Fight On! An NCAA 2011 Dynasty (restarted on 8/7/10)

[Eaglesfan27]

Good start as our defense forces a 3 and out.

We cover 57 yards in just 6 plays ending in a 3 yard TD pass from Barkley to Grimble. 7-0.

Another 3 and out. Our defense is playing very well early.

A 5 play 57 yard drive ends with a 9 yard TD pass to Prater. 14-0.

Another 3 and out. This is going to get ugly quick.

A 9 play 58 yard drive ends with a 2 yard TD pass to Ellison. 21-0 at the end of 1.

Arizona strikes quickly as their QB gets on track. 21-7 on a quick 1 minute drive that covered 76 yards in 8 plays.

We strike in just over a minute ourselves as Baxter breaks a long run. 4 plays 72 yards including a 45 yard Baxter TD run. 28-7.

Our next drive covers 39 yards in 5 plays including a 24 yard TD pass to Woods who had an amazing catch in the back of the endzone. 35-7.

Johnson with a great tackle on their HB in which he forces a fumble and Baucham picks it up. Williams misses a 37 yard FG attempt.

They have a nice drive to set up a 36 yard FG attempt at the end of the half, but it is wide right.


We lead 35-7 at the half and we get the ball.

Midway through the 3rd Barkley finds Woods for a beautiful 24 yard TD catch. That was a 13 play 80 yard drive that used up a good chunk of the 3rd quarter. 42-7.

We get the ball back quickly and sub in our 2nd team offense and defense.

Marc Tyler with a fumble in garbage time and they recover for a short field.

We knock our their QB, but their backup with a nice TD pass against our 2nd unit. 42-14.

Flourney recovers an onside kick.

1 play later Tyler gets perfect blocking and breaks a 44 yard TD run. 49-14. Their HB fumbles and RS FR CB Anthony Brown picks it up and runs it in 29 yards for a TD. 56-14.

Their TE fumbles and Demetrius Wright picks it up.

Tyler ends up finishing the drive with a 4 yard TD run. 63-14.

They fumble the kickoff and Hayes Pullard picks it up and runs it in! 70-14!

Drew McAllister with a pick to end the game. We win it 70-14. Great showing for a bunch of visitors at the game.

Barkley was the player of the game: 20 of 32 for 274 yards, 5 TD's 0 INT's, 3 sacks.

Scroggins was 1 of 2 for 23 yards and he was sacked once.


Brock Osweiler was 24 of 44 for 252 yards with 1 TD 1 INT.

Steven Threet was 1 of 1 for 5 yards and a TD.

Baxter with 16 carries for 126 yards and a TD. Tyler with 12 carries for 74 yards and 2 TD's.

Cameron Marshall with 12 carries for 44 yards.

Woods with 5 catches for 74 yards and 2 TD's. Zach Young (that is going to be confusing next year with the FB and TE having the same name) with 4 catches for 85 yards. Prater with 3 catches for 34 yards and a TD. Grimble with 3 catches for 41 yards and a TD.

Cameron Marshall with 8 catches for 49 yards and a TD.

Armond Armstead with 7 tackles, 4 for a loss, 1 sack.

Freshman DE Alan Walker also had his first sack as a Trojan late in the game.

[Eaglesfan27]

After the game, we got 3 much needed commits:

4 star CB Lee Morris is the #3 CB in the nation. He is 6'2 183 and is from Klamath Falls, Oregon. He picked us over the Ducks. He is a very fast corner with very good ball skills and I expect he may start as a true freshman.

3 star CB Jared Jackson is from Fresno CA and is 19th in the nation. He is 6'2 185 and has above average speed. He should provide depth for one of our weakest units.

4 star MLB John Wilkinson is the 5th rated MLB in the nation. He is 6'2 228 and is from Colton, CA. He picked us over UCLA. He has excellent speed but needs to develop his other skills. Still, he has a good chance to compete for playing time right away.

[Eaglesfan27]

Today we play at a 3-1 Oregon State team that has an explosive offense. Will we be able to contain them?


Oregon State moved the ball easily ending with a 15 yard TD run by Jacquizz Rodgers. Down 7-0.

Barkley drives us inside the 30 before throwing a pick.

Oregon State with another quick drive ending in a 4 yard TD run by Jacquizz. They miss the Extra Point. 13-0.


Barkley leads a great drive ending in a 13 yard TD pass to Woods who made 2 defenders miss to get the extra yardage for the TD. However, Woods got hurt on the tackle. Hopefully, it is not bad. 13-7.

Oregon State with another quick strike drive, and Rodgers gets his 3rd TD of the day. Their kicker misses another extra point (despite me jacking up FG accuracy for the CPU.) 19-7.

Woods is fine and back in the game. 4th play of our drive is a 67 yard TD to Prater. 19-14.

A holding penalty gets them into 2nd and long and then Johnson sacks the QB on 3rd and 21.

We put together a methodical drive that ends in a 8 yard TD pass to Young. Barkley to Woods for a 2 point conversion. 22-19. 1:10 left in the half.

Johnson gets his 2nd sack of the day! The freshman is awesome!


We are up 22-19 at the half, and we get the ball back.

We put together a 7 play 75 yard drive that ends with a 3 yard slant to Prater. 29-19.

They respond with a 8 play 73 yard drive that ends with 1 yard TD run by their FB. 29-26.

At the end of 3, we are up 29-26 and are inside their 5.

They stop us on 4th and goal from the 1/2 yard line.

Our defense holds them to a 3 and out!

Woods with a nice little punt return to get to their 40.

PA pass to Woods for 35 yard gain. 2 plays later 5 yard TD pass to Grimble. 36-26.

1st play is a big gain on a screen to Rodgers who made 2 defenders miss. 3 plays later their QB finds D. Catchings for a 14 yard TD play on a 4th and 1. 3:59 to go.

PA pass to Grimble catches them on the blitz for a big gain. Our run game takes over the rest of the drive ending in a 4 yard TD run by Baxter. 43-33. Their starting S was knocked out for the season on that play too.

After a long pass play, they go 4 and out. First play of our next drive, Baxter catches them perfectly on the counter play and takes it all of the way! 62 yard TD. 50-33.

We win the game 50-33. Exciting game.


Barkley was the player of the game with 26 of 39 passing for 393 yards with 5 TD's 1 INT. He was sacked 1 time.

Ryan Katz was 16 of 20 for 340 yards and a TD. He was sacked 2 times.

Baxter with 21 carries for 200 yards and 2 TD's. Tyler with 3 carries for 27 yards.

Jacquizz Rodgers with 22 carries for 134 yards and 3 TD's.

Baxter with 6 catches for 44 yards. Prater with 4 for 97 yards and 2 TD's, Woods with 4 for 82 yards and 2 TD's. Grimble with 4 for 55 yards and a TD. Young with 2 for 24 yards and a Td. Ambles with 3 for 16 yards. Butler with 3 for 75 yards.

Darrell Catchings with 5 for 96 yards and a Td. Rodgers with 2 for 75 yards.

Armstead with 9 tackles, 3 for a loss. Shawn Johnson with 5, 3 for a loss, and 2 sacks.

MLB Tony Wilson led them with 12 tackles. SS Cameron Collins, who is now out for the year, had their only interception.

Woods with 3 punt returns for 31 yards.

[Eaglesfan27]

Recruiting news:

We missed out on 2 DT's we desperately need, but we did get 2 more commits:

We got 5 star C Nathan Lester who is the #1 C in the nation and could start right away. He is 6'4 305 and is from Rosemead, CA.

We also got 4 star OLB Nelson Lowe. He is the #2 OLB in the nation and is from Alameda CA. He is 6'2 225 and has excellent tackling ability and good speed.

[Eaglesfan27]

Today we play at a 2-3 ND team that features a very good offense and a very bad defense.


ND starts the game with a very efficient drive that ends in a 8 yard TD pass to Michael Floyd. 7-0.

While fighting to break a tackle, Woods fumbles the kickoff and ND recovers. Our defense doesn't give up a yard, but their kicker makes a 47 yard FG. 10-0.


We strike quickly, with a key play of Baxter turning a screen into a 51 yard gain. The drive ends with a 7 yard TD pass to Young. 10-7.

TJ Bryant picks off the first pass of their next drive. We'll start at their 34. A sack costs us 6 yards and we end up punting from their 40. Good punt to pin them just inside the 6 yard line.

1st play of their next drive we knock Crist out of the game with a sprained shoulder. Wow. On a 3rd and 21, their backup hits a WR for a 74 yard TD pass when Torin Harris was burned badly. 17-7.

Woods takes the ensuing kickoff 99 yards for a TD!! 17-14.

Our defense holds, but Barkley gets hit and throws a bad pick.. it takes a heroic effort from Woods to stop a pick 6. He tackles the linebacker on the 1.

2 plays later a PA pass results in a 1 yard TD pass to Kyle Rudolph. 24-14.

10 play 74 yard drive that ends in a 1 yard TD run by Baxter. 24-21.

We stop their HB on 3rd and 1 to force a 3 and out. We go 3 and out as well. Our defense stops them around midfield.

Barkley runs a nice 2 minute drill, but with 7 seconds left he throws a pick in the endzone. The defender covering Prater just had a nice jump on the ball.

Down 24-21 at the half, but we get the ball back.

Baxter gets perfect blocking and goes untouched on a 67 yard TD run. 28-24.

ND dissects us ending with a 24 yard TD pass to Floyd. 31-28.

They force a 3 and out as Barkley overthrows 2 receivers.

Our defense stops them at our 38, but their kicker makes a 55 yard FG! 34-28.

They have Barkley rattled and we go 3 and out.

We get back to back sacks with blitzes to force a 3 and out.

Baxter with a few big runs and then Barkley finds Prater for a 12 yard TD. 35-34. Early in the 4th.

A quick drive ends when we stop a 3rd and 8. They settle for a 40 yard FG. 37-35. 6 minutes left.

Woods with a spectacular cut to return another kickoff for a TD!!! 42-37.

Floyd gets crushed across the middle and fumbles the ball. Horton recovers it for us. We start on their 37. Barkley to Young for a 29 yard gain. Barkley to Woods for a 8 yard TD. 49-37.

ND with a quick drive, 10 plays, 74 yards, 2:05 ending in a 13 yard TD pass. 49-44. They kick it deep. 2:39 left.

After they stuff Baxter on 1st, a 14 yard pass to Grimble to get us a 1st. A PA pass for a bomb to Prater. We are inside their 20.

A few runs and then Baxter runs it in from the 6. 56-44. 1:12 left.

We win the game 56-44.

Baxter is the player of the game.

Barkley was 18 of 36 for 329 yards with 3 TD's 2 INT's. Sacked 2 times.

Crist was 6 of 11 for 69 yards with 1 TD 1 INT.

Sophomore Tommy Rees was 31 of 35 for 374 yards and 4 TD's. He was sacked 7 times!

Baxter 20 carries for 148 yards and 3 TD's. Tyler 2 carries for 10 yards.

Jonas Gray with 14 carries for 41 yards.


Prater with 6 catches for 133 yards and a TD. Woods with 4 catches for 61 yards and a TD. Young with 2 for 35 yards and a TD.

For ND: Tailor Jones with 8 catches for 101 yards. Floyd with 7 for 76 yards and 2 TD's, Mike Ragone with 8 for 82 yards and a TD. Freshman Bob Patterson with 3 for 103 yards and a TD.


Armstead lead the team with 9 tackles, 4 for a loss, 2 sacks.

Freshman LB Adam Johnson with 6 tackles, 2 sacks.

DE Wes Horton with 2 sacks. Hebron Fangupo with a sack.

Manti Teo' led them with 9 tackles, 1 for a loss.

