Double Latte to Go!!

The Trojans got the HECK out of the Emerald City with a hard-fought, injury-plagued, mistake-prone, flag-happy, crappy-weather game against the Huskies 27-24. The offensive line suffered two significant injuries to guard, Chilo Rachel and center, Kris O'Dowd on the same play in the first quarter after which, the offense got untracked and couldn't find any rythmn. The 16 penalties was the most by a Pete Carroll Trojan team since 2002...some of those called (on both sides) were marginal at best, including the PI call in the 4th in which Yao Ming would have needed a ladder to catch the ball.

Still, the Trojans survived and advance to their next opponent, hosting the Stanford Cardinal led by Jim "the mouth" Harbaugh. The next three games "should" be relatively easy vs the Cardinal, the Wildcats, and the Irish, which could be a trap game since it is right before another road trip to Eugene to face the feisty Ducks.

For those of you who didn't see the Cal/Oregon game, it lived up to its billing and the Trojans will need the next three games to rest the injured and get ready for the "heavies."

For those of you who missed the Washington game, here is the Cliffs Notes version:

USC/Washington Condensed Game

In closing, it was a WACKY weekend in college football with FIVE top 10 teams taken down. Cal is now #3, Oregon was dropped down to 14 (which is terrible considering how close the game was and how many other top 10 teams lost to unranked teams on Saturday. If any LSU fans remarks about the Tigers jumping USC in the AP poll, bait them into answering this question: "do you feel the move to #1 in the AP is justified?" When the react something like "heck yeah, we should be #1 in ALL polls." Smile and say, "thank you for validating the AP Poll, you just acknowledged 2003 was a split." Turn and walk away...and smile!

Saturday's viewing party will be posted soon.

Fight On!

Trojans Easily Win Pac-10 Opener

USC/WSU Condensed Game Video

Hey Triad Trojans:

Coach Pete Carroll and the #1 ranked USC Trojans fresh off plowing their Cardinal & Gold combines through the cornfields of Nebraska, came home to open conference play against Bill Doba and his Washington State Cougars. Having revved up the ground game against the Cornhuskers last week to the tune of over 300 yards, Coach Carroll unleashed Heisman Trophy Candidate John David Booty and his young receiving corp against Wazzu with equally devastating results. This game was the breakout performance of senior TE Fred Davis who had career high catches, yards to go with his 2 TD's. Since the game was not broadcast locally (unless you had Gameplan), I have included a link above to ESPN's video vault which gives a 16 minutes condensed version of the game. Enjoy!

This week, the Trojans head north to the Emerald City of Seattle, Washington to take on the Washington Huskies and their impressive young QB, Jake Locker. Game time is set for 8:00 PM and the viewing party will be in Winston-Salem at the Fox and Hound. I may be there for a short time since my family plans on attending the Oktoberfest in W-S that day.

Fight On!