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USC in desperate need of a win with No. 12 Nebraska in town
Big Ten counterparts Southern California and No. 12 Nebraska meet on Saturday in Los Angeles with very different but equally high stakes.,The Trojans (18-10, 7-10 Big Ten) head into the final three games of the regular season playing for their postseason lives. On a four-game losing streak following...
Notre Dame and USC Canceling their Rivalry is Everything Wrong About College Football
USC ending its historic rivalry with Notre Dame highlights how mega conferences, scheduling, and playoff incentives are reshaping college football — for the worse....

No. 7 Oregon outguns No. 15 USC to stay on track for CFP spot
No. 7 Oregon had enough offense to outlast No. 15 USC for a 42-27 Big Ten victory on Saturday afternoon in Eugene, Ore., as the Ducks overcame the most penalty yards against them in two years to stay on track for a College Football Playoff spot.,Oregon (10-1, 7-1 Big Ten) got a pair of touchdown cat...

USC's outburst sets Galen Center points record in Manhattan romp
Chad Baker-Mazara scored 20 of his 26 points in the first half, and Southern California put up its second and third halves of 55-plus points this season on the way to a 114-83 rout of visiting Manhattan on Sunday in Los Angeles., ,Coming off of a 57-point half to close last Monday's season-opening r...

No. 23 Southern California scores last to avoid upset at Nebraska
Behind King Miller's 129 rushing yards and fourth-quarter touchdown, No. 23 Southern California overcame a sluggish offensive start to rally past Nebraska 21-17 on Saturday night in Lincoln, Neb.,USC (6-2, 4-1 Big Ten Conference), which came into Saturday's matchup with the fifth-most prolific offen...

Jeremiyah Love's career day helps No. 13 Notre Dame run past No. 20 USC
Jeremiyah Love rushed 24 times for a career-high 228 yards and a touchdown, and No. 13 Notre Dame pulled away for a 34-24 win over No. 20 USC on a rain-soaked Saturday night in South Bend, Ind.,Jadarian Price returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown and rushed for 87 yards and a score for Notre ...

USC's 17-0 run too much for No. 15 Michigan to overcome
Jayden Maiava threw a pair of touchdown passes and Southern California overcame two red-zone turnovers to top No. 15 Michigan 31-13 on Saturday night in Los Angeles.,USC (5-1, 3-1 Big Ten) came in having committed only five turnovers in its first five games, but the Trojans coughed up two against Mi...

No. 25 USC builds big lead, withstands Michigan State rally
Jayden Maiava passed for three touchdowns and rushed for two more scores as No. 25 Southern California answered a second-half Michigan State rally to beat the Spartans 45-31 on Saturday night in Los Angeles. ,USC (4-0, 2-0 Big Ten Conference) built a two-touchdown lead by intermission, scoring on th...

Jayden Maiava's 4 TD passes carry USC past Georgia Southern
Jayden Maiava threw for 412 yards and four touchdowns to lead USC to a 59-20 win against visiting Georgia Southern on Saturday evening in Los Angeles.,Maiava completed 16-of-24 passes without a turnover. Makai Lemon caught four passes for 158 yards and two long touchdowns, doing most of his damage i...

USC set to complete East Coast swing with a stop at Rutgers
Southern California is out to avoid a three-game losing streak Sunday in a visit to Big Ten Conference counterpart Rutgers in Piscataway, N.J.,The Trojans (14-12, 6-9 Big Ten) rallied from sluggish starts in both halves in the first leg of its East Coast road swing Thursday at Maryland, but ran out ...
Three Overrated College Football Teams Headed Into 2025
It's difficult to sustain success in college football, and these three teams are expected to be among the most overrated in the country heading into the 2025 season....

Just give Reggie Bush his Heisman Trophy back
The court of public opinion cleared Reggie Bush of any wrongdoing years ago, but that still doesn’t put the Heisman back in his hands. The long-retired running back is now planning to sue the NCAA and ESPN for defamation of character surrounding the reporting of the alleged improper benefits that le...

Don’t be cowards, Notre Dame. Save the Pac-12
Amid various upheavals and tectonic conference shifts, one of the nation’s most prominent college football brands has maintained its neutrality. Notre Dame is the Joel Osteen of college athletics as a football megachurch without a conference denomination. Notre Dame basketball is the garnish, but fo...

'Vacating' wins is the dumbest punishment of all time — do better, NCAA
The kids might not realize it, but in 1997 the movie of the summer was Men In Black. In the ‘90s, Will Smith was the king of summer blockbusters, especially if they opened July 4th weekend — or included aliens. One of the best parts of the MiB franchise was the Neuralyzers, a device that was used to...

Who announces their jump to the NFL first in 2024: Caleb Williams or Lincoln Riley?
To the surprise of very few college football fans, Caleb Williams lifted the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night. The USC quarterback finished with 4,075 yards, 47 total touchdowns, and just four interceptions, all while leading his team to within a win of the College Football Playoff. Of all the quart...

USC craps out in Vegas, but Trojans were playing entirely with house money
If you told USC fans before the season that the eulogy for the Trojans’ College Football Playoff hopes wouldn’t be penned until after the conference title game, their reaction would’ve been euphoric. Though the first year under Lincoln Riley ended in disappointment — you don’t come a win away from t...

These 5 players are the top Heisman Trophy candidates
We are into November, and that means the college football season is really heating up. The first edition of the College Football Playoff rankings dropped, so it’s time for the serious contenders to lock in if they want a shot at qualifying. With Bowl season also comes award season, as the top player...

The AP poll really needs to start taking strength of schedule into consideration more
The USC Trojans came into this season with very high expectations, and that’s saying a lot considering their a historic program whose fans expect nothing short of a Pac-12 title and a top-10 postseason finish every year. The additions of head coach Lincoln Riley and quarterback Caleb Williams had So...

College football's Marty McFly Rankings Week 3: And then there was one team from Florida left
Merriam-Webster has four different entries for “back,” but none of them apply to college football teams. So it’s left up to people like me to determine what “back” actually is. Being back to Miami is not the same as being back to Washington. Also, can you get back if you never technically got anywhe...
