Avenging loss to Cal the No. 1 priority for USC
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USC has waited a year for this. The top-ranked Trojans get a chance to avenge their only defeat since October 2002 when they face No. 7 California today before a sellout crowd of 92,000.
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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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Mike Williams hoped to celebrate his 21st birthday by playing for another national title. He missed out, caught in a legal tangle. Yet losing the All-American receiver days before the start of the season didn't keep Southern California from reaching the Orange Bowl, where the Trojans played Oklahoma on Tuesday night.
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If top-ranked Southern California looked like it was playing in a fog during much of its 28-13 victory over Oregon State late Saturday night in Corvallis, no one could blame the Trojans.
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I sat under a rain-soaked yellow poncho last Saturday watching No. 1 USC dominate Notre Dame. True, Notre Dame lost 41-10 to its rival, but only after giving the Trojans a tough time in the first half.
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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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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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Standout receiver Mike Williams is all but certain not to play Saturday night when top-ranked Southern California opens its season because of continuing delays in the school's appeal process to the NCAA. After that, who knows? USC has applied to the NCAA for a progress-toward-degree waiver and reinstatement of Williams' eligibility.
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Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush get the headlines. Southern California's defense does the heavy lifting.
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Hattiesburg, Miss. -- After nine wins, a narrow loss to the No. 1 team in the nation and a steady rise in the national rankings, Cal&#39;s dream season comes down to this --.
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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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PULLMAN - The last time anything was cut down this easily on the Palouse was during the wheat harvest. Top-ranked USC had its way with binge scoring and disruptive defense and leveled Washington State 42-12 yesterday.
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Better come focused, not drift. Remember the last visit here and recognize exactly what could be at stake. It&#39;s the new USC theme -- win or else.
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AUSTIN, Texas - Without playing a down on Friday, California might have seen its chances at a trip to the Rose Bowl improve. That, and the avoidance of a bigger Bowl Championship Series fiasco than it already
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After getting edged for its first Rose Bowl berth in 46 years, fourth-ranked California had hoped to end its season on a high note but instead played poorly in a 45-31 loss to No.
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This is the week Washington State coach Bill Doba becomes a gambler. When top-ranked Southern California (7-0, 4-0 Pac-10) visits Martin Stadium on Saturday, it will be the first time a No.
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The USC football team has navigated this season atop the polls, surviving one scare against Cal and another at Oregon State and otherwise leaving no doubt it deserves its No.