University of Southern California Trojans
2021 Season (3rd Qtr.)
WEEK 9
vs. #15 Stanford (6-0) (PAC-10) *TV2*
(USC -10) USC BCS RANK: #5
We play a very good Stanford Cardinal team this week in the Rose Bowl. Stanford, UCLA and Southern Cal are all undefeated in the PAC-10, and overall. In essence, the loser of this game is virtually eliminated from the PAC-10 race - not to mention from contending for a national championship.
We're a little banged up heading into the game, but freshman FB Warren Gardiner is the only player defintely out.
Code:
Southern California Roster, Injury Report
Player # Pos Elig Health Injury Full Strn.
Daugherty, Ike 24 RB Sr* Questionable Stretched Knee Li 8 Weeks
Gardiner, Warren 31 FB Fr Out Reconstructive Kn 30 Weeks
Finch, Kenneth 1 QB Jr* Questionable Arthroscopic Knee 3 Weeks
Spoke with Kenny Finch and he wants to play. This is a big game in our season, and if he's physically able to go we'll go ahead and start him. But the threshold for removing him will be set very low and we'll keep Tony Felkey loose and ready just in case.
Quarterly grades were given out this week. Four players had a D+, no one with anything lower. Allocated three coaching blocs to each of those players and still have plenty for the last two quarters.
We've landed a couple of linebackers this recruiting season - Jermaine Louks and Floyd Fauber - and we're looking for some good development of these two players what with being the first incoming class of new linebackers that Leland Shepard will get to work with.
We're still waiting for DE Jamie Battle - one of our prime recruiting targets - to make a final decision. He's going to be an outstanding defensive lineman.
Stanford runs a standard Pro Formation offense and their offensive coordinator has been running it for 14 years, so they have it well tuned. Their quarterback, Ralph Duffy, is no better than an average college QB. They do have an outstanding WR in senior Isaac Stone - we'll be double covering him a lot as he is clearly their best option in the passing game. They've got a solid offensive line - Duffy has only been sacked 7 times in 6 games. Our scouting report says Duffy doesn't like to go deep, and with our corners so good man to man, that means we'll be running lots of man to man coverage.
The Cardinal have a very solid running game with RB Jared Phillips leading the way. Phillips is averaging 112 yards per game and 5 yards per carry. He's a very dangerous runner.
I'm more worried about Phillips beating us than I am about Stanford's passing game doing so. However, our front seven is pretty adept at stopping the run, so I don't think we need to overplay it in our gameplan. In the end, after mulling this over some, I've decided we're going to look about equally as much for the pass as the run - overplaying the run in short yardage situations but otherwise playing for the run and the pass about equally.
We're not going to blitz an extraordinary amount. I want our backers spying the run and dropping back into pass coverage. The Cardinal don't give up a lot of sacks anyway - but our best pass rushers are our ends anyway, so they'll be rushing the passer no matter what. All in all we're looking at a pretty straightforward 3-4 with heavy man to man coverage in the secondary, and a heavy dose of double-team on Stone.
GAMEDAY
1Q: We kick off and right away Wally Knight gets 2 quick sacks of Duffy and the Cardinal are forced to punt. It's a real luxury when you can get that kind of pressure on a QB without having to blitz.
Kenny Finch drives us right down the field with a nice combination of running and passing capped off by a 12 yard run for a score by Tailback Ike Daugherty. We go up 7-0.
It's good to see Kenny play so well the first drive, but we've got a quick hook set for him if need be. Hopefully he'll stay away from reinjuring that knee.
Kenny is driving us down the field again - he sure likes having Britt wells as a target - when the quarter ends. End of 1Q: USC 7-0
2Q: Daugherty scores from 2 yards out and is really running all over these guys. They can't seem to lay a hand on him today. 14-0 Southern Cal.
DE Wally Knight got banged up on a play, don't know if he'll return. Stanford can't move the ball at all against us so far, they've got -11 yards total offense.
Both teams make defensive stands and we trade punts before Kenny Finch drives us downfield, mixing his highly accurate passing and our wishbone option game to perfection. Ike Daugherty takes it in from 9 yards out for his 3rd rushing touchdown of the day. We go up 21-0.