Robert Woods with 6 kickoff returns for 277 yards and 2 TD's!

He also had 3 punt returns for 32 yards.

[Eaglesfan27]

Today's game is against a 4-2 WSU team that isn't as good as their record would indicate.


After we force a 3 and out, Barkley leads a great drive ending with a 14 yard TD pass to Ausberry. 7-0.

WSU answers with a drive that dissects our pass defense. 7-7.

Barkley overthrows 2 receivers and we punt from the 50. A bad bounce leads to a touchback.

Our defense stops them quickly and we get the ball back as the quarter ends.

Barkley finds Young for a 6 yard TD to end a 6 play 63 yard drive. 14-7.

WSU with a nice answering drive, but we stop them right around our 20. FG makes it 14-10.

Barkley gets clobbered on a blitz and he is hurt. Scroggins comes in facing a 3rd and 21.. he passes it short to Prater for 6. We have to punt and are unable to down it again.

Barkley has a minor shoulder injury and we'll go ahead and play him.

1st play of their drive McAllister makes a great pick! He returns it to their 22.

3 plays later Barkley finds Woods for a 1 yard TD on a quick slant. 21-10.

Their QB throws the ball under heavy pressure and he throws a lame duck right at TJ Bryant who returns it for 6. 28-10.

WSU with a very impressive 1 minute drill, but we stop them 3 straight times on our 1. They settle for the 18 yard FG. 28-13 with 2 seconds left in the half. We get the ball back to start the 2nd half.


Baxter with a 2 yard TD run to end a 9 play 61 yard drive to start the 2nd half. 35-13.

Again WSU drives quickly inside our redzone, but we hold them to a FG again. 35-16.

Barkley with a 16 yard strike to Woods. 42-16. We covered 68 yards in 8 plays.

We run it 10 times in a row, before throwing it on 3rd and 6 from their 31. Baxter turns the play into a 31 yard TD reception. 49-16. That will do it for our starters early in the 4th quarter.

A 14 play 68 yard drive ends with a 3 yard TD run by Tyler. 56-16.


We win the game 56-16.


Barkley was the player of the game with 19 of 31 passing for 262 yards and 5 TD's. He was sacked 1 time.

Scroggins was 2 of 2 for 14 yards.


Jeff Tuel was 22 of 36 for 311 yards with 1 TD 2 INT's for WSU.

Baxter with 20 carries for 121 yards and a TD. Tyler with 9 carries for 48 yards and a TD. McNeal with 4 carries for 14 yards.


Winston of WSU with 17 carries for 64 yards.

Prater with 6 catches for 86 yards. Woods with 5 catches for 40 yards and 2 TD's. Young with 4 catches for 59 yards and a TD. Grimble with 2 catches for 27 yards. Ausberry with 2 for 24 yards and a TD. Baxter with 1 for 31 yards and a TD.

Marques Wilson with 5 catches for 99 yards for WSU.

Armstead with 6 tackles, 4 for a loss, 1 sack.

Freshman Shawn Johnson with 3 tackles, 3 for a loss, 1 sack.

MCAllister and Bryant with picks.

Woods with 2 KR for 28 yards and 4 punt returns for 25 yards.

[Eaglesfan27]

We lost one of the top DT's in the country to OU. I knew it was going to be hard to get him here from Georgia.

We did get a 4 star DT who is the 16th ranked DT in the country. Eric Martin is 6'4 286 pounds and is from Orange County, CA.

With 2,375 yards 30 TD's and 8 INT's, Barkley is in the middle of the Heisman discussion. Other players that are being highly considered:

AJ Green who has 52 catches for 805 yard and 13 TD's along 17 KR for 403 yards and 50 PR for 457 yards and a TD.

Tate Forcier who has completed 125 of 240 passs for 2,123 yards with 20 TD's vs 5 INT's. He also has 70 rushes for 226 yards and 5 TD's.

WR Greg Childs who has 73 catches for 992 yards and 7 TD's. He also has 6 rushes for 24 yards and a TD, 19 KR for 527 yards and a TD, and 35 PR for 330 yards.

And finally QB Stephen Garcia who has completed 183 of 293 passes for 2,679 yards and 18 TD's vs 4 INT's. He also has 125 rushes for 305 yards and 3 TD's.


The top 10 in the coaches' poll:

1. USC (35) 7-0
2. Texas (23) 7-0
3. Boise State (2) 6-0
4. Ohio State 5-1
5. Miami 6-1
6. TCU 6-1
7. Michigan (1) 7-0
8. Georgia Tech 6-1
9. WVU 6-1
10. VT 6-1


Our next game is hosting the #12 (5-0) Cal Bears. We have a few big recruits who are going to be at the game.

[Eaglesfan27]

Cal starts with the game with a touchdown drive. 7 plays 71 yards in just over 2 minutes ending with a 15 yard TD pass from Sweeney. 7-0.

We respond quickly and end it with a 26 yard TD run by Dillon Baxter who used his blockers perfectly to set up 3 guys and was never touched on the way to the endzone. 7-7.

A Torin Harris interception on a very acrobatic play gives us a short field. 2 plays later Barkley to Woods for a 18 yard TD. 14-7.

Vereen has had some big plays, but we stop him on 4th and 1 on our 15.

We give them the ball back a few minutes later and they drive into FG range. 14-10. 3 minutes left in the half.

Butler returns a kickoff for a TD! 21-10.

Cal drives down the field but TJ McDonald picks it off inside our 10.

We are up 21-10 and we get the ball to start the 2nd half.


1st drive of the 2nd half is 11 plays 78 yards ending in a 3 yard TD pass to Young. 28-10.

Vereen just dashes our defense for big run after big run ending in a 4 yard TD run. 28-17.

1st play of the drive, Baxter with a perfect cut to elude 2 tacklers and then he takes it the house. 1 play, 81 yard drive. 35-17.

We stop Vereen on 4th and 1 on our 32 to get the ball back.

We punt the ball back. End of 3. 35-17.

We knock Sweeney out, then their 2nd string QB out, then their 3rd string QB throws a pick to Kennard who makes a great move to catch it and turns it into a pick 6! 42-17.

Cal with a quick strike drive ending in a 8 yard TD pass. 42-24. 5:35 left.

We recover an onside kick. First play is a 38 yard run by Baxter. 2 plays later Baxter runs it in from the 2. 49-24.

We force a punt and get our 2nd units in the game.

We win the game 49-24 as we are able to run out the last 3 minutes.

Baxter is the player of the game.

Barkley was only 12 of 20 for 141 yards and 2 TD's. Will this hurt his Heisman hopes? He was sacked 4 times.

Sweeney was 25 of 38 for 289 yards with 2 TD's 2 INT's and 2 sacks.

Baxter with 14 carries for 204 yards and 3 TD's. A career day for him.

Tyler with 7 carries for 54 yards. McNeal with 2 carries for 5 yards.

Vereen with 24 carries for 185 yards and a TD. Lagemann with 3 for 18 yards.

Woods with 4 catches for 81 yards and a TD.

Sophomore Keenan Allen with 7 catches for 107 yards. SR TE Anthony Miller with 3 catches for 26 yards and 2 TD's.

Kennard led the team with 9 tackles, 2 for a loss.

Freshman Shawn Johnson with 6 tackles, 2 for a loss, 1 sack. LB Marquis Simmons also had a sack.

Butler with 3 kickoff returns for 141 yards and a TD.

[Eaglesfan27]

We lost a bunch of recruits this week including:

#3 HB Steve Wheeler who would have been the perfect power back for us. He had us leading all year, but he changed his mind this week and decided to stay in Florida, picking Miami.

#2 Athlete in the nation David Fine had us #1 at various points, but the Chicago native is going to Texas.

#7 FS Mike Kendrick is flying from Hawaii to go to ND. Dropping us at the last minute.

#1 Guard who is from Michigan chooses Ohio State over USC.

#1 SS leaves California for OU. We slow played him a bit.

#1 Athlete stays close to home in Ohio and picks Ohio State.

#3 Athlete stays close to his home in Pennsylvania and picks Penn State.

#5 Athlete stays close to home and picks OU.

This could be a very small class for us unless we load up on a few depth guys..

We do have a soft verbal from the #3 WR in the nation, but we had a soft verbal on that HB before this week too...

Time for the bye..

During the bye week, we get 1 instant commit:

Juco OLB Mark Dawson is 6'3 213 and is a 3 star LB from San Mateo, CA. He is the 34th ranked LB. He commits as soon as we offer.

We also got a 5 star WR who is #3 in the country. Justin Morgan is 6'1 185 and is from Esperance, Washington. He hose us over Oregon and Washington. He has elite speed and excellent jumping ability. His hands need a bit of work.

Our next game is hosting 5-2 Washington (#15 in polls.)

[Eaglesfan27]

Lost a long post about Washington game apparently, but we barely beat them 43-42 in a tight back and forth game. Next up is a game at 3-6 Arizona.

[Eaglesfan27]

Baucham with an early pick 6 to start the game for us. 7-0, we lead.

3rd play of our 1st drive, Baxter takes a screen pass, uses his blockers perfectly and turns it into a 49 yard TD. 14-0.

TJ Bryant with a pick to set up a short field. 4 plays later, Barkley to Woods for a 8 yard TD. 21-0.

We force a 3 and out and Barkley covers 7 plays in 63 yards ending in a 9 yard TD pass to Woods. 28-0.

5 play 62 yard drive ending in a 22 yard TD pass to Prater. 35-0, early in the 2nd.

Barkley with a 9 play 83 yard drive ending in a 8 yard TD pass to Prater. 42-0.

Barkley with a perfect 2 minute drive to end the half ending in a 5 yard TD to Ambles. 49-0.


Halftime: 49-0. We get the ball to start the 2nd half and we are dominating on both sides. Barkley's halftime stats: 21 of 30 for 342 yards and 6 TD's which is great cause he won't throw it again this game.

I was wrong, we get into 3rd and 18 and I can't resist throwing, but we fail to convert the 1st. That will be Barkley's last drive as we punt.

Arizona puts together a nice drive ending in a 13 yard TD pass. 49-7.

Scroggins with a big pass to Young for a long gain to keep our drive going and 2 plays later Baxter runs it in from the 14. 56-7 and now our entire second unit will enter the game.

We win the game 56-7.

Barkley is the player of the game. 22 of 31 for 348 yards with 6 TD's 0 INTs, 0 sacks.

Scroggins was 2 of 6 for 38 yards.

RS SO Bryson Bierne was 17 of 36 for 164 yards with 1 TD 2 INT's.

Baxter with 16 rush for 114 yards and a TD.

Tyler with 13 for 43 yards.

Greg Nwoko with 17 carries for 84 yards.


Woods with 8 catches for 112 yards and 2 TD's.

Prater with 5 catches for 91 yards and 2 TD's.

Ambles with 4 catches for 42 yards and a TD.

Young wiht 3 catches for 61 yards. Baxter with 1 catch for 49 yards and a TD.

David Douglas with 4 catches for 51 yards and a TD for Arizona.

McDonald led the team with 5 tackles. Armstead with a sack. Baucham and Bryant with interceptions.

[Eaglesfan27]

Today we host 7-3 Oregon which has a very talented team. It's a rare rainy day in Los Angeles which should slow them down a bit.

We get a sack on 3rd and 10 and force a punt from our 44.

Barkley throws a bad pick giving them the ball back at our 40.

Our defense holds them to a 37 yard FG. 3-0.

A good drive ends with Barkley's 2nd pick of the day at their 30.

Oregon tries a pass out of the wildcat and Torin Harris picks off the underthrown ball. We are their 32.

At the end of 1, Barkley finds Ambles for a 14 yard TD pass 7-3.

DE Johnson with a big sack on 3rd and 7 to force a 3 and out!

