Bought the Farm...

OUCH! That one is gonna leave a mark. Well, the unthinkable happened Saturday, USC lost a home game to a team that it should have overwhelmed. The scrappy Cardinal came into the L.A. Coliseum with a QB that threw a total of two passes and came away with a 24-23 victory over the #1/2 Trojans.

I have seen this before...Pat Barnes and Pat Cowan at UCLA...unknown QB's making a first start facing a team that should crush them with reckless abandon and putting a L on the Trojans. Why we have had a propensity to do this baffles me, but even more disconcerting is the demeanor of head coach Pete Carroll on the sidelines. Against UW and Stanford he has NOT been his fun-loving, affable self. Something is amiss here, I don't know what it is, but there must be an underlying thorn that is poking and irritating the head man.

That being said, the season is FAR from over, to wit, flashback to 2003. The Trojans lost an early game at Cal, came back to win the rest and won the AP National Championship. As wacky as this season has been, I would not put it past some other major upsets forthcoming. Just the past two weeks, EIGHT top ten teams lost. USC can still run the table (though JDB and his receivers better get on the same page pronto!), win the Pac-10 and play in yet another BCS bowl game. Next up, the Wildcats of Arizona. Let's see if Pete and Co. can put on a sense of urgency and revert back to the Nebraska game mentality.