Looks like Wally Knight isn't coming back today, but his opposite number, Floyd Jeffers really starts harassing Duffy and the Cardinal just can't get anything going. we drive down the field again and Daughtery punches it in from 3 yards out for his 4th TD of the game. 28-0 USC at the half.
Halftime notes: Our defense has been superb the entire half, completely shutting down the Stanford offense, which has posted -17 yards of total offense. Our offense has been just as efficient, marching down the field over and over behind the dominating blocking of RG Brian Barton and his teammates. Now hopefully Offensive Coordinator Spencer Farley will get Kenny Finch out of the game and let Tony Felkey take over at QB. No need to risk re-injury to Finch.
3Q: Kenny Finch stays in the game and late in the third hits Brit Wells with a 56 yard scoring strike. Now maybe Farley will take him out as it's 35-0.
Farley finally pulls Finch and puts in Felkey. End of 3Q: Southern Cal 35-0.
4Q: The second unit just pours it on as we grind out the clock and we win going away, 49-0.
Southern Cal controlled the ball for over 36 minutes and we limited Stanford to 29 yards of total offense - their backup quarterback came in at the end and hit on some passes.
Tailback Ike Daugherty had a solid game despite checking out early, rushing for 111 yards and 4 touchdowns on 23 carries (4.8 avg) and WR Britt Wells had a big day, making 6 catches for 150 yards and 1 TD grab. QB Kenny Finch was a very efficient 13/16 for 218 yards and 1 score in his return to action, also rushing for 24 yards on 4 carries.
Defensively Wally Knight and Floyd Jeffers each had a pair of sacks as we sacked the Cardinal quarterback 6 times on the day, almost equaling the 7 sacks in the 6 games previous that Stanford had given up.
Wally Knight hyperextended his elbow and could miss up to 3 weeks, but that was the only bad news for us on the day as we played an excellent all around game.
USC 49 -- Stanford 0
PAC-10 (5-0) -- OVERALL (7-0)
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WEEK 10
vs. Washington (4-3) (PAC-10) *TV4*
(USC -16) USC BCS RANKING: #1
We move into the #1 slot in the BCS rankings, but still have to play Notre Dame (#2) and UCLA (#3). No one said trying to win three national championships in a row would be easy.
We've got three slots left open in our recruiting class for this year - still waiting word from Jamie Battle. I have a feeling it's going to come down to us or Florida.
We play at home this week against the Washington Huskies. We're a little banged up this weekand we'll really miss DE Wally Knight. Redshirt senior Austin Lew will start in Knight's place.
Code:
Southern California Roster, Injury Report
Player # Pos Elig Health Injury Full Strn.
Daugherty, Ike 24 RB Sr* Questionable Stretched Knee Li 7 Weeks
Cheng, Walter 23 CB Jr* Probable Strained Hamstrin Unknown
Jacobs, Justin 35 CB Jr* Questionable Sprained Ankle 2 Weeks
Gardiner, Warren 31 FB Fr Out Reconstructive Kn 29 Weeks
Knight, Wally 91 DE Sr Out Hyperextended Elb 3 Weeks
Finch, Kenneth 1 QB Jr* Questionable Arthroscopic Knee 2 Weeks
The Huskies run the Veer offense. They don't have much of a passing attack and their offensive line has had troubles protecting the quarterback when they do throw. Their best runner is RB Derrick Tudor, who is averaging 4.8 ypc, but we should be able to shut down their running game.
What we're going to do is play their receivers heavy man to man, but no double teams as their best receiver is out for the year and they don't have any other one standout receiver. We're going to overplay the run and stack it with some 4 man fronts - leaving us a man short in the secondary, but a risk I'm willing to take against these guys - blitz early and blitz often, and try and force QB Greg Orlasky to make some mistakes.
Offensively we'll keep the slightly opened up passing attack in place as Kenny Finch starts again, but again we've got an early hook out there for him. No need keeping him in the game if it gets out of hand.
GAMEDAY
1Q: Game starts off beautifully with a big sack on the first play by DE Floyd Jeffers. 8 minutes in and Kenny Finch hits freshman wideout Britt Wells with a 42 yard scoring strike, 7-0 USC. They're really containing our running game very well though.