Barkley throws 3rd pick on a deep attempt to Prater. Might just cost himself a Heisman today..

Our defense holds and forces a punt before they cross midfield. Who thought this would be a defensive battle?

We catch them on a blitz and Woods is WIDE open for a long TD. Barkley almost overthrew him but left just enough air under it for Woods to catch up. 54 yard TD on a 5 play 80 yard drive. 14-3.

We force a punt around midfield. Our defense is laying some lumber and their receivers are dropping the wet ball. A poor punt gives us excellent field position.

5 play 60 yard drive ending in a 27 yard pass to Young. We lead 21-3.

We force a 3 and out. Their offense just isn't that explosive today.

2 minute drill: Barkley to Woods for 12 yards, Barkley to Woods for 21 yards, a few plays later - Barkley to Woods for a 37 yard TD pass. 5 plays 74 yards. 28-3.

Halftime: We lead 28-3 and we get the ball back.

After forcing us to go 3 and out, Oregon marches down the field, but our defense holds in the redzone. 28-6.

Barkley drives us down the field, but we fail to convert in the redzone. 32 yard FG. 31-6.

Our defense stops a fake punt at midfield.

On a 3rd and 9, Barkley to Ausberry for a 12 yard TD to make it 38-6. Lots of Baxter on that drive.

Tyler with a 8 yard TD run early in the 4th. 45-6. Both 2nd units in the game with 7 minutes left.

They drive inside our 10, but Lache Seastrunk fumbles it and Kevin Greene dives on it.

We ended Seastrunk's season on the play as he broke his collarbone.

We go 3 and out and they drive down the field for a TD. 45-13.


We win the game 45-13.

Woods is the player of the game with 6 catches for 174 yards and 2 TD's.

Barkley was 19 of 34 for 367 yards with 5 TD's 3 INT's. He was sacked 2 times.

Scroggins was 0 of 2.

Darron Thomas was 19 of 30 for 247 yards and a TD.

Baxter with 21 carries for 163 yards. Tyler iwth 9 for 33 yards and a TD.

Kenjoy Barner with 20 carries for 61 yards. Lache Seastrunk with 4 for 24 yards.

Ambles with 4 catches for 45 yards and a TD. Young with 3 for 44 yards and a TD. Prater with 2 for 29 yards. Ausberry with 2 for 47 yards and a TD.

RS FR Josh Huff led them with 6 catches for 78 yards. SR Lavasier Tuinei had 5 for 80 yards and a TD.

Armstead with 7 tackles, 5 for a loss. Kennard with 6 tackle.s Both FR DE's had a sack, Walker and Johnson. Baucham also had a sack.

Torin Harris had our only interception of the game.

[Eaglesfan27]

We've dropped to #2 in the polls. Tonight, we finish the game at UCLA (7-4.) They are #15 in the polls.


How disgusting. Prince beats the blitz on 4th and 10 and Randall Carroll for a 26 yard TD. Down 7-0.

Defenses are dominating the game so far. UCLA leads 7-0 at the end of 1.

Midway through the 2nd, we finally put together an effective drive ending in a 8 yard TD pass to Young. 7-7. 9 play 53 yard drive.

Grimble runs over a corner back to turn a 4 yard gain into a 11 yard TD. 14-7 late in the half. 7 play 53 yard drive.

Nelson Rosario catches a short pass, breaks a tackle and turns it in a 72 yard TD. 14-14. 1 minute left.

Barkley drives us down the field quickly, but Baxter fumbles and they recover on their own 22.

Prince gets them into FG range, but their kicker misses from 45 yards out as time expires in the half. 14-14, we get the ball back.

We open the half with a 12 play 70 yard drive ending in a 4 yard TD to Ellison. 21-14.

UCLA runs it on 4th and inches at the 50 and we stuff them!

After their defense forces us to punt, their HB fumbles and Bryant picks it up and runs it in 22 yards for a TD. 28-14.

Late in the 3rd, Prince ends a good drive with his 3rd TD pass of the day. 28-21.

1st play - Woods catches a screen, gets 2 perfect blocks and is gone for a 74 yard TD! 35-21.

Prince to Embree for a 46 yard TD. 35-28 early in the 4th.

Both defenses control the 4th. We get a stop on 4th and 3 at the 48. 1:43 left...

They force a 3 and out. They drive down the field, until Rosario fumbles and Bryant picks it up... on review they reverse it.

2 plays later, we force a turnover on downs.

Barkley to Prater for a 1st and that ends the game. We win 35-28.

Barkley is the player of the game despite a somewhat rough outing - 20 of 40 for 318 yards and 4 TD's.

Prince was 24 of 47 for 343 yards and 4 TD's.

Baxter 18 carries for 92 yards. Woods with 2 for 12 yards.

Johnathan Frankoin with 23 for 78 yards.


Woods with 4 catches for 134 yards and a TD. Butler with 5 for 81 yards. Prater with 4 for 44 yards. Young with 2 for 35 yards and a TD.

Taylor Embree with 6 for 150 yards and a Td. Randall Carroll with 4 for 61 yards and a TD.

Kennard with 13 tackles, 2 for a loss. Freshman OLB Adam Johnson with 8, 2 for a loss, 1 sack.

Freshman DE Shawn Johnson with 8 tackles, 3 for a loss, 2 sacks.

[Eaglesfan27]

Now for the bye week. Will we remain #2 in the BCS or will Miami jump us?

The BCS Rankings:

#1 Michigan 12-0
2. USC 12-0
3. Miami 11-1 (but only 0.005 points behind us.)
4. GT 11-1
5. Pitt 11-1
6. LSU 10-2
7. Utah 10-2
8. Nebraska 10-2
9. Boise State 11-1
10. Ohio State 10-2.

[Eaglesfan27]

First, we get the announcement of the Heisman..

1. Matt Barkley!!! We have another Heisman winner at USC. He got 323 1st place votes, 228 2nd place, and 149 3rd place.

2. Greg Childs, Arkansas - 147/185/170.

3. Robert Woods! 120/144/166.

4. AJ Green, Georgia - 98, 93, 131.

5. Tate Forcier 76/108/140.

Barkley's final stats for the regular season: 233 of 400 for 3906 yards with 52 TD's vs 11 INT's.

Childs: 109 catches for 1543 yards and 15 TD's.

Woods: 58 catches for 1150 yards and 15 TD's.

Other Award Winners:

Tate Forcier won the Maxwell. 217 of 386 for 3368 yards and 30 TD's vs 8 INT's. Also 6 rushing TD's. 112 rushes for 409 yards.

Baxter came in 3rd for the Maxwell. Baxter won the Walter Camp award. He had 202 carries for 1611 yards and 16 TD's.

Armond Armstead won the Nagurski. He had 54 tackles and 10 sacks.

Barkley wins the O'Brien. Baxter wins the Walker. Childs wins the Biletnikoff.

Armstead wins the Lombardi. Freshman Shawn Johnson came in 2nd. The freshman had 45 tackles and 8 sacks.

TJ Bryant wins the Thorpe. He had 42 tackles, 14 passes defended, and 4 interceptions.

Barkley may go pro. A look at his career stats: Over 8500 yards, 92 TD's and 31 INT's.

Most importantly, we get our BCS Title Game! #1 Michigan vs #2 USC! Miami at 12-1 does not jump us. They remain at #3.

[Eaglesfan27]

Michigan wins the toss and chooses to defer the ball until the 2nd half.

Barkley overthrows a wide open TE on 3rd and 11 and we punt quickly. We can't afford that against this team's extremely potent offense..

Our defense gets dashed, but we stop them inside the 20. They kick a short FG. 3-0.

Barkley with a great drive, ending in a 12 yard TD pass to Butler. 7-3.

Late in the 1st quarter, their HB fumbles a pitch and we recover. Fangupo with the recovery.

5 play 48 yard drive ending in a 1 yard TD run by Baxter. 14-3.

We hit Forcier hard and they go 3 and out.

Defenses control the 2nd quarter, but we drive inside the 10 on one late drive before they stop us. FG makes it 17-3.

Their star WR makes a big play and then fumbles on a big hit from Starling.. we recover!

2 plays Later Barkley with a bomb to Prater who catches it.. and then hurdles a defender who went low at him.. TD!! 24-3.

Forcier drops back, throws an out, McAllister picks it off.. and takes it 22 yards for a TD! 31-3.

Johnson (the DE) with a sack at the end of the half. 31-3.

Forcier with a 18 yard TD strike to Odoms. 31-10.

Barkely gets hit while throwing on 3rd down and throws a bad pick to their linebacker. Barkley is hurt on the play too. They have it on our 42..

5 plays later, Forcier to Cannon for a 17 yard TD. 31-17.

Scroggins to Woods on a screen for a loss of 2 first play. On 3rd and 8, Scroggins finds Prater for 12 yards. Scroggins was leading us down the field, but Baxter fumbles at their 35. They recover!

We get another fumble from their HB. On 3rd and 10, Scroggins finds Prater for 11. Prater is having an amazing game!

End of 3: We lead 31-17.

A lot of Baxter, a bit of Scroggins, and a dash of Tyler on this drive to get us into the endzone on a 4 yard TD run by Tyler. 38-17 with only 4 minutes left in the game as we ate up a lot of clock. 13 play 80 yard drive.

Word on Barkley is that he suffered a severely sprained shoulder. Nothing that would stop him from going pro, but he is done for today.

We get a turnover on downs after stopping them on 4th and 5 on our 18.

Tyler with a huge run in which he ran over 1 defender and then just beat everyone to the corner and raced down the sideline. 45-17. 76 yard TD by Tyler.

We won the game 45-17. Now that Barkley has won a National Championship, will he go pro? Scroggins looked good in the 2nd half..

Prater was the player of the game with 9 catches for 208 yards and a TD.


Barkley was 14 of 19 for 230 yards with 2 TD's 1 INT. He was sacked 2 times.

Scroggins was 6 of 6 for 96 yards. 0 TD's, 0 INT, 0 sacks.


Forcier was 19 of 32 for 225 yards with 2 TD's 1 INT.


Baxter with 29 carries for 87 yards and a TD. Tyler with 3 for 85 yards and 2 TD's.

Michael Shaw with 21 carries for 129 yards and 2 fumbles.

Prater with 9 catches for 208 yards and a TD. Woods with 5 for 46 yards. Young with 2 for 36 yards.

Shaw led them with 5 catches for 47 yards. True Freshman Michael Cannon with 4 catches for 32 yards and a TD. Martavious Odoms with 3 catches for 59 yards and a TD but also a key fumble.

TJ McDonald with 9 tackles. Freshman DE Shawn Johnson with 8 tackles, 3 for a loss, 1 sack. Freshman LB Johnson with 6 tackles, 3 for a loss, 1 sack.

[Eaglesfan27]

Post Season Notes:

Barkley beat Palmer's record for yardage in a season - now the record is 4,136. Old record was 3,942. His 54 TD's shattered the record of 38.

USC gave me a 5 year extension.


Players Graduating:

FB Mokhtar - 77
FS McAllister - 83
FB Ellison - 79
TE Ayles - 79
WR Carswell - 82
CB Bryant - 88
DE Armstead - 92
HB Tyler - 86
RT Coleman - 84
C Reardon - 82
OLB Horton - 75
RT Tyron Smith - 92
WR Ausberry - 87
DT Fangupo - 83

Considering leaving early:

Barkley - 90
MLB Kennard - 87....

Both are easy to convince to stay. Barkley wants another Championship and Kennard doesn't feel he is quite ready for the next level yet!


1st week of off-season recruiting:

We turn HB Erick Sears from UCLA to USC! He is a 4 star who is ranked 30th in the nation at HB. He is a 6'2 200 pound power back.

