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• USC football: Matt Barkley named Pac-12 offensive player of week
• USC Trojans Football: Matt Barkley The Maestro In Upset Of Oregon
• Matt Barkley Heisman campaign begins
• USC huge win at Oregon
• Stopping RB Polk is biggest key
• USC's Matt Barkley finds love and perspective in Nigeria
• Record-game For Barkley; Woods and Lee Shine in 48-41 Win Over Arizona
• USC Football Returns Home To Host Arizona
• Bank Of The West Weekly Football Honors
• FB | Jones still out with injury, to miss game Saturday against Southern California
• Trojans in need of better effort
• Scoggins: For Kiffin, misery doesn't love company
• USC Football Notebook: Barkley, Woods on same page in scrimmage
• USC's Matt Barkley named to 2011 Manning Award watch list
• USC FOOTBALL NOTES: Barkley shaky in first scrimmage
• Pio Vatuvei Verbals To USC Trojans Football
• USC's Matt Barkley, 5 other Pac-12 players named to 2011 Walter Camp watch list
• Southern California Trojans football
• USC Trojans Football: The Nickell Robey Story
• USC football: Issues come to the fore in the fourth
• Trojans release new numbers fot the fall roster
• No changes on the horizon for USC's football uniforms
• USC football: Nick Perry has a big number in mind
• OT Smith helps keep first-round grade at USC pro day
• Injuries will impact USC practice
• USC linemen the next Cam Newton?
• USC hires Nebraska's Gilmore as WRs coach
• USC Trojans redshirt freshman WR Kyle Prater breaks foot
• Eight USC Trojans invited to 2011 NFL Combine
• USC's Johnson, O'Dowd, Wright to take part in 2011 Under Armour Senior Bowl
• Amir Carlisle and Anthony Sarao Choose USC
• USC Recruiting | Trojans eyeing McKeesport DL recruit Delvon Simmons
• USC football: Is Lane Kiffin too unemotional?
• USC signs two more JC gridders
• Football recruiting: Losing Aaron Douglas hurts
• USC Football Recruiting: One More Verbal and Closing the Book on a Busy Weekend
• USC football: Breaking down Matt Barkley’s season
• USC seniors deserve a better ending
• USC Football Hosts Notre Dame In Famed Intersectional Rivalry
• USC Football: Was the Arizona Game a Sign of a Modified Spread in 2011?
• Barkley named semifinalist for O’Brien Award
• USC FOOTBALL NOTES: Passing comment serves as motivation
• Report card: Grading the Trojans (vs. Stanford)
• USC Football | Sarkisian shows he has transitioned from student to master
• Jupiter and Havili named USC Credit Union Student Athletes of the Week
• USC Football: Robert Woods' 97-yard kickoff touchdown return
• USC's Tyler goes from forgotten to first
• USC leans on Matt Barkley's leadership
• Mater Dei WR Blackwell among best in California
• USC Football Success Factors in 2010 And Beyond
• Laying the Foundation: USC Football Recruiting, 2011
• Joe McKnight doesn't mind the comparisons to New Orleans Saints' Reggie Bush
• USC Trojans to face Boston College Eagles in Emerald Bowl
• Corp gets the nod in Saturday's game against Washington
• Colts sign rookies Austin Collie (WR, BYU) and Fili Moala
• The Sideline Report: '09 College Football Preview
• USC 101: History of the Song Girl
• USC football: The best DBs, OLs in the nation?
• USC football: 5 most indispensable Trojans
• Ryans set to help Cushing
• USC football: 10 things we learned in spring (No. 4)
• UCS's Pete Carroll to Author "Win Forever" Book
• Trojans' quarterback Barkley getting into a groove
• Trojans' defense is quickly making strides
• 2009 NFL Draft Preview: Clay Matthews
• Lions coach Jim Schwartz will keep open mind at draft
• Waiting game finally over for Chiefs' Cassel
• Odd questions are the norm for prospects at the NFL combine
• Longevity runs in Matthews family
• Pythons kept at bay by brilliant Baxter
• SIGNING DAY 2009 : West Helena's Winston highlights Razorbacks' 2009 commitments
• USC's Sanchez among 12 Trojans invited to NFL combine
• Should He Have Stayed One More Season? Mark Sanchez Enters the NFL Draft!
• Carroll apologizes to Sanchez for demeanor
• Carl Smith And Mark Jackson Join USC Football Staff
• High School Football: Matt Barkley Leads White Team to Victory in Under Armour All-America Game
• Next Season Could Be A Test For Carroll, Trojans
• Trojans offensive line will have holes to fill
• Trojans' Moala will try not to cry
• Trojans' outlook: Up in BCS, down in Rose Bowl hopes
• USC blanks Arizona State, 28-0
• USC Seeks Upward Mobility
• QB Tuel takes aim at Centennial
• USC linebacker Cushing could be sidelined for Oregon State game
• Matt Barkley, Nation's Top HS Football Prospect, Opens Season on ESPN2

USC Seeks Upward Mobility

Given how precariously it was sandwiched between Ohio State and Oregon on the 2008 schedule, USC Coach Pete Carroll now admits he had Oregon State circled all along on his watch-out calendar.