Orlasky is throwing the ball pretty well for the Huskies when we don't get to him. But their kicker shanked a FG attempt and wasted a good drive for them. It was a hard fought first quarter. The only runs that are working for us are the option play and the trap - they've shutdown the power stuff and really contained Ike Daughtery. Kenny Finch is throwing the ball well though. After 1Q, USC 7-0.
2Q: Finch drives us down the field end of the first and first minute of the second and Ike Daughterty takes it in from 3 yards out, 14-0 Southern Cal. We drive down the field mostly on the arm of Kenny Finch and a lot of traps called by Offensive Coordinator Spencer Farley - they're overplaying the run and the traps are catching them way out of position. Kenny then hits senior wideout Glenn jacobs for an 8 yard touchdown pass - 21-0 SC.
We're really pouring the pressure on Orlasky now, no sacks but a lot of hurried throws and deflected passes. The Huskies can't get anything going and then Glenn Jacobs takes a punt return 51 yards to the house and we go up 28-0. Fnch is just on fire throwing the ball and he marches us down the field where Wingback Alf Snyder takes it in from a yard out, 35-0 Southern Cal. That's how the half ends.
Halftime notes: Kenny Finch just has blown the game wide open. The Huskies are so focused on stopping the run - and doing a relatively good job at it, that Finch is just able to pick apart their defense through the air. Orlaskey has been decent when he gets the time to throw, but we haven't been giving him much time at all. And we've held them to 21 yards rushing through the first half. It's pretty much time for Farley to pull Kenny, but I bet he lets him play the 3rd.
3Q: I was wrong, QB Tony Felkey starts the second half. Good move by Farley, no need to risk re-injury to Finch in a blow out.
Washington finally gets on the board with a 66 yard punt return for a score. 35-7 SC.
The Huskies pull Orlaskey as well. He didn't play poorly, and didn't make any mistakes, we just harried him all day.
No further scoring in the third. Felkey, when he throws the ball is simply awful today. the Huskies continue to do a good job containing our running game - though not shutting it down entirely. Felkey has a lot of growing into the QB role to do before he's ready for prime time.
4Q: We add a few more points and third string QB Eddie Casillas sees some playing time and we go on to win 45-7.
We controlled the tempo of the game by controlling the ball for 40 minutes. Kenny Finch, in one half of play, was 8 for 10 passing the ball for 165 yards and two touchdowns. He also carried the ball 4 times for 21 yards. His favorite target, as always, was wideout Britt Wells, who made 9 catches for 179 yards and a touchdown.
WR Glen Jacobs had a good day, returning a punt for a touchdown and also hauling in a pass for a score. Wingback Alf Snyder probably had his best day as a Trojan to date, rushing for 80 yards and two touchdowns - many of his runs were traps that just caught the Huskies out of position. Good play calling by Farley.
A very solid win for us against an average team.
USC 45 -- Washington 7
PAC-10 (6-0) -- OVERALL (8-0)
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WEEK 11
@ Arizona (2-6)
(USC -28) USC BCS RANK: #3
UCLA and Notre Dame climb ahead of us in the BCS rankings this week, and after this week's game against the Wildcats we have both Notre Dame and UCLA left to play.
That should settle some matters.
Still no word on Jamie Battle. His high school coach has already let me know nothing we do at this point will improve our chances of landinh him, so it's just sit and wait and see what he does.
Looks like Arizona has a new Offensive Coordinator, but they're running the same trips formation Zach Fuchs put in there when he left here. Zach has since moved on to Arkansas State as their Offensive Coordinator.
Their quarterback is A.J. Middleton who is very prone to throwing interceptions and he doesn't get a lot of protection from his offensive line. They don't even make an effort to run the ball, it's strictly a one dimensional attack. They have two receivers they throw to about an equal amount of the time - so we won't be using the double team. No reason to get burned when our guys our good single coverage guys anyway.
We will however, put in a full blitz package against Middleton and use some nickel and dime sets. We won't go to four down linemen at all, we'll expect our base 3-4 to stop their run even in goaline situations.
I think that should work.