Lots of recruits sign with us in week 3:

5 star DT Randy Cabral is the #4 DT in the nation. He is 6'3 299 and is from Davis, CA. He is a bull rusher. He picked us over Alabama.

4 star OLB Marcus Ingraham is only 5'11 210 but he is the #2 OLB in the nation with tremendous acceleration. He is from Springdale, Ohio. He is a great tackler. He picked us over Ohio State.

4 star FS Sean Burke is 6'2 201 and is the #4 FS in the nation. He is from Laguna Hills, CA. He is a tremendous all around player. He chose us over Penn State.

4 star OLB Brad McDonald is from Portsmouth, VA. He is the #6 OLB in the nation. He is 6'2 218. He has excellent acceleration. He chose us over Tennessee.

In week 4, we get the #1 QB in the nation - Jonathan Edwards from Hartford, Connecticut. He is a 6'0 185 scrambler with a lively arm. He has special speed. He picked us over Alabama and Penn State.


We end up with the #6 class in the nation with 4 5 stars, 8 4 stars, and 3 3 stars.

#1 Ohio State 7/6/4/0/0
#2 Oklahoma 8/3/5/3/0
#3 Georgia 4/7/13/1
#4 Alabama 6/5/7
5. Penn State 4/6/8/1
6. USC
7. Texas 5/3/8/3/0
8. Miami 4/7/4/1
9. Florida 0/11/9/2/0
10. UCLA 0/9/12/0/1

A look at our class....

[Eaglesfan27]

5 stars:

#1 QB in the nation Johnathan Edwards
#4 DT in the nation Randy Cabral
#3 WR in the nation Justin Morgan
#1 C in the nation Nathan Lester (likely day 1 starter.)

The 4 stars:

#2 OLB Marcus Ingraham
#6 OLB Brad McDonald
#4 FS Sean Burke
#18 DT Eric Martin
#5 MLB John Wilkinson
#3 OLB Nelson Lowe
#3 CB Lee Morris
#19 CB Jared Jackson
#30 HB Erick Sears

3 stars:

#1 FB Zach Young
#37 OLB Mark Dawson (only player I regret taking.)

[Eaglesfan27]

As I plan my recruiting board, I want to take a more in depth look at each position. I'll just do a few tonight before bed:

QB:

Barkley - SR - 6'3 224, 94. Set to repeat as a Heisman winner with so many weapons around him.

RS FR Kory Reid - The heir apparent ahead of Scroggins now. 5'11 188, 86. Best speed and acceleration of any QB on the roster. Has RB type moves. Also, has the 2nd best arm on the roster.

RS SO Jesse Scroggins - 6'2 203, 83. Very good mobility (better than Barkley) with a strong but inaccurate arm. Will battle Reid for the starter's role next year.

True Freshman Jonathan Edwards - 6'0 185 - 79. Great mobility (almost as good as Reid) with a very accurate but not big arm. Will develop into a good QB I think.

RS SR John Manoogian - 6'0 207, 76. Won't play at all.

With 3 young returning QB's, I'd say recruiting a QB is low priority, but we will take 1 if they want to come..


HB's:

JR Dillon Baxter 6'0 210, 89 - Tremendous speed, acceleration, and agility. Strong arm too (if we decide to run any HB passes.) Clear starter. Likely to go pro after this year.

RS JR Patrick Hall - Almost as explosive as Dillon. We'll have lightning and lightning this year. 6'1 190, 84. Could start next year.

RS SR Curtis McNeal - 5'8 195, 83. Most agile back on the team. Great acceleration - not much pop.

Erick Sear - 6'2 200, 65. Disappointing at first glance.

With Dillon likely to leave early, McNeal graduating, HB is a top priority. I'd love to take 2 or even 3 HB's.


FB:

True Freshman Zach Young will start right away and give the PA fits with our TE. Kid is fast, accelerates well, and is a solid blocker. 6'0 205, 78.

RS FR Corey Edwards - 6'1 248 - 75. Has tremendous speed for his size and is a better receiver. On second hand, I may go with Edwards as our starting FB. He is even a better blocker.. Edwards will start.

With 2 young options, FB is very low priority.

Will go through the rest of the roster tomorrow.

[Eaglesfan27]

WR is a stacked position and we'll run a lot more 3 and 4 WR sets this year than last:

RS SR Brice Butler is 6'3 202 and rated 93. Great route runner, very good speed.

JR Kyle Prater is 6'5 220 and is rated 90. Spectacular leaper with great hands. Excellent speed for his size.

JR Robert Woods is 6'1 184 and is rated 90. Has amazing speed. Truly elite gamebreaking speed. Very good hands.

RS SO Markeith Ambles is 6'2 204 and is rated 88. Great route runner with very good hands.

SR Devon Flourney is another elite burner. Good hands. 6'1 189 and rated 87 overall.

RS Fresman J.J. Pearson is 6'0 166 and is rated 81 overall. Very good speed. Great hands. Very good at breaking tackles.

True Freshman Justin Morgan is 6'1 185 and is rated 79 overall. Good speed, good hands, needs to work on his route running and awareness. Likely redshirt.

Butler is definitely gone. Woods and Prater are likely early entrants. Therefore, I'd like to add 1-2 WR's.


TE:

Sophomore Zach Young is now 6'8 260. Good speed. Great at breaking tackles. Very good hands. Good blocker. Rated 87 overall.

JR Xavier Grimble is 6'6 250 and is rated 81 overall. Great speed, good hands. Very good blocker.


I want at least 1 TE this year.


T:

RS SR LT Matt Kalil is 6'6 300 and is rated 95. He is the leader of a veteran line.

Sophomore Andy Malone is 6'4 330 and is rated 88 overall.

Sophomore David Davis is 6'6 275 and is rated 87 overall.

Sophomore Sean Simpson is 6'4 344 and is rated 80 overall.

I'd love to add 1 elite T to the mix.

G:

JR RS LG Kevin Graf is 6'6 321 and is rated 92 overall.

So G Sean Bailey is 6'6 277 and is rated 85 overall.

RS SR G Khaled Holmes is 6'4 312 and is rated 91 overall.

RS JR John Martinez is 6'3 282 and is rated 83 overall.

RS SO Giovani Di Poalo is 6'6 312 and is rated 82 overall.

I'd like to add 1 guard, but it is not a priority.


C:

True Freshman Nathan Lester is 6'4 305 and rated 81 overall. He'll start right away.

RS JR Abe Markowitz is 6'1 302 and is rated 72 overall.

C is not a priority this year.

[Eaglesfan27]

DE:

RS SR Wes Horton is 6'5 260 and rated 88 overall.
RS JR James Boyd is 6'5 235 and rated 80 overall.
So Shawn Johnson is 6'4 260 and is the fastest linemen on the team. He is rated 86 overall.
SO Alan Walker is the 2nd fastest. He is 6'5 231 and is rated 84 overall.
JR RS Kevin Greene is 6'3 259 and is rated 85 overall.

DE is a low priority this year.

DT:

RS SO George Uko is 6'4 310 and is rated 81 overall.
FR Randy Cabral is 6'3 299 and is rated 78 overall. He'll start too.
Freshman Eric Martin is 6'4 286 and is rated 74 overall.
RS Fr Anthony Harper is 6'0 322 and is rated 70 overall.

Weakest position on the team (outside kicker) and I'd love to get 1 5 star DT..

OLB:

SO Adam Johnson is 6'3 208 and is rated 88 overall. Quick instinctual player. Will start at WLB.

FR Nelson Lowe is 6'2 225 and is rated 82 overall. Very good tackler. May start right away at SLB.

RS JR Marquis Simmons is 6'1 229 and is rated 81 overall. Fastest OLB on the team. May start.

Juco JR Mark Dawson is 6'3 212 and is rated 80 overall. Nice depth player.

FR Marcus Ingraham is 5'11 209 and is rated 79 overall. Likely redshirt.

RS SO Hayes Pullard is 6'2 224 and is rated 78 overall.

FR Brad McDonald is 6'2 218 and is rated 78. Will redshirt.

OLB will not be recruited, unless a 5 star is in love with SC..


MLB:

SR Devon Kennard is 6'3 260 and rated 90 overall. Clear starter.

RS JR Simione Vehikite is 6'0 250 and rated 78 overall.
RS JR Will Andrew is 6'2 231 and rated 76 overall.
FRJohn Wilkinson is 6'22 228 and rated 73 overall. Fastest MLB on the roster. Will redshirt this year.

MLB is a position of low priority for next year.

[Eaglesfan27]

CB:

RS JR Torin Harris is 6'1 177 and rated 86 overall. Our most heady player. Very good man coverage abilities.

RS SR Brian Baucham is 5'11 191 and rated 82 overall. Our fastest player, but not great acceleration. GREAT man coverage abilities.

JR Demetrius Wright is 6'1 206 and is rated 80 overall. Best tackler of the group.

FR Lee Morris is 6'2 183 and is rated 78 overall. Fast physical player.

RS SO Anthony Brown is 6'0 186 and rated 75 overall. Solid dime CB.

FR Jared Jackson is 6'2 185 and rated 65 overall. Too slow. Poor coverage abilities.

I want at least 1 quality corner and would take 2 if we could get it.


FS:

SR Jawanza Starling is the fastest player in our secondary. Great hitter. Good zone coverage abilities. Ready to be a star. 6'1 191 and rated 90 overall.

RS FR Eric Timmons is 5'10 203 and rated 81 overall. Great at man coverage, poor at zone. Great tackler.

FR Sean Burke is 6'2 201. Slowest player in the group, but a big time hitter who makes good plays on the ball. Will redshirt.

I'd like to pick up 1 FS.


SS:

SR TJ McDonald is 6'2 206 and is rated 88 overall. Great cover abilities. Excellent acceleration. Excelleent awareness.

RS FR Derrick Sanchez is 6'1 211 and is rated 85 overall. Faster than McDonald, great coverage abilities, better hands than McDonald.. maybe the best in the secondary. Could be a huge star for us in a year or two.

JR Dion Bailey is 6'1 196 and rated 75 overall. Good hitter.

I want at least 1 SS for next year.


K

Walkon Chris Bass won't kick. Rated 53 overall. P will handle the duties this year. Want to get a kicker if I can find one worth taking who wants to come to USC.

P:

SO Kyle Williams is now rated 80 overall. We are set for 3 more years.

[Eaglesfan27]

Priority Rankings:

HB, CB, DT.

WR, TE, QB, S, T.

K, FB, G, C, DE.

Time to set up our recruiting board:

The #1 player in the nation, HB Marlon McDaniel from Eunice, LA has USC as his #1. The #2 player in the nation, Athlete Tommy Wilkininso from Vista, CA has USC as his #1...

I forgot that I promised not to redshirt Morgan, so I won't.

[Eaglesfan27]

Week 1 of recruiting:

We get 2 instant commits!

Tommy Wilkinson is the #1 Athlete in the nation and #2 player overall. He is a 5 star player from Vista, CA. He could play WR, CB, or S for us. He is 6'4 205 with elite speed. He has very good hands. WR is his most natural position.

HB Matthew Flowers is the #26 HB in the nation and is a 3 star player from Chico, CA. He is 6'2 236. He runs with good power.


We are #3 in the initial polls and we start our season in week 2 with a game against #9 Ohio State in their stadium... should be a tough battle.

[Eaglesfan27]

Ohio State's HB is controlling the 1st drive, but Starling just crushed him and he is done for a week or two..

Ohio State with a 14 play 81 yard drive that ended in a 2 yard TD run by their backup HB, Jordan Hall. They ate up over half of the quarter too. 7-0.

2nd play of the game, Barkley is crushed and hurt. Reid comes into the game and is unable to convert 3rd and 10. We punt.

