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From The Wages of Wins Blog:Gordon played 29 games before facing Penn State on Sunday. When we look at Gordon across these games, we do see that his woeful shooting on Sunday was an anomaly. Gordon’s adjusted field goal percentage is 54.2%, which is quite good. Let me put Gordon’s shooting in perspective. The other top shooting guard who...
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Terrelle Pryor will not sign with Ohio State on Signing Day. Or Michigan. Or anyone else. The quarterback wants to visit Penn State before he decides, reports Stewart Mandel....
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A new economics study from the University of Colorado at Denver finds that college football causes crime. Daniel Rees, an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado Denver, reports his findings: Our results suggest that the host community registers sharp increases in assaults, vandalism, arrests for disorderly conduct, and arrests for alcohol-related offenses on game days. Upsets...
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Reason No. 562 that fawning over high school players has gotten out of control. A game-used wristband worn by Terrelle Pryor, the highly recruited quarterback from Jeanette High in Pennsylvania, has been put up for auction on eBay.This item can be yours for only $349.99! Shipping is $10.The Detroit News reports that not only did Pryor wear the wristband,...
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The College Football News always tries to do things differently -- and so they did with their All-America team this year. But one thing they didn't do differently was keep USC nose tackle Sedrick Ellis' All-American streak alive. He's been named first-team on every single one released to date. But naming Oregon's Dennis Dixon as the No. 7 quarterback...
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There was a lot to talk about after Survival Satur ... scratch that. Schadenfreude Saturday. Don't deny it, Trojan faithful. You spent most of the day reveling in football's Top 25 implosion. LSU? Those trash-talking cajuns struggled against a nobody! Texas? The loss couldn't have been more wonderlic wonderful. Oklahoma? Exposed again! Florida? Yeah, USC would have beat Ohio...
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It was an upset sort of weekend for college football's elite. Nine of the AP-25 teams awoke with hangovers; the foul taste of defeat in their mouths. Five of the losing teams were previously ranked in the top ten. And to make matters worse only two of the losing teams, West Virginia and Oregon, fell to ranked opponents.
The first domino fell on Friday night when run-heavy #5 West Virginia went down against a more balanced #18 South Florida. This started the chain reaction that would tear through college football's top-teams. #3 Oklahoma blew a 24-7 lead, succumbing to Colorado in a last minute field goal. The national champion Florida Gators #4 followed suit, upset by a last minute field goal by Auburn, the same team that upset the one-loss Gators last season.
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The Bengals are lucky and the Cardinals still cursed. Photos from AFP, Product Reviews.net
There were fumbles, turnovers, penalties, missed calls and a lot of slop. Still, each game was wrought with intensity; each game was down to the wire. And despite the two typically strong-arm, throw-happy, laser-accurate quarterbacks, the excitement on Monday night came not from the offense but from a battle of the defenses.
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The 38-10 ho-hum win over Idaho didn't hurt USC at all in the ESPN-Coaches Poll out Tuesday morning with the Trojans actually picking up four first-place viotes from the 45 they had in the preseason poll. UCLA (1-0) improved from No. 17 to No. 14 this week with USC's next opponent Nebraska (1-0) improving two spots from No. 19...
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When first checking the Trojans 2007 football schedule, the same thing popped into my mind that probably crossed many of yours'. Ummm…there’s some sort of mistake here. It says USC is opening against Idaho. Not Arkansas or Auburn or Virginia Tech or Penn State but…Idaho? What conference are they in? Are they even a division I-A team? Did Pete Carroll get drunk before deciding the schedule? Wait…am I drunk now?
We're now two days before kick-off and the schedule still stands and I am still drunk. The USC Trojans are set to host the Idaho Vandals at the coliseum in front of a national television audience. On paper it appears to be one of the most miss-matched games of the college football season: USC is a 45 point favorite. And man to man, USC's got to have an average of some four inches and 40 pounds above Idaho. But somehow despite the thrashing that will be delivered come Saturday, despite the bruises and aches and icings that await the Vandal players on Saturday night, Idaho coach Akey knows the Vandals will come out on top. This single game, no matter what the outcome, will be the best thing to happen to the Vandals since…well…ever.
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Anyone who doubts the power of Deadspin readers needs to be reminded that you guys don't mess around at all. Upon a call to arms for the Hugh Johnson Project revival, all day the IM windows have been popping up like acne on a Pizza Hut delivery boy's face. This preseason wish list for Hugh II: And The Nedyssey...
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Here's the announcement from the Davey O'Brien Award people naming the Watch List quarterbacks, including USC's John David Booty, for their award to the nation's top college quarterback. See how many you've heard of. FORT WORTH, Texas (August 21, 2007) – The 2007 Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award® (The O’Brien) Watch List features 35 of college football’s most talked...
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