We're pretty banged up this week, but I think only Gardiner will miss the game. Everyone else will try and suit up.
Code:
Southern California Roster, Injury Report
Player # Pos Elig Health Injury Full Strn.
Daugherty, Ike 24 RB Sr* Questionable Stretched Knee Li 6 Weeks
Cheng, Walter 23 CB Jr* Probable Strained Hamstrin Unknown
Jacobs, Justin 35 CB Jr* Probable Sprained Ankle 1 Week
Gardiner, Warren 31 FB Fr Out Reconstructive Kn 28 Weeks
Knight, Wally 91 DE Sr Questionable Hyperextended Elb 2 Weeks
Finch, Kenneth 1 QB Jr* Probable Arthroscopic Knee 1 Week
Offensive Coordinator Spencer Farley again has orders to pull QB Kenny Finch early if the game gets out of hand. like I've said before, no need to risk re-injury unnecessarily and besides, it does have the added advantage of getting Tommy Felkey more snaps to help develop him.
GAMEDAY
1Q: A defensive stop on the first series is always nice, though I was stunned when Arizona ran three run plays to start the game.
Now I see why they don't try and run more.
Kenny Finch drove down the field on our first possesion, eating up half the quarter and then hit WR Britt Wells for an 18 yard touchdown. 7-0 SC.
We add a field goal off a turnover then pickoff a bomb in our own endzone. Don't know what Middleton was throwing at, but he sure threw it a long way. Just as good as a punt for them. End of one: 10-0 USC.
2Q: The Wildcats are doing a good job stopping our run - we've moved the ball on Kenny Finch's arm, nothing else.
They're playing really good D against us. But we stall every drive they start by pressuring the QB - ILB Walt Whalen and DE Floyd Jeffers leading the atack on the passer. With 3 minutes left Safety Lawrence Abdul-Jabbar picks off a Middleton pass at the Wildcat 26. Finch runs a couple of options plays and we finally spring Wingback Alf Snyder 11 yards for a score. 17-0 Southern Cal. That's how the half ends.
Halftime notes: They've really played our running game very well, holding us to 50 yards at the half. For an NFL team 50 yards might be ok, but we run a wishbone and running yards are our bread and butter. Kenny Finch has been solid passing today, nothing special, not like when he gets on one of his can't miss streaks. Defensively we've done exactly what I wanted. We've pressured their quarterback, created turnovers, shutdown their passing game and their running game is non-existent - they're simply not trying to run the ball after that first series - they just don't have the hosses to run.
Hopefully we'll see the offense pick it up a notch in the second half.
3Q: Nothing much happens offensively for either side. We pickoff another bomb at our own 16. For a quarterback, Middleton sure is a heckuva punter.
Kenny Finch was reinjured and was replaced by Tommy Felkey. That's not good news for us at all heading into the Notre Dame and UCLA games. But, at least we know what we have in Felkey and he's gotten a bunch of reps this year.
The wildcats are dropping a lot of Middleton's passes, so the inefficacy of the Arizona offense isn't entirely his fault. But we do pick him off again at our their 32 with about 5 minutes left in the quarter.
Wideout Britt Wells had a big 21 yard run off the option and then Felkey hit TE Dustin Wynn from 6 yards out to make it 24-0. That's how the quarter ends.
4Q: Barring an unforseen offensive spectacle by the Wildcats, the only question left to be answered is can out D post another shutout.
Middleton quickly answers that question with a 47 yard strike from midfield and then a 3 yard pass for a score. He's been trying to go deep all day and finally they caught one instead of us. 24-8 SC.
They're only down two scores and Middleton tries to go deep again but Brad Knight picks him off at our 31. We're having difficulty killing the clock because they're just stuffing our run.
We don't kill much clock but a reverse by Britt Wells for a big gainer and a trap by Alf Snyder finally open up the middle and Ike Daugherty pounds it in from 9 yards out giving us a 31-8 lead. That's how the game ends.
They stuffed our run pretty good until the very end, when Spencer Farley got creative with his playcalling. the freshman wideout Britt Wells continues to show he's a key part of this team, able to make plays catching the ball and a couple of running plays a game. Kind of reminds me a little of Tim Brown from his days at Notre Dame.