Their young QB, Corbett throws a pick to Torin Harris who made a great play. We get a short field as a result. Barkley is hurt but is coming back into the game...

1 play later Barkley to Prater for a 18 yard TD pass. 7-7.

We stop the pass on 3rd and 1 and force a 3 and out.

Butler gets crushed across the middle and fumbles it. They recover at around midfield.

Corbett completes a key 3rd and 8 and they run it well. Hall finishes it off with a 3 yard TD as the quarter expires. 14-7.

They force a 3 and out. Their HB is destroying us, but we force a fumble, and the freshman Eric Martin falls on it. We hurt him that play.. will he come back?

Nope, word is we broke his leg! Barkley misses a wide open Flournoy on 3rd and 14. We go 3 and out. Wow. What happened to this fabled offense?

3rd string HB in the game now.. His name is Carlos Hyde.

We get them to punt and start at our 29.

Their defense is relentless. A sack forces us into 3rd and long and we cannot convert. I need to get more short passing plays for Barkley.

We get the ball back with 1 minute left. At our 25. Can Barkley do anything? We get to their 36 before a sack pushes us out of FG range. Their defense is nasty!

Halftime: We are down 14-7, but we get the ball back.


3rd play of the drive, Prater with a quick catch, turns it into a big gain, but then he is gang tackled and fumbles. Our new FB is there to fall on it!

Woods drops the ball on 3rd and 5! Williams makes a 37 yard FG. 14-10.

We force a 3 and out. Their QB is erratic..

We go for it on 4th and inches at midfield and they stuff us.

They make us pay with a tough drive on the ground that ends in a TD run on 4th and goal from the 1/2 yard line. 21-10.

Barkley has to get it going now...

Holding calls have been killing us all day.. one on Graf just negated a big gain to Young (the TE). That puts us into 2nd and long and we are unable to convert 3rd and 12 as we get stopped 2 yards short.. We punt.

Down 21-10 at the end of 3.

Sheesh, their HB just got 18 yards on 2nd and 17. Hyde now has over 100 yards. They go for it on 4th and 6 on our 30 and we stop them.

On 4th and goal from the 7, Prater with a diving catch with full extension for the TD!! 21-16 after we fail to convert the 2 pt play. 3:55 left. Butler had a few key catches on that drive.

Wow! Their Wr fumbles the kickoff and Marquis Simmons picks it up and runs it in for a TD!! Barkley to Woods for a 2 point conversion. 24-21, we lead!

Wow! Their WR fumbles on a kickoff return again! Markeith Ambles dives on the loose ball! They stop us on 3rd and 2. We settle for a 30 yard FG. 27-21. 2:50 left..

They are marching down the field with short passes and runs..

On 4th and goal from the 2, Baucham knocks down the pass!!

We survive the scare, 27-21.


Barkley was 15 of 29 for 233 yards with 2 TD's 0 INTs. He was sacked 4 times.

Reid was 0 of 1..

Sophomore David Corbett was 14 of 28 for 144 yards and 1 INT.

Baxter with 16 carries for 77 yards. Patrick Hall with 1 for 5 yards.

Carlods Hyde with 26 carries for 135 yards and 2 TD's. Jordan Hall with 13 for 45 yards and a TD. Starter Jaamal Berry with 4 for 51 yards before he got hurt.

Butler with 4 catches for 78 yards. Prater with 4 for 88 yards and 2 TD's. Woods did not have a catch. Baxter with 3 for 31 yards. Young (TE) with 2 for 24 yards.

James Louis led them with 3 catches for 34 yards.

Kennard with 10 tackles, 2 for a loss.

Shawn Johnson got our only sack. He also had 6 tackles.

Torin Harris with the only interception for our defense.

Woods with 4 PR for 32 and 1 KR for 20 yards.

[Eaglesfan27]

After the win, the #1 player in the nation, HB Marlon McDaniel commits to USC! Our thunder is here! Marlon is from Eunice, LA and he is 6'0 213 and a real powerful runner. He doesn't have great speed, but the guy is a short yardage battering ram who has some shiftiness as well. He picked us over LSU and Texas.

Our next game is hosting a solid 2-0 Rutgers team.

[Eaglesfan27]

Savage helps them move easily down the field, but we stop them just inside the 20. 3-0 after a FG.

4 play 60 yard drive featuring a big run by Baxter ends with a 8 yard TD pass to Baxter. 7-3.

Savage to Keith Stroud for a 47 yard TD. Torin was beat badly. 10-7.

Barkley pump fakes.. gets blindsided .. fumbles.. they recover and return it inside the 20 before Baxter catches up and makes the tackle.

3 plays later their FB runs it in. They are up 17-7. Their offense is very good.

Barkley gets hit late (no call!) and they break his ribs.. He is done for today. Reid first play is 3rd and 12.. he gets hit before he can get it off. Bad throw. We have to punt..

Their freshman kicker misses a 34 yard FG after Savage marched them down the field quickly. We get the ball back with 7 minutes left in the half.

Baxter hits a perfect crease on a blitz and has a 72 yard TD run untouched. 17-14. 2 plays, 80 yards, 22 seconds.

Our defense finally makes a stop. They stuff runs on 1st and 2nd, and stop a Reid pass on 3rd with a good blitz. We go 3 and out..

Savage continues to pick us apart! A TD pass to his HB to end a quick drive. Down 24-14.

Reid with a really good scramble on a play action pass to get out of trouble and then he finds Grimble wide open for a 22 yard TD. 24-21 game. 20 seconds left in the half.

Halftime: We are down 24-21, but we get the ball this half.

Reid misses a wide open Prater with a bad overthrow and we go 3 and out.

Savage drives them inside the 10, but we stop them there. 27-21 after the FG.

Reid with a few critical 3rd down throws, but Baxter did most of the work including a 5 yard TD run. 28-27.

Cabral is hurt.. and it doesn't look good. A thin position gets even thinner..

Savage with another TD pass and he just set a Rutgers record for yardage in a game with 455.. ridiculous.. We stop the 2 point conversion. 33-28.

They continue to dissect our pass defense with multiple 4 WR sets..

End of 3 - They are in the redzone, and they lead 33-28.

Their HB finishes off the drive with a 1 yard TD run over the pile. 40-28. I knew our corners weren't great, but shocked by our defense.

Wish Barkley was in the game..

3rd and 8... Reid throws an inaccurate pass that is picked off.

Their HB fumbles after catching it and Johnson (the LB) picks it up and returns it 20 yards.... it's being reviewed... it gets reversed! Heartbreaking.

We stop them the next 3 plays, but a FG makes it 43-28 with 5:35 to go...

Reid drives us down the field in 4 plays, a pass to Woods, a scramble, a short pass, and then a bomb to Young (the TE) for a TD! 43-35.

Their HB breaks two tackles to pick up a 3rd and 3.. 2 plays later Johnson drops a sure interception!

We stop them at midfield and get the ball back with 1:45...

A few passes to Baxter that he turns into big gains.. a nice pass to Prater.. 2 runs by Baxter.. then a 4 yard TD run Baxter with 20 seconds left. 43-41....


Reid with an option keeper.. he runs it in for the 2 point conversion! Tied at 43!

We get the ball first in OT..

3 straight runs by Baxter including a 13 yard TD. 50-43...

21 yard pass and then a run for the TD. Tied at 50.

Savage with a 12 yard TD pass to make it 57-50.

Baxter fumbles on his first carry, but Edwards saves our season by falling on it. 2nd fumble recovery for the FB.

3 plays later Baxter with a 14 yard TD run! Tied at 57.

Reid with a scramble for 10 yards on 2nd and 9.. two plays later Baxter runs it in from the 4.

Reid fakes the pitch and keeps it and scores on the 2 point conversion! 65-57.

Johnson with a big sack to force them into 3rd and 22...Savage barely avoids the rush.. steps up and throws a strike for 14 yards. Next play, he throws another perfect pass to get them the 1st and goal on the 2.

The HB runs it in on the next play. We stop the HB on the 2 point conversion! We win a nail biter, 65-63!

Reid was 14 of 26 for 222 yards with 2 TD's 1 INT.

Barkley was 4 of 7 for 31 yards and a TD before he got hurt.

Tom Savage was 44 of 55 for 603 yards and 4 TD's!!

Baxter was the player of the game with 27 carries for 272 yards and 6 TD's.

Reid with 3 carries for 27 yards.

De Antwan Williams with 27 carries for 93 yards and 3 TD's.


Prater with 4 catches for 58 yards. Baxter with 4 for 56 yards and a TD. Young with 3 catches for 64 yards and a TD. Woods with 2 catches for 19 yards. Grimble with 2 for 43 yards and a TD.

Mark Harrison with 10 catches for 167 yards and a TD. Brandon Coleman with 6 for 84 yards and a TD. Keith Stroud with 6 for 114 yards and a TD. Antwan Simmons with 5 for 67 yards.

Kennard with 15 tackles, 2 for a loss. Shawn Johnson with 11 tackles, 2 for a loss, 1 sack. Alan Walker also had a sack.

[Eaglesfan27]

We host WSU today and they are very bad. Hopefully, our defense can get on track.

They drive down the field before Derrick Sanchez picks off an option inside our 10. He takes it 90 yards for a TD! 7-0.

After both stopping each other, we put together a 9 play 62 yard drive ending in a touchdown pass to our sophomore TE, Young. 14-0.

We stop them at 4th and 1 on the 50 when they try to pass and we sack the QB.

4 play 46 yard drive ending in a 14 yard TD pass to Prater. 21-0. Early in the 2nd.

Our next drive features Baxter. 6 plays 57 yards ending in a 2 yard TD reception. 28-0.

Our next drive is 1 play - 61 yard TD run by Baxter in which he made 2 sick cuts to make guys miss. 35-0.

A FG at the half makes it 38-0.


We mostly run the ball on a 11 play 74 yard drive that ends in a 8 yard TD pass to Woods on 3rd and goal. 45-0.

WSU puts together a nice drive ending in a 29 yard TD pass. 45-7.

Both 2nd teams in with 3 minutes left in the 3rd.

Late in the 3rd on 3rd and 10, Reid scrambles then fires down the field to Morgan for a 64 yard TD!! 52-7.

Sanchez recovers a fumble to get us the ball right back.

Patrick Hall with a 5 yard TD run to end the 3rd. 59-7.

Kory Reid with a QB keeper, makes two guys miss, and takes off for a 70 yard TD run!!! 66-7.

Patrick Hall with another TD run from the 2. 73-7. Late in the 4th.

Patrick Hall breaks off a long TD with 1 minute left. 80-7.


We win the game 80-7.


Patrick Hall was the player of the game. 18 carries for 120 yards and 3 TD's.

Barkley was 17 of 24 for 195 yards and 4 TD's. 1 sack.

Reid was 2 of 2 for 85 yards and 1 TD.

Jeff Tuel was 18 of 28 for 221 yards and a TD.


Baxter with 19 carries for 178 yards and a TD.

Kory Reid with 2 carries for 63 yards and a TD.

Carl Winston with 9 carries for 31 yards.


Prater with 6 catches for 102 yards and a TD. Robert Woods with 4 catches for 30 yards and a TD. TE Zach Young with 2 catches for 29 yards and a TD. Freshman Justin Morgan with his 1st catch and 1st TD as a Trojan! 1 catch for 64 yards.


Marques Wilson with 8 catches for 47 yards. Bobby Ratliff with 6 catches for 57 yards.

Demetrius Wright led the team with 8 tackles and he had an interception.

Freshman DT Eric Martin with 6 tackles and 2 sacks.

George Uko with 1.5 sacks. Kevin Green with a sack. Shawn Johnson with 0.5 sacks.

