USC returned all five offensive line starters and entered the season with the second-most career starts in the country. But which line is ranked No. 2 in the nation this season by Pro Football Focus? Washington State.
“The Cougars line boasts PFF’s highest-graded guard in Cody O’Connell and the sixth-highest and 10th-highest graded tackles in Cole Madison and Andre Dillard respectively, along with No. 15 guard Eduardo Middleton.”
Washington State. USC is not listed in the top 10 rankings, by the way.
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And UCLA’s line averages >2 yds per rush. LOL!
Can we hire their OL coach ?
Just goes to show again how good the “experts” are.
Surely Gomer knows he needs to fix USC’s problems on both the OL and the DL. Anyone can see USC is strictly average in those areas and they are holding us back. Will be interesting to see just who we sign on LOI Day.
Exactly, Jack B. We need talented, coach able, aggressive BEEF on both lines and we need them SOON.
Utah and Colorado each have 4 conference games left on the schedule that they can lose – Utah needs to drop 2 and Colorado needs 1 for us to slip into the lead assuming we win out – thats the dream
We could win out but, very slim at best. The easy scenario would be finish with respect, bowl win and build on the success of Darnold moving forward.
Nice dream
The bad weather could be the wild card that leads to a needed loss.
Washington game is crucial, a must win. Weather will play a huge part in a W or L.
We already loss a weather game to Utah. SC and Helton better be prepared and coached properly for the UW game in rainy Seattle.
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Personally I do not think the Utes have been properly tested yet – Sam’s first start on the road in the rain along with a bunch of turnovers wasnt exactly a convincing win, and was by far their best win so far
Colorado still has to play Stanford at home, WSU, Utah, and the lowly bruins – I can see them losing one of those
Who do you think the Utes 2 losses will be?
They could conceivably lose 5 of the next 5 games with Oregon as the least competitive of the bunch
The Utes choked the Pac 12 South away last year with losses to UA and the ruins, so they are no lock.
I think the chances are about the same for the utes to lose 4 of next 5 games as Colorado to lose 1 of next 5
But…..we can’t lose in Seattle. MUST, MUST, WIN!
According to Steve Sarkisian, he hired the best coaching staff in college football, which happened to include Bob Connelly. So why didn’t Connelly develop theses highly decorated offensive lineman , when he had them as freshman? Because Connelly was the best, wasn’t he ? LMAO. Sarkisian sure was a Drunk, Fool .
Wheeler out the first 1 1/2 games; Edoga missed basically one game, Banner missed two; Loabadahn out for the season; brand new O-Line coach. I wonder why they aren’t some sort of well-oiled machine either?
OConnell a three star, Cole Madison and Andre Dillard two stars, and Eduardo Middleton a three star from Oceanside, CA, class of 2012. Zach Banner and Jordan Simmons were five star in 2012 class for USC, Chad Wheeler three star, Max Tuerck four star,