Reserve center Abe Markowitz fractured his right foot during Sunday’s practice, which means he might end up needing to redshirt this season. Markowitz was the backup to Kris O’Dowd on the depth chart and means Mike Reardon will probably become the new backup.
Of course, Reardon did not practice Sunday because he was injured.

The Seattle Times polled 29 coaches on a variety of topics.

One question: Name the college coach for whom you have the least regard.
Most coaches did not answer. But “three who did named Lane Kiffin of USC. Only three others got a single mention — Brian Kelly of Notre Dame, Nick Saban of Alabama and Mike Locksley of New Mexico.”

USC will take 80 players to Hawaii this week. Safety Patrick Hall was supposed to make the travel squad before he was suspended from the team today. Hall’s spot was replaced by walk-on K.C. Pola.

Here’s a timeline that shows conference realignment is not something that just happened in the modern era.

Starting tailback Marc Tyler talked about how he wanted to leave USC nearly a month ago.

Seattle drops to 1-2 in the NFL exhibition season.

Former USC wide receiver Mike Williams caught a 42-yard pass for the Seahawks in tonight’s game against the Minnesota Vikings.

“They tried to recruit him and it didn’t go very well.”
– USC coach Lane Kiffin on an attempt by defensive coaches Monte Kiffin and Ed Orgeron to move tailback Marc Tyler to linebacker when they arrived at USC.

Linebacker Chris Galippo talked today about his role at linebacker following Friday night’s official announcement that Devon Kennard would start against Hawaii.

ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit picked Stanford to win the Pac-10. His colleague, Lou Holtz, picked USC.