[Eaglesfan27]

After the game, we get a needed recruit:

Martin Reese from Sells, AZ is the #1 kicker in the nation. He is a 3 star player with a very strong leg.


During the bye week, we get another big time commit as 5 star DT, the #1 DT in the nation, Derek Tremblay from Tustin, CA commits to USC! He is 6'5 291 and is a strong bull rusher.

Our next game is at 2-1 #24 Cal.

[Eaglesfan27]

Cal fumbles the opening kickoff and Sanchez recovers. The kid always seems to find the ball.

They stuff us on 4th and goal from the 1/2 yard line.

Our next drive, we catch them on the blitz and Barkley throws a beautiful little lob to Dillon who has wide open space for a 33 yard TD reception. 7-0.

Late in the 1st, on our next drive, Woods fumbles it and they pick it up and run it 72 yards for a TD. 7-7.

Early in the 2nd, Woods with a very acrobatic TD catch off a tip by the defender. 14 yard TD. 14-7. 9 play 72 yard drive.

Cal cuts through our defense easily ending in a 32 yard TD pass. They miss the extra point. 14-13.

Woods catches a bomb for a big gain and then Woods catches a simple slant and takes it 16 yards for a TD. 21-13. 3 plays 74 yards.

Hagan catches a short slant, breaks two tackles and takes it the house against us. 1 play 77 yard drive. 2 point conversation makes it 21 all.

On 3rd and 2 from our 36, Baxter catches a perfect seam against the blitz and takes it 64 yards untouched. 28-21.

We force a punt before they cross midfield.

23 seconds left.. crazy play. 3rd and 20, we throw to Butler who fumbles it trying to get a few extra yards for a possible first, then they recover, run it 15 yards, and then we cause a fumble. Prater falls on it.

3 plays later Barkley with a perfect throw for a 39 yard TD to Woods on a deep out. 35-21. 13 seconds left in the half and we get the ball to start the next half.

4 plays into the 2nd half, Barkley beats the blitz and times it perfectly with Woods for a 46 yard TD. 42-21. Woods just broke Mike William's USC record for most TD's in a game. Woods now has 4.

Cal with a methodical drive to make it 42-28 late in the 3rd.

Early in the 4th, Barkley finds Woods for a 5th TD!! 49-28.

We stop them on 4th and 4 on the 48.

We get to the 1 and our kicker misses a very short FG.

Baxter with a 4 yard TD run to end our next drive. We are up 56-28 midway through the 4th.

They end the game with a methodical long drive, but time expires before they can punch it in. We win 56-28.


Woods is the player of the game. 9 catches for 169 yards and 5 TD's.


Barkley was 26 of 39 for 397 yards and 6 TD's, 0 INT's, and 1 sack.

Zach Maynard was 27 of 38 for 369 yards with 2 TD's 1 INT.


Baxter with 22 carries for 191 yards and 2 TD's.

Barkley with 3 carries for 9 yards. Edwards with 1 for 6. Woods with 1 for 8.

Covaughn Deboskie with 24 for 95 yards.


Prater with 5 catches for 72 yards. Butler with 4 for 58 yards. Baxter with 3 for 44 yards and a TD. Edwards with 2 for 21 yards. TE Young with 1 for 11 yards.

Spencer Hagan with 7 catches for 192 yards and 2 TD's. Quinn Tedford with 9 for 75 yards.

Kennard led the team with 11 tackles, 3 for a loss.

DE Shawn Johnson with 6 tackles, 2 sacks.

OLB Adam Johnson with 3 tackles, 1 sack.

Torin Harris had the only interception of the game.

[Eaglesfan27]

Great week for commits after the game with 5 big time players:

5 star SS Tim Douglas is the #1 SS in the nation. He is 6'0 198 from Visalia, CA. He is a big time hitter who is excellent in coverage too.

5 star DE L. O'Connor is the #2 DE in the nation. He is 6'5 246 and is from Concord, CA. He is an excellent speed rusher.

5 star HB Robert Smith is the #4 HB in the nation. He is from Apple Valley, CA. He is 6'2 196 and is a well balanced runner.

4 star TE Jay Moore is the #1 TE in the nation. He is from National City, CA. He is 6'5 248. He is a better blocker than receiver.

4 star CB Chase Martin is the #1 CB in the nation and was one of our highest priorities. We pulled him out of Ohio away from Ohio State. He is from Tallmadge, OH. He is a premier shut down corner with speed, coverage abilities, and he is a good tackler for a corner. He is 6'0 176.


In the next week, we get an instant commit:

WR William Hansen from Edgewater, CO is 6'7 195 and is a 4 star player who is ranked 12th in the country among WR's. He lacks speed, be is a spectacular jumper with solid hands.

Our next game is hosting a 3-2 Stanford team.

[Eaglesfan27]

Adam Johnson with a pick 6 on Stanford's first pass play of the game. 7-0.

Stanford drives down the field before we sack their QB and he fumbles. Eric Martin falls on it.

8 play 76 yard drive that featured 3 big runs by Baxter and 3 big catches by Woods including a 14 yard TD. 14-0.

Stanford's QB leads them on a precision strike drive ending in a 12 yard TD pass with a dive by the receiver and 3rd and goal from the 12. 14-7.

Barkley with a quick strike attack. On 3rd and 10 from the 24, we spread them out and Barkley to Ambles for a 24 yard TD. 21-7. 7 plays, 55 yards, 1:37.

Baucham with a pick 6 to end the half! 28-7.

Their HB breaks out of a gang tackle and has a 72 yard TD for a quick strike. 28-14. Early in the 2nd.

Defenses each get a stop before Barkley hits Prater on a PA pass for a long bomb through the air. 46 yard TD. 35-14.

With 20 seconds left in the half, PA pass from Barkley to Woods for a 24 yard TD. 42-14.


Halftime: We lead 42-14 and we get the ball back.


Our 2nd drive of the 2nd half is a well oiled attack, mostly on the ground. Baxter ends it with a 31 yard TD run in which he spun out of a tackle and juked another.

Midway through the 3rd, we get the ball back as I put in both 2nd strings.

A FG makes it 52-14 as the 3rd ends.

Curtis McNeal gets his first carry of the game late in the 4th and he makes a few great cuts to set up a 56 yard TD run. 59-14.


Barkley was the player of the game. He was 11 of 20 for 180 yards with 4 TD's.

We are 5-0 now. They are 3-3 now.

Reid was 5 of 6 for 56 yards.


Josh Nunes was 16 of 26 for 177 yards with 1 TD 2 INT's.


Baxter with 20 carries for 155 yards and a TD.

Hall with 14 for 55 yards. McNeal with 1 for 56 yards and a TD. QB Kory Reid with 3 for 37 yards.


Stepfan Taylor with 25 for 227 yards and a TD.


Woods led us with 5 catches for 66 yards and 2 TD's.

Prater with 3 for 73 yards and a TD.

TE Young with 2 for 33 yards, Ambles with 2 for 38 yards and a TD, Baxter with 1 for 17 yards.

Jemari Roberts with 7 for 88 yards and a TD.

Alan Walker and Kevin Greene each had a sack.

Baucham and Adam Johnson with 1 interception each.

Woods with 4 PR for 43 yards and 2 KR for 48 yards.

[Eaglesfan27]

USC gets 3 more commits after the game:

4 star WR William Hansen is from Edgewater, CO. He is the #12 WR in the class. A very big target at 6'7 193. He lacks speed but is a spectacular jumper.

4 star Athlete Tom Hunter is 6'1 182. He is the #21 athlete from Covina, CA. He has some natural ability to be a DB or possibly a WR.

4 star Athete Brett Smith is 6'4 220. He is the #11 athlete from Lone Grove, OK. He has great physical attributes but is very raw.

We lost out on the #2 C who chose to stay close to his home in MS and picked Auburn.

We lost out on the #8 DE who stayed in his home state and picked Nebraska.


Our next game is at #11 Oregon in what should be our biggest challenge left this year.

[Eaglesfan27]

Oregon starts the gmae with a 7 play 75 yard quick strike drive ending in a 18 yard TD pass. 7-0.

We answer with a 9 play 80 yard drive ending in a 4 yard TD to Pearson. 7-7.

Torin Harris picks off the ball on the first play of their next drive. 1 play later, Barkley to Prater for a 12 yard TD. 14-7.

Oregon with a long pass on 3rd down to set up a short TD pass the next play. Tied at 14. Midway through the 1st.

Oregon with a defensive stop, and then they drive down the field quickly, but we hold them to a short FG. 17-14, late in the 1st.

Wow. Oregon with a defensive stop and then 3 long passes to get a quick TD including a 47 yard TD pass. 24-14.

1st play of our next drive, Baxter with a 14 yard run, but then they tackle him hard and he fumbles. They recover! 1 play later, 28 yard strike to their WR but Starling lays the lumber on him at the goal line and he fumbles. Starling dives on it in the endzone.

Oregon forces us to go 3 and out and then drives far enough to make a 42 yard FG. 27-14.

We put together a 10 play 79 yard drive that ends with a 12 yard TD pass to Young (the TE.) 27-21 with 44 seconds left in the half.


We hold them to midfield. We are down 27-21 at the half, but we get the ball to start the 2nd half.

We put together a 12 play 78 yard drive in which we converted 2 4th and 2's to end with a TD pass to the FB. 28-27.

Oregon drives down the field quickly, but we stop them just inside the 20. They make the 36 yard FG. 30-28.

We are down 30-28 at the end of 3, but we are on their 2. 3rd and 1... he gets stopped just inches short.. Barkley with a QB sneak.. he picks up the 1st! Baxter runs it in a play later. 35-30. 13 plays, 72 yards, 4:22 TOP.

A huge sack by Kevin Greene on 3rd down ends their drive at their own 30.

Baxter with a 8 yard TD run to make it 42-30. 10 plays, 64 yards, 1:42.

Thomas with a 10 yard Td pass to end a 9 play, 68 yards drive that took 2:02. 42-37.

With 2:16 left, they kick deep...

Baxter with a 10 yard run. Baxter with another 10 yard run. Baxter runs for 1. They use their last timeout. Baxter runs for 4. Do I run on 3rd and 5 or pass for the 1st? We spread them out.. and run it. Baxter is tackled for a 3 yard loss as their LB filled the gap perfectly. We will punt with 30 seconds left.

They are on their own 25.. they throw deep and Torin Harris gets his 2nd pick of the day! We take a knee to end the game. Huge road win!

42-37 win.

Barkley is the player of the game with 22 of 39 passing for 306 yards with 4 TD's 0 INT's. He was sacked 2 times.

Darron Thomas was 29 of 38 for 459 yards with 4 TD's 2 INT's.

Baxter with 28 carries for 159 yards and 2 TD's.

Lache Seastrunk with 7 carries for 27 yards. Thomas with 7 for 32 yards.


Woods with 10 catches for 128 yards. Prater with 4 for 70 yards and a TD. TE Zack Young with 3 for 49 yards and a TD.

Ben Butterfield led them with 8 catches for 99 yards and a TD. Josh Huff had 2 for 72 yards and 2 TD's. David Paulson had 4 catches for 101 yards.

Demetrius Wright led us with 11 tackles, 2 for a loss. Kennard with 8 tackles. Adam Johnson with 6. Kevin Greene had a huge sack late and George Uko also had 1. Torin Harris with 2 interceptions.

[Eaglesfan27]

After the game, we get 2 more big commits:

We get the #1 WR in the nation, 5 star Matt Burke. He doesn't excel in any one area, but he is very good in almost every area. He is from Bloomfield, NJ.

We also got the #4 C, a 4 star player from La Mirada, CA. He is 6'2 290 and is a strong balanced center.

[Eaglesfan27]

Todya, we travel to play a 3-4 ASU team that isn't very good.

