Pete Carroll and Rick Neuheisel restored the tradition of USC and UCLA wearing their home jerseys for their football games in 2008.
The tradition began when both schools fought it out at the Coliseum, but it ended when UCLA started playing at the Rose Bowl in 1982.
Approximately 12 miles separate the USC and UCLA campuses, distance-wise basically a home game for both sides.
Since 1929, USC leads the series 50-34 (seven ties) and have won six out of the last 10. Whether the game is played at the Coliseum or the Rose Bowl doesn’t portend much difference in the result.
Let’s completely sink Bruin-to-the-core Deshaun Foster’s first head coaching season at UCLA, keep them out of a badly needed bowl, and deliver the payback they need to receive.
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Boise St ahead of SMU and BYU? Does that put Boise St as the 4 seed and drops SMU to the 12 seed and Tennessee is out? 1 seed Oregon, 2 Texas, 3 Miami, 4 Boise St. First round games would be;
Alabama at ND
Mississippi at Indiana
Georgia at Penn St
SMU at Ohio St
Quarterfinals
Oregon v ND/Alabama
Texas v Indiana/Mississippi
Miami v Penn St/Georgia
Boise St v Ohio St/SMU
DeShaun Foster, a Bruin lifer, relishes the opportunity to lead UCLA against USC Mirjam Swanson (LAT) — Whatever happens in Saturday’s rivalry game, it will be discussed for years to come – something that UCLA’s first-year head coach and former star running back knows as well as anyone Win and the Bruins keep their bowl dreams alive and also put pressure on the Trojans. It would set up a must-win for USC in its last game, against Notre Dame, to qualify for a bowl – a consolation prize for a team that was fancied among the favorites to compete for a… Read more »
If Riley doesn’t hem Maiava in the pocket, and let’s him use his excellent running ability, we can see Saturday a dimension on offense that is tough to stop. Too bad he wasn’t given more playing time before facing our two biggest rivals.
PLAYERS WITH A CATCH IN AT LEAST 25 CONSECUTIVE GAMES A USC RB leads the list. Everyone else is a WR or a TE. Woody Marks, RB, USC, 55 LaJohntay Wester, WR, Colorado, 47 Kyle Williams, WR, Wash. St., 47 Jaylin Noel, WR, Iowa St., 42 Brant Kuithe, TE, Utah, 41 Brennan Presley, WR, Ok. St., 40 JP Richardson, WR, TCU, 37 Andrew Armstrong, WR, Arkansas, 37 Derwin Burgess Jr., WR, Ga. Southern, 37 Jordan Moore, WR, Duke, 36 Elijah Sarratt, WR, Indiana, 35 Raylen Sharpe, WR, Fresno State, 35 Elijhah Badger, WR, Florida, 35 Kaedin Robinson, WR, App.… Read more »
“The Football Monopoly in Los Angeles is Officially Over.” Rick Newcoacher put the words in ads in the area. USC replied by adding the word “there” and aiming the billboard toward USC. The University of California Southern Campus baby bears are tenacious and tedious, but not insurmountable. If the Trojans clean up a few mistakes and show just a smidge of pride in their program, them other guys are going to see a storm a bruin maybe some of fire has gone out of the season, but pilot light is still lit. My shopping list in the bear market of… Read more »
Great post RT.
I’m curious. Will Riley use Fosters recent disparaging remarks….” The smarter ones come over here” as locker room motivation fodder or just passively shrug to one of college football’s biggest rivalries.
Good question. I don’t think anybody really knows, especially if you consider some of Riley’s past quotes.
In the end, I just hope LR gets USC up and ready for this UCLA game, unlike last year.
But maybe he just doesn’t see that as his function.
Perhaps he really doesn’t see it as his function. Perhaps more a former QB perspective versus a former linebacker’s perspective. We will see which one by the end of the first quarter.
You’ve posed a very intriguing vantage point on these two teams’ leaders and how it may reflect on the bedrock personalities of these crosstown adversaries.
Will it come down to a convoluted case of brains vs brawn? Who usually wins these types of confrontations?
Sure wish we had all-everywhere Eric Gentry, which would have given us a lot more brawn, don’t you think?
You hit on something that hasn’t been discussed much ( because guys like me are overly fixated on Riley ) is Gentry’s absence and its impact to the team. He’s leads by his play and that type of play is contagious. If Riley treats Saturday just like any other game, I’m hoping the players can motivate each other. Gentry would have been a forefront physical presence in that motivation. I’m also hoping Riley minimizes his Air Raid impulses, and establishes another form of “brawn” in a power running game. Our line run blocks above average and Marks is one of… Read more »
100%. ✌