OLB Ken Kariya picked off two Wildcat passes and we picked off 6 on the day. We stayed away from turning the ball over ourselves, which is always good. We lost Kenny Finch for upto 5 weeks with his knee again - so I'm not exactly sure when he'll be back.
That's not good news.
USC 31 -- Arizona 8
PAC-10 (7-0) -- OVERALL (9-0)
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WEEK 12
vs. #1 Notre Dame (8-0)
(ND -1) USC BCS RANK: #2
Really good news on the recruiting front this week. Jamie Battle, a defensive end from Zachary High School in Zachary, Louisiana finally made a decision and signed a letter of intent to play for Southern Cal next season. I think he's going to be a real difference maker down the road for this program.
UCLA actually lost to Cal last week. What that means is a bit convoluted. If we beat UCLA, we win the PAC-10 as everyone else has at least one loss. If we lose to UCLA next week, and presumably Cal wins their last two conference games, that creates a three way tie for first. Head to head goes out the window, so I think best overall record would win the conference. UCLA is 9-1 right now and Cal is 7-2 (one of those losses is to us).
Make a long story short: We should just win our last two games. Duh.
Our recruiting class is full and I think we've brought in another top notch class of recruits. That's one thing I've been really good at from day one, even when we were prestige challenged, was finding kids with exceptional ability to come here. Now of course, it's a lot easier than it was then.
We're a lot banged up this week and will be without QB Kenny Finch, who has only been able to play in four games all year.
Code:
Southern California Roster, Injury Report
Player # Pos Elig Health Injury Full Strn.
Daugherty, Ike 24 RB Sr* Questionable Stretched Knee Li 6 Weeks
Cheng, Walter 23 CB Jr* Probable Strained Hamstrin Unknown
Gardiner, Warren 31 FB Fr Out Reconstructive Kn 26 Weeks
Knight, Wally 91 DE Sr Probable Hyperextended Elb 1 Week
Finch, Kenneth 1 QB Jr* Out Arthroscopic Knee 5 Weeks
Everyone but Finch and FB Warren Gardiner will suit up.
Well, we've got a mini-national championship game on our hands here - #1 Notre Dame against #2 Southern Cal. What i can't believe is that network TV isn't picking this game up. Bizarre how they make their decisions sometimes.
The Irish are favored over us by a point. Our players don't like that one bit and hopefully will be able to use it as a positive motivator.
The Fighting Irish run a Run & Shoot offense and Offensive Coordinator Rod Howe has been running that system for a long time, so it's finely tuned. They've got a good, solid quarterback in J.B. Loveless - 35 TD's/12 INT's - and he's got a bunch of talented receivers to throw to. Loveless has been sacked 29 times in 8 games, so we're going to try and put as much pressure on his as we can. They also have an excellent running back in Tyrell Meche, but he's only averaging slightly over 10 carries and 55 yards per game - these guys like to throw and throw and throw.
I'll admit though, I'm a little leery of blitzing and leaving those receivers to run free. We've got some solid depth in our secondary, so I think given their propensity not to run so far this year, I'm going to go with a maximum amount of nickel and dime sets, play heavy man to man and try and contain their passing game that way. If they beat us with the run, well, it'll be out of character for them to try it, so we'll go with this and see how it works.
Offensively we've shortened the playbook passing wise a little bit for Tony Felkey - not as much as earlier in the year, but enough so that we think we can minimize him making any mistakes through the air - which he has proven to be pretty good at avoiding. Hopefully it won't make our offense too one dimensional, but I think it's our best chance to win.
GAMEDAY
1Q: This is a really big game, and I admit to being a bit nervous. I hope Felkey is up to the task. I'm going to be second guessed to high heaven over using Finch before he was fully healed if we lose.
Man are they good. They hit a 47 yard bomb the first play, but our D stiffens inside the red zone and holds them to a field goal. We really are going to need to grind the clock down and keep them off the field.
We fumble and turn it over on our own 18. Not a good start. A big sack by DE Floyd Jeffers keeps them from getting any more than another 3. 6-0 Notre Dame.
