USC or "The Emperor has no Football Uniform" All season long I've been telling you that USC had no running back capable of breaking away and dominating and an over praised quarterback who was too short to see over the line. The way you beat speed is to run straight at it. UCLA ran straight at it, both on offense and defense. The only real surprise was that after the Notre Dame quarterback ran for almost a hundred yards last week they were unable to stop a slower quarterback from running either. USC played the entire season before the Oregon game as if it didn't really matter, but after beating a truly mediocre Notre Dame team they reverted to form. Ohio State's quarterback would have run up two hundred yards on them. If you saw the Florida-Arkansas game you saw two teams with backs who could take over a game. Both of them could beat USC. UCLA saved us from one of the most boring and one sided BCS title game one could imagine.
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How bout michigan? Is Florida more deserving than Michigan? Is this a case of Wolverine backlash or was the right thing done? And how will the Trojans fair against the Wolverines?
I used to coach football and hence have many friends who coach on various levels. Many have told me that it is impossible to get a team of kids---and college players are still kids----up emotionally for four consecutive weeks. This is why USC lost to an inferior team, it is also why nobody in the SEC can go undefeated against that tough opposition. I think USC will smoke Michigan because 1. The Big Ten is really The Big Two: no competition at all in a very weak conference, 2. They will be too fast for all but the wide receiver of Michigan, 3. I think Carr is a weak "reaction" coach, meaning he has to wait til half time to adjust; he may find himself down by four touchdowns by that time. As an ad to the emotions with kids: when you have really good talent you only have to get them "up" once or twice per season; the real problem is keeping them "down" so they don't go crazy. I think USC is not nearly as strong as a bunch of reporters thought, but they have the talent to squash Michigan.
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