"I had a sense six months ago it was going to be a problem," Carroll said in USC's locker room after Saturday night's 44-10 win over Oregon, which was not a problem.

The semi-annual disaster trip to Corvallis, Ore.., though, is a rear-view memory now as the Trojans refocus on the rest of a season that still has "national championship" as a possible ending.

USC seemed to regain its balance while knocking Oregon off its Nikes, and now the Trojans begin the arduous, dirty-work climb up the polls.

Sunday was not a "moving" day in the rankings, as the schools ahead of No. 9 USC in The Associated Press poll all won.

USC did not budge off its No. 9 perch in the USA Today coaches' poll and actually dropped one position to No. 8 in the Harris index.

USC's weekend victory, though, which included a tack-on, 59-yard scoring pass with 1:50 left from mop-up Mitch Mustain to David Ausberry, impressed Associated Press voters enough to leapfrog the Trojans to No. 8 ahead of Brigham Young.

Really, what has the Mountain West done against the Pacific 10 Conference this year? BYU can lodge a complaint, but the Cougars last week moved up three spots without playing.

The combination of USC's remaining schedule, which is a cumulative 20-22, and impending kill-off games in the Southeastern and Big 12 conferences should have Trojan fans re-energized into thinking the Corvallis loss was more embarrassing than it was punitive.

The motto for USC from here on in is www ... "wipeout wins, wait."

No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 5 Texas have a bake-off this week, No. 5 LSU treks forebodingly toward No. 11 Florida, and No. 6 Penn State faces a tough test at Wisconsin.

Oklahoma doesn't play No. 3 Missouri in the regular season, but the schools could meet for the Big 12 title. Missouri does play No. 17 Oklahoma State (this week), Texas and No. 16 Kansas.

No. 7 Texas Tech still has Texas and Oklahoma left to consider.

The right mix of USC wins and top-10 losses could have the Trojans back in the top five by Halloween.

Things seem to be breaking USC's way again in Trojan Land.

If you want to make a parlor game of USC's remaining schedule, try to find the second loss:

--Oct. 11, Arizona State. Dennis Erickson started out 8-0 as Sun Devils' coach but he's 4-6 in his last 10. Arizona State started the season No. 15 but is now 2-3 with quarterback Rudy Carpenter last seen leaving Saturday's loss at California on crutches.

--Oct. 18, at Washington State. There will not be a repeat of 2006, when USC escaped with a six-point win. California scored 66 points in Pullman, Wash., this year, Oregon scored 63 and USC will score how many points it takes to keep it ahead of BYU in the polls.

--Oct. 25, at Arizona. Maybe the toughest game left, if only because Mike Stoops' teams have usually played USC tough.

--Nov. 1, Washington. Waiter, check please.

--Nov. 8, California. This may or may not be important, but California Coach Jeff Tedford is 0-6 in Los Angeles.

--Nov. 15, at Stanford. Remember the Alamo?

--Nov. 29, Notre Dame. USC has taken six straight in the series, and the only game in which the Trojans didn't score more than 38 points was the 34-31 "Bush Push" thriller in 2005.

--Dec. 6, at UCLA. Can't wait to see what UCLA's marketing department dreams up with for this one, but unless the Bruins come up with an offense, the Trojans should make it nine wins in the last 10.

Weekend shocker, or should we be surprised? A week after Fresno State painted the Rose Bowl red with a victory against UCLA, the Bulldogs lost at home, in overtime, to Hawaii. And so it continues. Fresno State takes on all challengers in non-conference play, makes some early national noise and then flops in conference. The Bulldogs have not won even a share of the Western Athletic Conference since 1999.

"This is as tough as loss I've had since I've been here," Fresno State Coach Pat Hill said.

Weekend Shocker II: Army 44, Tulane 13. What? Army ruined Tulane's homecoming with an improbable win that included only five passing attempts. It was Army's first win after scoring only 37 total points in four losses. After a 28-10 loss to 1-AA New Hampshire on Sept. 6, Army Coach Stan Brock apologized to the U.S. Military, the Corps of Cadets and everyone else who watched the game. Saturday, it was Tulane Coach Bob Toledo with the mea culpa. Toledo: "I want to first apologize for our performance."

Eyes will be fixed the rest of the year on Penn State Coach Joe Paterno as he tries to lead his sixth-ranked team while battling leg ailments that forced him to the press box Saturday against Purdue. Will Paterno, who turns 82 in December, make it to the end of the year? He is taking pain pills to alleviate his leg discomfort but says surgery at this point is not an option: "I'm not letting anyone get near me with a knife," Paterno said.

Washington Athletic Director Scott Woodward said after Saturday's 48-14 loss at Arizona that he wouldn't make a decision on Coach Tyrone Willingham's future during the season, although it seems almost certain Willingham will be finished at season's end. Washington and North Texas are the only major college schools who have yet to post a victory.

 

(More on www.lcsun-news.com)

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