Tony Felkey marches us down the field, mostly by passing the ball, but the Irish D stiffens and we settle for 3. 6-3 Irish. That's how the quarter ends.
2Q: Well our defense has been alright in containing them, really stopping them inside our red zone. We've got be a little more careful with the ball though.
We have a nice drive to start off the second quarter and Tailback ike Daugherty takes the option pitch in from 22 yards out, SC 10-6. That was nice, we moved the ball well on the ground and through the air.
Man this kid Loveless is good. He marches them right down the field, boom, bang, bing, but another key sack by Floyd Jeffers pushes them out of field goal range and causes a punt. Floyd has come up big so far today.
We turn it over again, fumbling at our own 12 and they run it in for a score. ND goes up 13-10. Nothing our defense can do, it's our offense that is beating us.
Talk about taking over the game, QB Tony Felkey just marched us right down the field pass after pass, then ran an option off tackle for 6 yards and a score, Southern Cal goes up 17-13. And that's halftime.
Halftime notes: Our defense is playing great. We're in Loveless' face without needing to blitz, and we're containing their passing game for the most part - and as expected they haven't tried to run the ball much at all. Tony Felkey is on fire and playing a great game. But we've coughed the ball up too much - we're lucky to be up 17-13. Let's look for a better start to the second half.
3Q: We do nothing and the Irish start to drive, but yet again a crucial sack halts an Irish drive - this time it's redshirt senior NT Mel McWilliams. Our defensive line is playing out of their minds.
Felkey orchestrates an 82 yard, clock killing drive, mainly by throwing the ball, and hits Britt Wells with a 12 yard scoring strike and we go up 24-13. Felkey has 197 yards passing - sheesh that's unheard of in our wishbone. He really is playing a truly great game. The quarter ends with USC up 24-13, but the Irish are driving and have a 3rd and 3 at our 22 as the 4th starts.
4Q: Our defense holds up again and Notre Dame settles for a field goal. Our lead is cut to 8, 24-16.
Felkey hits Britt Wells on a 30 yard bomb to start the drive off. The kid is on fire. A big run by Wingback Alf Snyder takes us down to the Irish 13. We need a score here bad.
We lose 3 yards and the Spencer Farley calls a trap and a huge block by RG Brian Burton springs Ike Daugherty for a 16 yard TD run. 31-16 Trojans. Man that was a big score - another 80 yard drive btw.
Holy hell, Loveless comes right back with a 57 yard bomb and they're driving again. We can't keep them out this time and with 6:12 left we're ahead 31-23 - one score.
Let's see if the kid can do it one more time.
Tony hits a big pass play to Tailback ike daughtery for 29 yards taking the ball to the Irish 48 with 4:18 to go. The kid has ice water in his veins.
Felkey just starts grinding the clock, run, run, then an option pitch to Wingback Alf Snyder who takes it 19 yards to the house and we go up 15, 38-23. Man that's frackin awesome. Psyche.
Loveless comes right back hitting on a 33 yard bomb and is driving again when he heaves one into the end zone where Lawrence Abdul-Jabbar picks it off with 1:30 left. We run the clock out and that's it, USC 38-23 over the Fighting Irish.
My God, what a shoot out. Loveless threw for 332 yards against us despite us doing everything we could to shut him down.
Tony Felkey was absolutely lights out on the day. Felkey went 25 for 28, 25 for 28! He was on fire. The kid threw for 290 yards and a touchdown while rushing for another 41 yards and a score, while WR Britt Wells made 10 catches for 133 yards and a score.
Our running game wasn't spectacular, but we did run for four touchdowns - 2 by Ike Daugherty. OG Des Connell and OT Nate Dillon did have a good day on the line, making 7 and 5 key run blocks respectively.
Defensively we got to J.B. Loveless 4 times, two sacks by Floyd Jeffers. We got to the Irish quarterback just enough to stall a couple of key drives and keep us in the game. Boy does he have a rifle for an arm.
A great win for us against a great team. One of the best, most exciting wins in my coahing career.
USC 38 -- Notre Dame 23
PAC-10 (7-0) -- OVERALL (10-0)
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WEEK 13 MEDIA SNIPPETTS
LA TIMES
Week 13, 2021
What am amazing run Southern Cal is on, and the performance by redshirt sophomore QB Tony Felkey against the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame was, in a word, amazing.
