Sell-out crowd will watch No. 1 USC take on No. 7 Cal
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History looks to repeat itself in the biggest game to date of the Pacific-10 Conference this weekend. Two of the nation&#39;s elite programs will square off when co-defending national champion USC (4-0 overall, 1-0 Pac-10) hosts No.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Everybody came here to represent. The Cali Contingent of Boston College's basketball team -- junior Craig Smith of Los Angeles, Sean Marshall of Rialto, and Jared Dudley of San Diego -- had quite a bit of incentive in last night's 74-64 victory over UCLA in the Wooden Classic before a crowd of 14,027 at Arrowhead Pond.
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Los Angeles - If you think the freeways around Southern California are crowded, you should see the crowd in the Southern California locker room after a football game.
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The Big Game has rarely been smaller. There's no sibling rivalry when No. 21 California meets Stanford in the 109th edition of their rivalry Saturday. In truth, it's more like a big brother picking on a kid brother &#151; and the result will do little to change the decidedly eastward tilt to the state of college football in the Bay Area.
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Obviously, Cal @ USC could be huge, but there are other ones that are at least worth a look as well. Surprisingly, Washington State is favored over Oregon, and by more than one point.
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Southern California will begin defense of its first national title in 31 years as the No. 1 team in the nation. The Trojans earned the top spot in the preseason Associated Press poll released Saturday by receiving 48 of 65 first-place votes and 1,603 points.
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No. 1-ranked Southern California can&#39;t claim perfection yet, needing to win two more games to finish 13-0 and as national champion.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- If Oklahoma and Southern California seemed comfortable handling yesterday's Media Day for tomorrow night's Orange Bowl BCS title game, there's a good reason. Both schools are used to the attention success brings.
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A three-touchdown point spread and a recent history of late-season collapses had many thinking the UCLA football team would provide little opposition to rival USC&#39;s march to the BCS-championship game at the Orange Bowl.
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The 92,000 seats at the Los Angeles Coliseum have been long sold, and the ESPN &quot;College GameDay&quot; crew is on hand, but California coach Jeff Tedford is taking a business as usual approach for the seventh-ranked Golden Bears&#39; game at 12:30 pm today with No.
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A week after Showdown Saturday, only two games match ranked teams this weekend. Ohio State looks for payback against Penn State on Saturday, and Arizona State and California jockey for position in the Pac-10.
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USC is the country&#39;s top-ranked team, in no small part due to its fetish for the football. It&#39;s apparent in everything from T-shirts the program special ordered for players -- which read &quot;It&#39;s All About the
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LOS ANGELES (Ticker) -- Once Matt Leinart and No. 1 Southern California got used to the rain, it was all over for Notre Dame. Leinart threw for a career-high 400 yards and matched a personal best with five
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Asked earlier in the week about taking on the No. 1 team in the country this weekend, Isaiah Stanback sounded nonplussed. &quot;USC is a tough team, just like Oregon State was a tough team,&quot; he said.
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A national television audience will be watching when No. 18 Rutgers squares off against a prestigious and menacing opponent Monday: No 5 Duke.
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After playing in hail, fog and chill, top-ranked Southern California finishes its season in familiar comfort. The Trojans (9-0, 6-0 Pacific-10) have two games at home &#151; against Arizona on Saturday and Notre Dame on Nov. 27 &#151; before their rivalry game at UCLA.
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Southern California is the new No. 2. The Trojans advanced one spot to overtake Michigan in The Associated Press Top 25 on Sunday, a day after their 44-24 victory over Notre Dame.