Top-ranked Southern California ready for title-game hype to truly ...
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Within hours of arriving at their Orange Bowl headquarters, members of Southern California&#39;s top-ranked football team ventured out for some sightseeing.
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While people out here debate the importance of Saturday&#39;s Cal-USC game -- Biggest West Coast game in a decade? Biggest Cal game in school history?
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The goal expressed at Southern California every year under coach Pete Carroll is to win the Pac-10 championship and qualify for the Rose Bowl.
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Southern California hardly resembled an elite team &#151; much less No. 1 &#151; in its first game of the season.
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MORRISTOWN, New Jersey (Ticker) - If the college football season were to end today, Southern California and Miami surprisingly would meet for the national championship at the Orange Bowl on January 4. The
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Southern California took the top spot Monday in the season's first Bowl Championship Series standings, and surprisingly Miami is ahead of Oklahoma in a close race for the second spot.    Oklahoma is No...
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PASADENA, California (Ticker) - Southern California held off a final challenge before punching its ticket to Miami. Heisman Trophy hopeful Reggie Bush scored on two long touchdown runs and accounted for 277
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Southern California and Oklahoma finished 1-2 in the final B.C.S. standing and will play for the national title in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 4.
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Matt Leinart Tosses Two Touchdown Passes As No. 1 USC Holds on to Beat No. 7 California 23-17. Southern California&#39;s coach Pete Carroll watches his team warm up before their game against California in Los Angles, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004.
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Rick Majerus is a basketball savant. Nobody questions that. He&#39;s a winner. Nobody questions that. He&#39;ll be a tremendous hire for Southern California.
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If the Trojans outlast Michigan and Florida for the right to play in the national title game, the deciding factor will be U.S.C.Âs aggressive scheduling.
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EUGENE, Ore. - Oregon can start seriously thinking about a national title run. As for Southern California, just winning the Pac-10 could be a long shot at this point.
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LOS ANGELES - In his opening statement to the bloated media corps here late yesterday afternoon, USC coach Pete Carroll trotted out these adjectives: Exciting, tense, fantastic, incredible, wonderful, exquisite.
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com. With less than one week to go until the release of the final BCS standings, USC and Oklahoma are all but assured of going to the Orange Bowl if they both win their final games Saturday
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PULLMAN -â Last week, in studying USC game film, Cougar coaches thought they found a chink in the national championsâ armor. And not just any chink -â one with the potential, right from the get go, to
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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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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.