ASU's backup QB beats a 4th and 3 blitz for a 32 yard TD pass! 7-0 ASU.

We fail to convert 4th and 3 on their 32. But, we get a defensive stop to get the ball back.

1st play Woods catches a short slant and busts it 80 yards for a TD! 7-7. Barkley is now the in-game official TD leader at USC (his 1st season isn't in the game.)

Kennard with a huge tackle for a loss on 4th and inches on our 35.

1st play of the drive, Woods takes a short slant and turns it into a 65 yard TD! 14-7. Kennard was hurt on that last play where he made the stop, but he is going to play through it.

Our defense forces a fumble on a short slant and Johnson, our DE picks it up and runs it 15 yards before getting tackled.

Barkley cuts through their defense easily ending in a 14 yard TD pass to our TE Young. 21-7. 5 plays, 56 yards, :46 TOP.

Kennard exacerbates his earlier injury and is done for the day.

After a failed drive our last time, we put together another quick strike drive featuring a 32 yard TD reception by Woods who is destroying whoever covers him. 28-7 midway through the 2nd.

Woods drops a TD catch on our next drive and our kicker misses a 39 yard FG attempt.

Halftime: We are up 28-7 and we get the ball to start the 2nd half.


They force us to go 3 and out, but we stop them when their HB fumbles and Johnson dives on it.

Barkley gets hit while throwing on 3rd down and throws a duck that their DT intercepts.

Johnson with a sack on 4th and 10 on our 32 to force a turnover.

Barkley with his 2nd pick of the day while getting hit. Ouch.

Starling forces another fumble! Uko dives on it and recovers it.

Barkley was hurt on that last play and Reid will get in for a few plays..

Barkley comes back after just 1 play..

Early in the 4th, Barkley finds Butler on a short pass that he turns into a 25 yard TD. 35-7 and that will end the 1st stringer's night. Prater with great downfield blocking made that TD.

We make a 44 yard FG as our running game got us into position. 38-7 with 4 minutes left in the game.

They put together a quick TD against our 2nd unit. 38-14.

3 plays later Reid hits Butler on a short pass that he turns into a 34 yard TD. 45-14.

They fumble the kickoff and Sanchez recovers it.

On 3rd and 9, Reid to Butler for a 16 yard TD. 52-14.


We win the game 52-14.


Woods is the player of the game - 8 catches for 200 yards and 3 TD's.

Barkley was 19 of 31 for 331 yards with 5 TD's 2 INT's.

Reid was 2 of 3 for 50 yards and 2 TD's.

Osweiler was 31 of 50 for 315 yards and a TD.

True Freshman Tyjuan Jones was 1 of 1 for 25 yards and a TD.


Baxter with 16 carries for 88 yards. Hall with 9 for 40 yards. Reid with 1 for 6 yards.

Cameron Marshall with 21 for 64 yards.


Butler with 7 catches for 105 yards and 3 TD's.

Young with 2 for 37 yards and a TD.

Dale Timmons led them with 7 catches for 61 yards.

DE Shawn Johnson with 8 tackles, 3 for a loss, 1 sack led the team.

Demetrius Wright with 4 passes defended.

[Eaglesfan27]

Our next game is hosting Arizona. They are 2-5 and are not very talented.


We force a 3 and out. Woods tweaks his knee a bit on our first offensive play. He'll play through the pain.

5 play, 55 yards drive, 1:40. Ends with a 12 yard TD pass to Baxter. We lead 7-0.

Arizona is using their backup QB as their 3rd WR and he makes a nice catch but fumbles it. Baucham picks up the fumble, avoids two tacklers and breaks down the sideline for a TD. 14-0.

8 play 54 yard drive ending in a 8 yard Td pass to Edwards, our FB. 21-0.

Our defense forces a 3 and out and then a bad punt gives us great field position. 3 plays later Barkley to our TE for a 18 yard TD. 28-0.

Their QB is HORRIBLE. They can't get any offense going.

We get another short field as the 1st ends.

A sack and a bad play gets us in 3rd and 22, but Barkley finds Woods for a 37 yard TD on the play. 35-0.

Their HB fumbles and we get the ball back on the 1st play.

Late in the 2nd quarter, Baxter breaks a big run with a sweet cutback on a sweep play. 42-0. The run was a 43 yard TD. 8 play, 94 yard drive.

Barkley to Woods for a 9 yard TD to end the half. 48-0.


Midway through the 3rd, Baxter with a 88 yard TD run to make it 55-0.

We put in our 2nd team offense after that drive.


Early in the 4th, Reid finds Flournoy for a 8 yard TD on 3rd and 7. 62-0.

Patrick Hall breaks off a long TD run with 2:22 left in the game. 69-0. Hall with a 73 yard TD run.

They move the ball well against our 2nd team, but we stop them from scoring. We win the game 69-0.


Barkley was the player of the game. He was 14 of 23 for 211 yards with 5 TD's and 0 INT's. He was sacked 1 time.

Reid was 1 of 2 for 8 yards and a TD.

RS JR Bryson Bierne was 25 of 53 for 305 yards. (most of them in 4th against 2nd team.)

Baxter with 17 carries for 243 yards and 2 TD's. Hall with 11 for 127 yards and a TD. Reid with 3 for 19 yards.

Greg Nwoko with 14 for 52 yards.

Woods with 3 catches for 62 yards and 2 TD's. TE Young with 3 for 52 yards and a TD. FB Edwards with 3 for 44 yards and a TD. Baxter with 2 for 6 yards and a TD.

Greg Nwoko led them with 8 catches for 62 yards. QB Eric Smiley with 8 catches for 59 yards. TE Jack Baucaus with 6 for 68 yards.

Kennard led our team with 12 tackles, 3 for a loss.

Starling forced 2 fumbles.

[Eaglesfan27]

We got 3 more commits:

QB Doug Allen from Lincolnton, NC is the #3 QB in the nation. He is a 4 star scrambling QB with truly elite agility and excellent speed. He is 6'2 204.

HB Matt Elliott is a 4 star HB who is #10 in the nation. He is from Belton, SC. He is 6'1 196. He is a good power back.

4 star Athlete Ryan Johnson is the #5 Athlete in the nation. He is 6'2 192 and is from Hilliard, OH. He has elite speed and good coverage abilities. He'll almost certainly play corner for us.

[Eaglesfan27]

Our next game is at 7-2 Washington. They are 23rd in the polls. It is snowing up here today.


Washington drives for an opening FG. We fumble on our 1st play and Washington recovers. They take advantage by punching it in on 4th and goal from the 1. 10-0 they lead.

Baxter with a 1 yard TD to end a 8 play 64 yard drive. 10-7.

They miss a 34 yard FG to give us the ball back.

Woods catches a short pass and turns it into a long gain, but they stop us the next 3 plays. We settle for a 24 yard FG. 10-10, early in the 2nd.

Washington's Price beats our blitz with a perfect lob pass for a 31 yard TD. 17-10, midway through the 2nd.

Barkey is perfect on this drive and he ends it with 13 yard TD pass to the TE Young. 17-17.

Washington with a 5 play 72 yard drive as Price is destroying our pass defense. 24-17 with 1:03 left in the half.

We strike like greased lightning. 3 plays covering 79 yards including a 34 yard TD pass to Woods. 24-24.


Halftime: 24-24. We get the ball back.

Barkley was 15 of 15, but his deep pass to Prater was picked off by the safety to end our 1st drive of the half.

Our defense forces a punt but Woods fumbles the punt and they recover!

Price takes advantage of the short field with a 3 play drive ending in a 18 yard TD pass. 31-24.

Barkley has the ball slip on him and he severely underthrows a deep receiver allowing the linebacker to pick it off!

Next play Johnson drops a sure pick. On 4th and 9, they fail to convert. We get the ball on our 36.

Barkley with his 3rd pick of the day! They pick it off the endzone as he underthrows Prater.

We are down 31-24 at the end of 3...

Our defense holds again.

With 3:30 left, Barkley fumbles it away! We were inside the 10 when he got hit from the blindside and fumbled it.

We force a 3 and out! Flournoy with a huge catch for 7 yards on 4th and 6.

A few plays later, Baxter runs it in from the 1. We tie it at 31. 50 seconds left.

They drive inside FG range and then Price goes deep, and overthrows his man, McDonald with a very acrobatic pick. Do we go for the win with 28 seconds left...

Oh crap. Barkley is sacked for a safety and that is how the game will end!!! So stupid. 33-31 loss to end our shot at back to back championships.

Barkley was 23 of 34 for 403 yards with 2 TD's 3 INT's, and 2 sacks, including a fumble and a safety.

Keith Price was 23 of 38 for 303 yards, 2 TD's 1 INT, and 0 sacks.


Baxter with 25 carries for 113 yards and 2 TD's.

Deontae Cooper carried 27 times for 101 yards and a TD.

Woods with 6 catches for 147 yards and a TD. TE Young with 5 for 64 yards and a TD. Prater with 3 for 52 yards. Baxter with 3 for 49 yards. Butler with 3 for 62 yards.

Cody Bruns led the Huskies with 10 catches for 151 yards and a TD.

Kennard with 13 tackles.

[Eaglesfan27]

That loss drops us from #1 to #6 in the polls.

[Eaglesfan27]

Today, we host the 5-4 Oregon State Beavers. Our team is mad and focused I think.

We force a 3 and out to start the game and then put together a methodical drive that ends in a 1 yard TD run by Baxter.

Oregon State puts together a lengthy methodical drive of their own ending in a 2 yard TD pass. 7-7.

A quick strike drive by Barkley ending in a 2 yard TD pass to Edwards, the FB. 14-7.

After a 3 and out by them, we strike quickly ending in a 26 yard TD pass to Prater. 21-7.

Edwards is having a breakout game. We are finally getting him into the offensive flow out of the backfield. Should have used him more against Washington. We are up 28-7 on a long TD catch and run by Edwards.


We hit a 48 yard FG to end the half. 31-7 and we get the ball back.

Barkley to Woods for a 6 yard TD for the 1st drive of the 2nd half. 38-7. His day will be done soon.

Patrick Hall with 2 big runs and a TD run early in the 4th. 45-7.


We win the game 45-7.

Barkley is the player of the game. He was 21 of 28 for 297 yards with 4 TD's 0 INT's 0 sacks.

Ryan Katz was 26 of 42 for 206 yards and a TD.

Baxter 17-116-1 TD. Hall 7-91-1 TD.

Jovan Stevenson 10-51.

Corey Edwards (FB) 9 catches for 105 yards and 2 TD's.

Prater 3-51-1. Woods 2-25-1. Flournoy 2-28. Butler 2-20. Young (TE) 1-43.

Kevin Cummings 6-84-0. Jordan Biship 6-44-1.

Kennard 7 tackles, 3 for a loss.


Marquis Simmons suffered a dislocated elbow late in the game. His season is over.

[Eaglesfan27]

Next up is the game against ND. We force a quick stop to get the ball back within a minute.

They get the ball right back and put together a 12 play 63 yard drive that ends with a 5 yard TD pass. 7-0.

We respond with a 8 play 71 yard drive that featured 6 runs by Baxter including a 7 yard TD run. 7-7.

Sanchez with a pick 6. 14-7, we lead as the 1st ends.

We exchange failed drives, before ND puts togther a quick 7 play 55 yard drive that ends with a 5 yard TD pass. 14-14.

Barkley with a pick early on our next drive. They get a short field, and their QB takes advantage with a 4 play 24 yard drive ending in a 8 yard TD pass. 21-14, ND.

Barkley leads us in a perfect 2 minute drive ending with a 31 yard strike to Butler. Tied at 21. 28 seconds left in the half.


