago against Cal.
But can the Trojans play defense? They'll have to to beat the Ducks.
I wonder though, if Lane Kiffin will use this speech to inspire his Trojans today. I know, it's a clip from Rudy, and centers on USC's arch rival Notre Dame. But I wonder if Kiffin will use the words, 'our house and pushing us around?''
The Pac-10 released its divisional alignment for when it becomes the Pac-12 next year. As expected, it went with a North/South division and USC and UCLA, which were placed in the South, will split from its Northern Cal partners Cal and Stanford, which were put in the North, along with Washington, Washington State, Oregon and Oregon State.
USC and UCLA will be joined with newbies Utah and Colorado, along with Arizona and Arizona State.
Each school will play five games within its division and four conference non-division games. But Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott said USC's and UCLA's rivalries with Cal and Stanford will be maintained as the California schools will still face each other every year, meaning, though, that the Northwest schools will only visit the Los Angeles market once every two years.
Commissioner Larry Scott said the divisional alignment is for football only, and that the Pac-12 title game will be played at the conference team with the best overall conference record. The conference will have a formula in place to break ties for both to determine the host and divisional champions, if necessary.
Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott will announce what the division alignment will be for the new Pac-12 in a press conference in a few minutes in San Francisco.
You can view it here:
The Bowl Championship Series was created 13 years ago to end the dispute of what truly is the best team in college football.
But rather than solve the puzzle, the answers seem more complex.
They didn't get any clearer when the season's first BCS standings were released Sunday.
Oklahoma, which has been in the BCS top 10 more than any other school, came in at No. 1 after starting 6-0. Oregon, which is ranked No. 1 by the human polls for the first time in its history, is No. 2 with BCS buster Boise State, which hasn't lost since the 2008 season, at No. 3.
Therein lies the argument, which seems to always be divided into two camps - the haves (BCS conference teams) and have-nots (non-BCS conference teams).
No matter how many games Boise State continues to win, there's going to be an element that never will cast a vote for the Smurfs as the top team.
Alabama won't be celebrating like this in January
Here' my column for this week, where I say adios to Alabama
Bye, bye Alabama.
That
appears to be the repercussion of Saturday's 35-21 upset by South
Carolina over the previous No. 1 Crimson Tide, seeking to repeat a Bowl
Championship Series title.
I went to bed Saturday night thinking 'Bama wouldn't get
hurt too badly, forecasting a drop to No. 5 behind Ohio State and
Oregon and BCS busters Boise State and Texas Christian.
I awoke Sunday to find out the voters had more of a Judge
Roy Bean mentality, giving the Tide a near death penalty sentence in
reference to their BCS hopes. Alabama, after losing for the first time
since the 2009 Sugar Bowl, dropped seven spots to No. 8 in all three
human polls, including the USA Today coaches' and Harris Interactive
Top 25 polls, which count for two-thirds of the BCS formula.