But as they head into their annual match against their cross-city rival UCLA - again with the PAC-10 championship on the line and a possible chance at a third national championship in as many years - one has to wonder if SC Coach Bear Growlz rushed QB Kenny Finch back too soon. Finch will miss the UCLA game and his loss, notwithstanding Felkey's magnificent performance last week, could cost the Trojans a conference championship, a national championship, and a shot at making history.
Was it worth it?
We'll find out this week.
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RIVALS.COM
USC MESSAGE BOARD
Week 13, 2021
Poster: usC4eVr
Message: Felkey's a way better QB than Finch dude. Look how he took out ND. Dude he's got skillz.
Poster: Trojanman
Message: I don't know what you're basing your opinion on 4evr, but there's no quarterback controversy. Ken Finch is far better than Felkey and Growlz was dumb to waste him in the Arizona game. He should have sat him against that worthless team of garbage. Now we play UCLA with an unpolished kid who can't throw his way out of a paper bag.
Poster: southerncalchik
Message: 25 for 28 is some paper bag.
Poster: bruinz4life
Message: USC SUKZ! UCLA RULES! WE'RE GONNA KICK YOUR AZZ!!!!!!!
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ESPN.COM
Week 13, 2021
Could we be looking at the same national championship game for a third consecutive year? Right now Southern Cal and Florida are sitting at #1 and #2 in the BCS rankings - right where they have been the last two years. Wouldn't it be fitting that in order for USC to win a third consecutive national title, they'd have to beat the only team that has ever won three in a row?
But first, the Trojans need to get by UCLA - a game that will be on national TV1 and will have every college football fan glued to the television.
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2021 BCS Rankings
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The College Years
Week 13, 2021
BCS Overall Rankings
School Record Conf Comp Poll Loss Sched Total Rank
**Southern California 10-0 P10 2.00 2.00 0.00 3.60 7.60 1
Florida 10-0 SEC 4.75 1.00 0.00 4.88 10.63 2
Virginia 9-0 ACC 6.00 3.00 0.00 4.84 13.84 3
Notre Dame 8-1 IND 3.25 11.00 1.00 0.96 16.21 4
San Diego State 10-0 MTW 3.50 9.50 0.00 3.44 16.44 5
UCLA 9-1 P10 7.25 5.00 1.00 4.28 17.53 6
Rice 9-0 WAC 9.00 4.00 0.00 4.80 17.80 7
Iowa 9-1 B10 8.75 6.00 1.00 3.76 19.51 8
Boston College 9-1 BGE 5.25 9.50 1.00 3.96 19.71 9
Colorado State 9-1 MTW 3.25 13.50 1.00 2.40 20.15 10
Penn State 9-1 B10 9.00 7.00 1.00 4.48 21.48 11
Syracuse 8-1 BGE 17.00 8.00 1.00 4.68 30.68 12
Alabama 8-2 SEC 16.75 12.00 2.00 4.36 35.11 13
Wake Forest 8-2 ACC 8.00 25.00 2.00 1.32 36.32 14
Nevada-Las Vegas 8-1 MTW 12.00 21.50 1.00 4.64 39.14 15
California 8-2 P10 20.25 15.50 2.00 3.08 40.83 16
Miami of Florida 8-2 ACC 14.75 22.00 2.00 2.20 40.95 17
Toledo 7-2 MAC 19.00 16.00 2.00 4.32 41.32 18
Texas A&M 7-2 B12 24.75 13.50 2.00 4.56 44.81 19
Maine 8-2 NNE 13.75 28.00 2.00 1.72 45.47 20
Michigan State 8-2 B10 19.25 20.50 2.00 4.08 45.83 21
Georgia Tech 7-3 ACC 20.50 22.50 3.00 1.68 47.68 22
South Florida 8-2 USA 24.25 20.00 2.00 4.52 50.77 23
Miami of Ohio 7-2 MAC 28.25 19.50 2.00 3.00 52.75 24
New Mexico State 8-2 SUN 17.00 30.00 2.00 4.16 53.16 25
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