Halftime: Tied at 21, we get the ball back.


Early in the 3rd, Baxter on a 3rd and 2 hits a crease and takes it to the house for a 52 yard TD. 28-21.

ND with a nice answering drive, ending in a 14 yard TD pass. Their QB is dissecting us. Tied at 28.

Early in the 4th, Barkley finishes off a 9 play 78 yard drive with a 9 yard pass to his TE for a TD. 35-28.

Our next drive is a 8 play 78 yard drive that ends with Prater breaking a tackle to turn a short play into a 30 yard TD. 42-28.

Ouch.. on the play Barkley got hit hard and dislocated his shoulder. His season is over.

We get a defensive stop and Baxter puts the game away, ending the drive with a 8 yard TD run. 49-28.

Baxter was the player of the game. 26 carries for 160 yards and 3 TD's.

Barkley was 20 of 31 for 294 yards with 3 TD's and 1 INT. A good last game to end his career.

Andrew Hendrix was 31 of 44 for 312 yards with 4 TD's 2 INT's.


Patrick Hall with 5 carries for 42 yards.

Cierre Wood with 21 for 120 yards.

Prater 6 catches for 111 yards and a TD. Edwards (FB) with 4 for 43 yards, Woods with 3 for 25 yards, TE Young with 3 for 39 yards and a TD. Butler with 1 for 31 yards and a TD.

Bo Patterson, a sophomore with 7 for 71 yards and a TD.

Kennard with 9 tackles and an interception to lead the team. DE Shawn Johnson with 8 tackles, 3 for a loss, and 1 sack. Sanchez had the pick 6.

[Eaglesfan27]

Torin Harris fails to pick off the ball early in the drive, and Prince completes a 4th and goal pass from the 1 to Randall Carroll for a TD. Down 7-0. That drive used up half of the 1st quarter.

Trying what I proposed in the NCAA thread. I will lock into receivers with QB's with low awareness like Reid has in his start. Actually, he isn't bad at a 76, but I will have to wait 2 seconds before switching my receiving targets.

Despite locking onto targets, Reid is perfect on his first drive. When his first target wasn't open, he scrambled for time or to gain some yardage and he completed every pass including a 12 yard TD to Prater. Tied at 7.

Sheesh, Price to Carroll for a 19 yards on a 4th and 17 from our 28. A few players later, McDonald with a pick in the endzone.

Baxter with a 31 yard run to end a 7 play 80 yard drive. 14-7, midway through the 2nd.

Prince with another TD pass to end a quick drive. Tied at 14.

We make a 35 yard FG as the half expires. 17-14.


Halftime: We lead 17-14 and we get the ball back.


Midway through the 3rd, Baxter finishes off our 2nd drive of the half with a 5 yard TD run. 24-14.

Demetrius Wright with a pick 6. 31-14, 3 minutes left in the 3rd.

Franklin with a 4 yard TD late in the 3rd. 31-21.

Reid to Woods for a 42 yard TD. 38-21, early in the 4th.

Reid with a 32 yard TD run midway through the 4th. 45-21. That run was magic and really shows what he brings to the team.

Reid with a long scramble sets up a 5 yard TD run by Hall. 52-21.


We win the game 52-21.

That loss eliminates UCLA from bowl contention. We are 11-1.

Reid is the player of the game: 18 of 25 for 298 yards and 8 carries for 64 yards. 3 total TD's, 2 passing, 1 rushing. He had 0 INT's but was sacked 4 times.

Prince was 30 of 46 for 283 yards with 2 TD's 2 INT's.


Baxter with 21 carries for 156 yards and 2 TD's.

Franklin with 20 for 71 yards and a TD.


Prater with 6 catches for 100 yards and a TD. Woods with 4 for 105 yards and a TD. TE Young with 4 for 80 yards. Butler with 4 for 13 yards.

Randall Carroll led them with 7 for 119 yards and a TD.

Kennard with 12 tackles, 3 for a loss. Adam Johnson with 8 tackles, 2 for a loss, 1 sack.

[Eaglesfan27]

Dillon Baxter in a run away vote gets USC back to back Heismans.

Baxter had 254 carries for 1908 yards, 22 TD's. He also had 23 catches for 249 yards and 4 TD's. He had 460 1st place votes, 207 2nd place votes, and 87 3rd place votes for 1881 points.

QB Gilbert of Texas was 2nd with 131-230-183 for 1036 points.

QB Tom Savage of Rutgers was 3rd with 81-146-191 for 726 points.

QB Darron Thomas of Oregon was 4th with 64-111-145 for 559.

QB J. Wynn of Utah was 5th with 49-86-168 for 487 points.


Baxter also won the Walter Camp Award, Doak Walker Award.

Robert Woods won the Biletnikoff Award. Shawn Johnson won the Lombardi Award. Johnson had 40 tackles, 16 for a loss, 6 sacks, and 2 FF.

Torin Harris won the Jim Thorpe Award. He had 47 tackles, 3 for a loss, 1 FF, 4 interceptions, 8 passes defended.

Other Award Winners:

Maxwell Garrett Gilbert, Texas (336 of 446 for 4442 yards, 477 rushing yards, and 47 total TD's.) He also won the Davey O'Brien. Barkley was 6th for both awards.

Bednarik Zaviar Gooden, Missouri with 49 tackles, 27 for a loss, 4 sacks, 3 FF. He also won the Nagurski.

David Paulson, Oregon won the Mackey. He had 81 catches for 1178 yards and 12 TD's.

Woods with 56 catches for 976 yards and 16 TD's in winning the Biletnikoff.

Jimmy Bennett won the Outland award with 48 pancake blocks.

Chuck Inman of Albama won the Rimington with 28 pancakes.

[Eaglesfan27]

We will be playing 10-2 Michigan in the Rose Bowl. Interesting match up. Barkley is probable for the game, and will play one last game as a Trojan.

[Eaglesfan27]

A look at the other top match-ups:

Fiesta Bowl: #3 WVU (12-0) vs #8 TCU (11-1)
Orange Bowl: #4 Utah (12-0) vs #9 USF (11-1)
Sugar Bowl: #7 LSU (11-2) vs # 6 Oklahoma (11-1)

National Championship: #2 Georgia Tech (13-0) vs #1 Texas (13-0)

[Eaglesfan27]

We force a 3 and out and then march down the field aided by two big catches by Woods. Baxter runs it in from the 1. 7-0 lead.

Michigan's returner fumbles the kickoff, another player picks it up and tries to run with it.. he fumbles it.. Ambles picks it up and runs it into the endzone for a TD. 14-0.

We force a 3 and out. Barkley with a few nice throws to get us inside the 10, then Baxter runs it in from the 8. 21-0 late in the 1st.

Best defensive effort all year..

We settle for a 25 yard FG on our next drive. 24-0, early in the 2nd.

Demetrius Wright with a pick on their 1st pass of the next drive. Our corners are finally playing up to their abilities! We miss a 45 yard FG.

Baucham with a pick!

Barkley to Woods for a 14 yard TD. That is Woods 17th and that breaks the record of Big Mike Williams from 2005.

Michigan with a screen pass to the HB to make it 31-7 at the end of the half - 20 seconds left.

I spoke too quickly.. Woods returns the kickoff 99 yards for a TD!!! 38-7.


Halftime: We lead 38-7 and we get the ball to start the 2nd half.


Baxter fumbles his first carry and Michigan recovers. Our defense holds them to a 3 and out and they miss the 42 yard FG attempt.


Defenses control the 3rd quarter, but late in the quarter Michigan puts together a long drive ending in a 1 yard TD run by Michael Cox. 38-14.

Late in the quarter, Barkley to Woods for a 44 yard TD. 45-14. That will be the end of the game for our 1st units.

Midway through the 4th, Reid with a 22 yard TD run on a QB keeper. Kid is electric! 52-14.

Michigan makes it 52-21 with a quick strike drive through the air.

Pearson recovers the onside kick attempt.


We win the game 52-21.

Woods is the player of the game with 7 receptions for 147 yards with 3 total TD's (2 receiving, 1 special teams.)

Barkley was 19 of 33 for 282 yards with 2 TD's 0 INT's.

Forcier was 16 of 32 for 201 yards with 2 TD's 2 INT's.

Baxter with 18 carries for 102 yards and 2 TD's.

Hall with 13 for 52 yards.

Reid with 2 for 33 yards and a TD.

Cox with 17 for 70 yards for Michigan. Forcier with 11 for 10 yards.

Edwards with 3 catches for 21 yards. Baxter with 2 for 27. Prater with 2 for 42. Young with 2 for 20.

Roy Roundtree with 4 for 51 yards and a TD.

Shawn Johnson led the team with 6 tackles, 4 for a loss, and 1 sack.

Woods with 2 KR for 120 yards and a TD. He also had 3 PR for 18 yards. Is he going pro?

[Eaglesfan27]

A look at our stat leaders:

Barkley: 211-339-3160-42 TD-6 INT.

Barkley's career: 740 of 1190 for 11,745 yards with 135 TD's and 38 INT's.

Baxter: 272-2010-24TD, 25 receptions-275-4.

Baxter Career Stats: 617-4477-51TD. 57 catches for 518 yards and 9 TD's.

Hall: 83 carries for 543 yards and 6 TD's.

Woods 63 catches for 1123 yards and 18 TD's.

Woods career: 155 for 2868 and 37 TD's.

Prater: 48-859-8 TD. Career: 124-2363-26.

Young (TE) 31 for 512 yards and 7 TD's.

Edwards (FB) 27 for 257 yards and 4 TD's.

Kennard with 110 tackles.

Shawn Johnson with 20 tackles for a loss and 7.5 sacks.

Torin Harris led the team with 4 INT's.


Bowl Results:

WVU beat TCU 28-14, USF beat Utah 38-35, LSU beat Oklahoma 21-6, and Texas won another NC, beating Georgia Tech 38-20.

[Eaglesfan27]

Off Season News:

Baxter is going pro and no way can I convince him otherwise.

Woods is persuaded to stay for his SR year and try to win another championship.

Ditto for Prater!

Baxter is the only JR leaving early!

A look at all of the SR talent leaving:

HB McNeal (83)
LT Kalil 95
QB Manoogian 76
DE Wes Horton 88
WR Flourney 86
FS Starling 90
SS McDonald 88
CB Baucham 82
MLB Kennard 90
RG Holmes 91
WR Butler 94
QB Barkley 95

Now for recruiting...

[Eaglesfan27]

In the 1st week of recruiting, we turn a WR who was a soft commit to UCLA for a few weeks and get him to commit to USC instead:

Kevin McGrew is #15 in the country and is a 4 star WR who is 6'1 161. He has top notch speed but so-so accleration. He does have good hands.

During the 4th week of offseason recruiting, we get 5 star DE David Wheeler. He is the #3 DE in the class. He is from Clifton, AZ. He is 6'5 225 and is a very quick player with good finesse moves.

We have the #1 class by far with 8 5 star players, 10 4 star players, and 2 3 star players.

The rest of the classes:

2. Ohio State 5-7-5
3. Texas 2-13-3
4. Miami 5-4-9
5. Tenn 0-11-10-0-2
6. Penn State 0-9-11-3-1
7. Pitt 1-8-10-1-0
8. Alabama 2-10-2
9. Auburn 1-9-7-0-2
10. UCLA 0-10-8-2-1


We got the #1 and #2 players in the nation this class in HB Marlon McDaniel and Athlete Tommy Wilkinson.

We also got the #9 player, WR Matt Burke, #11 HB Robert Smith, and #12 SS Tim Douglas, #14 in DT Derek Tremblay, #20 in DE Lamar O'Connor, and #28 in DE David Wheeler. Quite the collection of high end talnet.

We have 5 more players in the top 100.